I'm loving it...

What I'm loving right now...

That little Miss E is getting so big and able to try new things (even though she may not like them)  :)

 My new Michael Kors handbag (That I scored a super deal on!)

 My mom's creativity... check out her file cabinet redo!  I wonder if Josh's office would like some color???

TOUFAYAN wraps.  

They are healthy and make a delicious toasted grilled chicken wrap!

Ok... this one I am not loving so much due to overexposure, BUT Ella sure does love her some Bob the tomato, and requests "Bob" all the time.  He lives in our t.v., computer, CD player in the car, and bookcase.  Watch out... because Josh and I can bust out a random Veggie Tale song on demand!

Love is in the air... or on a tree??

I am obsessed... ummm love Target!  I always browse their dollar bins at the entrance and of course always end up with $10 worth of stuff that I am sure I didn't need :/  (Josh calls it the sucker bins) 

Anyways...   

I found some cute Valentine's Day ribbon (to make Miss E some new bows) and then found a random pack of 4 foam hearts and threw them in the cart.

  

Fast forward three days later when I am unloading my groceries and found the poor little hearts, that "I really needed", laying in my backseat. So this morning I hot glued some of the V-day ribbon onto the back of them and then hung the hearts on my berry branch.

Speaking of Target, I have to go pick up some pictures... and maybe just "look around"...

Have a Happy Wednesday :)

Short and Sweet

This picture includes 3 of my favorite things...

~My awesome hubby~

~My sweet little girl~

~A beautiful beach~

Hello 2011

Flashback...

2010 was a very busy and exciting year for us.  

~In February my dear hubby started his own dental practice and it has been a great success, GOD is good!

~  I turned 24... eeekkk 25 is getting close :/  

~We celebrated our sweet Ella's 1st birthday!

~We found out that our little family of 3 will soon be a family of 4 :) :) :)

~We FINALLY went to NYC for the first time.

~We celebrated 3 years of loving-but-sometimes-you-make-me-so-mad-but-I-still-looooove-you-anyway years of marriage :)  I Love you Josh.

~Josh turned a "youthful" 31 :) 

~We enjoyed watching Ella on Christmas morning actually get excited to open gifts.

I am excited for the blessings that God has planned for us in 2011.

a change for a New Year

For Christmas my lovely mother bought me a slipper chair.  I fell in love with these chairs from Target and after she purchased TWO i began to secretly plot how to steal borrow one of hers :)  My condo is very narrow (as you saw here) and there are not many ways to rearrange so I was a little worried about adding another piece of furniture to the already cramped space.  So after taking down allllll the Christmas decorations and tree (yes, I am one of those people who put their decorations up before Thanksgiving and take them down the day after Christmas, I get it from my mama)  I came up with this...

(pssst...There is an extra bonus if you can spot Milo)

I really wish I would have taken a picture of my house after the madness of Christmas day so that you would fully appreciate this haha!

Christmas catch-up

Here are a few highlights from Christmas 2010...

Christmas friends & family party at Mom's...

Christmas Eve at my Memore's (grandmother)

(brothers and sisters and their grandchildren)

 Christmas morning

 "Winter Blizzard of 2010"

 (eating snow cream with Dad after playing in the snow)

(sledding)

Needless to say, it was a great Christmas and fun snow weekend!

It's Christmas Time at The Curling Corner

I think the last time I posted a blog I was wearing short sleeves and now I am bundled up in a warm robe and flannel pants because it is a coooold 32' now!  Winter time is definitely here!  

Anywho...

We have been busy trying to create some fun family traditions with Ella.  Last week we took her to Christmas Town at Busch Gardens and unfortunately she was not a fan... in her defense, it was freeeeezing outside and she had to ride in her stroller the whole time (she seems to think it is a torture device).  We did manage to take a few pics that made it look like we had a great time.

The next day we bought our Christmas tree... 

And finally I decided it would be fun to take Ella to see the Christmas lights on the boardwalk at Va Beach.  The first 5 minutes (Josh swears it wasn't even that long) she loved it!!

but then something snapped in her and she decided that is wasn't fun anymore and had a complete MELTDOWN little cry.  So after trying to console her she got loaded back into her carseat and we had to drive 10 mph on the boardwalk for 25 more minutes with a screaming and tired toddler in the backseat.  

I thought Josh was going to drive off the boardwalk and go off road on the beach to get us out of there, but he composed himself well...haha!  Oh well, can't blame a Mom for trying.  Now, the question is, dare we try pictures with Santa???