ABC Tag

A- Attached or Single? attached

B- Best Friend? Nick

C- Cake or Pie? chocolate cake, unless grandma is around then def her pie :)

D- Day of Choice? Summer, any day that is warm, rainy or sunny it doesnt matter

E- Essential Item? lip gloss

F- Favorite Color? lime green i think

G- Gummy Bears or Worms? worms, the ones with the sour sugar on em :)

H- Hometown? Waterloo, Iowa

I- Favorite Indulgence? diet pepsi?

J- January or July? totally July, i miss the warm sun :)

K- Kids? Lil Wil

L- Life isn't complete without? Nick..... aawww, mushy but true :)

M- Marriage date? 5-5-05

N- Number of brothers and sisters? 2 brothers and 1 sister, all younger

O- Oranges or Apples? who eats healthy?? not in my house

P- Phobias and Fears? hurt baby

Q- Quote? Keep Moving Forward

R- Reason to smile? def. my lil wil, he keeps me laughin

S- Season of choice? Summer

T- Tag three people? Amberly, Laura, and Janee

U- Unknown fact about me? I have my belly button pierced and a tatoo

V- Vegetable? asparagus

W- Worst Habit? you know when your washing your hair in the shower and you get a few stuck in your fingers? well i stick those up on the shower wall and make pictures, nick says its a gross habit lmao

X-ray or Ultrasound? ultrasound was amazing

Y- Your favorite food?diet pepsi?

Z- Zodiac Sign? Leo

Wil's first haircut

this is a really long video of Wil's first haircut, posted mostly for grandparents and people far away :) he really hated it after a while, but man is he freakin cute now!

this is the after picture lol

Dirty Little Secrets

I have a few vices in this world, things i plan my life around, number one being my Diet Pepsi supply, i go through so many cases a week, i try not to keep track.
i make sure i always have an extra case in the closet in case i runout of cold ones.... when its the last few days before pay day and things are real tight , i take back all the pop cans and grab as much change as i can find then Wil and i skip off to Meijer and get a case of diet pepsi. Days when i run out, are bad days... Kool-aide is never a good substitute. Nick says that the first step is admitting you have a problem, so here i am, my name is elise and i love diet pepsi :)

Priceless

Nick was eating dinner last night and this was the scene. 2 beggars. both wantin' all the leftovers. Yummy noodles

Waving!!

Got it on video! Its a little shaky cuz im holding the camera and waving like a fool myself to get him to do it lol. but it was the best short clip i got today :) aaaand i apologize for the minnie mouse voice i have, might want to turn the volume on your PC down while watching :)

Wil update

Been a very productive month for Wil, he has started really moving around, I'm not gonna call it crawling yet, sorta army crawling all over the place. I had to finally baby proof the house, move the dvds up off the floor, and all the candles and frames and pretty things i had down low. He has been pulling himself up on things too, like the couch, chairs and me :)

this video is of him scooting, i have a hard time getting good stuff on video so hes crying the whole time lol, but you get the drift.

And just yesterday he learned to wave!! and sorta high five but mostly wave lol, so when dad left for work this morning he was a wavein' fool!! im going to try to get that on video to post but it might not happen, im really bad at that lol.

New Car!

This last weekend nick actually had a saturday off, his car hadnt been starting right so we decided it was about time to go look at new cars, see what we could afford and what we could get for his crappy mountaineer. We were gonna make them give us at least 2g's for it cuz someone is always running a push pull or drag event lol. At the dealership we were test driving some cars, bigger cars and smaller suv's, the sales guy was getting ready to go home so he tried to get us outta there asap and told us to give him a few days and he would see what he could get to the lot in our price range and something smaller like a saturn view or a chevy equinox. nice cars, not too big. sounded good so we got back in the crappy mountaineer to head home and the stupid thing wouldnt start!! its like it got to the dealership, saw what we were doing there and got sad and died..... it was so embarassing lol. turns out it was the starter, anyhow. So nick went back inside to the sales guy who was putting his coat on to go home (mind you it was only 3) and told him we couldnt wait a few days that we needed a new car that day lol. Then mr. salesman thought he had us in his pocket.... so crappy, wouldnt cut us any deals and was being a big jerk. wouldnt give us anything for the old car... nothing... said it wasnt worth anything to him.... jerk.... nick said screw it then and called his dad to come help us out, either yell at the salesman or drive us to another dealership... after 2 hours of nicks dad trying to get this guy to work with us he still wouldnt, so we all headed down the road to another dealership, we pull up to the next place asked the new salesman what he has in our price range and what we wanted like a view or an equinox. in the whole used car lot he pulls up with a nice looking View, great condition, good mileage for the year it is, righ tin our price range!!! problem though the crappy trade in is down the road at the other dealership not starting., the new salesman said if we could get in the parking lot he would give us 2g's for it and knock our new car price waaay down... so we spent another hour trying to get it started, banging on the starter , man we tried everything. so then i said a prayer, mostly for the car to start or help to get it down the road, when it wouldnt start we gave up and went back, the sales guy had talked to his manager and they were going to have thier maintenance guy go down there with a truck and a tow rope and drag it back and would still give us the money for it!!! it was amazing how it worked out. the perfect car for us financially and economically, i am so greatful. god really does have a plan for every little aspect of our lives... even stupid cars... lol

now poor nick has to drive my old focus, its a nice car but not what he is used to and now i get to drive the new family car!!! its cute but it is really a mom car..

Introducing!!! Velma the View!!! lol yes her name is Velma :)

All I Want for Christmas is my Very First Tooth!!!

the holidays just completely flew by this year and now we are back into the slump of the very grey michigan winter... bleh.... It was such a busy couple of weeks, with my family staying with us and my cousins wedding the weekend after christmas. It was such a blast. Christmas day we just stayed at home though with just nick n wil n I. which was really nice to ramp up the week with. We opened presents christmas morning, i was more excited than previous christmas's because i knew the dollar value of my gift from nick lol. So i held in my excitment and had Wil open his presents first. He had a great time ripping the paper it was great and the presents were okay too. but then i got to open my gift and nick, my wonderful husband, got me a nintendo Wii!!!! i was soo excited. I had been wanting one for a while, and he just kept making fun of them saying that video games are not meant to be a work out, but we had a blast all day on christmas day, boxing and bowling and fishing lol. too fun.

My parents came into town the next day just in time for us to drive into Howell together to throw my cousin a bridal shower. Her new hubby goes to byu so they flew in for just the week to get married and there was no other time to throw her a shower lol. But we had a great turn out for the day after christmas and she got alotta great gifts. i put her sister in charge of the games and her sister-in-law megan in charge of the food, and they blew me away, i had the easy job of getting people to show up and throwing up some decorations. but megan and amy really did the hard work. Aubrey's wedding was that saturday and she was absolutaly beautiful. Prolly the prettiest bride ever! Ill have to post some pictures later because im not on the right computer for that but everything went beautifully. we spent friday transforming the cultural hall in the howell ward building, when we were done it looked like something out of a fairy tale.

Wil did really great for being carted around everywhere, not taking normal naps and having strangers pass him around all day. All the while cutting his first tooth. He only freaked out a few times. And didnt really sleep well at night lol, but that effected me more than him :)

Now his second tooth is starting to come in already too and we all caught the worst cold in the world. i cant wait for things to get back to normal. I gotta say though i miss my mom, I didnt have to do any dishes or laundry while she was here, my house was beautiful and there was always great dinners every night. now im not feeling well and havent done dishes since she left lol. oh well