Thursday, March 27, 2008

A Few Surprises

Over the weekend we went to visit Juli and Carl in Rodonda beach, well, surprise they had tickets for us to go to Disneyland with them! Ellia even got to ride the Monsters Inc. ride! The day after Disneyland we visited the beach. Surprise, Ellia slept almost the WHOLE time (stupid waves). When she did wake up we made her play in the sand and she really liked it.




Ellia and Rachel, Jeremy had his hands full for a minute!

The beach house

drumroll please . . . .




SURPRISE! Ellia is officially crawling - and I am officially redecorating!



Thursday, March 20, 2008

Don't get enough of Ellia?



Trying to keep me happy and clean on picture day
A park where I like to see the birds and ducks
A walk along the Kern River walkway

What happens when dad feeds me










Visitors

Well the last week has been pretty exciting. Gillespie's came to visit and got to swim (our neighbors ran into us and asked "did we hear you swimming today?" They thought it was funny because the water is still quite cold!) Juli and Carl also surprised me one day and stopped by for a few hours on their way to LA. - and my parents let me know that they wouldn't be able to visit when they planned because Zak got his head ran over by a motorcycle in a race and broke his jaw. On that note, here are some visitor pictures!

Thanks for the freezing cold cannonball splash Greg

Ellia has never had to share toys before!

Sam had a nice goodbye hug for Ellia.


Tagged

Tagged by Liz! (and others who didn’t explain what I was supposed to do – Keysha – so I was clueless and pretty much ignored the other taggings) Liz graciously explained that I am to say 5 random things about myself and then, um tag other people I guess?

I like strategy computer games. When I try to talk to other people about it I feel like I am getting really exited and they just think I’m a geek, so I kindof keep it to myself. Now that I’m out of the closet, if anyone loves King’s Quest, SimAnt or the Tycoon games, let’s talk!

When I was a little girl I was really loud and obnoxious – yikes I hope no one is thinking “when you were little? Try now.” Anyway if you think I am now, you would have been blown away by me then. I had annoying voices and wouldn’t leave people alone. There was a joke in my family – once is funny, twice is ok, third time is annoying, fourth time is Stefanie.

More and more I am discovering I don’t like decorating for the holidays and especially don’t like storing the decorations. I like my house the way it is. However, because I do not want to deny my kids of the holiday fun I will probably designate a room or area to be the “holiday” place and change the decorations to fit each holiday.

I am a pretty diverse person as far as interests go. In fact there aren’t many hobbies I don’t enjoy (which reminds me that there aren’t many foods I dislike either – that’s an entirely different subject though) I have been considered a jack of all trades, for example, I have taken and enjoyed the following classes kayaking, sewing, radio broadcasting, pottery, jewelry making, tv broadcasting, graphic design, western swing dancing, golf, volleyball, films, oceanography, scuba diving, astronomy, children’s literature, weight loss and eating behaviors, and violin to name a few. I also enjoy reading, writing, snowboarding, being in the water, gardening, jogging, organizing, planning, and scrapbooking. A few things I stink at however are singing and drawing.

As messy as I used to be growing up, once I went to college, being clean became kindof an obsession. My mom should be surprised that now it drives me crazy to leave any article or clothing sitting out on the bedroom floor.

Hmm, I probably could have done a lot better, now I will probably be thinking what other random things I could have said . . .

I tag Sarah Epps, the only person I can think of who is new to blogging so has probably not been tagged, only problem is, she is so new she can’t figure out how to make her blog public!!!