Can't believe I am planning Elle's first birthday party!! It is bitter sweet. Where is my little baby? But the invitations sure turned out cute. Stay tuned...

With or Without Bono

Well one of my concert dreams came true this week. I really wanted to get to see U2 when they came to H-Town. David and I worked hard on getting the tickets when they went on sale. We got good seats. We were excited about this date night in particular. Daddy picked me up from Meemom's for our date. Unfortunately, it took almost 2 hours to get to H-Town. The traffic was terrible, so we missed meeting up for cocktails preshow. We grabbed a quick turk sand at Texadelphia and headed to Reliant. We payed $20 to park in a Reliant lot where no one was directing traffic. There were basically no spots left. David was getting hot quickly and began crazy talking the people that worked there. We finally settled for parking illegally to get to the show.
U2 opened up with a couple of new songs and I was a little stressed. Feeling old and nervous, I waited impatiently. During my waiting Bono picked up a girl from out of the crowd and danced with her and allowed her to stay on stage for the whole song. Ummm..hello Bono did you not get the memo. I don't love the drummer anymore. He didn't age near as well as you did. I heart you. I wanted to be the girl on the stage. Oh well. I didn't have to wait long, they rocked the whole damn stadium. The roof was open and the stage set up was an over the top space ship. It was all pretty cool. David and I were so excited to meet up with Kristin and Sean at the show. We have been missing them so much! It was short but always sweet to see them. Casey and Rob came to sit with us as well. We all had an amazing time. Thanks for the pictures Kristin. I got none of my own. Until next time Bono.

Love Your Puppies

this picture is pre-ike but it was the only one i had of all my puppies together (including buddy the budman catdog.)



David and I got Elle down to sleep and began watching Marley and Me. I had heard about the book but have not read it. I thought that the acting was actually pretty good. The story was well written. I liked the movie and then...... Well the last 20 minutes of the movie were spent with me basically hyperventilating. I looked to David for support and he was falling apart as well. Let me add if you saw this movie and didn't cry, I think that you are without a heart. Sorry but I mean really, you are just down right a spineless animal hater. So, after the movie ended David and I tried to pull ourselves together. We called the dogs to have a family spooning session on the living room floor. We wanted them to know how much we loved them. We then asked them to come sleep with us. They didn't completely trust the situation but went for it anyway. Got to love the baby dogs. They ALWAYS love you.

shopping cart

Elle spends a whole lot of time taking all of her toys out of the basket and throwing them everywhere. She loves it. I had to put to baskets in the living room to accommodate this. At her Meemom's house she has more toys than I can begin to explain in baskets in the living room and meemom and her take them out and put them up several times a day. Daddy taught Elle how to play "shopping cart" while I was having a girls happy hour last Wednesday. Elle stands behind the basket of toys and pushes it down the hallway. She took a few steps on two different occasions for her meemom last week. Mommy and Daddy haven't seen it yet but know it is coming really soon.

Elle looking for something.



And here she is stoked to find what she was looking for (you can see her new bruise)

i know the picture is blurry but i had to do it. elle loves to kiss.. especially her family, animals and dolls. It is pretty cute and sweet. Elle especially hearts ALL THINGS ELMO!

This picture was taken back in june when we went to NJ for our anniversary. I am one lucky girl. I love them!!!

david rocks

I have to say i was a little disappointed that my baby daddy didn't have my birthday present waiting for me. I know we had talked about getting me the new cell phone that i wanted for my birthday but we hadn't done it. I guess I expected him to have my new phone on my birthday with a pretty bow wrapped around it. Well, it didn't happen. Instead I woke up and went to my first day of work. David has always given amazing, well planned and thoughtful gifts. I mean even when we were in high school. So when I came up empty handed I was very sad.
I received a couple of text messages at school saying
"Your present has arrived and it is big!"
when i asked what it is . He simply told me that i had to wait and see and then when i begged. he said that i would use it every day and i have wanted it my whole life. Well he was right. Thank you so much David! You rock and you are still an unbelievable gift giver. You are more than forgiven!! I LOVE MY NEW< BEAUTIFUL BED! It is exactly what I have wanted for so long.!

WELL.. I came home last Thursday to see this....