Eleanor at 16 months

 Ella knows where the food is, so she lets you know when she wants something.

Enjoying the cool weather by playing in the backyard on her slide.

playing in the rain

Last month we had a thunderstorm that came up pretty sudden. We were all outside enjoying the cooler weather and then it started raining. I retreated inside to take photos from the shelter of the doorway. Warren stayed out for a while but then he came in too. Eleanor LOVED it. She always enjoys playing in the water and this was a smorgasbord for her. 

Camping

 The first week in September my parents and my sister's reserved a camping spot up at Mt. Charleston. We drove up for Sunday afternoon and we celebrated my sister Jenny's birthday and everybody gave warren a gift card for his birthday so he could buy some parts he needed for his shop vac.

Playing Games

Eleanor loved Jenna's alligator.

Eleanor with her cousins Anna and Caleb.

Jenna was very nice to let Eleanor play her her alligator.

So it is September 26th, Eleanor is now 15 months old. It is crazy how the time flies by. She just gets cuter and cuter and so much fun. I love being around her. I started subbing a couple times a month and it is nice to get out of the house. Eleanor stays with her friend Charlie when I sub. Which is good for both of them and Charlie's mom Krystal says that it is easier to have two of them because they keep each other occupied. Krystal and I have a barter system worked since I can't really pay her, so far it     is going really well.

Enjoying Summer

Well, since our trip to the beach we haven't really done anything too exciting so thats why I haven't written much on here, that and I've been busy with my craft blog. I did get to go to girls camp for 2 1/2 days in the first week of August which was pretty awesome because that was the first time that I have been away from Eleanor. I thought I would be all worried but Nope, I felt great. I knew Warren would take care of her and it was so much fun to be independent for a little while, you forget how that feels to not have someone to think about all the time.

It was also great for Warren to see what I do every day, made him a little more grateful. :) Also a little more understanding when he gets home and I'm all excited because I got the kitchen clean.

Eleanor is just getting cuter and cuter. She is such a ham and a people person. She loves to interact with everyone around her and she makes all these little looks and gestures just to get a smile out of you. She will be a definite people person which is funny because Warren and I aren't big people pleasers like that so I guess she got both our bits combined so she is full of entertainment.

She loves to eat fruits and vegetables and she isn't really big on the bad for you stuff. Like she goes to town on a peach but if I give her ice cream she'll just snack a bit on it.

 This is her angry squish face, we call it. She furrows up her little brows whenever she is annoyed at something. It just makes me laugh. I love this photo because with those pointy ears she looks like a little elf or something. So funny.

School is starting up in a couple weeks, sometimes I really wish I was going back but then she makes me laugh and I'm glad I get to spend this time with her.

Hope everyone else is doing well. Love, the Stenders.

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.