An update that is way past due!!

Life sure does drive passed you so fast sometimes and it sometimes seems impossible to keep up with the daily grind at home AND remember to document those "moments" with your children on the blog. You know those moments that I am talking about... the ones that last for a split second and nobody else was there to witness it but YOU. For the mommies out there, you probably know that there are so many moments in your children's lives where you think "oh I should really write that down or document that in their baby book." Then later that day when you have a moment to sit in peace and write down what you wanted to, the thought leaves your mind and moments of history are lost. I HATE when that happens. I just have learned that by blogging it has become my digital journal and I need to be doing a better job of "taking note" of the small and big things that happen in our daily lives.

Life has been pretty good to us and it seems with this economy we should just be content with the fact that Jake has a great job and I get to stay at home with my energetic one year old. Ella is most definitely the highlight of our lives. Whoever said that your children grow up so fast..... was right! I rarely remember a moment that has lasted more than a week at a time before Ella is learning something new and more advanced the next week. We visited Colorado a month ago and my dear friend MaryAnn has two boys (two and four) and by the end of the week Ella was not going to crawl around when they were running from place to place and her determination and bruises on her knees showed by the end of the week but she was a walking little girl and has not stopped for a moment since then. She just CRASHES when she falls asleep, but from the minute she wakes up she is a ball of energy and a flirt. She is a spitting image of her daddy and although she may have my blond hair, everything else belongs to Jake. Such a sweet little thing.