We had a BBQ at my moms house for Memorial day and Bella had fun spending as much time with her daddy as possible. He works all week and she only gets to see him for about 1hr a day so this 3 1/2 day weekend has been nice! I was supposed to take pictures of the whole family but they basically all ate and left so I wasnt able to. Oh well, I got some cute pictures of Bella.

Bella woke up at 6am this morning but was still very tired so I stuck her in bed with me and we cuddled! I love baby cuddles, it makes my day better :). She's such a little sweetheart. She hasn't been acting like herself for some reason I'm not sure if she's teething or what but she's been super fussy and sleeping 24/7! She's acting better today so hopefully whatever it was is old news.

My little girl is getting so big, I still cant believe it. She has both bottom teeth fully through and I can see white up top, her gums are also really swollen so I imagine a top one is gonna pop through any time. She's also unbelieveably gorgeous! I stare at her wondering how something so beautiful came from me :p. She really is stunning, but maybe I'm just biased. I'm not looking forward to her growing up and having all the boys drooling at her feet. Ugh. It makes me nervous just thinking about her teenage years haha.

Nothing interesting has been happening recently so not much to blog about. The car should be done tomorrow which means I finally get my car back! Theres a trail in town called The Katy Trail, it goes through several cities.. well I love taking Izabella on walks on it because its so pretty! We got into a routine were we would go walk every day right around the same time but ever since Patrick hit the deer in his car we haven't been able to go :( his car is supposed to be fixed tomorrow so we will be starting our walks again asap!

I love her....

even when she throws a major tantrum at applebees because she really just wanted some broccoli...

even when she wakes me up every hour at night....just because.

even when she screams and screams at 5am all because she just wanted to cuddle with mommy in the big bed....

even when she's teething....

even she has a major diaper blowout, so bad that my whole living room stinks for HOURS.....

even when she pulls my hair because the way I yell "OUCH" is pretty hilarious....

I love her....

Pretty Girl

I love when the sun is shining so I can open up all of the windows in my house and take adorable pictures like these :)! She's such a little sweetheart when it comes to taking pictures. She just goes about her business while I snap - snap - snap. Jeez, she's getting so big. I cant get over it! She'll be 8 months on monday. Shes already crawling, pulling up to stand, cruising the furniture! I was so proud of her earlier when she pulled up onto the couch into a standing position about 2ft from were I was sitting then managed to cruise her way over to my lap. She's also getting braver by the day, she attempts to hold onto things with only one hand. So far she has really good balance and is able to stand like that for quite some time without falling.

I miss her as my little 7lb baby but I've gotta admit I love how mobile and fun she's getting! However, I am NOT liking the tantrums that she often throws. I have a feeling I'm gonna have my hands full with her in a year or two :p. I already do!!

How should I start out this post? Hmmm.... lets see, Patrick hit a deer in our pontiac grand prix. Surprisingly it did NOT do as much damage as I thought it would going 70mph.

thats basically it lol occasionally the head light will fall out which is why its going to sit in our driveway until its fixed.

In other news, WE HAVE 2 TEETH! They showed up within a matter of days and I'm so excited!! My little girl is getting so big.

We got her this little high chair from walmart, which has turned out to be a pretty handy thing! It makes meal time much much easier and she can sit with us at the table during dinner. She's starting to pull up onto things which is nuts! She went from army crawling - hands & knees crawling - pulling up trying to cruise the furniture!! A little bit ago she pulled up onto my dresser, got her little fingers caught in the handle and fell straight back onto her back. I thought she was seriously hurt! She was screaming bloody murder and I felt so bad. It was sad :( But a little loving from her momma made things all better. I think shes gonna be a daredevil which scares the crap out of me!!

This is how you'll find her after a nap or in the morning. She's such a goof ball, she gets so excited to show off her new trick.

A friend of mine asked me to photograph her wedding and of course I said yes! But I'm so nervous!! I've never done it before so I know its gonna be difficult but she's understanding and we're gonna discuss exactly what she wants. I'm so excited because I get to rent an awesome camera! Which happens to be the camera that I want to upgrade to eventually so I'll get to test it out before spending an insane amount on buying it.

new car seat!

Bella officially grew out of her infant car seat so we had to go buy a "big girl" one. I searched and searched for days trying to decide which I wanted, finally deciding on the evenflo titan. I must say its nice! It was very inexpensive and Bella loves it. She seems so comfy in it and she finally has lots of room again.

Not to mention it fits in my small ford escape wonderfully!

She also got to feed herself for the very first time lol of course I picked the messiest stuff, carrots, to let her throw around. She really really liked it though and thats all that matters :)

Have I mentioned how awesome the weather has been lately? I love it! I have all my windows open, the winds blowing and it feels great.

silly girl!

I have the funniest child in the the whole world! shes in her jumperoo right now watching Little Einstein's and shes screaming her head off! Not because shes upset, but because shes getting so excited! They're finding different music notes and whatnot and when they say "goooo team!" she goes nuts lol

Last night was wonderful. She went to bed at 9 and slept until 830 this morning! Didn't wake up ONCE. Normally she gets up 1-3x because she drops her binky but not last night she was out cold. It was also at a really nice temp in our house so I think that may have helped. We slept with our kitchen windows open and our heater off, our house stayed at 70 all night it was great! It also thunder stormed so she must be like me, I sleep great during those :) The weather has been awesome these past couple days! I washed my car the other day.......

and as you can see Bella didn't like it very much......I felt so bad because I was cracking up when taking these pictures, I couldn't help it! She liked watching the soap but once the water came to wash it off she freaked out.