Monday, August 24, 2015

Foxes, Friends, and Growing Girls

Time is going so quickly. Every time I turn around Ella has grown or has added another four words to her vocabulary. She's quickly gone from our sweet baby to our spunky toddler. 

This week she's in Arizona with my mom, grandma, and grandpa enjoying some more warm weather and time with family. Last Friday before she left as she sat on the couch sleepily waking up from her to short nap I grabbed my camera and took a few pictures of her just being her. 

She loves watching Daniel the Tiger cuddled with her fox and Mickey and drinking milkies almost as much as I love her. 
















Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Almost A Year!

Woah! It's been almost a year since I blogged. That is absolutely nuts!

Honestly I dislike blogging. It's super vulnerable for me to put my thoughts and feeling and grammatical errors out for the world to see. I also know how important it is though for me and our family to capture this time of our live in a way we can look back on it. 


Sooo.. I guess I'll do a quick picture recap of what almost the whole last year has looked like for us. 



Ella celebrated her second Christmas with a few of the classic things!

Like Christmas Train and learning to play piano. 




 She kicked off Spring Trips by joining me in Miami and had an absolute blast with the school who came to serve from Texas and the church we worked alongside of.



Ella met her best friend foxy in aisles of Hobby Lobby which coincidentally is also where I like to hang out with my best friends. 



Ella and I hung out with our partner churches in Chicago. She loves Pastor Thompson so much! 


We celebrated my sister-in-law's wedding!! Ella was the flower girl and nailed it. 


And most recently we've spent our summer our serving and adventuring. 
Ella went on her first mission trip to Costa Rica. She worked hard everyday and loved hanging out with her friend Jose and so many others. 







She helped Alyssa coordinate a week in Chicago amazingly. She even helped with some prayer training. 



Our whole family got to go on vacation to Destin with my family. One night we got to go check out some Dolphins and Ella loved hanging out with grandpa and trying to see how many she could spot. 


And this week Ella has been practicing racing daddy outside! She's pretty quick for an almost two year old. 


So now let's pretend like we're mostly caught up on the past year. I might go back and highlight things from the past year like big trip or important moments, oh like Baby Noah will be here anytime now!!! 

Crazy!

Alright now I'm ready to get back to actually blogging. Whew. 

Happy Tuesday. :)