Busy

She loves to carry around Evan's backpack and occasionally wear it around.

You can see her 2 teeth on the top! Finally.

I'm still a little behind from when we went home to ND so I will just share our last 2 weeks with everyone. On Thursday the 18th Evan had Fun Fest at work, which is a family fair day with kids games/rides, fair foods, parade, and music. We met Evan at work at 11am and had lunch. We let Ella play in the preschool tent, considering she was too young for anything else. She had a great time! She also enjoyed the band music.

She would NOT crawl through this long tube, but loved to look through it.


Friday the 19th we just relaxed, we had ordered pizza and Evan had gotten beer. Well Ella was helping daddy tranfer his empty beer bottles from case to case and than decided she would try to finish off the last little drops of them. It was cute watching her.



Saturday was a beautiful day so we decided to go to Buckeye Lake, which is only 20 min. away. We had never been there before but heard it was nice. Ella loved the sand and the water. I had just bought that swimming suit and hoped that it came clean...she was sure a mess. We had a great day!





Sunday was Father's Day and unfortunately I had to work most of the day. My client is in the hospital so I could go in a little later, take a longer lunch, and leave a litter earlier. Evan and Ella picked me up for lunch and we went downtown to Ted's Montana Grill. It was a beautiful day out again so we sat outside on the patio, it was perfect. I got home around 7pm so we could go for a walk. I hope he had a good day.

Week 22-27
I babysit for my neighbors little girl who is 5. I will be doing it throughout the summer and watch her 3 days a week. Monday was the first day and we were busy running around and going to the pool as was Wed and Thur. Ella seems to enjoy her more this time! They play pretty well with one another.



Tuesday I worked during the daytime at my clients where I could take Ella with me. It is a huge advantage but also a lot of work. Wed. and Fri. evenings I worked also. Good thing I had the weekend off because I was extremely exhausted by Friday.

Saturday we went to visit a co-worker of mine who just 2 weeks ago had a baby girl named Ruby. She now weighed 6lbs 12 oz. and I was scared too pick her up, she was so little. Evan and I enjoyed it and kind of prepared us for another one here in Dec. Ella did not get jealous when I held the baby but did want to touch it and see it a lot. She did have some distractions though, My friend also had a 3 year old boy whom which was entertaining Ella the whole time. After leaving their house we went shopping for awhile and came home. We had a nice relaxing weekend.





I hope everyone has a safe and happy 4th of July!

Trip to ND

PEEK-A-BOO

We had a wonderful time in Cando. Grandma Donna and Grandma Mary came to pick us up in Grand Forks and I was happy that both flights went well. We did a little shopping before coming home and went to Grandma Mary's to visit with Aunt Linda and cousin Alyssa and Gabi. We stayed the first night with G&G Vondal. We split our time between G&G Vondal's and G&G Lindahl's.


Wednesday:
We enjoyed grandma's open yard and flower dirt to play in. Hope and the kids came around noon and they stayed until Monday. It was nice to spend so much time with them. In the evening we watched uncle Grant play baseball and we stayed the night with G&G Lindahl.



Thursday:
We spent the entire day with Grandma Mary and Aunt Linda. I figured out that Ella was a mommy's girl and the only way she would spend time with others was to disappear so I met my mom, Hope, and the kids for lunch so Ella could have some bonding time with Grandma Mary. I also left in the afternoon because Mary had made me a massage appt. It was so thoughful of her and it was much needed. I have been having frequent headaches due to strain from Ella and my heavy diaper bag. Mary knew this and was super sweet and made me an appt., I'm sure it was also to get some alone time, which was fine with me. Thurs. evening we went back to grandma Donna's house.



Friday:
We had a very rough night, I think her teeth were bothering her. We waited so long for teeth and now this week I realize she is getting 3, poor baby. I even let Ella sleep with me, which is rough on me because she is restless. At least someone got some sleep. I had left her on the bed to go and get ready and shortly after that I heard her talking. I ran in there so she wouldn't fall off the bed and quietly picked her up thinking she may go back to sleep. Well she very loudly gave me a huge open kiss on the cheek telling me she was for sure awake. It was cute! We ran into Grandma Mary's to say goodbye to Aunt Linda and visit with cousins Alyssa, Gabi, and Austin, and Uncle Rod. We spent a couple hours in there and Ella was then ready for a nap and Grandma Mary was off to Fargo to watch Uncle Grant play BB. The rest of the day was relaxing, I took naps when Ella did. Auntie Nellie and Uncle Tom arrived around 7pm and from there Ella was Nellie's little girl.






