Hello, hello.....

Boy, I really thought that I would be able to get this updated more often, oh well...

We got out to Shafer Days on the 4th of October. I figured we should check it out this year since I designed the button (he he). It was something different to do. Grandma Nancy and Gary came up and walked around with us. Ella rode the kiddie car ride and I took her down the big slide. It went pretty fast so I wasn't sure what she would think of it, but she loved it! There was a small parade and we watched that and she scored big time on the candy (which Jake and I have eaten half of I think).

Just this last Friday we had our first Halloween party at the Waalk's. Ella was an adorable snow princess; unfortuneately her face paint didn't stand up to toddler hands (not sure what I was thinking). Well, you could still see that she had white paint on her face at the end of the night, it just wasn't in any particular pattern anymore. Ella had a blast hanging out with her cousins and all the other kids (I mean a lot of kids!!). She even participated in her first doughnut eating race and once she saw Megan chowing down, she followed suite. I must say that Megan's ability to shove the whole doughnut in her mouth was very impressive. Ella only got about half of it in at once. It was just hilarious!

We took Ella bowling for the first time this last Sunday and she really enjoyed it. She took all her turns for two frames (there was one frame in between them when she wandered off to the video games though). She loved using the ramp thingy and I would lift her up into superman position and she pushed the ball with both hands. She got so excited after it hit the pins and she screamed and jumped up and down.

P.S. Thanks Anna for telling me how to rearrange pictures on here!!

P.S.S. Here is my political input for the month - go to Pheisty Blog's post on the ideas of what constitutes anti-American behaviors...I really agree with her on this one http://www.pheistyblog.com/archives/1974
By the way, this girl has such a great blog!! I keep a link for it on the left side there.

Cheers!!