Big Day!

3.27.09

Today is a big day.

Today is Ella's half birthday! WOW! Can't believe my baby girl is 6 months old already. Its so fun watching her grow. She literally learns something new every day, its so amazing! Her personality is starting to show more and more and its so much fun to see. She makes me laugh every day-she is such a joy. Today, in honor of her half birthday, I did a little photo shoot. It definitely wasn't as good as the one Amber did, but I think it went pretty well for our first real photo shoot! Here are some of my favorites...

This one was taken last weekend at my Aunt's house. Ella was SO tired. Sunday's are hard days for us with schedule and this day was especially hard since we went out of town. Ella didn't sleep in the car for very long so she was getting super cranky. She fell asleep on her daddy...so sweet!

This one was taken today...I was trying to get her official 6 month pic with the sign. Its getting a lot harder to get her to sit still! I have about 10 pics of her eating the sign. So, this one will have to do!

And this is the sight that greets me almost every day after her nap. I'll hear her start babbling in her crib and when I go in to get her, she's always rolled over onto her belly and gets stuck and starts calling out for her mamma to rescue her :) Notice her fingers poking through her blanket. Its so funny! Her great grandma made her that blanket and she sleeps with it every night and always pokes her fingers through the holes. The only bad part is that I'm always pulling fuzz from between her fingers!

Today is also a big day because 10 years ago today was my first date with Rusty!! It was funny, last night we were laying in bed and I said - 10 years ago today, I was thinking, tomorrow I have a date with Rusty! haha! Tonight to celebrate, we ended up going to the Jazz Kitchen in broadripple. It was fun! We really wanted to do The Melting Pot but then decided to do this instead. Rusty always makes fun of me because I love the "smooth jazz" station on the radio. My only complaint was that it was pretty loud so we couldn't really talk. So afterwards we went for coffee and got a chance to talk. I love that after 10 years, we still have things to talk about besides work, Ella, etc. We can still talk about our hopes and dreams, about God and our walk with Christ, about anything really! I love that we can still laugh together. I love that after 10 years, there is no one else I would rather spend time with than my husband. How awesome of God to give me such a wonderful partner in life.