To my faithful bloggers, this is all I have for you.

This is my spoiled little niece. This is the latest outfit I purchased for her. I get to see her in two weeks, and I'm pretty stinkin' excited about it. I have to say I'm really glad I live as close a I do. My niece is so special to me and being far away from her would make me one sad aunt. I love this little girl with everything in me. Love you Ellie!!!

Its funny to me who came out and who didn't. I know of at least 10 other people that read fairly reguarly and have read since I made my last post. But didn't come clean.

im on hiatus. im considering getting rid of the blog altogether. no one really comments, so i kind of feel im just wasting time. the only way i know people even read this is through comments. so if you want me to continue posting let me know you visit. even if you comment anonymously.

I spent my Valentines with this beautiful little girl. If you want to see her in her valentine's get up you will have to visit her blog: http://ellison.ellisonfaith.com

Anyway, back to story time. Last night was fun, I got to spend some time with little Ellie alone. When Nicole & Adam first left she was so fun. We were just giggling and playing but then suddenly she decided that wasnt so fun. She started crying and I felt bad because I knew she was fighting sleep but I just couldnt get to her to fall asleep. I put her in what I call the "magical" swing and she was out cold. Today I stayed for awhile to hang out with my sister and niece. We put Ellie down for a nap and put on this Praise Baby cd. Listening to the cd brought me to tears thinking about God's love. How fearfully and wonderfull made this little girl was and too think about that, to really think about it touches my heart. Ellie had moved her hands up a little and I said she was praising Jesus and thinking about that made me tear up. "Here I am to worship, here I am to bow down, here I am to say that you're my God. You're altogether lovely, altogether worthy, altogether wonderful to me." Maybe this seems odd to someone else, but I could see in my mind Little Ellie like literally worshipping Jesus...maybe thats not possible, maybe it is. Id just like to think that God created us and we could know at that age and really be worshipping him. Like really I am in awe of how I am God's. Like God owns me. I am His vessel. I am His creation. I am His everything. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. And each little tiny detail about me is planned and has always been planned. AMAZING!!! Isn't it weird how God chooses to catch our attention with such simple truths? Just some worship music and a baby I love. I love being God's. And I love that God has blessed me with such an amazing earthly family. I am soooooooo blessed!!!

So this weekend I made a journey to Lubbock. And I got to see this beautiful pair...Little Autumn & Her Wonderful mother, Lauren. Autumn was so much fun to be around and I had a blast playing with her. And on top of that I had great conversation with Lauren, I sure do miss being able to hang out like that. I love you both and can't wait to see you again. And Autumn, come and meet your new friend Ellie...you will surely love her:)  

The love I have for my niece is unlike any other love I've ever felt. Its crazy how you can love in so many different ways. Three years ago Caleb Laten was born and I love that kid. He is so sweet and great. He is a part of my best friend. Then in August, Autumn Grace was born and shes very precious to me, and I love her lots. And in both experiences I was ecstatic about their birth and now watching them grow is amazing to me. I couldn't wait till my own niece was born because I knew that my love for her would be even stronger than the love I have for those other two children. But I didn't know I would love my niece this much. I love my niece more everyday and I don't even see her everyday. Everytime I look at her picture I fall in love with how amazing she is. I tear up at the very thought of her being. There's just something about it, its unexplainable. I sat there talking to Chelsey about this last night and she was just like wait till its your own. Wow, I can't even begin to imagine what it will be like to one day hold a child that is your own. Amazing. To see how much I love Ellie, and knowing that I will actually love someone more than that...incredible to me. Its so fun to be such a special part in all three of these lives. I am soooo lucky!!!

Ellison Faith is finally here! Isn't she beautiful? She was born at 1:29 pm weighing 8lbs. 14oz. and 20 1/2 in. long. I love her lots.
 

Me and my precious little niece... 

Check out that hair:) Okay comment away on all three pictures... 

Happy 3rd Birthday to this little man! Today my best friends son turned 3. I can't believe he is already 3. You like that he's wearing cowboy boots with his cowboys uniform? His birthday was fun...and these pictures are what he got. 

This is Caleb all decked out in his Spiderman costume. I don't think Chelsey will be able to get him out of this for awhile... 

This is Caleb as Spiderman on his new Spiderman bike, he loved it!! 

Well here it is 6 days after my nieces due date and I still have no niece. My mom & I went to Tyler this weekend to see my sister. We were hoping that little Ellie would go ahead and come while we were there but nothing. Well I shouldn't say nothing because there are some signs of her being on her way. Like her belly dropped, and possibly a sign of contractions. Nicole calls them twinges, but just maybe they are contractions. Some other things have occured as well but one of the things is something that can occur an hour before she is born or like 2 weeks before she is born. Nicole will be induced Friday morning if little Ellie hasn't come by then. I can't wait to see my little niece, she's going to be beautiful! Anyway, we are waiting as patiently as possible. But we pray that Ellie can be born soon because its better for Nicole to go into labor than to be induced. So be praying for Ellie's safe arrival as well as the families safe travel.

