A Rockefeller Christmas Tree!!!

Sunday, Tim and I were both off so I thought it would be a good time to decorate the tree. We set up our old 7.5 ft tree but since we have 9ft ceilings in our house I told Tim that the tree looked so short. I was joking with him and told him that we should get a taller one. Then the next thing that I know we are at Stein's looking at trees and if you know Tim and I we just don't look. We ended up finding a new tree........

The tree just fits and it a lot bigger than our old one. The tree has 1,250 lights. It looks huge in the living room and Jersey likes it because she has more room to lay under it. I guess more room for presents for Ella :)

Love Stef & Ella

Happy Thanksgiving

I hope that everyone had a great turkey day and a good black Friday shopping day. Here is a 25 week belly picture. She is moving around like crazy. Last night was the first time that she woke me up from a deep sleep because she was not only kicking but punching me as well. That is Tim's daughter for you.

Love Stef & Ella

A very generous friend!!!

This weekend will be my last one off for a while probably until my baby shower in January. I guess one of the joys of working retail. I took advantage of the warm weather and did some outside Christmas decorating and cleaned out some of the closets in the house. I feel that I had a productive weekend off. Mom and baby are doing well, I'm feeling great, except my feet hurt after 9 hours of being on them at work. If that is the only thing I will take it. Ella(yes we have decided on her name) is a very active baby, especially at night. I love that I can feel her moving around and Tim got to feel her kick. He finds it funny to talk to her and say "Ella, kick mamma" and it is funny that she will usually responds to his voice. We got a very generous surprise from one of my sister's good friend last week. She has a daughter that just turned 2 and no longer had the need for all of her baby items, so my sister called me and asked if I wanted anything. Well when you see these pictures we got a ton of great things. A lot of these items will be used at the grandparents houses as extras. I want to send a special thanks to Christine and Cora for all the great things we got. Here are some pictures.

These are most of the clothes anywhere from newborn to 6 months. Most of her drawers are full already.


The swing, bouncer and saucer will go to the grandparents house since they will be doing a lot of babysitting for us.

These are some cute dresses that still have the tags on them.

On top of everything that is in the pictures, we also got a bottle warmer, bottle sanitizer, an extra diaper bag, baby bjorn, car seat and base(grandma has it in her car already) and some great newborn toys and mirrors.

These are a few things that Grandma Joy picked up for Ella.

Our good friends, Andy and Rachel got her these cute Brewer oneies. Jersey always needs to be included. Ella will look great sporting these at her Brewer games this summer.

And here are some updated pictures of her bedding, because the ones I took last time made the color of her bedding look bad. Tim said I needed to post new ones.

Love Stef and Ella Joy

An early trip to the hopsital

When I was at work yesterday, I slipped on some water in the mall and fell on my butt. I did call the doctor even though I felt fine, just a little sore, but I knew that Tim would want me to call. After about an hour the nurse called me back and to my surprise she said that labor and delivery was expecting me. The nurse had said that because I was this far along in the pregnancy that I would have to be monitored for 3-4 hours. I thought that the nurse would say take some Tylenol and get off my feet. When we arrived the put me on a contraction and fetal monitor, but because our little girl is so active the nurse had a hard time keeping her on the monitor. We know that she will be true Daddy's girl because every time Tim would talk she would start to move, the nurse was laughing because she was so active and the monitor was loud when she was kicking that we couldn't hear her heartbeat. We only had to stay for about an hour and the doctor said that we were both fine. Mom and baby are doing good. Not only did we have the trip the hospital, but it was Tim's first day at his new job......what an eventful day for him. We are both so excited that Tim is now working for Kohl's department store. He is on day 2 and loves it so far....I will love the discount :) I will post more soon...I have some new additions to her room.



Love Stef and Ella Joy