Here she is when she first came to us. Oh if I could just

jump into this picture and hold her just like this for a while.

This is Ella on her first birthday. Seems like just yesterday

And here she is today. 2 years old and showing it.
Ella is so much fun!

Her new favorite thing is Snow White. She is getting the

movie for Christmas.... shhhh.

She keeps asking to watch it since she got her doll.

We rented the movie a few weeks ago...

she must think i am hiding it someplace.

She is also very into here new up shoes and

wants to wear her to to on a regular basis.

Kitchen Redo

I just spent the last week redoing much of my kitchen. I should have taken before pictures but I forgot. Above the bar used to be an over head cabinet we took out. It wrapped around to where the open shelving now is. It opened up the kitchen so much and made it much lighter. Plus I love having open shelving to display some dishes etc. I am excited to decorate this a little at Christmas.


This is the other side of the kitchen. The yellow counter top went up the wall as well for a back splash. We added bead board, cause you can't ever have enough bead board in your home. We also replaced all the knob, pulls and hinges.

We still have a bit of work to do. You can see above the open shelves that the wall needs painted. I would actually like to put bead board up around the whole kitchen dinning area but I have to take it a little at a time. After that I have a new color to go above the bead board. Until then I am loving my new kitchen.