A thousand years and 5 months...

Wow. I can not believe that my baby is already 5 months old! It seems like she just joined our little family and yet it's hard to remember life without her. Today in the car I was listening to a song by Christina Perri called "A Thousand Years" (it is my latest song addiction...listen to it below) and the words just struck me. 


    I have died everyday waiting for you
    Darling, don't be afraid  I have loved you 
    For a thousand years
    I love you for a thousand more
  
    Time stands still
    Beauty in all she is
    I will be brave
    I will not let anything 
    Take away
    What's standing in front of me
    Every hour
    Every breath has led to this. 

And while I was listening, Ella was in the back fussing because she was tired and I was thinking about everything that I needed to get done and I wanted to "fuss" because I was tired and normally I would have probably been  a wee bit stressed but I just smiled because that part of that song just captures how I feel. I feel like I have loved her forever and that every moment of my life so far has been leading up and preparing me for this. She is so loved and such a sweet happy girl. 

Honestly, what could be better than that? :) 

Wiggle my ears and tickle my toes...!

One of my favorite parts from the classic Christmas movie "Santa Clause is coming to town" is the scene when the elves find a baby on the doorstep.

Dingle: Wiggle my ears and tickle my toes, methinks I see a baby's nose! It's more than a nose. There's a whole baby attached to it. Better call my brothers! Wingle! Bingle! Tingle! Zingle!
Zingle: What is it, Dingle?
Wingle: It's a baby, Zingle.
Tingle: A baby what, Wingle?
Bingle: A baby baby, Tingle.
Dingle: I like babies, Bingle.
Bingle: Our baby's the best baby of them all, Wingle.

Not only do I completely adore all of the rhyming elf names (don't worry I promise not to name our children in a similar rhyming fashion...if you're not an elf it kind of loses its adorable and charming appeal...and it's just kind of cheesy and lame.) but I also kind of feel a kind of bond with the "ingle" brothers as I currently share some similar feelings with them. You see, as I am only 9.5 weeks pregnant and don't have the bulging belly and the constant kicking and not even any morning sickness to speak of yet (cross your fingers...knock on wood..etc.) It's hard to grasp the fact that there is actually a baby baby inside of me! And as you can tell from the ultrasound pictures below...it's hard to make out any kind of a nose let alone the rest of the baby that is attached to it! But, I like babies and just like Bingle thought of the young Kris Kringle...Steven and I believe that our baby is the best baby of them all! :)

Told you so...

hahahaHA...well I sure showed Steven didn't I...it's been a whole 2 years 4 months since our last post, which I feel is good enough proof that I did not, in fact, become an addicted blogger. But I feel like it would of been beneficial if I HAD become at least slightly addicted because now here we are, two (and almost a half) years later... we just celebrated our second wedding anniversary yesterday, we live in Las Vegas and we just found out last month (on mother's day no less) that we are having a baby :) and we have close to NO record of all of our adventures (and I do mean adventures)! So, I have made it a personal goal to attempt to *drumroll* not only blog our current doings BUT also record some snip-its from the last two years. And if I don't blog AT LEAST once a week then I promise to......try again the next week (how's that for public accountability, eh?). :)

Stay tuned for all the baby buzz!

And the saga begins...

Steven and I thought it would be a good idea to have a blog (even though I previously had sworn off the idea of blogs) to keep friends and family up to date with our doings. <-- this being the ONLY reason, I will NOT become an addicted blogger.

Steven says: Leanne has been talking about this blog nonstop for the past 2 weeks so I really think that she will, in fact, become an addicted blogger. Please become enablers of this vice and continue to read this! It makes us feel super interesting. :)

Now, back to Leanne: Steven likes to exaggerate things. Anyways, we figured we might as well start from the beginning...so this is a little excerpt from a journal that I kept that I like to call "The College Chronicles."

