Professing my lifelong love for: Movies

If you know me at all, you already know I am a cinephile. I simply love movies – I always have and likely always will. I go to around 40 movies a year in the theater, and I watch 2-4 additional movies at home each week. I have like all the movie channels and Netflix. […]

Ella is a dreamer

Ella has not been wanting to eat dinner lately. Instead she throws a fit, saying she is not hungry for dinner, but is actually hungry for snacks and wants to eat them instead. Obviously that’s not working on ol’ mom and dad. But the other night she tried another tactic, shortly before dinner she snuggled […]

The long and short of it

Ella: “Did I take a long nap?” Me: “No, it was a short one.” Ella: “Was it a little long AND a little short?” Me: “Ha. Well it can’t be a little long and a little short.” Ella: “It could be medium then.” Me: “Yup, I suppose so, you little genius.”

Ella’s Secret mix

After the success of Ella’s first mix tape, she decided to make a second one yesterday. She called this one, “Ella’s Secret”. Here is the songs she chose: Bee Gees – Staying Alive Blind Melon – No Rain Joan Jett – I Love Rock & Roll Ray Charles – Hit The Road Jack Smasmouth – […]

Ella makes a mix

Remember mix tapes? So awesome. I can not even count how many of those I made in my youth, I remember I would always listen to Casey Kasem count down the Top 40 and I would record my favorite songs when they came on – so that is at least 1 new  mix tape a […]

Ella’s first Pacers game

It was a big day for us last week, I took Ella to her first Pacers game! We had been talking about doing this for awhile and after I returned from a few recent games she started asking when she would get to go. So on New Year’s Eve there was an afternoon game – […]

Our Christmas in photos

Please see Erin’s blog, she posted a bunch of great photos already: www.mommatimes.com/

Ella’s Christmas tree

Ella has her own Christmas tree and we have a new camera. I am enjoying both!

Ella’s first school Christmas pageant

Fall Family Photos