This is little Autumn Grace. She's so beautiful! I love seeing this picture with that big ole' grin-makes your wanna smile huh? I love this little girl so much and can't wait to see my own niece. Aut is practically my niece. I love her very much!! Lauren, thanks for always sending my new pictures of little Aut.  

So for the last month I had the best time hanging out with this here friend Catherine. And I am sad to know that on Tuesday she heads back to Lubbock. God has blessed me so much over the past month having Catherine here and in my life and we have grown very close to one another. But in a few weeks I will make my way to Lubbock and get to see her then. And in August she will be moving to Dallas and just possibly we may be working near one another. We tried to spice things up and do a lot of different things over the past month and I think we did a good job...
1) Listen to Tommy Nelson(not that I dont do that every week)
2) Listen to Matt Chandler and laughed a lot, he's hysterical!
3) Bennigan's where we got free food for waiting for an hour
4) Watched Fever Pitch!
5) Played Nintendo 64 and I kicked her butt!!
6) Taught her to play Mancala and then she beat me
7) Browsed Barnes & Nobles
8) Saw Chronicles of Narnia
9) Read at Starbuck's and then talked about starting a book club
10) Experienced local restraunts: Frilly's, MG's & El Zarape's
11) Went country dancing-haha, good times!
12) Reunion Tower with Nikki & Shawna
13) Lunch with the beautiful Mrs. Ashley Ingram and her little peanut:)
14) Went bowling and laughed hysterically at the misfortunes of others
15) Experienced dorkball!!!!!
16) Lots of great conversations!!!

I am going to miss her greatly!:(

My 2006 Theme Song: I Surrender All

All to Jesus I surrender
All to Him I freely give;
I will ever love and trust Him,
In his presence daily live.

I surrender all, I surrender all;
All to thee, my blessed Savior,
I surrender all.

All to Jesus I surrender,
Humbly at His feet I bow,
Worldly pleasures all forsaken,
Take me Jesus, take me now.

I surrender all, I surrender all;
All to thee, my blessed Savior,
I surrender all.

Okay, so today I decided I would go for a new look. I called Chelsey and said let go get hair color. I picked up a box called "Medium Brown" and then we went home. And now this is what I look like...

So anyone else think it doesnt really look like a Medium Brown? Its practically black. I realize that in a few days it will be a lighter color but for now I will remain dark haired. So let me know what you think even if you hate it...

This is Nicole & her hubby. I think this picture is just precious. I caught them between pictures just loving on each other. Its amazing to see how much they truly love one another.  

So this is me & my sister Christmas day. She's 9 mos. pregnant and somehow manages to look just as skinny if not skinnier than me. Infact, I may even look like the pregnant one in this picture. Pathetic!  

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

I hope that all of you had a very Merry Christmas! I also hope that you didn't forget the bestest gift of all, and that is the birth of Christ. It was nice to wake up this morning and go to church and be reminded of the coming of our King. What a blessed thing we get to celebrate not only at Christmas time, but all year long. This Christmas was a good one, and not as weird as I thought it might be. Somedays I still don't even realize that my Grandma is really gone. Christmas in Tyler was good though.

On Friday we painted the letters for above the crib...ELLIE! They turned out soooo cute! Her room is just adorable. I'll show pictures later once all the decorations are up. The room is almost done, just needs the wall hangings, mobile for the crib, bedskirt for the guest bed and a few throw pillows too. Ellie will be here sometime with in the next 2 weeks probably. Her due date is January 10th, and Nicole's doctor said if she wasn't born by then, then they would set an induction date for the following week. I can't wait to see what my little niece looks like, and to hold her for the first time. I experienced all sorts of excitement when little Autumn Grace was born in August. But this time its my niece, my very own niece...its going to be times 10 what it was when Aut was born, I didnt know that was possible. Anyway, I'm pretty excited as you can probably see. I love looking at my sisters belly knowing that inside her is this little baby who is my niece, its so neat. Its fun to watch her kick and move around. We took a picture this morning and yet again I look pregnant and my sister doesnt just because of the angle.

Last week was great and I hope that this week will be good too. Its fun when out of town college friends come home for the holidays. I spent practically all last week hanging out with Catherine and we had a blast. And Johnny even tagged a long twice. Chronicles of Narnia was amazing! I look forward to more hang out time this week. Hope you are all having an enjoyable Christmas vacation.

Haha. That's really all i can say to this...