The Ines Family

An update finally!! Moving and Easter...

2009-04-12T15:55:00.000-07:00

Wow! It has been a really long time since I updated this blog. I think most of you know that we moved out of our apartment into a house last month. We've been really busy but I think things are finally starting to slow down a little bit.

Our house is a little bigger than our apartment was (still 3 bedroom, 2 bath) but we now have a garage, attic, and a yard! Part of the back yard is fenced in so there is a place for Ariana to play. The neighborhood is really nice, and very peaceful. We really like it here. One of my favorite parts is that I now have a washer and dryer! I'd been having to haul laundry to the apartment laundry room for 5 years, I was so sick of doing laundry. You don't realize how convenient some things are until you don't have them for so long. Here are some pics of the house.

Living room

Dining room area of kitchen

Kitchen area

Part of the garage Ben converted into his lair. The other half is still full of boxes to unpack. :(

Ariana's room

Guest/exercise room

Our bedroom

We had Easter a day early (yesterday) because we knew it was gonna rain today. We took Ariana outside and let her find Easter eggs and an Easter basket. Here are three video clips of her having fun.

Collecting Easter eggs

Finding Easter basket

Eating chocolate bunny

Video of Ariana walking

2009-02-16T14:26:00.000-08:00

Ariana has started walking around a little more and we finally got a short video of her in action.

Ariana birthday pics

2009-02-06T12:33:00.000-08:00

We had a late 1st birthday party for Ariana so my folks could be here from Minnesota for it. She had so much fun opening presents and smashing up her cake.

This one is a video of her with her cake.

Random pics

2008-12-31T13:39:00.000-08:00

Since I never seem to find the time to get on here and update Ariana's blog, I figured I'd just take a little time and post a bunch of stuff at once.

I never did post any pics of Ariana in her Halloween outfit, she was a pirate princess. It was really hard to get her to sit still for a good pic, but I managed to get a couple.

Ariana would never go in her room and play unless somebody was with her. One day after we got back from a walk she was following me down the hallway, but after I was in my bedroom for a few minutes I realized she wasn't behind me. I found her sitting in her room reading a book. She now loves to go in there and play, but she really loves looking at books the most.

When me or Ben are playing video games she has her own controller we let her play with. I guess even pretending you're playing can wear you out.

Ben's nephew, Randy, and Ariana taking a snooze.

Ben and Ariana taking a snooze.

Ariana modeling a couple outfits she got for Christmas.

Chocolate face. She looks like she's having a sugar seizure or something.

Being silly...

This video is a little long (3 minutes) but I thought it was cute and it gives people who don't get to see her often a chance to see how she acts.

Ariana is 1!

2008-12-18T20:02:00.000-08:00

Ariana turned 1 today. We had her pics taken last week and they were in today. They came out so cute.

After dinner naps

2008-12-12T12:08:00.000-08:00

I guess those after dinner naps can sure hit hard.

Ariana walking

2008-11-06T22:44:00.000-08:00

Ariana started walking with the help of her little lion walker. Now she won't stop, she wants to just keep walking.

Ariana got her first teeth!

2008-10-19T18:09:00.000-07:00

...from the Halloween store!

We couldn't resist a silly teeth pacifier.

Ben and I just sit and laugh at her. But we really did notice today that she finally sprouted her first tooth.
And she's getting enough hair now to have bed head.

2008-09-21T16:16:00.000-07:00

My SIL photoshopped this pic for me. It is so adorable. I just had to post it also.

The next top model

2008-09-20T14:23:00.000-07:00

Ariana and I went to a baby consignment sale last night and found her some really cute clothes and shoes. Of course today she begged me to try stuff on her and take pics.

I love this one. I don't know if that's a gang sign she's throwing out or what!

Here she's showing off her little leather skirt with a Scottie sweater and boots. I couldn't resist a baby leather skirt!

This outfit was so cute, I love baby hats. She was already done with the clothes changing and modeling though.

She agreed to pose for one last pic though in exchange for a shoe (she's very easy to please sometimes). She said the rest of the clothes modeling will have to be put off for another day though.

Random pics...

2008-09-13T22:26:00.000-07:00

There isn't really anything new going on so I thought I'd throw some random stuff up.
First of all Ariana wanted to say "HI!"

And show off what a big girl she is now!

She'll be 9 months old on Thursday. She's growing sooooo fast! She can actually fit into some 18 month clothes!

A few weeks ago I was taking some pics of myself (doesn't everyone do that!). When I was looking at them later I noticed two things. First of all how terribly dirty my mirror was! Second I noticed this cute little head in the lower right hand corner. I didn't even realize she was there at the time.

Well, since it is almost 1am I should try to get her to bed. If I'm lucky she'll look like this in about half an hour.

2 for 1

2008-08-29T22:23:00.000-07:00

You get a 2 for 1 special with this video. I finally got her sitting up and she has learned how to wave and "say" bye-bye. She's too cute. Sorry the room was a little dark for video.

Giant slug caught on video!

2008-08-15T15:32:00.000-07:00

I finally got some video of Ariana "crawling". She doesn't really crawl though, she just pulls herself around like a giant slug. At least she doesn't leave a slime trail. She can also push herself back up into a sitting position, but I haven't been able to capture that exciting feat on video yet!

The happy family

2008-08-10T21:20:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago I was playing with my new digital camera and found that it had a smile feature. You could take a picture of a person and if they weren't smiling you could choose that option and it would distort the pic to make it look as if the person were smiling. Of course I went crazy playing with it. These are some of my favorite results...

Of course I had to include Ben in the fun...

And just to be fair I'll have to throw one of me in...

No pictures please...

2008-08-06T19:13:00.000-07:00

I love this picture of Ariana and just had to post it. We finally caught up with the times and bought a digital camera about a month ago. Of course I take tons of pictures of Ariana and I think this one accurately depicts how she is starting to feel about it.

Pretty as a picture of a picture...

2008-08-05T19:51:00.000-07:00

We had Ariana's 6 month pictures taken at Wal-Mart on July 11th. It used to be in the old days that when you had portraits taken at Wal-Mart you could buy a cd (or disk in the really old days) of the portraits for only $10. Then you could email them, post them, print them, whatever you wanted. Well...they now charge $100 for the cd! So needless to say I had to get creative to post her pics. I took digital pictures of her portraits. So here they are, flash spots and all.

Pickle Face

2008-08-04T23:01:00.000-07:00

This is my first post and I wanted to test uploading a video. I couldn't resist uploading her pickle face video. It's amazing that babies will still insist on trying something that makes them pucker up so much. I should test her with a lemon!