A Very Special Thank You.

On Saturday we had our beautiful baby shower. I want to send a special thank you to Ella's Godfather Dan who planned the baby shower and Grandma and Grandpa Blaha who funded the baby shower. It was all I hoped and wished it could be. It was an amazing day for both Tim and I. Thank you to all who came and gave us wonderful and generous gifts for Ella. I will post pictures of the shower when I get them. I was also lucky enough to have my sister Stacie with my two beautiful nieces fly in from Florida for the shower. Here is a cute picture of Rhyan, Tim, Alina and Jersey.

Love Stef and Ella

30 Week Update

I know two updates in one day. I had my 30 week check up with the doctor this week. Everything is going good, her heartbeat was a strong 146 bpm. The doctor did say that I need to stay off my feet at home because I'm always on my feet at work. She said that I need to keep it to 40 hours a week. I will take her advice so that I don't have to go on bed rest. Tim and I are doing the final touches on Ella's room(more pictures to come when it is finished). We did get a shelving unit for her closet for some more storage. My Mom and I went to babies r us this weekend to pick up our shower gift from them. They bought us our travel system and since it was so big I thought that I would post some pictures on the blog since we will not have it at the shower. I can't believe that my shower is a week away, I can't wait.

Here is Ella's new ride. Thanks Mom & Dad Milinski.

Here is a 30 week belly pic. She is really growing. As I'm writing this update she is kicking and punching like crazy. I love that I can feel so much more that she is getting bigger. I love to sit on the couch and watch my belly move and shift. I think this is my favorite part of being pregnant. I'm so excited that my sister Stacie and my 2 nieces are flying in Wednesday from Florida for the shower. I'm so glad I finally get to meet Rhyan. I hate that they live so far away. I will enjoy my time with them next week. Hope to see everyone next Saturday.


Love Stef & Ella

A Happy New Year

Sorry it has been a while since my last post. This Christmas Ella got the most I think, but we knew that was going to happen. This year Tim and I decided that we would get one big gift for the two of us and since we have a little one on the way we needed a video camera. I really think Tim will have more fun with present than me. We got a Sony HD(if you know Tim, that is no surprise that it is Sony). It has awesome features that we can't wait to use with Ella. Thank you to everyone that helped with the best buy gift cards. Here is some pictures of what she got from Auntie Carrie & Uncle Craig and Grandpa & Grandma Blaha.


I think that Grandma Joy's favorite new store is Janie and Jack.....she got Ella an adorable outfit for next Christmas.

Mom Blaha also got me my Coach diaper bag. This way Ella and I are in style when we got out.

Here a cute picture of Jersey. This is what she does most mornings when I get ready. She is to cute for words. I don't know what she is going to do when Ella comes...she's not going to be the baby anymore.

I hope that everyone had a happy and safe New Year. We spent New Year's Eve with the dinner club again, but this year we had three new babies added to the group. It was great to see Tyler for the first time...he is the newest member of the dinner club. I can't believe that it is 2010, but so excited that Ella will be here soon.

Love Stef & Ella

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