Blogging

I haven't been blogging.  I come up with ideas in my head during the day, but can't seem to get it together to form an entire post.  I think I put too much pressure on myself as to what this blog should be.  I started it as a personal journal, that no one saw and it developed as I found out I was pregnant with Stella.  I really just want to document her as she grows up and don't want to put focus on my "voice" as I write.  So here it goes.

Stella will be 2 next month and I can't seem to find the pause button on her little life.  In ways I want it to slow down, but there is just something about seeing her do new things that excites me.  She is learning new words everyday. She says things like "more", "byyyyyeee", "shoes" "tank too" (thank you) and my favorite "see ya!" (no one taught her that, maybe Elmo?) Whenever people say bye to her she says "see ya" and waves her arm and hand vigorously. Stella is also a dancing machine!  If there is a beat, she is dancing.  She loves bubbles, sidewalk chalk, swinging and her 2 "blankies".  She has blankie 1 and blankie 2.  Blankie 1 is so dingy that I have to clean it every other day. She drags him everywhere. She started sleeping with both blankies about 6 months ago when she started being afraid of the dark.  I wanted her to have some sort of security, so I guess in short, her blankie obsession is my doing.  Stella also started daycare 2 days a weeks so I can get paperwork done (I work from home).  She cries every time I leave her, but her teachers say that she gets better everyday. I have a bit more time when she is there to get things done, so I am going to try to make blogging a regular thing.  I would really like for Stella to have this blog to look back on when she is older.
Here are a few recent pictures of Miss Stew :)

Grandma

My Grandma Wanda (my dad's mom)  passed away last Thursday, January 12th.  She was a beautiful, funny, smart and caring woman.  She will be missed.  The service was on Wednesday and it was beautiful. I love you Grandma...
 

What Stella eats...

Dinner is served! I try as hard as I can to give her mostly organic fruits, veggies, milk and nitrate free meat. I'm not a lunatic about it, but when she is home this is usually what her meals look like (rotating different fruits, veggies and meat of course!)

Peas and carrots, banana, turkey and cheese (listed in case you don't know what food looks like:)

Backyard

Our backyard was one of the biggest selling points of our new house when we first saw it. It is huge and insanely overwhelming. We have grapefruit, orange, lemon, fig, avocado and peach trees. It sounds amazing (and it is), but apparently in order for them to flourish, you have to take care of them! We have no idea how to do that! My mom's BF, who is like my aunt has a ton of fruit trees, so we may need to have her come over for "fruit tree boot camp" (ever heard of it? :).  Every time Morgan and I are in the backyard we say '" I love this house" and we really do.  I fall deeper in love with it everyday.  You can faintly hear the church bells chiming from down the street and at night you can hear the trains in the canyon.  We never thought we would actually own our own home and it is just now feeling real.  Stella is obsessed with the backyard.  I remember the first time we brought her to the house, we took her in the backyard and let her loose.  She ran around, yelled at trees and it was actually then that I knew this house was supposed to be ours.  I feel so lucky, happy and proud that I can give this to my girl.  She deserves it.