Sunday, April 30, 2006

Ella Bella










I got to vistit Jen, Kevin, and little Elinore this weekend. It was much needed and SO nice. Ella is just as cute as ever! These are some of the pictures I took while I was there.

Hopefully, I will have a job this summer and I can live with them. It would be loverly.

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Elinore Sits

Well, look at that big girl! I have to prop her up like this and then I only have a couple minutes before she falls on her face. She sure looks like she knows what she's doing, though. She also ate solid foods yesterday for the first time, and she rolled over for the first time on Monday! What a week! I better go take a nap. Posted by Picasa

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

April 18


Well, yesterday April 18th was rather special. Mike and I have officially been together for a year. Big happy face on my part. We celebrated by taking a little trip to Don Pablo's Mexican restaurant, it was glorious and then we went shopping haha. Mike needed some nice clothes for some interviews he's doing for his social psychology class. Strangely enough, I kinda of enjoyed helping him pick out the clothes, and he looked SOO professional. I'll have to take some pictures and post them on the blog so you all can see how cute he looked haha.

For Easter I got to go home for a couple days, partly to go to the doctor and get some new glasses, but also to just get away from Albion and see Mom and Dad. We went to the Arboretum on Saturday and it was just BEAUTIFUL. I wish I would've been able to see Caity, but it sounds like she was having a pretty wonderful time in Texas. I can't wait to be done with school, to be honest, it's starting to take it's toll.

Monday, April 17, 2006

Homecoming

I couldn't have asked for a better weekend! I spent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday with Brandie, Ariel, and Greg, my 3 best friends from college, whom I haven't seen since graduation almost a year ago! Hard to believe the time has gone by so quickly.

We spent the time doing nothing special, and that was the beauty of it. It's been a long time since I've laughed so hard and felt so comfortable in my own skin. I have been blessed with really the most affirming friends a girl could ask for. This kind:

Friend #1: "You are sensitive, kind, and a wonderful listener. Your turn."

Friend #2: "You are beautiful, charming, and so talented! Your turn."

Friend #3: "You are intelligent and wise with a wonderful sense of humor. Your turn."

Friend #4 (Greg): "Umm, are you guys going to do this all night?"

Etc, etc. If you're friends aren't charged with making you feel good about yourself, who can you turn to??

We roamed the town, ate slice and bake cookie dough with spoons, reminisced about our past antics, took advantage of the $7.00 bottle of champagne Easter Sunday special at El Arroyo to accompany our Tex-Mex lunch, gawked at how strange it felt to sit around the apartment telling each other about our jobs, sat together at the Easter vigil service (where I accidentally snuffed out Greg's light of Christ. As we stood there with our accidentally unlit candles, Greg stoicly commented, "Ooohh you're going straight to Hell." Oops), gussied ourselves up for a night of Latin dancing, layed by the pool and came away with some terrible-looking sunburn patterns on our bodies, ate the world's worst guacamole dip while watching "Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants," and ultimately reveled in the time apart that we had. Greg even spiked his mohawk in my honor.

Not going to lie, I came back a little melancholy, having had a little taste of all the things I miss. I dearly, dearly hope that we will be able to visit one another more frequently than once a year.

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Easter

Happy Easter, everyone! Elinore's first tooth appeared through her gums today! Posted by Picasa

Monday, April 10, 2006

Delta Tau Delta Formal






These are some of the pictures I took at Mike's fraternity formal. We'll have been together for a year next Tuesday, and we FINALLY have more than 2 pictures of us together. We had such a good time, the formal was in Windsor, Canada. Dinner was at one of the clubs and afterwards we danced the night away, returning to the hotel at around 2 with the other guys from Mike's suite and their dates. The girl in the picture with me is my friend Amanda, she's dating Gary Peters, one of Mike's roomies. Anyways, we had sooooooo much fun and I'll be happy to be home for a little while next weekend.

Sunday, April 09, 2006

Bath

I was just noticing how Elinore is on the verge of outgrowing her baby bath. Her feet hit the edge of the little tub. I was thinking about how tiny she was when we brought her home. It is hard for us to realize how much she has grown and changed. The bottom picture is from her first bath. The top one is from tonight when she got a bath. Her legs look so scrawny in the newborn photo; she's gaining muscle! Anyway, thought you would like to see a comparison.
 Posted by Picasa

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Discoveries

Just today Elinore has sort of discovered her feet. She's been playing with them, trying to grab them, and tugging at her socks. It is so cool to watch as she discovers new things.

Yesterday I did this thing where I gave her silly kisses on her neck, and she started giggling. She's only giggled a couple times before, but this was the first time that something I did made her giggle. It felt so precious and amazing that I had done something that made her laugh. Posted by Picasa