I can't believe that we are 3 months away from Christmas! Where has the time gone? It's already consignment season!! I've bought Ellie a few things but overall I am doing really good about not overbuying. I even got Ellie some Christmas gifts at Wal-Mart last week that were on CLEARANCE!! Wooohoooo!!
We've all been staying busy. We went to Dothan for a few days so Stephen could play in a golf tournament then went to Orlando for a week to visit family and friends :-) It was a good trip, the weather was Perfect, and it was so nice to go to my old work and visit with everyone. I even got to see some of my old students! We visited with Aunt Rachel and her girls and Ellie had a blast. We stayed with Stephen's dad, Nina, and Pamela and it was really nice. They kept Ellie for a couple hours several mornings so that Stephen and I could sleep. Ellie would go with "mima" or grandpa to walk Pamela to the bus stop and see Pam off to school. She bonded really quickly with them so that was nice. They loved having her there :-)
Ellie did not really like the long trip and spent most of the 10 hours home 
complaining/crying/screaming. She only slept for 2 hours the entire trip. Towards the end of the trip it felt so nice outside that we rolled the windows down and turned the music up. Ellie thought that was really fun and I got quite a few really cute pictures from that. So anyways....today was a busy day for us. We walked around the property this morning then went to church, ate Chinese, washed my car, vacuumed all three cars, played in the pool, finger painted with Chocolate Pudding (for the first time), played with markers (also a first), walked to the lake, played in the pool again, finally bathed (again), and put the little love bug to bed! WHEW!
I've uploaded a few pics from recently but it just takes soooo long!
