Whew. Where do we begin?

What a whirl wind the past month has been. We have been traveling all over place. Well, pretty much just IA, IL, ND and Canada. Yet with a one year old and a car, that is a lot of land to cover.

For Memorial Day weekend we moved into Glennis & Judy's. We had great weather so we enjoyed being outside as much we possibly could. The weekend was also highlighted by meeting our new niece!!! Sara & Jeff welcomed a baby girl!! Kylee Marie is doing well and so is Mommy & Daddy. Ella really liked her new cousin, although she thought she was her baby doll to run around with. We are doing to have to work on the "Be nice to the baby Ella" process over the next couple months. This new child of ours is going to have one really excited and rambunctious sister greeting 'it'.

While Daddy went back to ND to actually make some money for this family, Ella and I traveled on to IL to visit with my family. We had 2 weddings to attend and enjoyed spending time with everyone in IL. While we were there Mom and Dad were able to place their templates on their new granite for the basement kitchen. Ella helped with that long enough to know their was mud all around and when not allowed to splash around in that, we enjoyed some movie time in the Enclave to let Mom and Dad calmly place out the templates. The granite is now installed and the kitchen is nearing completion once the sinks, stove and dishwasher get hooked up! It looks awesome! If anyone is around their house, you need to stop by to check out their complete basement transformation. This is what mom has needed for a VERY long time!

My mom made the trip back to ND with Ella and I, which was much appreciated! We stopped by Darren & Jody's for a night and soaked in some trampoline time with her Des Moines cousins.

While Mom was here we made the trip up to Winnipeg to visit the zoo and take in a kids feast. We have decided that we may not make that trip again. Glad we went to see, but none of us really have a draw to go back. It was fun crossing the border, we will probably be visiting other parts of Canada before going back to Winnipeg. But we enjoyed what we could while we were there. Really the only parts of the zoo Ella liked where the fish and birds. We think everything else was just too far away to be interested in... we will have to try the zoo again when she is older.

For the racially sensitive, you will want to move on to the next story~ Good, bad or otherwise. Ella does not know a stranger. Which is fun while you have her in a shopping cart at Target. But not so much while in a Canadian zoo when she takes a liking to some of our Indian friends. They were very nice and friendly. But we were a little uncomfortable when Ella took the hand of one of the boys and walked away with them. I think they would have been happy to take her for the afternoon around the zoo. Don't worry.. she didn't go very far but we had to catch this priceless photo op.

Ella loved having her Grandma Kathy here. So much so that she preferred her over her Mommy pretty much 99% of the time. She wanted nothing to do with me while Grandma was around. So easily replaced when she gets her way with everything!!!

We had a good few weeks, but enjoying the rest of our June here in ND. The weather is FINALLY starting to turn around and we are able to get outside. We have another niece arriving in July back in IL, so we will be making the trip once again.

Baby Breuer update~ We are feeling ok these days. As long as I stay on my 'drugs' I am good. Can't really go more than 24 hrs without my prescription or I can't really move other than running to the bathroom. Had a Dr. appt this past week and the heartbeat is strong. We got the results back from the blood test and everything came back GREAT! So far we have a healthy baby arriving late November!