Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Ellie Laughs!!

Ok, today 10/22/08 was a huge monumental day... Ellie laughed for the first time today!! :) Oh my gosh...I thought I was in heaven when I heard that sweet little high pitched giggle. It was sooo cute. Jamin was throwing a tennis ball outside and our dog was barking at it and Ellie and I were sitting on the deck watching them and she all of a sudden just thought what Jamin was doing was hysterical and started laughing! It was the cutest thing ever. I loved seeing her so happy and giggly. I can't wait to hear more sweet laughs from our precious little baby girl!


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Pictures from Hurricane Ike

Here are some pics from when Hurricane Ike hit The Woodlands! We got really strong winds and rain and a lot of our tree branches were knocked down. We were really lucky though that nothing bad happened to our house. Some of our neighbors had trees fall on top of their houses! Yikes! No one we know of was hurt, thank God!

Ellie slept through the whole ordeal. So funny! And, after Ike passed, there was a really cool breeze for about 2 or 3 days. It made the weather so nice! So, we took walks every day. (There was not much else to do with no electricity! We were without electricity for 4 days, but some people we know didn't have it for almost 2 weeks!)

One great thing we noticed...after the Hurricane hit, the following days were filled with people out and about in our neighborhood. All of the kids were outside playing, biking, skating etc. All of the adults were doing their lawns, out chatting with each other, sitting in their front yards, enjoying the weather. It was so neat to see everyone outside and enjoying each other and the outdoors! I wish that happened more often!


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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Ellie's first Halloween Costume!

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We just got Ellie's first Halloween costume!! She's going to be a pumpkin!

It is so hard to find cute infant costumes that actually fit an infant. We checked out party city, walmart and target to find a cute infant Halloween outfit. There were some funny ones for babies like a tootsie roll...LOL...that made me laugh. But, Jamin and I both liked this cute pumpkin outfit. It fit her really well and it's very Halloween themed...perfect for her Ellie's first Halloween. I also call Ellie my little punkin', so I really liked it also because that's one of my nicknames for her.

I'm not sure what Jamin and I are going to dress as yet, still thinking on that one. We are going to our friends Lindsay and Rob's house for a Halloween party that night. Their little boy Dylan is 2 and is dressing as a cowboy! So cute! We are also so excited that our friends Brittney and Cody will be bringing thier new little baby boy, Beau. Ellie is so lucky to have friends already...she is only 2 months old...and already she is so social!! LOL! That will be really fun! We can't wait.