Cupcakes!

My Mom and nephews are coming down for the weekend, so Ella and I made yummy cup cakes for them! I think Ella licked each one before I put the iceing on them and then stuck her finger in the iceing on each one :) While she was putting sprinkles on like 10 of them, I turned my back to walk out of the room and heard her sneeze! haha I just kept walking... there is no telling where the sneeze went, but I am assuming straight onto the cupcakes!! But shhhh, we won't tell anyone about that! I ate one. It didn't taste bad so as long as no one knows it will be OK!



I can't get her to stop making this face when she smiles! She did it one day and we laughed for HOURS and now this is her "smile". I haven't seen a normal smile in a few weeks! It definitely makes me laugh and brightens my day so it's worth it! It keeps getting meaner though...like it's turning into a growl. I guess she is tired of pictures :)

Update!

So I just wanted to update everyone! First of all, today is our 2nd anniversary! It seems like wayyyyy longer since we have been together so long! Chance is taking both Ella and me to dinner tonight. We had a couple fancy dinners alone here lately sooo we decided to treat her too :)

From our wedding...



In other news, Chance got his Step scores back the other week! Finally all the pain and agony is OVER! He did extremely well and we are all SO proud of him. Based on his score, he should be able to whatever he wants to do, but there are other things that factor into it besides that score, so we will see! He has 5 1/2 weeks left in OB-GYN then he'll move to psychiatry... I don't think he's too excited! It should be pretty easy , so he will get some time off to break and enjoy football season...my least favorite season :)

Ella is great as always! IN August she gets to move up to the "big girl" gymnastics class! Which actually means she will be doing gymnastics instead of a "Parent & Tot" class. I am eager to see how this will go... She was mad at me today because I wouldn't take her swimming ( it was lightning and raining ). She got mad at me again when I told her it was nap time. Out of spite, she grabbed all my folded clothes and threw them around the house and then proceeded to go in her room and pull all the toys out of her toy box and sit inside it and pout. I guess this is what they mean by "terrible two's". I should have never stay up that extra hour before nap time. Word of advice to Mom's...it doesn't help anyone if you let me stay up longer than usually :)

Oh, and I changed the name of the blog because Chance said it was a jinx to use the title from "Jon and Kate, Plus 8".

Hope everyone has a awesome day!

"Vacation"

I say "vacation" because it was really two weeks off the hang out with family and see our friends. We would have planned something big, but didn't know what it was going to be like schedule wise...I still had a lot of fun relaxing and getting away from the everyday routine! I originally said I was going to post this on my other blog but it was WAY too lengthy!

We have been home for a week now and I still feel like I am unpacking! Haha I guess I am just slow or something... I have had tons of other stuff going on so I did all that first, but I think I finally am finished. Now I am trying to clean my house. With the air being off for 2 weeks, it was like bugs and DIRT just crawled right in and make this house a home! Not to worry...they are gone now :)

Anyways, I really wanted to do a vacation post because I wanted to brag a bit about the place we stayed at in Horseshoe Bay for Chance's best friend's wedding.
It was a BEAUTIFUL wedding at the Marriott at Horseshoe Bay Resort. It was VERY VERY hot there, but the resort was really nice. It's on a lake, so it gives you the feeling of being at the beach :) It wasn't like the greatest place ever and, yes, I would rather be at the beach, but the service there was BEYOND what was expected. I felt like I was on vacation! If you ever need a quick get away, this was definitely a place to go. The guys all golfed and said that the course was awesome too! Chance's parents hung out at the spa and I hung out by the pool all day! I got a little too much sun...forgot the sunscreen. I did not take one picture while I was there...it seemed like I was constantly in a rush to do something or get dressed and I never has a second to take any, but trust me...it was nice!

After the wedding we drove to Houston to visit another one of Chance's friends. Chance and I love visiting Houston and definitely wouldn't be opposed to living there if we have to. It seems like we always eat at the BEST restaurants and the service is always wonderful too! If you are ever in Houston, you MUST go to Taste of Texas! It's probably the best steak place I have ever been to! It's definitely one of the top priciest as well, but man it's SO worth it! We crave it! We also ate at Chuy's ...it's a Mexican food restaurant that is also in Dallas. I have never heard of it, but it's good! Lubbock definitely needs one! We ate at so many good places, but those are the only names I can remember off the top of my head!

