San Onofre Beach!

This past weekend we went to San Onofre beach which is just outside of San Diego. Warren's family goes there every year for like the past 20 years. Eleanor Loved the sand and that she could play with it no matter where she was at. The water felt great and so did the cool ocean breezes. It made it pretty hard to come back to our 113 degree Las Vegas heat.

Our First Ocean visit

I Love putting Sand on my head!!!

Connie and Kelsey checking out our surfer girl.

Surfin!!!

It's Camping Time!!!!!

So this past weekend we went Camping! We left on Friday and went up to Duck Creek with my parents and their trailer. We brought our quad, their quad, and a Teryx which is a side by side four wheeler.


The weather was Awesome! Like 75 during the day and then in the 40s at night. We camped out on the meadow with our buddies Russ and Pam along with a couple of their kids and their friends.

Ella enjoying her ride with mom and our hats that I made from t-shirts!!

It was pretty dirty and Ella had the buns to prove it.

Our little spotted puppy. She fell over and head planted in the dirt.

Ella loves having her own chair.

Enjoying the parade at duck creek village.

Ella had her flag that was made in China, great huh?

Our friend Russ who participated in the parade.

The view from Strawberry Point.

Ella enjoyed all the flowers we found.

Ella wanted to get close to the creek. Warren was helpful. :)

The meadow by strawberry point was amazing, and flat so Ella had alot of fun walking around.

Ella and Grandma. Look out for those cow pies!!

Warren took Ella on her first quad ride and she had tons of fun! Then she wanted to go out on it whenever she could.

Warren introduced Ella to toasted marshmallows, I don't know how much she really enjoyed it.

How's it going?

Today started off as a junk day. You ever have those junk days? You wake up and you got enough sleep but you Really don't want to get out of bed.......But you have to. So then you get going, get the kid and then you just feel Junky. You can think of ALLLLL the things you could do or should do today and it all feels like,why? What's the point? It is extremely unmotivating. So I got Ella off to a nap and I sat down and got my other blog going. I've started a craft blog. http://hodgepodgedays.blogspot.com/  

It is a day to day project blog where each day is a new theme. This will motivate me to actually Do Something instead of saying Why? and eating a mint oreo (which by the way, the new ones with fudge are freakin amazing) it will keep my creative juices moving and really who doesn't need some of that? So I hope you will check it out, frequently, and try out some of my tips so I can spread some love in this world. Also check out all the links to all the other fabulous blogs I have found that inspire me all the time. 

Love to all my peeps in the world(which aren't very many so I hope you Really feel the love)

Eleanor at 1!!!!!

Saturday the 26th was Eleanor's birthday, she is the big number one!!! We started off the day with waffles and eggs (her favorite) then in the late afternoon we went to my parent's house for a pool party.

Ella's cute suit that I got at Old Navy.

Ella likes headbands that she can take off and put back on.

Yay! New board books!

Figured stripping her down would be a good idea.

Eleanor was very dainty about eating her cupcake.

Until it fell apart, than she had fun squishing it.

Overall it was a really fun day, it is hard to believe that I have had this little sweet spirit for a year already, I look forward to all the years I will have with her.

Memorial Weekend

I found some photos from our memorial weekend. First a shout out of pride to all those serving in the military, You guys are Awesome!!!! I appreciate our military and all they have done to keep our country safe.

For Memorial Day we went to my parent's house in the afternoon for a little swim party. They have a pretty big pool and they just got it all ready for the summer so it was only about 67 degrees. Pretty Chilly! So first I put Eleanor's feet in but then she wanted to go in more so I pulled off her pants and let her splash in the water, then the shirt came off and she sat down on the step and was having a ton of fun. I just put my feet in. My sister's kids went in all the way because they don't care how cold it is even though they had little blue lips after about 20 minutes in there. When Ella started to feel cold I pulled her out and kept her snug in a towel, after she warmed up she wanted to go back in so Warren, my tough wonderful husband pulled on his swim trunks and hopped in then took Ella out in the water Naked!! She had a blast in the nude of course. Next time I will bring some swim diapers.

June

Eleanor turned 11 months on May 26 and she will be 1 year old on the 26th of this month which is kind of crazy to think about. She is so much fun. She's getting pretty good at walking, she can do about 5 feet without falling and since she is so small it is funny to watch her walk around. I've been trying to get her recorded but whenever I pull the camera out she knows and then she wants to crawl over and see it.

