Family Pictures

An amazing photographer, Brittany Rulis, took pictures of us as a family and Ila inparticular. Follow this link to check out the sneak peak. It's hard to believe they were done at our house. I highly recommend Brittany if you live in the Las Vegas area. I can't wait to see the rest!

By the way, please enjoy the fact that I am blogging this at 3:00 in the morning; you could say that I have adjusted to the late night feedings.

Lake Tahoe... finally

In beautiful Tahoe, we did so many fun things! and we definetly can't wait to go back! Here are somethings we did:

We stayed here at my Uncles house, did I mention it was ON the lake? Being over a hundred years old it is on the national historical registry list. It had 10 bedrooms! it was huge and beautiful!

We posed for the cameraWe played washers

My dad hit my little brother in the head with a washer and cut his head open... my brother kept saying, "Why did you do that Dad? Why would you want to hurt me? Why did you want me to bleed?" through his tears... such a character. When all was said and done, he thought it was a pretty sweet wound. The rest of the time my dad got to be the butt of all the jokes when it came to playing Washers.

We got buried in the sand

We went out on the boat (Oh look! A picture with me in it!)

We played football

and we took A LOT of neat pictures.

Making some changes...

I'm starting a new blog for our family. I'm concerned about all the personal information I have given on this blog. But, I don't want to go private so I have come up with a compromise. I will start a new blog that is public and leaves out personal information such as our last name and where we live and I will make this one private. If you still want to be able to view this one, please leave your email address and I will send you an invite. When I get the new one up and running, I'll let you know!

I'm talentless

Etsy is killing me! I keep drooling over all these amazing knitted things people are selling on there and I want to buy them so bad but I can't on account of the mortgage payment so I decided I have to learn to knit. I am determined. There is no turning back now cause I have told you and then I might look like an idiot. You will want to learn too (and that blue beanie is ONLY $25, I want it so bad!):

I need to prioritize

I really really should be, need to be doing something more productive than catching up on blogs while she is actually asleep, but I just can't seem to bring myself to clean or do something else I have to do. We went to Lake Tahoe this weekend and it was amazing! and I will blog about that {maybe during her next nap?}

Since Ila was born, she doesn't sleep like a regular newborn. When she wakes up from her naps, she is up for a good 2 to 3 hours at least, sometimes more. and yes, conviently, this happens at night on occasion also, but for the most part, she does pretty well at night {excluding last night - I don't wanna talk about it}. So, because of this, our house has never been messier, we've never had more dirty laundry, our fridge has never been so empty {I thought about posting a picture, but it's just embarassing, i haven't grocery shopped in over a month!}, and I've never eaten less in a day. It's fun. It's the best excuse I've ever had to get nothing done. Here's a Tahoe preview for you:

Your gonna be getting lots of these for a little while:

We just can't get enough of this little princess... I took these on her 2 week birthday last week. I just love showing her off!

Also, we changed the spelling of her name. Between receiving phone calls regarding "ees-la" and the doctors office calling her back from the waiting room ("ees-la" also), I just couldn't take it. I was really bummed to do it, but now people should be able to pronounce her name right the rest of her life. So, it's now spelt Ila.

Oh my word... she's so sweet.

How to break my heart:

These 2 give me butterflies

And I would just like to add...

I've lost 26 lbs. in 9 days.

I'm trying to hurry!

Everyday the past week I have thought, I have to blog, while everything is fresh... but it's been busy. They are coming though, I promise!