Project Life: Week 3

Project Life: Week 3

January 15 - 21, 2011

January 15, 2011: Eliza was super excited to help Nelnee blow out the candles on her cake. Eliza and I went to Ft. Worth to help Nelnee celebrate her 100th birthday.

January 16, 2011: Eliza got some hugs and snuggles from Grammy before we headed back home.



January 17, 2011: While we were out of town, Daddy picked up a little present for Eliza at Half Price Books - a copy of Yellow Submarine on VHS. Eliza decided that instead of reading tonight, she would like to watch a little bit of her Beatles.



January 18, 2011: Eliza was beyond excited when I told her that Scooby Doo was going to be at Chick - Fil - A. As soon as we walked in, she ran up and hugged him.

January 19, 2011: Eliza and our sweet next door neighbor had their first play date together. They made a spectacular mess in the play room and had a ball doing it.

January 20, 2011: Tonight was Eliza's first dance class. She was on her own - no parents allowed in the rooms - and she did wonderfully. She liked the ballet part but she is in love with her tap shoes and the noise they make.

January 21, 2011: As we were headed out the door, the outside temperature was 29 degrees. . . . BBBRRRRRRR. I was complaining about the cold, but not Eliza. She loves cold days because she LOVES wearing her panda mittens.

Birthday Party

Last weekend, Eliza and I made a quick trip up to Ft. Worth for a very special birthday party. We were honored to be invited to help Nelnee (my step father's mother) celebrate her 100th birthday.


The cake was gorgeous and delicious but Eliza was most excited that she was asked to help Nelnee blow out the candles.

The party was a lovely way to honor a very lovely lady and we had a great time.

Project Life:Week 2

Project Life: Week 2

January 8 -14, 2011

January 8: The perfect way to spend a Saturday afternoon . . . . playing with Barbies!

January 9: Eliza was a little under the weather today. She spent the majority of the day snuggled up in the big chair watching episodes of Scooby Doo.

January 10: Eliza has discovered nursery rhymes and that is what she wants to read before bed.

January 11: Daddy worked late, so Eliza was practicing her nursery rhymes, so she could read to him when he got home.

January12: The night of the broken toe . . . mine! I rammed my toe into Eliza's bed. Instead of showing my gross, broken and oh so swollen toe, I decided to take a picture of the culprit.

January 13: Daddy gave Eliza a set of magnets. She calls them "magic rocks" and is just fascinated with them.

January 14: Daddy and Eliza were playing Pretty Pretty Princess and Eliza thought that her Daddy needed jewelry. He was thrilled.

Little Gym

Last year Eliza started attending a weekly gymnastics class at The Little Gym. She has really enjoyed going to class and it has really helped in increasing her coordination and spacial reasoning. Saturday was her last class and I know that she is going to miss her teacher, Miss Laura, but she is super excited about starting her tap and ballet class.

A Day in the Life

One of the reasons I started this blog was for Eliza. I wanted to create something that she could look back on when she is older and remember all the goings on in our lives. I have recently noticed that I tend to blog about the big stuff . . . holidays, birthdays , parties, etc. but I don't always include the day to day activities. I know that the day to day stuff can be mundane and not exciting to read about but I don't want to forget it.


I have decided to participate in a year long project that involves taking a picture each day and journaling about it. I realize that it is not realistic for me to think that I can blog everyday, but I know I can take a picture everyday. At the end of each week I will post the photos on our blog. I hope to perhaps create a hard copy as well but we will just have to see how things go.

Project Life

Week 1

January 1 - January 7, 2011

January 1, 2011: Our year began with a yummy donut breakfast. Eliza had her usual - pink icing with sprinkles.

January 2, 2011: Eliza has begun to ask for "privacy please" when she uses the rest room. This what I found when I stepped back in.

January 3, 2011: A few hugs for Bob.

January 4, 2011: Eliza jams to the songs on her new Ipod before heading off to bed.
January 5, 2011: Bob and Eliza catch a few more zzzzz's in our bed.

January 6, 2011: Stephen and I spent our afternoon dealing with his flat tire.

January 7, 2011: Eliza is dancing with her new friends, "The Fresh Beat Band".

