Our New Rent House & More

It's been an interesting week! Wednesday after I worked out, I started to feel bad, dizzy and such. Thursday, Eric, Elise and I celebrated Thanksgiving. Early Friday morning I became sick. It lasted until Sunday morning and was not fun!

Friday, Elise turned 1 1/2! I can not believe that it has been 1 1/2 years since she was born. She's growing so fast and learning new things everyday.

Sunday it snowed quite a bit, today we bundled Elise up and headed outside to play. She was so cute!



Thought I would include a recent pictures of myself.



Today, we signed a lease on a 2 bedroom 2 1/2 bath home. It is about 5 minutes south of where we are now. I am SO excited to move! We get the keys on the 15th! I am very excited to be out of this 3rd story apartment.

Anyway, here are a few pictures of the house!

A Time of Learning

There are a lot of things you learn when you move away from everyone and everything you know. I have moved several times in my adult life, but none of them have affected me quiet like this move has. Maybe it's because all previous major moves happened prior to The Hubs and Little One or maybe it was because I really didn't have any close friends before I moved. I don't know and I'm not sure I ever will. I have learned that when I do have friends, I need to be more thankful for them.

I feel that I am a very faithful friend. I have been hurt many times by people I thought were best friends who blew me off, or apparently didn't consider me as close a friend as I considered them. I'm not sure why, but I have been hurt more time than I can remember by people I thought were best/close friends.

I have had a really hard time making friends here. Our church is rather large, and Eric had a crazy schedule. Most people don't want to be close friends when they aren't in the same place in their life (ie: married, kids & age range). We also moved in the summer when most churches are just doing Sunday morning services. Then into fall and winter and lots of busy holidays and such. I also think that all those times of being hurt has had a big impact on the way I am willing to put myself out there.

I have felt pretty depressed at times and really missing our family. Mix that with not having any readily available babysitters with Eric's crazy schedule and this little Mommy is worn out and needs a break! I have the utmost respect for single parents! I truly have no idea how they survive!

There are many things happening with family, brother-in-law is getting married, future sister-in-law is pregnant, nephew turned 4 and my sister was at the end of a long stretch of medical issues, my Grandpa passed away. I had/have to miss all those things, not to mention, they are all missing Little E growing and changing SO much.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE it here in Colorado! It is our dream location to live! If only it was all of our families dreams as well!

I'm not quite sure if I'm making any sense at all. I just needed to get this off my chest. If you think about it, please keep The Hease family in your prayers! We could really use the prayers.

Family Comes to Visit!

My parents and sister came to visit for a week and Elise was very excited! We stopped at Target after picking up my sister and decided to eat lunch there. They have a Pizza Hut.



Relaxing before bed with Grandpa & Grandma!



We went to The Little Gym and Elise was quite the little show off. She was running around try to show them everything! It was SO cute and Aunt Amy got quite the workout, chasing her around and trying to keep her from hurting herself. We all had lots of fun!

So if you ever come visit Colorado Springs, you need to check out the Focus on The Family Welcome Center! They have an amazing play area for children! They have a room where you can dress up like the Adventures in Odessy characters, secret passageways, 3-story spiral slide and tons more. The best thing is it's free! They do have a soda shoppe where you can buy lunch or ice cream! These pictures are in a theater type room. They were showing Veggie Tales, Wonderful Wizard of Ha's!

They have this tunnel the kids can crawl through!

My parents celebrated their 34th wedding anniversary while they were visiting! We went to Front Range BBQ where you can get the best ribs I've EVER tasted! It is fall off the bone good and you have several different sauce options! Elise really enjoyed the corn bread muffins and baked beans!

We showed them the Garden of The Gods and took some turisty pictures!

There was bad weather in TX when my sister was suppose to fly out, so she ended up staying an extra day. Eric climbed most of Pike's Peak and we drove my parents to the top. No pictures though, it was FREEZING and super windy! We had a wonderful time!

October Continued

Elise's new fetish is to wear my shirts! There are 3 of them that she loves to wear and anytime she sees them, she wants to wear them. Here is one of them.

Elise loves the park! I try to got frequently. A lady at the park this day said that she looked like a little European baby! She had a jean skirt and white leggings that you can't see in the picture.

Our little one is taking after her Daddy already! She had to check out the REI Magazine before bed!

These are new products that I have made recently. I got accepted to my first craft show in Colorado! It will also be the first craft show I've done with just stuff that I made. It is Nov. 12, 13 and 14 here in Colorado Springs! If your in the area, come check it out! Any way, ruffle pants, jeans, design, or Christmas. Sizes newborn-4T.

