Installment #3

The girl is the epitome of perpetual motion, so these shots are a little blurry. More from Sarasota.

Installment #2: First day at the pool, Sarasota

I'll write more captions 'n stuff in the coming days...I just got home and don't feel much like typing :)

Installment #1

We're back from 15 days in Florida---here are the first of many pictures and some stories. Enjoy!

In Nashville during our layover on the way to FL:

Etsy shout out!

Hey! I got a nice shout out from a fellow Etsy-an, Margaret of meshkadesign on her blog---so I'd like to return the kindness. Check out her blog and her shop, she's got so many beautiful clutches and earrings. Thanks again Margaret!

Our yard & my helper.

I keep forgetting to post pictures from my wonderful Mother's Day. Gabe and I worked in the yard for the entire Mother's Day weekend, which was a lot of fun. Gabe built me the raised planters I've wanted since I moved here. So now our tiny, unkempt yard is our tiny, charming yard with flowers and fruits and veggie plants. Last week Ellis helped me water. We were both pretty soaked in the end, but it was fun :)

Here is our yard now...(pay no attention to the grass---that's our next yard project to tackle)

Those are our blueberry, blackberry, strawberry, tomato, banana pepper, bell pepper plants, and cilantro:

Here is our yard in process over M's Day weekend:

And back to Ellis watering (her arm, in this case)---sorry things are so out of order:

It's you against me, Hose. I plan to win.

And apparently Ellis can NOW climb up onto and subsequently over the back of the sofa. See what happens when you neglect your toddler in order to update your blog?

Talkin'

More words: ball, gentle, teeth, cheese, berry, Nay-Nay (Janae), up (more like up-bee), no-way.

And she refuses to give kisses anymore. If you try, she says no and pushes your face away. Little turkey.

Sorry it's been so long!

The school year is winding down---Gabe is done teaching and I have two weeks left (and a day). Here are some of the latest and greatest pictures of Ellis. She is so much fun to have around. She's walking more than she's crawling now and gets lighter on her feet everyday.

Common words in Ellis' ever-growing vernacular include: go, no, shoe, knee, cheeks (always said multiple times in a row while pointing to someone's cheeks), Mama, Did-ee (Daddy), go-way (not sure she's knows what it means, but she says it a lot :), and Day (Daly). She understands many more words, which makes communicating with a toddler so much easier.

Ellis has two top teeth and two bottom teeth, and is growing another on the top and another on the bottom.

(For those of you keeping track, Ellis is 15.5 months old)

Easter #1 and Easter #2

Same baby, same basket, same bunny...

pixels have been fixeled.

I got my photos fixed in the etsy shop (thanks to Gabe) so check it out again. Still some things to do. I need to figure out how to add a banner to the top of my shop, and some other stuff here and there. I'm not sure if you have to sign up (which is no big deal, by the way :) in order to mark that you "I heart" my shop, but if you have a minute, I'd appreciate it!

etsyyyyyyyy!

Whew. I'm not going to take the time right now to update you on all the goings on around here for the last few weeks, but I will later. Really quick: I finally started an etsy shop (which I've been wanting to do for a couple of years). My etsy shop can be found at THIS address, and it's called Bring About Art. Check it out and mark that you love it :) Pay no attention to some of the poor-quality photos...I'll get around to fixing that soon. Speaking of that...if YOU have any brilliantly creative (or just more so than what I've got) ideas for displaying my bracelets in my photos, please do share!

You can also see Bring About in Aspen this month at the Aspen Eco Fest where I'll be showing (and hopefully selling) some of my furniture. If not, well, then you can't really put a value on good experience can you??

Promise to add some pictures of the peanut soon!