It has been a while since I posted new stuff I guess. I suppose time has really just slipped past me lately. It seems I have so much I need to do and before I can check one thing off my list, two more things get added on! So, I will get you up to speed on what we have been up to...
On Labor Day weekend Jake and I took an over night motorcycle trip up to the north shore area with some neighbor friends. Erik's parents were nice enough to host the seven of us at their home on Saturday night. The weather was perfect and the scenery was beautiful. It was my first bike trip ever and only the 2nd time I had even been on the new bike! Generally speaking, I was scared to death for several reasons. Anyways, I had a great time and we made it back in one piece. I am still waiting to get photos from one of our friends from the trip, so maybe I will post them up here later.
We were visited by the Nukie Fairy a couple weeks ago (no, not Nookie you nimphoes!). We rounded up all of Ella's nuks (pacifiers) and put them in the mail box so the fairy could come and take them to new little babies that needed them. The next morning we found the fairy left Ella a nice little gift for being such a nice girl (a froggy backpack). The first thing she said when she put that backpack on was "I go to school?" It was so cute! She is doing well and the whole fairy visit really helped her let go of something that brought her a lot of security. She even found one in her room on Monday and asked me to was it off for her. Thankfully once I explained that that one also had to go to the babies, she was very cooperative. It takes her longer to fall asleep still, but she does not wake up in the middle of the night anymore.
We stopped up at the Shafer Saloon the other weekend for a short bit when they had some karoke going on. Jake and Ella dances some and Ella came up and sang "Any Man of Mine" by Shania Twain with me!! Meenu, you would have been proud!! It was so funny and adorable! Maybe if my husband would have been thinking, he would have grabbed the camera and recorded it on video!! Oh well.
Last weekend we were invited up to a house that friends of ours (Matt and Jesse) rented. So we had a nice long weekend away from home. Matt and Jesse's two kids Marissa and Jack and Jeremy and the two girls were there as well as his sister from WA with her little boy, so Ella had lots of kids to run around with. Jake caught a lot of Northerns and now I am tasked with finding a pickling recipe....yuck! Well, I guess I will try it and then decide if its gross, but my first instinct is still "yuck"!
It was also my Grandma Grace's (she helps care for Ella 3 days a week for us) birthday on the 7th so we had dinner and cake at my mom's for that. I finally got a good picture of Ella and Great Grandma. It seems either grandma or Ella are not smiling in all the others I have.
On a more serious not, Meenu's dad is in the hospital. He had a severe stroke over a week ago and although things are looking a lot better now than they did last week, there is still much concern for his recovery. My thoughts go out to Meenu and her family and please visit the caring bridge site they just set up for Don to get updates on how he is doing
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/donvoss
Thanks.
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If anyone knows how to put pictures in where you want them (not just at the top all the time) please share this knowledge with me, thanks!!
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Picture Hint: After loading the picture into the blog, you can click with the left mouse buttom and drag it to your desired location... that is the way I do it. :) Sometimes the formatting gets a little crazy (extra spaces and stuff) but it works ok for me.
Thank you for your thoughts and kind words. I really appreciated you stopping up to be with me at the hospital. You guys are great friends and I really want you to know that you mean the world to me. And yes... Ella, I am super proud of you and mommy for singing. Wish I could have been there!
Meenu
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