Look at the difference 5 days makes!!

Sweet Ellie - her curls are coming in!
Her favorite thing to do right now - "draw" pictures"

Roses from our bushes! and they SMELL amazing!

funky roses - but pretty

peppers!

tomato flowers and buds!

Wow! Gardening is so fun! I went to check on our plants to day and yippee - I see some real vegetables growing! I am SO excited that we might actually be able to eat something out of our yard I can hardly stand it! and correcting - apparently I am not growing yellow bell peppers - they are banana peppers which I'm not even sure I like but they look fantastic and I'm sure we'll LOVE them :). I have SO much to learn about this. More random fun - I was out with the girls this afternoon delivering our new neighborhood directories and ice cream social flyers (SO 1950's - I LOVE this neighborhood) and ran into our neighbor Tom down the street. He was out planting his garden with his wife - so we got to go look at his plants and talk gardening with him - SO exciting! I think they are going to be my gardening mentors now - yay! He even offered to lend me a couple of tomato cages - yay again!

Side note - Chris started a diet Thursday - today is Saturday and he has lost 10 pounds!! Are you kidding me? I have been trying to lose my last 5 pound of Ellie weight for 6 months! SO much easier for guys!

Another side note - I can NOT believe my little Ellie Belly will be 1 in 2 weeks! I literally feel like it was last week that we were driving to the hospital at 4 :30 am (and can still remember that pain - sorry to first time preggos reading - Erin :). I feel that same mix of joy and sadness that I did when Chloe turned 1. I don't really know if we'll have another baby - Chris and I have mixed opinions but I'm hoping God will work on him :). Soooo, she could be my last little baby - almost makes me want to cry. Ahhhh, motherhood - hardest, most tiring job I've ever had but the most special, intense, best one too!