Eleanor at 11 months

Laura and I went to first friday again this weekend and it was a ton of fun. We got mixed around when we were leaving but we found out there are some more galleries that we've never been in so we will test those out next time. 

Warren went to Los Angeles for the day on Saturday for a guy's day. They putzed around and then went to the Dodgers game. He got back at 3 am this morning so Ella and I hung out in the living room so he could sleep in. We used that as an excuse to stay home from church. :)

I love church but having three hours of it is kind of annoying because it always interrupts some nap for Ella and that throws her off for the rest of the day. We have the 9 am slot which is nice because then you have the rest of the day.

I am making a goal to have my own booth at first friday in October. I make all kinds of awesome stuff and I always want to do my own show and this will be my goal. I am also going to launch my Etsy sight in September so I can have cards ready for people to visit my site after they see my stuff at first friday. I think this will be a good goal for me because I love to make my art but sometimes I get discouraged about why I am doing it and this will give me a purpose. 

I made these two barrettes this weekend they are about 2 inches on the base and you can wear them in your hair or as a pin. The blue one I wore to first friday and I gave them to my sister michelle for her birthday today but I think she really just wanted some money or a gift card so I will get them back from her and give her a gift card instead. Let me know what you think of them, if you think someone would actually buy them. I would but then I'm me :) So it would be good to hear from "normal people." 

First Friday Art Night!

In Las Vegas the first friday of the month is art night. My best bud Laura and I have been going forever to this activity. We skip sometimes in the winter when it is too chilly and in the summer when it is a bit too warm. They open up all the art galleries in the downtown area from 6-10 pm with a shuttle. There is music and tons of people of all varieties. It is really my one girl night out of the month so I really look forward to it. Laura was the art teacher I shadows for my practicum and we've been best buds ever since. We are both turning 28 this year so we had fun complaining all evening about how old we are. I wanted to get a photo of us together but I forgot about it while we were putzing around. It is so funny to go because you have all these goth and emo high schoolers walking around trying to look all cool and artsy and you know they spend like an hour putting together their outfit just so it looks like they threw something on. Then you have all the gays and lesbians who flirt with each other. :P And all the wannabe artists who try so sell their crap to anybody. This time there weren't as many people because they were all at the San Ganero Italian festival. It made for a nice change because sometimes it is a pain trying to look at the art with everyone all crowding next to each other.

The bottom photo is of the train tracks that run through the area. We walk over those to get to the art galleries.
This time we started a new tradition. We went to Luv Its frozen custard after we got done and boy howdy was it good. If you are ever in the down town area it is the best custard in Las Vegas, it is off oaky and Las Vegas Blvd.

It is such a fun evening, but definitely not for the conservative person :)

Relief Society Activity

My Relief society asked me to paint a picture of a light house for their activity so I got some mat board since I needed it pretty big. Also they wanted me to put a little fish for each woman in our ward. So this is the finished painting and then I printed out little fish with the names on them and stuck them on in the water, but I didn't take a photo of it with the fish. It was lots of fun working on a painting and I was pretty happy with how it came out.

Icky Throw up days

Ella has been wanting to wanting to eat solid food lately so on wednesday I gave her a little hotdog, mozzarella cheese and some carrots. She didn't like the hotdog much so I ended up eating like 1 and a 1/2 hotdogs. Warren came home and we went to costco. I wasn't feeling too good so I thought some chocolate milk would help, then I tried some broccoli salad and some shrimp soup. I was feeling pretty lousy by the time we got home. I was putting Ella to bed and luckily got her into bed before rushing to the bathroom and throwing up. Went to R.S. activity, came home and threw up. Tried to sleep, but my stomach hurt. Ella woke up and wanted to feed but as I picked her up I knew I needed to get to the bathroom so I dropped her in bed with Warren and high tailed it in to upchuck again. At this point I'm like, there's nothing left, why am I still hurling? Poor Ella was screaming because she wanted to be fed, not hang out with Dad. Got her fed and back to bed, me back to bed. I woke up again at like 1:30 AM and had to hurl again. Luckily that was the last. Thursday I woke up feeling really gross. Warren had meetings so he couldn't stay home so I gave my mom a call. She was sweet enough to take the day off and come over to take care of me and Ella. Aren't moms great? Moms make everything better. I ate two pieces of toast on thursday and drank so chicken broth in the evening and that was about it. Woke up today and I feel much better but I'm still taking it easy on the food, mostly bread and liquids.