Happy Halloween!

Ellie made a wonderful tinkerbell! She loved it too - surprising since we had to take off her tutu and wings to get in and out of the car multiple times! For those of you who don't know or might not remember, cousin Carter named Ellie "Tinkerbell" prior to being born. It was just appropriate that she got to be Tink for her first Halloween!

11 months

I am a day late on this - but yesterday marked Ellie's 11 month 'birthday'. So the 1 month count down has begun to her first birthday! I even finished her birthday invitations!

Oh so much has changed in the past month. Ellie started G.I. Joe crawling, and now has stopped. She spends most of her time scooting around on her butt. She is still pulling herself up to her knees, but is getting closer and closer (and even sometimes does) get up to her feet. She says "OH WOW" all the time - its pretty cute! Probably the biggest change in the past few days was that she cut her 4th and 5th teeth! 4th is on the top right and 5th is on the bottom left. That makes 4 on the bottom and one on top. She's handling it pretty well, but has had some not so fun symptoms (diaper rash, lots of diaper changes....).

Pumpkins at Green Bluff

Yesterday my parents, Becky, Dave, and the boys made the trip from ML to Spokane so we could go to Green Bluff to pick pumpkins. We had a wonderful time at Walter's Fruit Ranch! Among the 100's of other people on the bluff that morning - we made our way to lunch and to the patch. I picked up a pie - french apple...mmmmmm. After the Anderson's headed home, the rest of us headed to Knapp's to check out the Pumpkin Chunkin - unfortunately we didn't get to see any pumpkins fly. But I did get some wonderful decorative squash and pumpkins.

Last night after everyone was gone, I realized how thankful I am that we live in Spokane now closer to family. A day trip by the fam wouldn't have happened if we still lived in Seattle. :)

Super Sleepy

The past few weeks we have been 'playing' with Ellie's nap time - slowly pushing it later and later so that when the time change comes in November, she won't be awake at 4:30 in the morning. Well apparently today she was really tired around 9 right after her bottle, I sat her on the floor to try to keep her up and within two seconds, this.....

Fall Family Photos

Sunday we met up with Marta von Grey (VonGrey Photography) to take some family pics and a few shots of Ellie. Here is a sneak peek!

We Love Fall

Ellie's Room

I have been meaning to take pictures for some time now, but it wasn't 100% complete. But NOW it is! I still want one more thing for above her bed, but that will be quite a task to make.

Ellie says "Let me take you on a tour".


Ellie's door stickers.


The one last place that needs a little something special.


Homemade art.


Ellie's rocking chair, shelf with piggy bank, and her tree that holds all her hair accessories.


Ellie's dresser that was previously my dad's as a kid, mine, and my brothers.


Something pretty to look at during diaper changes.



You might also notice that her bed has been dropped to the lower setting. Last night, Ellie woke up uncharacteristically at 1 am - Jared went in and to his surprise, she was sitting upright in her bed! Talk about freaky. I told him that if I had gone in there it would have shocked me so much I probably wouldn't have been able to go back to sleep.