Funny story...

Yesterday evening we all went to thePULSE - our Wednesday night program at church.

Our church is descent sized, so our parking lot's pretty big. We have a pretty oasis with nice grass, big maple trees and a giant evergreen or two.

I dropped Grandma Becky and Papa Orrin off at the door and then went to park the car. I pulled into a parking spot that faces into the oasis. Elli says:

"There's poop in that tree, mommy!"

"What??"

"There's POOP in that TREE!"

I looked to see what she was looking at and sure enough, there stood the giant energreen tree with great big pinecones hanging off of the tips that look like giant turds.

I lost it. I was laughing so hard I was crying.

"Oh, honey. Those are pinecones!"

"Oh! Pinecones!" She said.

Can you tell that we've been potty training (She's 96% trained), and we've been talking potty talk for a while?

Barbie

My name is Jessie, I am almost 29 years old, and I like Barbie movies.

Elli loves everything to do with "pretty barbies" "pretty dresses" "pretty princesses" prettiness. So when we go to the library for movies, she gravitates to the disney princess movies (ofcourse) and the Barbie ones. I am not going to lie. I get a little excited when I see that someone's returned one that we haven't seen yet - not quite to the degree that Elli does, but still. It's a little rediculous. I should have been cleaning my house this evening, but I was SUCKED IN to the Barbie "power of the rainbow" movie. It is the 3rd in the Barbie Fairytopia series.

Lol! I am cracking myself up!

They're pretty good - you should check them out sometime....better yet, I'll pop some popcorn and we can watch it at my house.

Playin' at the park

Fun on the tube slide!

She's getting too big, too fast.

Wearing down...

Playin' at the park

Some fun photos of our day at one of the local parks:

New pendant

I added a new pendant to my etsy site :

I'll post another in the next day or so. It's purple :)

Trampoline!

A few weeks ago Elli jumped on a trampoline for the first time. She was not so sure about it at first. She enjoyed jumping while I was holding her on my hip, but didn't like that it wasn't solid under feet. She has a little bit of an issue with flexible joints, which makes her fall easily, so this was like doubly hard to walk or keep balance. She did eventually, though, really REALLY like running around and jumping by herself! She thought it was so much fun and just laughed and laughed! We need to get back over to our friends house soon and let Elli and out friend's son (a few months older than she) jump and play on it.
Here she is getting comfortable in between my friend Jill and myself.

Braver! Jumping!!!

Woohoo!!! This is great!!!

On another note, I've been busy and feel so bad that I haven't been blogging or keeping up with this very well. I was offered a job to work in my church office 4 days a week, and felt like it was the right thing to do right now. With the way the economy is and we don't have a lot of money (but who does, right?! - If you do, why don't you hop on over to my etsy shop and support a starving artist - thought you wouldn't think I was "starving " by the size of my hips! Lol!), and before we have another child I would like to help us out with our income more than I was. I just feel like I am contributing more if I do. I know, I know, raising Elli and taking care of my house is a huge contribution...ugh. I am still torn. I've only been doing it a week and a half and I completely miss Elli like crazy all ready. I held her too long while I was rocking her to sleep, and screwed up her nap. She just woke up WAY too early! Argh!
I'll try to keep up better. Now I have pictures on my computer and it will be a lot easier for me to do it for a little while.

Crafty crafties

Elli and I made a little hanging book display for her wall! It took me maybe 30 minutes to make! I'm pretty speedy when it comes to the sewing machine. :) Here's where I got the idea. Wish I could claim it for my own.

And look what I found today in my flowerbed (while I was finally taking down my christmas lights)!! Spring is almost here!!!! I am so excited!!

Hello, Kitty

So I *attempted* to make some cake pops for my sister's birthday. I have NEVER made these before and I am not sure why I thought I could make Hello Kitty. Seriously... I bow at Bakerella's cake pop-abilities.

As cute as they are, I wish they tasted as yummy. They didn't taste terrible, they were just VERY sweet and kindof mushy. If you are a texture kindof food person, you probably wouldn't like them. They were fun to make anyway. The possibilities are endless with them - Death Star cake pops at your next Star Wars party?

Elli was excited to finally chomp into the things mommy wouldn't let her help with. They were so sweet that she couldn't even finish one.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACKIE!!

Dish Day.

Whew! I did the dishes today. I'm proud of my stack.