Another month!!

Another month has passed and I am still not up to date on my blog! It is unbelievable how busy I can get and how quickly a month flies by! Well, I will pick up where I last left off, which brings us to Easter.

We dyed eggs, Ella was more helpful this year than she was last year, but with her helpfulness came curiosity. She liked to hold onto the eggs.....



but also thought it would be fun to put her hand right into the dye. That was a mistake I did not make twice, she didn't get near that dye again!!







Ella was so excited when she saw her Easter basket on Easter morning



but then ignored it when she saw the "big" gift sitting next to her basket.



She did eventually get back to the basket, but when she only found clothes and books in there



it was back to the toys....



Here she is in her Easter dress, she loved wearing a dress and running around in her pretty pink shoes.



We had a great and fun Easter with both my parents and sister and Brandon's parents as well. I hosted again this year, and it gets easier each time I do it! Another update coming soon!! It won't be a month before I am on here again with a new post!

So it has been almost 3 months since my last post and I have a lot of ground to cover! We went to Iowa to visit my sister at the end of February. It was the first time we visited her and we had so much fun! Ella was soooooo excited to see aunt Kelli.





This was the face of the weekend, every 5 minutes she would make this face. Good thing it was so cute!!



Aunt Kelli's house has something our house does not.....stairs! Ella played on the stairs basically all weekend and she loved it!









Ella wasn't able to do the walking on the knees thing at Aunt Kelli's because she has carpet, so Ella started walking all the time instead. She hasn't looked back, it has been all walking since then!



She's so proud of herself.....



Aunt Kelli introduced her to the flying laundry basket, and of course everytime we see a laundry basket now she has to climb into it.





Just chillin on the stairs....



I have no idea what she is doing here, but she is to cute!



The weekend was so fun, and it was great to finally visit my sister in Iowa. It is a long drive, but totally worth it.

Hair, Hair, Hair

Ella has so much hair! It is to the point now where she cannot go without having a barrett in her hair, which of course she pulls out about 20 times a day, and then gets mad that her hair is in her eyes. It is getting hard to manage, yet I cannot bring myself to have it cut, it is just too adorable!

One of her favorite things to do right now is play peek-a-boo with the blanket. She pulls the blanket over her head and then her hair does this



and then she looks at it like this, but won't let me put the barrett back in her hair



Even if I do get to put the barrett back in her hair, 10 minutes later she does the blanket thing again



and then her hair does this



And again with the blanket,



and again with the hair. It is an endless cycle......



She also loves to run back and forth on our couches, which gets her hair all crazy with static electricity, but she is still so flippin cute!!





I know that I am going to have to get it cut eventually, but I am just not ready yet!!!

Still not walking

Ella is almost 15 months, and she still is not walking on a regular basis. She knows how to walk, and is getting pretty good at it,



She loves to walk behind toys,







But her favorite mode of transportation is walking on her knees. I have never seen, or heard of, a child that does this. It is the most bizarre thing, but it is her favorite way to travel. She is so fast too, I find it hard to keep up with her sometimes!





I really would like for her to walk. She knows how, but doesn't really seem to have the patience for it. It is getting to the point now where she is wearing holes in the knees of her pants, and she has callouses on her knees. Am I seriously going to have a 2 year old that walks on her knees???

My Hubby is 30!!!!

So I know this is a blog about Ella, but I need to give a shout out to my hubby. Brandon turned 30 a week ago, and to celebrate, my parents took Ella and we went out to "party". I say "party" because in our 20's we never would have considered this a party. We did, however, make it until after 1 am, and we were quite proud of ourselves!! We got a group of friends together and went to dinner and out for some drinks. 3 of the 4 couples that came out had kids, so it was fun to all get out for some adult time. We absolutley love our daughter, but it was so nice to be able to go out and have some fun with our friends. It is good to know that even though Brandon and I are 30, we can still have a good time with our friends!!

The happy couple enjoying our night of freedom



Brandon's brother and his wife "The other Grabski's" came out too. It was one of their first nights out since our niece Evy was born in December. I think this is one of the only pictures we have of the 4 of us in the past 3 years.



The Enlunds made the trip up from Madison, it was so great to see them!!



And our "young" friends Joel and Mandy came out to show us how it's done. They both ended up dancing on the bar at some point that night.....



Our game of 7, 14, 21 got a little out of hand, and somehow the dice ended up in Chris's beer!



That game then led to shots.....



And then more shots......



We had such a fun night, which means the next morning was little rough, but my fabulous parents let us sleep in and didn't bring Ella back until later in the morning. Ella had such fun with them, and my parents can't wait to have her overnight again. We may need to take advantage of that.....

Christmas - I know, I am a month late

We had 2 Christmas celebrations this year, one with each family. At the Grabski family Christmas, Ella mastered climbing the stairs and made grandma and grandpa sit on the stairs watching her for most of the night!





This is her new face, I am so in love with this face!!! She was very excited about her presents and made this face with every gift she opened.


Ella got all sorts of new toys for Christmas, such as this alphabet train. She loves this, but it only has one setting.....loud!


She did get some walking time in with uncle Dan before the stair climbing began though. She loves her uncle Dan!



We also got together for a Bliven family Christmas. She for to have some fun playing cards with grandpa.







And of course she had so much fun with aunt Kelli. She sure misses her aunt Kelli a lot, but we are going to visit her in a few weeks so she will get some quality aunt Kelli time.










I know this is more than a month late, and I need to update more often so I will try my hardest to get more posts up here!