Joan Ellen Cornell

8:02 PM

I definitely do not consider myself super "fashionable." I wear what I like and what is comfortable, despite what is "in" I guess. In the summer, I live in dresses and skirts. In the winter I wear jeans and a lot of leggings with boots. Even with Porter here now, I make a point to get dressed almost every day, even if I have no plans of leaving the house. He is awesome about sitting in the Bumbo while I shower and get ready. Here's what I'm wearing, today. Necklace: Tiffany's Braid: Because i'm obsessed with braids right...

11:37 AM

A Stolen Life- Jaycee Dugard

The other day, I was going through the books in the iBook store on my iPad trying to find one that interested me. I came across Jaycee Dugard's book, and it caught my eye. I am a lover of reading autobiographies- something about reading about someone's life that actually happened- love it. And I had heard of Jaycee, on the news and stuff. I never really followed it or knew much about it, so it was something new to learn about! OMG what an awesome book! It took me longer than usual to read, not because of the...

12:15 AM

Flashback! v.3

{side note before I flashback: these posts make me think about the past, and in turn, I realize how fast time goes. ugh. please slow down life} Growing up, I had a best friend who lived next door to me who was a year or so younger than I was. When I was about 8, we buried a time capsule in my backyard. It was an old coffee can. We filled it with pictures and trinkets that had meaning to us, along with letters about who we thought we would be when we opened it- what we would...

1:56 PM

Sign Language update...

We've been doing baby sign language for exactly a month now. It's going pretty well. We started out with 8 or 10, but we've dropped a few and use the rest all the time. Right now we are consistently using milk, mom, dad, and bath. We use "more" and "all done" pretty often, but not as much as the first four. The signs that we use all the time- they've become second nature to do when I say the word. It's pretty funny- when I do the sign "mom" Porter usually laughs at me, haha. I guess it is kind...

12:15 AM

Adventures! v.3

Rothbury, MI July 4th Weekend, 2011. We flew from Colorado to Chicago, then drove to Rothbury from there. Rothbury was an AMAZING AMAZING music festival over 4 nights. We camped, saw tons of friends I don't get to see often, saw great music, partied and just had a great time. So much fun. Unfortunately, last year they didn't have it. Then they had it again this year, but changed the name to Electric Forest Festival. We didn't make it because of funds this year, but hopefully we will next year! We just gotta find someone who can come...

7:55 PM

Fashion! v.1

I decided to try one of the braids that I posted a few days ago. I tried it 4 times (after that my arms were going to fall off)...and i'm pretty happy with my attempts thus far. It is still a long way from being perfected, but after trying it a few times and seeing the results, I think next time it'll be even better! :) ...

7:52 PM

P90x WHAT.

I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I was going to start working out. Well, I finally did. Yesterday. Haha. I have NEVER in my life done any sort of workout plan or diet, ever. I've been lucky enough to have a great metabolism and athletic-ish genes I guess. Not that any of my family members are big athletes or anything, but I am def blessed with some nice muscles that I don't really work for (my arms and shoulders mostly). My body has always fluctuated a bit, depending on my lifestyle at the moment. As horrible as...

12:15 AM

Confessions! v.3

I have a confession. I love to read. LOVE it. It probably stems from my parent's reading to me every night before bed and weekly trips to the library. In 2nd grade, I was in a special reading group (3 or 4 of us) that would leave the classroom during the usual reading time. We would go to this small room wish only a small table and chairs and read chapter books. It sounds kind of dorky, but I loved that I was part of this group :) In 4th grade, I remember getting in trouble by Miss...

10:34 PM

Jumperoo fun

Porter got a new toy last week :) He loves it, it's so cute. We have to put a towel behind him and a booster seat under his feet because they don't reach the ground yet, but he still loves it. He is fascinated by the toys attached to it. Jumperoo= Success! I even got a workout in this morning while he was in it watching me! (Whoa you say, "she worked out??!" Yes, yes I did. Finally. I will post all about it tomorrow :) ...

11:19 PM

Braids and Feathers!

I've been getting so bored with my hair lately. I see all these awesome pins on Pinterest of braids that I always repin and save to try at some point. Well, starting Monday I will be trying a different braid for the week. I want to have a whole week to perfect it- and it'll be fun to see the changes from the beginning of the week to the end, haha. Not that I go somewhere every day to necessarily "get ready" for, but this will be a good way to make myself get ready! I also found...

12:45 AM

Flashback! v.2

In one of my adventure posts (here), I talked about the ice caves in Marquette, MI. I touched on the town a tiny bit but I really want to talk more about it, in a flashback sorta way. That place is such a memorable place for me, and so many important parts of ME changed while I was there. I moved up there when I was 19...after a year of community college in IL (with my best friend at the time, Val...who I miss so freaking much, but anyways...), after community college I applied to Northern Michigan University. Now,...