1/2 a year old!

Bella is, that is. Actually she is 6 and 1/2 months old now. I started this post the day she turned 6 months old and haven't had the time to finish and post it :( Being back to work is SOOOO hard! Although I am so lucky that my sister and my mom are able to help watch Bella. I can't imagine having to leave her with a stranger. It's just so incredibly overwhelming to work a full time job, run a small business and be a mommy. Hopefully I'll be able to balance everything out soon and I won't have to work so much at the regular j.o.b. soon. Oh, and I want to get into doing photography in the near future also..

Anyhoo.. Bella is doing great! She has both of her top teeth coming in and she is super close to crawling. I think if I didn't have hardwood floors (it's slippery with a blanket down) that she probably would be crawling. We have been to the zoo several times this summer and she really enjoys it.

Her 6 month favorites:
Cups-She really likes to drink out of cups!
Pineapple-She is definitely grandma's kid and LOVES pineapple.
Bathtime-She still loves bathtime. She really loves to splash in the water now.
Anything that makes noise.

At her 6 month checkup, she weighed 17 lbs 3 oz and is now 27" tall. She is in the 99% for height!

My Prima Ballerina

The Canon Rebel

I have wanted a Canon Rebel for awhile now and I finally decided to just get one. I am so happy I did! It is everything I was hoping for, plus some! I figure that I can learn somethings about photography and just take all of Isabella's pictures at home and save money by not taking her to the studio. I did take a photography class in high school.. but I honestly can't remember much of anything from that class. The good thing is that I have Photoshop and I do know how to edit pictures. Here are a few I took around the house today..like I didn't have anything better to do than take 2oo pictures on my new camera.

See, I can take sweet pictures of wall art.

The light switch bird

Baby Zander Rex

My brother Chris and his wife Bonnie just had their baby! Ok, so they had him on the 7th but I'm just getting around to blogging about it.. Anyway, he is so CUTE! And can you believe that hair?! Sadly they live in Texas so we've only seen pictures. I really wish they lived closer so that Bella had cousins her age to play with but so far I haven't convinced them to move yet. I'll keep working on that. Congrats Chris and Bonnie! He is absolutely adorable!

Relay For Life

Here are some pictures from the Relay For Life. This year was a lot of fun. It was definitely one of my favorite years. Maybe it was because I was on such a big team and it allowed us time away from the our booth. I think the best part was when my mom got "arrested". We had to go post bail for her before she killed one of us. Funny!

Cute jail bird

Our Snack Shack

Our Family Photo!

Last night we had a caricature done of our cute little family. I love it so much! I am going to frame it and hang it in our living room. The guy who drew it is totally amazing and the nicest person ever. He was at the Syracuse Days about a month ago and I wanted one then but Justin wasn't with us. I found out that he was going to be at the Relay so I talked Justin into doing one. I can't wait to hang it up!