Anyways, one of the days we were there we went to Galveston for a few hours. I haven't been there since I was a kid, so I don't remember what it really looked like before. Chance said it was always kind of a dirty city, but I am assuming the main reason it looked so run down is because of Ike. It was so weird. It was like all the trees were there, but they were definitely dead. Most of the stores and restaurants looked open a long the sea wall, but there were still some random places that look like they were damaged and just never re-opened. The Flagship Hotel that was over the water has literally had nothing done to it since! I think there is more to it's story with legal matter and it being sold and stuff, but it was creepy because part of the wall is ripped off and you can see furniture in it and the sidewalk to it was partially gone.



On the pier side, it seemed like a ghost town! The medical school was over there (which by the way Chance wanted to go to) and so were other businesses but they were completely abandoned. They didn't look damaged, just no one was over there. I think Chance said they moved the medical school to another building. There were also a bunch of smaller home over in the area and they were definitely abandoned! Doors were open and you could see it and stuff. So sad! I didn't get photos because the boys wouldn't stop and they were driving too fast, grrr! I was surprised to see that my favorite sea food restaurant EVER was up and running! Fisherman's Wharf is like one of the few things I remember about Galveston ( that and riding around on those cool car/bikes...which Chance wouldn't let me rent :( ). I think it's a chain so I am sure they fixed it immediately! I took a couple picture while we were eating... I love eating over the water!




One from around that area...



These show the water level from Ike in the downtown shopping area...which was pretty much up and running. There were a few stores still closed...





The truck is about a foot and a half to 2 feet lower than the sidewalk! CRAZY!

A couple days before we left my family and Chance's family rented a boat and took the wave runners to Possum Kingdom. We had tons of fun and I have pictures to show for it, but for some reason I cannot find them! I am going to keep looking for them and post them as soon as I find them!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful summer! Our 2 year anniversary is in ONE week! Time flies! Does anyone have any fun suggestions for a "cotton" anniversary gift? I am not going to lie... I JUST NOW remembered anniversaries involved gifts! You would think I wouldn't forget that, but I definitely did! Cotton is a hard one! Any ideas would be GREAT :)

WOW Life Has Changed!

This week has definitely been a change our the Witt house here in Lubbock! We finally made it home after two weeks of vacation! We went to the Zoo, Houston, Galveston, a wedding in Horseshoe Bay, Wichita Falls, and PK! We only had two weeks to get as many activities in as we could and I think we accomplished that! I was EXHAUSTED when we got back! I am posting more details on our trip on my other blog if you want to check it out (it's not up yet though).

Chance started 3rd year on Monday. His first rotation is OB-GYN and by Tuesday, they already had them doing "hands on" activities! Last night he was on call from 5pm to 8am and man did he come home with PLENTY of stuff to talk about! I think he is really enjoying this new "life" because it means WAY less reading and studying! It's like he went from a student to a doctor in one day! He came home with a beeper the other day and I was like haha "who is going to need to page you?!" haha it's just so weird to think about! He assisted in a couple of deliveries last night and will have many more to see in the coming weeks! Hopefully he will get to actually deliver one himself (it's very likely). He said the nurses treated him like a doctor...they tied his gown without him asking and everything:) I think he has finally seen the light at the end of the tunnel. Just 2 more years and he will technically be a doctor! WEIRD!

I am VERY proud of him and very excited he gets to start this whole new adventure! This year is going to be a lot of fun and a lot of work but it's a more entertaining way of learning rather than reading ALL NIGHT AND DAY! He was leaving yesterday and had his stethoscope around his neck and Ella said "where's daddy going" and we said "Daddy's going to work" and she goes "Daddy go be a doctor", haha she knew just from the stethoscope. (She plays doctor all the time and like to listen to out heart and give us shots).

I will get y'all updated with Chance's adventures this year! It's going to go by so fast I know it!! As for now, here are some pictures of Ella I took last night! This is her new way of smiling :) She has been a total mess lately! Everything she says we are either laughing or shocked! She told me yesterday she "really really really needed to go to Target", why I have NO clue haha! The other day she put my heels on and said she was ready to go party! Where she got that I have NO clue! We never say things like that! We are trying to get rid of her stinkin paci but it's just not working!! FYI to all Mom's or future Mom's, get rid of it before they are 1 and realize what it is and can ask for it! It's a nightmare to get rid of! She is down to 2 and I REFUSE to buy more! I tried to keep it from her the other night and she told me several times "Ella REALLY REALLY REALLY needs it". I felt so bad I gave it to her. Anyways, hopefully we can break through this barrier and get rid of it and be a "big girl". 2 is definitely the hardest age to take care of a baby!

OK, I will quit rambling. My kids are asleep and I trying to be quiet so the computer is the only thing I can do right now!