Joni took another trip to San Fran with her sister while I stayed home with the kid a couple of weekends ago. Before you get all sad for me, which I know you are, I got to go golfing the next weekend and then I went to Alabama for a week for work.

As I was sitting by the pool and the white sandy beaches (who knew in Alabama right?), I took a couple of pictures to make Joni jealous while she was at home in NV during church. The bad Karma came back around to get me as I got VERY sunburned, so bad that I could barely move or do much for 4 days while in work training. My company even chartered a sailboat for us the last day but I couldn't go because just being outside hurt. I guess I learned my lesson, I really do wish Joni and Ellie could have joined me as they would have loved the place.

Funny that Joni didn't realize that she was taking her picture next to the Hindu god of fertility, at least I think that's what it is.

The rest of this blog post is all about Ellie as our lives seem to revolve around her most of the time.

Ellie is in the "I want" stage, as in..."I want to go to outside"

"I want to draw pictures"

"I want a Markalellow"...(marshmallow)

"I want to read a book"

"I want to play in the truck", this one happens every time I come home, she skips right past me to go to my truck.

She suddenly loves to snuggle, and she is always up in our business trying to give kisses until the kisses become excessively long and slobbery and we have to put her back in her cage...okay so we don't do that but she really gets up in people's business sometimes.

She loves ice cream...and anything sweet, she'll always say I want one more.

the pet store has been a new found love of hers

Do you think she is spoiled?

Time seems to be rushing by, both of our days are really busy all the time but Joni's get more monotonous as she is counting down the days while sitting in a house without AC in the desert. She is a trooper and I can just see the look in her eyes that she is not sure how having 2 kids is going to work, how does anyone do more than 2? She continues to overacheive and do things no woman that is 7 months pregnant with a 2 year old can do. As I write this she is making another fancy cake for a friend, I am going to have to start telling her friends no for her because she is WAY too nice sometimes.

Despite all of this, we have really been working to prioritize the most important things in our lives right now. Staying on a schedule really seems to work for us. I wake up around 6 and read, then work out and go to work so that I can get off at 5 and spend time with the fam. We read together and pray together before Ellie goes to bed, which we've never done well before. We eat together and go to bed early and we try to eliminate TV unless there is something we know we want to watch ahead of time. If you know us well being able to accomplish these things sounds like a miracle. Just wait 2 months when all sleeping habits and schedules go out the window. Not a day goes by we don't give thanks for all that we have, I don't feel deserving of all the blessings but I am as happy as a clam...assuming clams are happy.