Summer Photo Challenge: Photo Two

Day Two: a photo of yourself at least a year ago.

Almost exactly  two years ago, on May 29th, I married the love of my life, Ashton. We had a wonderful (and HUGE wedding) with all our friends and family. Here are my two favorite pictures of that day!

When planning our wedding, I would tease with my mother that I wanted Houston, our Scottie to be in the wedding. She adamantly refused. By the time we got married I was really sad that Houston wouldn't be there, even though in the beginning I was half joking.

Well, we has a beautiful ceremony and were pronounced "man and wife"! As we walked up the aisle and into the foyer our little Houston ran into my arms! Ashton and his AMAZING groomsmen has smuggled our sweet puppy into the church so he could be there for our wedding! It was a pretty sweet moment and honestly, my favorite memory from our wedding! :) 

 

Summer Photo Challenge: Day One

I'm working on blogging more and getting back in the swing of things. So, I've come up with several new post ideas, one being a fun photo challenge to complete twice a week throughout the summer! :) Here we go!

Summer Photo Challenge

Photo One: A picture of yourself with ten facts

A Picture from our Honeymoon.

1) I was born in Lousiana. Ashton says I'm lucky he married me anyway. ; ) Me, I'm fond of my cajun roots!

2) I really wish I could wear yellow, but it does funny things to my skin tone. :(

3) My favorite part of the day is between 8:00-8:30pm when I am rocking and singing Ellasyn to sleep and she lays her head on my shoulder and pats or rubs my arm/back while I pat hers.

4) I've cooked only three dinner meals for my family since I married Ashton. That makes me sound terrible, but really Ashton LOVES cooking and prefers to make us dinner. It is one of my goals to start cooking more! After all, I have a great teacher in house!

5) I never really cared much for swimming as a kid, but now that I have a little fish of my own, it is a total blast!

6) Confession: I totally get caught up in Prime time Soap Operas...Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, One Tree Hill, Etc. Yep.

7) When I was 10 years old I won the speech competition in "scholarship pageant". It was the only pageant I ever participated in.

8) I asked Jesus to "come into my heart" as a four (almost five) year old after hearing a missionary from South America give his testimony at our Sunday Night Service. I prayed with my dad out in the foyer of our church. This December will mark 22 years!

9) Though I've only ever owned dogs (and I LOVE them), I wouldn't call me self strictly a dog person. I believe I have room in my heart for both dogs and cats. But not reptiles. At least not as pets. Sorry.
 

10) I LOVE reading good books, but never make enough time to read. :( I'm dying to finish the Hunger Games. Hopefully I will soon because I'm letting myself see the movie until I do!

Ok, so that wraps up my first entry  in our Summer Photo Challenge Series! Stay tuned for 29 more entries! :)

Ellasyn Update

It has been AGES since I wrote an update about our Ellasyn. And I could go on and on about how that makes me a bad Mommy, but in reality I've been busy loving on my girl and working to provide for us. So, I'll just catch you up on how she is grown and what she is learning! :)

 

Here is our Sweet Elle just a few weeks ago! Ellasyn is now 13 months old and is so close to walking she can taste it! She cruises along furniture, steps over barriers, pulls up on everything,  and can crawl at the speed of light! I think all she has left master is balance. Watching her grow and develop has been amazing!

Eating is something she wants to do ALL ON HER OWN. Mostly, she will not eat unless she is picking her food up with her own two fingers and putting it in her mouth. I need to be brave and keep letting her practice with a spoon, but food messes have always wigged me out a little so I'm slow going on that one. Fajitas are still her favorite along with yogurt! Yogurt. She could eat yogurt all day, every day for a year! The girl LOVES some yogurt. :) She is still a bit resistant with veggies and I'm pretty sure she has a thing with textures, which she comes by naturally. The same is true for her sweet tooth! :)

Ellie is still completely crazy about music and is still quick to recognize and react to changes in sound. Right now we are keeping her in church with us for the worship portion because she loves the music SO much! I'm super excited to start taking a summer kindermusik program with her the week after next! Recently, Ellasyn has also enjoyed "dancing"! She is pretty cute! She loves playing with her piano and I'm hoping we'll make a musician out of her.

Ellasyn also enjoys sitting in here "reading chair" and loving on her "babies". Every stuff animal (and even her bottle on occasion) receives loving hugs and pats on the head. She is quite the little sweetie. She also LOVES her puppies or "pupems". They are the first thing she asks for when she wakes up in the morning and spends most of the at Sweetie & Pappadeaux's crawling after Maggie and Jake. Her other favorite thing is her Papa. She can't get enough of him and watching them together is super sweet.

Verbally Ellasyn is proving to be a bit ahead of the curve. She has just started putting two word together to make short sentences. :) She is constantly babbling and "talking" and is even mastering several signs. So far she says:

Mama
Dada
Papa
Bye Bye
Puppy
Hi
Hey
Button
Pretty
Yay
Bah-Bah (Bottle)
Baby
Bubble
Duck
Thank You
Please
Right Back
Bless You
Bye Puppy
Hi Puppy

and probably more, but that is all I can think of right now! She also loves to sing with us or hum to herself from time to time.

She is still pretty easy going and sweet, but has definitely started to get frustrated when she doesn't get what she wants. Tantrums and screaming. Hello Toddlerhood! I know we have many adventures ahead, but I've got to say I am loving the stage we are in now. I LOVE watching her learn and helping her develop. Its pretty much the greatest! :)

I promise to update more often on our girl! I'm sure there will be PLENTY of new adventures to blog about soon! :)

Friday Photos: Happenings

 

Astro/Ranger's Game with Daddy, Sweetie and Pappadeaux

 

Lunch

 

Practice using a spoon all by myself!

Swinging with Daddy

At the pool!

*An actual Ellie update post coming tonight!!

Getting to Know You...Well, Actually...Me

Hi! I'm Goodnight!

Mom and Dad brought be home in January and since I think it is fair to say that Mom is gonna let stay, I thought I'd introduce myself. It was touch and go there for a while, but I think I've won Mom over. Dad was easy. :)

Anyway, here are some things you should know about me:

1) I'm a boarder collie/german shepherd mix and only weigh about 40 lbs. My bark, however, is that of a 80lb dog, so my family is feeling pretty safe.

2) It took a little while for Houston to decide to be my friend and those first two weeks were filled with several squabbles, but now we are the best of friends.

3) I LOVE Ellasyn. She is the puppy I never had and I'm super gentle with her. I let her crawl and hug all over me, but if I sense danger I'm quick to put her behind me as a way of protecting her.

4) Some of my bad habits include jumping the fence, eating flour and grains off of the pantry shelf, dumping the trash can, and finding old baby diapers. Yep. Mom almost got rid of me over those last two!

5) One of my favorite things is my runs with Dad.

6) One of my least favorite things is baths.

7) I sleep right on the floor beside Mom ever night and every time Mom sleeps after a shift. Dad would say that Mom is my favorite.

8) I think my new family IS THE BEST!

Well, thats all for now! Hopefully Mom will let me post again soon!

Until then,