Happy Birthday Grandpa!

This morning we woke up to some HOT and HUMID weather.  We got up kind of early so we decided to head to our favorite breakfast place, Maxfield's, for some yummy breakfast.  We let Ella go in her pj's but I'll have to teach her that we typically do not make public appearances in our jammies.

I spent the rest of the morning and a good chunk of the afternoon re-painting my dresser.  I'm pretty happy with how it turned out I think.  Although I am still somewhat on the fence.  I'm thinking about painting Nick's yellow but I have to convince him yet.  We will live with this one and then decide.  Either way, his is getting painted too.

While I was doing that Nick and Ella took in some Olympic action today and we got to see the double amputee compete in the 400 meter.  Pretty inspiring!  He did qualify for the finals... so he could win gold!  I then attempted to make "Pizza Balls" per a recipe I found on Pinterest.  I don't know if I did something wrong or what, but they were time consuming to make (who would have thought?!) and they weren't that good.  We were both pretty bummed.

And finally, today is my Dad's birthday so of course we had a special photoshoot!

Weekday Adventures

The last couple of days have been pretty uneventful around here.  Ella and I have mostly been hanging out around home except I do try and run at least one errand a day to break things up a bit.  Yesterday we did some returns at Kohl's and found some great clearance dresses for next summer (she already has her 4th of July outfit of course).  Daddy forgot to tell us that they just did markdowns (I wonder why?) so there was a lot to choose from!  I also packed away all her newborn size clothes already (how is that possible?!!).  There is a little more room in her closet now.

Getting ready for a beach fire in 1 week!

Today we ventured out to the Mom's Group that our hospital offers.  We hung out for about an hour, it was nice to socialize and have some adult conversation during the day.  There were about 4 other moms there plus the woman from the hospital who runs it.  It may be our only trip though since they meet on Friday's during the day and I will be up north (!!!) for 2 of the remaining 4 that I have left.

After that we picked up some things at Target and Home Depot.  I plan to re-paint our dressers (again) this weekend, so I had to get some supplies.  Hopefully that goes smoothly!

Sleeping through our shopping

This weekend we will also hopefully be going to the Wisconsin State Fair to get the world's best baked potato!  YUM!  It is only supposed to be 79 on Sunday - I sure hope that holds true because if it is 90 I am never going to convince Nick to go to a packed fair ground!

Poor Lucky

Last night we noticed that Lucky had small sore on the side of her face.  She needed to get into the vet anyway, so I put it on my list to call them in the morning to get her in this weekend when Nick could go with me.  Fast forward to this morning and I woke up to a much larger oozing sore, I was so sad for my puppers!  I called the vet and thankfully they were able to get us in today at 5:20 so Nick was still able to come along.  They had to give her a shave around it so that it stays clean and she is now on some meds 3 times a day, but she should be healed up in no time!  Apparently it looks much worse than it is, and the vet said it is really very small.  So poor puppy is resting up.

Apparently Ella was tired yesterday too because she slept really good last night, only was up once and went back to sleep pretty quickly after that.  So we are feeling much more rested today, although my headache is still hanging on.  I need Excedrin to get back in production!  **News Flash!  I decided to do a quick Google search and its back!  YES! Proof here **

Today I wrapped up a little project I did to frame some antique keys we had but had no real way to display.  I took a $2 frame from Ikea, sanded it down, put the keys in it and backed it with a scrap of fabric and displayed it.  I left it like that for a few days but Nick and I both thought it was too white, so today I painted the mat that came with it to give it a little color.  I'm not totally convinced its the right color, but I'll leave it for a bit and see if I come up with something better.

Before

After

Nick loves coming home to cuddle with his Ella... sometimes Lucky gets a little jealous and wants to cuddle too, especially after the day she had today.