Black text- Narrative
Green Text- Steven's comments
Blue Text- Leanne's comments

This story needs a whole new page…because it is a start to a whole new page of
my life… so it all started with me and Janelle going to visit Quin, in good ol'
apartment 92. We knocked on his door but he did not answer…so we knock
again…THEN across the hall a guy yells out “hey…um….they’re not answering their door but uh…our doors open if you wanna come over here.” It wasn't even our apartment. I didn't even know the guys we were visiting. In fact, they were a little weirded out that I invited strange girls into their apartment. But hey, all's well that ends well, right? Janelle and I looked at each other and shrug “ok!” so we meet Steve awwww (voice from 93) and Nate (his bffaeaeaeae) My what? Your best friend for ever and ever and ever and ever and ever...you would have made a TERRIBLE 5th grade girl and Brian (the friend they were there visiting who was visiting someone who lived in 93) and Moses (weird kid who was there too) so we go in and start talking and then Steve proposed. a problem he and nate had with the hope that Janelle and I could help. The conversation went as follows…. I don't say "um" this much, I swear! Hey! This is my recollection of the event!

Steve: “So, we have this problem and I think you guys can
help”

Leanne: “ok, we’ll see what we can do”

Steve: “Well, me and Nate here really want to go to the corn maze tomorrow but….um we don’t have dates…we were thinking you guys could maybe fix that…but um..we wouldn’t want to upset your boyfriends”

Leanne: “well lucky for you we don’t have boyfriends” Clever me.

Steve: “o good…well I guess the question
now is do you want to go with us?”

Leanne: “hmm…ahh…well…that
questions a little tougher…we’ll have to think about it” ;) Clever me.

SO…we decide to go with them…they came back with us for a little bit to our apartment and Nate played us the moon song.

After they left Nellie and I were talking about how we never decided who was going with who and then we realized we could NOT for the life us remember Nate’s name! So after much thought we devised several sneaky tactics to find it out…but thanks to Steve those plans never had to be enacted…kind of a let down actually…probably a good thing though. Haha But anyways we didn’t know which boy we were going with…I said I wanted to go with Steve but it was kinda up to the guys sooo we just waited….and talked about how we were going to figure it out in a way that wasn’t awkward when they came to pick us up.

Meanwhile… while we were carefully thinking out the situation…the boys were playing ROCK PAPER SCISSORS to determine the date situation! let me reiterate... ROCK PAPER SCISSORS!! (Steve says its to avoid committing a party foul...but idk…his story changes every time I hear it ;) It doesn't change, it just gets little details added to it everytime I tell it. Like hot chocolate. Sure, the chocolate is good by itself but if you add peanut butter, hazlenut flavoring, whipped cream, nutmeg and a dash of cayanne pepper, you've got yourself an amazing cup o' goodness. Nope, I don't buy it. He was just afraid to tell me all the details at once. It ended up at first that Nate was supposed to go with me and Steve with Janelle but they did best 3 out of 5 at Steve’s request. haha mwaa ha ha he had it bad. ;)


So we went to a haunted house for our date and Nate was like an hour and a half late haha Steve was on a point system with me and so he said that I was on a color system…im still on the color system actually haha…I think im turquoise now…..whatever that means :P

THE Haunted house was very fun…there were the haunted huggers (steve’s in training)…the jumpy flippy thing…a scary clown man that tried to kiss me…and Steve held my hand…(after he had earned enough points of course….when he first asked I told him to wait ten minutes then ask me again haha…I wonder what he thought when I said that… “rejection!” haha I will have to ask him I'll tell you exactly what I thought about it. I was like, "this girl totally led me on! She's been bumping my hand all night and says no? Forget this...for ten minutes." Just for the record, those hand bumps were COMPLETELY unintentional ......I have my doubts) Then we went back to our apartment and watched a scary movie…and cuddled which apparently was ALSO unintentional Yep! He catches on quickly. So, overall I had a very good time, at this point I wasn’t exactly sure how I felt about him…definitely interested… intrigued even… but not quite sure. She totally wanted me. Naw, I was just bein nice cause I could tell he wanted me; I didn't want him to feel bad. ;)