Saturday:
Uncle Brett and Great-grandma and Great-grandpa were coming to spend the day with us. It was the first beautiful day of the summer, good thing I brought 1 skirt outfit. We were outside practically all day long. Ella had fun riding the scooter and the little 4-wheeler and just running around the open lands. She took wonderful naps without making a peep. Too bad we don't have a yard and open land for her to run in. She was so happy! We had a wonderful day with the family. G&G Lindahl came out in the evening for awhile to visit Ella. Ella went to bed around 10pm and we had a bonfire. It was fun and relaxing.




Sunday:
We spent the morning with the Vondal family and the afternoon at the Lindahl's. Since G&G Lindahl live right beside the park we went there right away. She loved it! I then layed her down and went out to my house. G&G Lindahl I'm sure enjoyed their alone time. I went home around 730, when Nellie and Tom left and Hope, dad, and the kids were going fishing. We went for a short walk, gave Ella a bath, and did the webcam with daddy. She really enjoyed that, she just kept saying hi and blowing kisses.
Monday:
We spent the majority of our day with G&G Lindahl and Uncle Grant. Grandma took us to the DQ for lunch which was was marvelous. We kept Ella awake until we left for Fargo so she would sleep most of the way there and that she did. We went to visit with Brett and say goodbye to Aunt Ashley. We also got to see Cousin Jennie and Braeley, Anita, Lloyd, and Peyton, and Mary and Manning Mostad. It was a busy evening.
Tuesday:
We relaxed in the morning and than went out for lunch with Brett and Ashley and Tom and Nellie. From there we left for the airport in GF. It was a great day until then. In GF we sat in the plane for an hour before even taking off and Ella was fussy. We then barely made the next flight and Ella screamed most of the way home. It was so awful! Everything that could go wrong, went wrong. We got in late and, of course, our bag wasn't there. I figured that would happen so wasn't too upset. But I quickly got upset when my bag didn't arrive the next day. We didn't get it until Friday afternoon. Evan was happy to have us home even though we arrived crabby. He greeted us with open arms.

SORRY I DIDN'T GET ANY PICTURES OF G&G LINDAHL WITH ELLA. GRANDMA HAS ALL ON HER CAMERA.

Another plane ride

Ella is giving Madi kisses, what a sweet girl.

Evan mentioned yesterday that after this little trip home Ella has been on more plane rides at 13 months than he was at 20 years. Kind of crazy! What different lives we live. We had a wonderful week, the weather has been gorgeous.


We went to the pool a couple times and went for many strolls around our complex.



Daddy also had a wonderful week, he got to spend a lot of time with his little girl. I worked a lot this week so it gave them lots of time to bond. They had fun! Also, it was Evan's birthday yesterday 6-7-09 and the Memorial Tournament. It was a PGA golf tournament for those of you who don't know.

What do you know, Tiger Woods pulls off another win. Yay!


TIGER WOODS taking his shot.


Jim Furyk waiting to putt.

So, the day couldn't have been more perfect for Evan- sports, presents, good food, and family. We all had a great time. I was so proud of Ella, we were there from 1-6 and barely any fussing or crying. She just loves the outdoors. The weather was perfect, warm and breezy. Ella and I are looking forward to our week in ND, although not looking forward to the weather. But, I think we will survive. I hope Evan also survives without us!

Family visits

We had a wonderful time with Grandma and Grandpa Lindahl and Uncle Grant. Of course, the time went way too fast but we will see them again next week.Ella and I are going home to visit family/friends and say goodbye to Brett and Ashley. They are moving to Seattle.



We didn't do too much; the boys went to Cincinnatti one night for a baseball game and the girls went out for supper and went shopping. What else would we do?!? We also went to the pool one day. We actually have a pool within our apartment complex so I think that will be very nice for us this summer. They just filled it and its not heated so it was freezing. Ella did enjoy putting her feet in and splashing around though.
Evan's aunt and uncle also came up from Tennessee to visit us one day. It was nice to see them. Thanks for coming!



I have a busy week of work before leaving next Tuesday and Evan's birthday is on Sunday. We have plans to go the Memorial Golf Tournament here in Columbus for his birthday, it should be fun as long as the weather cooperates.
I maybe should start putting belly pictures on here but there certainly not as cute as Ella so I will wait awhile.