The Hubs designed new business cards as well as a new banner for my Etsy site!

Here is another new product I've been working on. This is a reversible skirt. It has a Christmas design on one side and an everyday design on the other, so your little one can be stylish at Christmas and beyond!

This skirt is not reversible, but there are no raw seams. All seams are french seams.

Here is another new product! Necklaces that can be used as teething jewelry or just a fun necklace!

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I decided to dress up for halloween at the last minute. Here is the final product! What do you think?

Eric is beginning his photography business! He just created his website! Check it out here!

A Whole Month!

I can't believe it has been a month since I last posted! Life has been crazy! I feel like I felt just about every emotion possible this month. I'm going to have to do 2 post because of all the pictures I want to share!

There are good and bad things about my hubby being our family photographer! The good definately outweight the bad, but here goes. Good: always having someone to talk pictures, getting exactly the pictures that you want, it free, there are many more, but I'll just leave it at that for now. The bad: sometimes he forgets to give me the pictures. The next few pictures are from this summer, I can't remember when.

The Hubs decided we could participate in dressing up for Halloween this year and I got right on making Elise's costume! I decided on a Garden Gnome! I wanted it to be something girly, but not your typical fairy or princess.

Here she is trying on the hat!

Here is the full costume. We are doing a white shirt and leggings! Isn't she super cute?

Elise is loving the fall weather and so am I! I have missed having 4 distinct seasons for the past 5 years living in TX. Usually every fall, I start to miss Michigan. Although I miss my family and friends, this fall has been very different. I LOVE LOVE LOVE living in Colorado! It's the perfect place for our little outdoor family! There is a little trail right near our apartment and Elise really enjoys it! Here are a couple of pictures of a recent hike we went on!

Here is another wonderful picture from The Hubs! It's a favorite!

We went to the Eleven Mile State Park, which is about 1 1/2 or so from us! The drive is beautiful, you get to drive through the mountains! This is Elise eating lunch on the way.

Once in the park, dockey's apparently roam free and we had to stop and wait for them to get out of our way! I felt like I was in another country!

Alright, I will finish the month so far in another post. Stay tuned!

Whit's End & Camp What-a-Nut

Focus on the Family is in Colorado Springs and they have a visitor's center. There are a lot of things to do. They have a room for 4 and under and Elise really likes to play there! Everything is super soft. It's called Camp What-a Nut!


Elise likes climbing the bridge.

They also have things for older kids to do. Like a giant slide, an airplane to walk through and a room where you can dress up like the characters from Adventures in Odyssey. They have a theater where kids can watch movies. There's a lot more, that we haven't seen.

They also have Whit's End Soda Shoppe. Elise and I had lunch there.

Here's her cheese face!

We had smiley potatoes and baked chicken nuggets with Apple juice and a chocolate chip cookie! It was a great morning! I'm glad that it's so close and we can go as often as we want!

After nap time, Elise decided she doesn't like wearing clothes these days. She fusses when I try to put clothes on her.

16 Months

Today my beautiful daughter turned 16 months old! I say it every month but, I truly can not believe how fast the time has gone! She is growing and learning so quickly! This morning she pointed to her toes and said: "toeie" (not quite sure how to spell that!) It was so cute!


So I thought I would share some of my favorite pictures of the last 16 months! I hope you enjoy!



Minutes after her birth! May 26th!



June-My parents were visiting!

July-My brother was visiting!

August- She just woke from a nap.

September

October

November-We were taking pictures for Christmas gifts!

December- The first of 2 time she got to meet my Grandpa before he passed. I will cherish this picture for the rest of my life!

January-Almost walking! She did start walking this month. Shortly after this picture was taken!

February-She met a new friend at the zoo!

March-She loves being outside!

April-Daddy practicing his photography on a beautiful subject!

May-Can't belive she's one! Celebrating her birthday!

June-Visiting Grandma & Grandpa in Michigan! Chilling at the pool!

July-Our first month in Colorado and we are loving it!

August-I walked in with my sunglasses on my head and she immediatly went to get hers and put them on her head like Mommy!

September-Eric has taken some way better pictures, but I have yet to see them!

She is growing so much! It seems like everyday her baby legs are disapearing more! She is learning more words and can do so many things all by herself! She loves being my little helper. She likes to hand me the dishes from the dishwasher when we are unloading and she helps put the clothes from the washer in to the dryer and she really likes to help pour the laundry detergent in the washer!

We've discovered The Backyardigans and Wonder Pets and she loves watching them! She has become quite the little climber, I think I have The Little Gym to thank in part for that! She loves it there!

Well, I think that is all for now! I hope you enjoyed all the fun photos of my little love!