Mark's Half Marathon

This morning Mark got up bright and early to run the Colfax Half Marathon. This was Mark's 2nd half marathon and he was hoping to shave some time off his last one.

Here he is at the start, bright and early.

And running at about the halfway point... he makes it look so easy!

And finally FINISHED!

Mark finished the race with a personal best of 2:01:22, knocking over 23 minutes off his previous time! GO MARK!

Baby Boy Room

Last week Ella and I worked on the baby's room a little bit, taping up an area on the wall so Dad can paint a blue stripe over the crib. This brought back lots of memories of preparing Ella's room over 2 1/2 years ago. Hard to believe how quickly time flies.

Ella is visiting my parents this weekend in Kansas City so Mark and I took the oppourtunity to finish up the baby's room this weekend. Thanks to Kristie & Alan for coming over to help us with the finishing touches.

Here it is!! Only thing we have to add is the baby's name above the turtles on the wall.

To be revealed in about 8 weeks!

take me out to the ballgame

Rockies Opening Day was about a month ago (April 9th) so it's about time I share our pictures from the game. We almost didn't make it!! Mark had to beg, borrow, and steal just to score us some tickets from a scalper during the 3rd inning of the game! But it was all worth it. It was a beautiful day, Ella got to attend her 1st Opening Day (definitely not her 1st rockies game) and she scored a "Dinger" stuffed animal AND the Rockies won!

And now for something more recent (from last night)... I've been teaching Ella the song "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" with the help of a CD in my car that is starting to get annoying real fast. Nonetheless, it's now her favorite song and we can't wait to take her to another Rockies game so she can sing with all of us in the 7th inning stretch! (P.S. I promise Mark was driving while I was filming!!!)

Bay Boy Herb- 28 weeks

I am SO happy to report that we had a WONDERFUL 28 week doctors appointment and ultrasound today! Baby Boy Herb is growing perfectly and, although we are still on high alert for early delivery, we think he will make his appearance pretty close to his scheduled due date of July 11th.

It's been a rough road with this little guy and this was by far the best doctors appointment we have had... so we are in high spirits! Thanks all for your continued love, support and prayers. We can't wait to meet this him soon (but not too soon)!

A few pics from our appt:

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Opening his mouth for the picture

Pointing at something

Congratulations to Patti & Chris Walker

I'm elated to announce that my sister and her husband are going to have a BABY GIRL! I'm so excited to be an Aunt for the 1st time and I can't wait to spoil Patti's little girl like she has spoiled Miss Ella!

Baby Girl Walker at approx 15 weeks:

Congrats to the Walker Family!

HAPPY EASTER!

Happy Easter from the Herb Family to yours! We had a wonderful weekend FILLED with lots of fun Easter activities!

Ella colored her Easter eggs on Friday afternoon.

On Saturday morning we headed over to see our neighbors, The Barrett's, and had an egg hunt in their backyard. So fun! Ella decided she'd prefer to eat candy for lunch instead of the yummy Chicken Noodle Soup that Stephanie made for us.

Sunday morning we woke up to a visit from the Easter Bunny. Ella really made out well this year- her basket was filled with a bunny stuffed animal, a DVD, stickers, chapstick, candy and even her very own drum!

She decided to name her bunny "Floppy".

And finally, we got dressed up for Easter mass and then a yummy brunch at Yia Yia's afterwards. We ate so much for brunch/lunch that we barely ate dinner! It was SO good!

Here we took a quick family photo in front of our house.

Baby Boy Herb: 25 week ultrasound

Had another ultrasound today of Baby Boy Herb and the doctor sent us home with a bunch of 3D Ultrasound Pics. So cool- I had to share.

Easter Bunny Visit 2010

Happy Easter from Ella!!!

I had anticipated that Ella might have a hard time with the Easter Bunny this year after seeing her fear of Santa at Christmas.... so we have been talking about going to see him for about a month now. It was a challenge, but after waiting in line 3 separate times within an hour, Ella finally got up the guts to sit next to the bunny without crying. He rewarded her with a well
deserved lollipop!

Fun in March

It's definietly March in Colorado... 70 degrees, then a foot of snow, then 70 degrees again. Ella's been passing the time indoors playing dress-up in Mom's clothes- love the heels without pants. (She got a haircut the next day, by the way. Didn't realize how bad it was until I saw this picture! )

Here is Ella eating Granddaddy's famous chili on a cold day at home.

And finally, a picture of Ella in her new Easter Bunny shirt. So adorable! It even has a little tail on the back. Love it!

Big Girl Bed

We moved Ella into her "Big Girl Bed" from the crib exactly 1 week ago today and I'm happy to report like most things with our angel child, it was much easier than we expected.

This evening, we put Ella to bed at about 8pm. Right around 9:15p, Mark and I heard her calling for me, so I went up to investigate.

Mom: Did you call me?

Ella: Yes.

Mom: Did you need something?

Ella: (slience)

Mom: Ella, Mommy is tired. Is something wrong?

Ella: I'm thinking about it Mom.

Mom: Ok, hurry up and think. What do you need?

Ella: (silence)

Mom: Ella, Mommy was sleeping. I'm going to go back to bed.

Ella: Ok Mom.

Mom: I love you, Ella. Good night.

Ella: Goodnight Mom.