Checking herself out in her first pair of jeans!
Do you ever feel like you are just waiting for things to
happen? You count down the days and really don’t do anything with those days in-between,
well maybe you do but they are over shadowed by the bigger events. That seems
how life has been this entire summer. First it was the end of a semester and
start of a new one, memorial day, family pictures, family visiting, girls camp,
then Jen’s sealing, fourth of July & my birthday, our Alaska trip, and a
family fish fry with the Searles this past weekend. Coming up in the next
couple weeks is the fair (which I am entering a picture in), a DUATHLON, school
starts, wedding pictures, and that is just the big, big events. It doesn’t
include the everyday things and all the training runs and bike rides, playing
with Ellie and dates with Cody, mutual starting back up on Wednesday nights,
and lessons every other Sunday.
I feel like I just go through life from one event to the
other. SO instead of writing about this past weekend or what is coming up next
week, I will write about today. And try to take things just one crazy day at a
time.
Today started out like not very many other days. I woke up
and didn’t want to run, Ellie has been teething, coughing, and running a fever
for the past couple of days. Which means that neither of us has slept in a few
nights. I got us ready and headed out the door to run errands. Errands in Twin
Falls is just plain awful. It is a 45 minute drive down there and I do not do
well on long car rides, 15 minutes into it and I am tired. Half the time I am
sleepy just driving to town and that’s only 12 minutes away!
On today’s to do list was print pictures, find frames, baby
food, sports bra, and return/buy books for this next semester. First stop was
CSI campus (College of Southern Idaho, not Criminal Investigative services, I
WISH!). College bookstores are the biggest rip off I have ever seen but I am
too lazy to buy them any other way because I am afraid of getting the wrong
book. I returned my books from the last couple semesters, well over $600 worth
of textbooks. And guess how much they gave me back?!?!? $177. So excited! Not...
We headed over to Costco to get pictures printed and I have
made the most wonderful discovery. Costco has black 8x10 and 11x14 picture
frames. Two of them for $15.99. SCORE! We rearranged the living room on
Saturday night and I am excited to finally decorate it. It’s been a year and a
half and I am just now getting to decorating it more than a giant clock on the
wall. It also helps having family pictures that I want to show off look
at more often. A few weeks ago I spotted a Halloween costume while we were
there but didn’t tell Cody until we were in the checkout line and it was too
late. A pink zebra costume is just what we need for this little misses of ours!
Walmart was the next stop and what an experience that was! Ellie
was starting to get fussy so to keep her entertained I gave her the list. I
sure got my glute work out in for the day, I was constantly bending over to
pick it up. Right after I would hand it to her she would throw it on the floor
and we would do the same thing all over again. I got three different kinds of
sippy cups for her to try, hopefully she will at least like one, eventually…
Target was better. In the dressing room she was able to crawl around and even tried to escape out underneath the door and enjoyed eating hangers. On our way home I called the doctor’s office because we have been a little worried about Ellie’s cough. The nurse that I talked to really needs to work on her people skills. I told her what was going on, coughing, fevers, the works. She asked me how far away from the office I lived. I told her about 7-8 miles away. She asked me how fast I could get there. If I couldn’t come in right away they had an opening in an hour and they wanted to see her.
I was a little worried with this comment and kept telling
myself she is only saying that because they have an opening right then. As we
were in the waiting room Ellenor crawls over to an empty chair and stands up on
it. The elderly gentleman in the chair next to her starts tapping his fingers
on the chair and playing with her. She is our little ray of sunshine and can
make anyone smile. He was in love. (Side note, we were stopped by 3 employees
at Costco, the lady checking us out kept us there for a few minutes just to
talk to Ellie, as we were walking into Walmart a little Asian lady talked to
her the whole walk across the parking lot… She soaks up the attention like she
does the sun and milks it for all its worth).
Waiting in the room she was fascinated by the crinkling of the paper on the bed and was completely entertained by it. She is just fine though, thank heavens. She didn’t have an ear infection and her lungs sounded good, besides having a cough she is just fine. We just have to keep her fevers down and make sure she stays hydrated.
We got home and I put all the pictures in the frames and
they are currently still sitting on the couch. But I am hopeful that they will
go up within the next day or two. I also printed a picture I took a few weeks
ago to be entered into the fair. I am really nervous about it because I hate
bringing any kind of attention to myself, especially when it is something I am
so passionate about and will be critiqued. But it does look amazing all matted
and I am excited to finally do it after years of shying away from fairs.