Family Visits

One of my favorite things about having two weeks off at Christmas time (besides the obvious perk of not having to go to work) is having an opportunity to spend time with family.



I was so excited that this year we were able to spend some time with my Grandfather. I don't get to see him very often, and I was so tickled that we were able to spend some quality time with him.



Eliza and her Great Grand Dad became big buddies. She really enjoyed getting to know him and I think she pretty much talked his ear off.

I was so excited that we were able to visit my cousin Amy and her adorable new baby boy, Reid. I was a little bit worried about how Eliza would be around the baby, so I spent a lot of time prepping her about how to touch the baby. I explained that Reid was very little and she was only allowed to touch his toes. I just had visions of her trying to poke him in the eyes or something.

I worried for nothing . . . she was on her best behavior and was so sweet with little Reid. Even though she enjoyed spending time with him, when I asked her if we should take Reid home with us she was very quick and emphatic in her answer . . . . NO!

We also had an opportunity to spend time with my cousin Kristin and my cousin Stephanie and her lovely family. Unfortunately for some reason, I never got any pictures of them, but I really enjoyed having a chance to visit and catch up with them.

Before heading back home, we made a small detour and stopped by to see Steve's Aunt Jeanne. Eliza was very excited to see her Aunt Jeanne and even more excited when Aunt Jeanne gave her some yummy Christmas cookies.

We are so blessed to have so many special people in our lives and I am thankful that Eliza has had an opportunity to get to know them.

Walk of Lights

On Christmas afternoon the three of us drove up to Grammy's house. Our little family enjoyed some time alone, but Eliza was tickled pink when Grammy, GrandDaddy and Great Grand Dad arrived on the 26th.



Eliza loves spending time with her grandparents but her favorite thing to do with Grammy at Christmas time is visit the walk of lights. This was the first year that Eliza wasn't in a stroller and she didn't walk around the lights . . . she ran.

It has become tradition for Eliza to take her picture in Santa's chair. I hope Eliza will still be willing to do this when she is 16 - otherwise I am pretty sure Grammy and mommy might cry.

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Christmas Morning

Eliza woke up on Christmas morning to find that Santa had indeed been to our house. He left her gifts near the fireplace that way they didn't get confused with the gifts from mom and dad.


Eliza must have been a very good girl because she got everything she asked for . . . . a Barbie movie, a Barbie house and a castle.

Eliza was so excited to see her Barbie house which was such a relief since one of Santa's elves spent over SIX HOURS putting it together!

After the Santa gifts, we moved on to the tree for family gifts.

The adorable pink trike was a gift from Grammy and Grandaddy. Eliza was in awe when she saw it. She loves the pink and white streamers and she really loves the bell.

We had a truly wonderful Christmas and we are blessed beyond measure.

Christmas Eve

We always celebrate Christmas with Steve's side of the family on Christmas Eve. Before we headed out to church I wanted to get a few pictures by the tree of Eliza and Bob decked out in their fancy Christmas wares. Easier said than done .




I thought Bob looked really sweet wearing his Christmas collar but Steve said it made him look stupid. I don't think Bob really enjoyed wearing it, so I took it off as soon as we were done with pictures.

After church, we headed over to Grandma and Grandpa's for a yummy dinner and of course . . . . PRESENTS! Unfortunately, this is the only picture I got of Eliza opening her presents. This was the year that she was REALLY into all of the festivities and she loved tearing off the wrapping paper. I am not sure that any of us opened our our gifts . . . . Eliza did it for us!

As usual, Eliza was really spoiled by her grandparents and her aunt and uncle. Grandma and Grandpa added to her Madame Alexander doll collection and gave her Little Bo Peep. Grandma told Eliza that when she was a little girl she had a little Bo Peep doll too.

Aunt Kristen , Uncle Richard and Jacob gave her a Sleeping Beauty and Prince Phillip dolls. She was instantly smitten.

This year we attempted to take family pictures after opening presents . . . . not the best plan. We had one very excited little girl, who wasn't really interested in posing for pictures.

When we came home it was time to put cookies and milk out for Santa . I was just going to put out cookies but it was very important to Eliza to put out milk as well because she thought Santa would be thirsty.

Once Santa had his snack, it was time for Eliza to head off to bed . . . .so Santa could stop by!