We're 1/2 Way!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! It was a small celebrated Thanksgiving with the Bruner's this year. Mom, Dad, Grandma Pat, Ella, Brett, & I ate a lot of food. As did everyone else I'm sure. :O) I got a phone call from Jonah & he told me that he ate lobster & steak for his Thanksgiving meal. Neat huh? He also informed me that he got 3 packages around Thanksgiving. The one that I sent had the best surprise though, a huge jar of cheese dip that splattered everywhere. He said it was molded and went all over everything. I must have been in baby la la land while packaging that present b/c I seemed to have forgotten to bubble wrap the jar & put a plastic bag around it. Haha. I get the stupid award this month. He said he was able to salvage a few things. One of his buddies made the comment of, "Did your wife send you a dirty diaper?". I found that quite humorous of a comment. Needless to say, I'll be checking the packages more intently before sending them from now on. ;O) Love you Jonah.

Ella has discovered that she can put more than just her hands in her mouth. She grabs everything now. I've to be careful while holding her during a meal b/c today she caught hold of some sauce I was using and got it all over her hand. LOL. She loves her toys & enjoys doing more big girl things... like sit up (with help), play on things other than her play mat, & likes to get in on the conversations by adding her baby talk. She's a hoot. I sent Jonah a CD this week of footage from her during the month of Nove, but I already need to go ahead and send another new CD b/c she's already started doing new things. She's growing up quickly.

So, this week marks 1/2 completion of Jonah's deployment! We've only 3 1/2 more months until we'll finally be home together again as a family!! We're so excited!! Jonah sent me flowers yesterday that are absolutely gorgeous to kind of celebrate. Please continue to keep our little family in your prayers. Their is to be a lot of traveling in the next couple of months for all 3 of us & we want to all be safe. :O)

Well, it's late & I'd love to get some rest b/c the little one is already down for the night. Here's some recent photos from Thanksgiving up until today. Ella has already started wearing some of her little Christmas outfits which one says "I love Dad" with her candy cane stripped pants that Jonah calls "ridiculous". Hehe. ;O) Another outfit she's pretty grumpy in b/c I think she was very uncomfortable (the blue dress). Needless to say, that one was changed out of within minutes. I also am putting just a couple more random cute ones of her.

Love you all. J,E,&I

Isabella is 3 months old!

Hey friends and family! Isabella is now 3 months old! Crazy huh? She's growing so fast. She finally rolls over frequently. She sleeps throughout the night only waking up once to feed. This is a blessing that I thought would never come. Ha! She has learned how to talk more & uses all different types of vowel sounds. I ask her questions and she answers with an, "Ahhhh goooo." It's adorable.

The holidays are near & we are lonesome for Jonah. We're almost to (as Jonah calls it) over the "hump" in our long distance. We hope that once we reach that point that the days will start going by much quicker. A bunch of you have already gotten together packages to send Jonah over the holidays (thank you so much!), for anyone else that is interested, please email me edornbos@gmail.com & I'll give you his address. I know that the packages won't make up for how much we wish he were home for the holidays, but they sure will send some love his way! :o)

This week I'm going to Knoxville with Mom & Grandma with Ella to visit with my brother & one of Grandma's friends. Also, Mom & I plan to do some Christmas shopping. Their isn't a lot of shops to offer in our area, so we're going to take advantage of us being in a bigger city. Ella does well when leaving the house. However, she's a lot more aware of her surroundings, and sometimes it can be pretty exhausting to her because of all the over stimulation. We usually aren't gone more than 3 hours at a time b/c of this. LOL.

I'm going to post some more recent photos of Ella. Thanks for all your support & please continue to keep our family in your prayers, especially for Jonah. Love you all!

In the photos: Ella is wearing an outfit that I call her little red riding hood outfit, a couple cute ones of her in her swing (one she is holding her favorite toy: a fuzzy pooh bear), and the last one is of her in her cute little bunny hat. :o)