Moved the blog. Needed something new. See you there! ellsworthhome.wordpress.com

The beginning of the year is birthday central at our house. Two down, three more to go. Ella thoroughly enjoyed having all her cousins over to eat her Rapunzel cake and bust a pinata at one time or another over the weekend. And now we get to have Nora's birthday, and Phil's, then the new little one. But my brain is having a hard time coming up with something different and fun to do at Nora's parties. There's got to be something. Guess I'll have to look on Pinterest or something. Darn. :)
My sister is a cake genius, and my brother a masonry man. She loved this cake and was devastated when it got knocked down and broke, (luckily after all the partying)

Did you know that it was 50 degrees yesterday? Ella went on a date with her dad yesterday. I think she needed some one on one time with him. From what I heard, they got ice cream, rented three movies, fed the chickens, went out for dinner, and made me a darling Valentine with chalk on the driveway. It made my day. Where was I, you ask? I took Nora and we went to my mom and dad's house to be lazy. My last Dr. appointment revealed that I have a low-lying placenta, aka placenta previa. We are hopeful that it will move before I'm full term. But apparently it can cause bleeding, premature labor, among other things that are not pleasant to think about. The fact that I already have a irritable uterus, I am already having contractions that last more than a minute and can sometimes get pretty steady, I have been told that I should do whatever to make them stop. At this point, its staying off my feet. Hopefully at my next appointment we'll find out it that fixed itself.
Anyway....I want it to be warm outside. Or I guess, warmer. I want there to be reason to be outside. But then again, I always think I want to be out working in the yard, and in the summer, I want it to be winter so I don't have to work outside. But looking at pictures of our garden and yard from last year, makes me wish it were that time of year.

I haven't put a picture of the girls up in a while. They are getting so big. I can hardly believe it. In fact, I think I'm in denial. With number three on the way here soon, it's even more unreal to me. Oh, and number three is a BOY!! I think that adds to my denial. I keep getting comments on how fun it will be because boys and girls are so different, from emotions to changing their diapers, hobbies, all that good stuff. It's just dawning on me now though, how we will have THREE kids. It's just not settling as easily as the other two have. This time in the pregnancy with Nora, I was getting out newborn clothes, rearranging the dresser, making burp cloths and blankets. This time, um, not so much. And I know, we still have until the end of May, but honestly, I don't trust time at all these days. I mean, didn't we just have a baby? I can't believe it's been almost two years ago that we brought Nora home. And the beginning of the year seems to go by so fast to me. January is recovery from Christmas, clean out the house month. February is our anniversary and a birthday. March is two birthdays. April is Easter and Conference, and then MAY will be baby month!! Uh. Denial.

Make that two plus months. I am an awful blogger. I don't even have any great pictures. That's how awful. But I figure most of the people that would read this anyway, would know by now, why I haven't posted anything. We are pregnant. Just getting into the second trimester. I feel like I am hopefully over the worst part of it. I've been on Zofran for the past seven weeks. It helps. So do IVs. About four weeks ago was when I started to question my sanity. I don't know why I can talk myself into being ready for another one. We know I get sick and I guess I just hope that it won't be as bad as the last one. This one seems worse. No complaints, I promise. We are excited to find out what this little one is. Phil is convinced it's another girl, but that's what he wants. I'm neutral on the matter, but I've told him, with as sassy as our girls get there will be a longer break between the this one and the next. Three little girls? Whoa. Makes my head spin thinking about it. But it will be fun no matter what. I kind of think a boy would be a fun change, but girls are fun too. We find out at the end of next month-ish. I'll be sure and post it.
My poor husband. One day I will function at a capacity greater than lying on the couch all day and falling asleep at eight. I promise.

Half of me has been excited, the other half, not so much. I've been at battle with what I think of three year olds lately. She can be so sweet and gentle, and the next minute, be the devil. I've found myself wishing she was already ten or something in the double digits, which I know probably isn't any better, and then I wish she was still that little baby that wanted me to cart her around everywhere, all the time. Now, I feel like I can't go out in public if I want to stay sane. The grocery store is my nemesis. But it must be done.
Anyway, I'm excited and sad all at one. This means she's growing up. But it also means all the fun stuff that being preschool age and older, can bring. I guess we'll just deal with it, right?

I've turned a corner on the home front! I've finally discovered how we like to organize, and decorate. Right now, anyway. I know styles change, but hopefully this won't have to be done again for a while. So, the fire place is complete, along with that room. The only left is to print the pictures to go in the frames. Until then, this is what we got, and we love it!


I've also figured out that nothing in our house had a place, so now the project has been giving everything a place and space. And if we don't have room for it or if it is junk, we are trying to get rid of it if we can. It's starting to feel really good.

This is pretty typical of me. And when I say me, I mean me. Phil is much more tidy than myself. But, I'm working on it, and this is what I want it to look like all the time.

So, THAT is what we've been up to. :)