Sweet Girl

Even with dorito cheese on her mouth!
Ella has been such a sweet heart lately (with the exception of today, aaagh!) and not giving me a hard time. She even tells me to smile when I'm frowning and a little upset.
Thanks for being so nice, Ella! I love you!

The Cold Cream monster came early for Halloween...

This is what happens when you are at your mom's and you don't pay attention to what your kids are doing. (This isn't the first time this has happened, it's just the worst, so far!)

I can't get it out of her hair, either! We washed it last night and nothing, so this morning I did her hair like this...

You can't see it very well, but, her new nickname is "Slick"
Then the pigtails came out and her hair was all over the place. At the store I put the hood of her jacket over her head so no one could see it. This is ridiculous!
Later this morning I washed and scrubbed and washed again, and NOTHING!! So I think I might have to bust out the dish soap. We'll see what happens!

Time for a new "Ella quote"

On Fri my bro Ben got married so Thurs we had a dinner and it was at my brother in law Cass's parent's house in the back yard. A few of the kids wandered inside and found lots of fun things to play with. Cass's mom is called Nani (sp?) (pronounced Nonny) by all of her grandkids so Ella feels like she has to call her that, too. Kathy (her real name) told me that the kids were in her living room and Ella went up to her and said, "Nani... I know this is your HOUSE, but we're going to play SCHOOL." Where does she come up with this stuff???
The picture is of Cass laying in the table of ice that previously held the "Jones" sodas. He'll do almost anything on a dare!

On Friday.......

Ella did this!!!







She was so sad at first because I was laughing so hard but hid that I was laughing and told her that it made me cry, but now she loves her new bangs! Me, not so much, but I'll get used to it someday. At least they aren't too bad. I trimmed them the best I could to make them more even. Pictures of her "fixed" bangs will be posted at a later time.

Deposed!

So today I had to go to a depostition and give real testimony of an accident I witnessed more than 2 1/2 years ago! I was sworn in and there was a court reporter and everything! It was pretty much exactly what I had expected, except I wasn't too nervous. I thought I would be super nervous. I worked at a place that handled legal documents and I used to sit at a computer and watch depositions and time code the sound to the text. So I have seen them before. I have seen some pretty extreme ones where there was yelling and stuff. Mine was just a boring normal one. There were a couple times when one of the attorneys kept objecting and the other one asked "why" and he said "because you are just asking the stupidest questions!" It was kind of funny and I wanted to laugh. Anyway, I think I was a huge help to them and I hope justice is fair.