Halloween

Hello Family

Well Halloween was fun. On the 3oth around midnite we were able to carve Ella's pumpkin. Well for Halloween Ella was a Pumpkin. Then during the day of Halloween Laura and Halen carved a white pumpkin that Laura's parents gave us. So we had two pumpkins for Halloween. Mind you she was the cutest pumkin as Laura says. Of course that was the only costume that would fit her for her size. Well for Trick-or-Treat we went to the church's Trunk-or-Treat and she fell asleep. Then one of the schools here did trick or treat and once again she fell asleep. Then on Halloween night we went trick or treating she fell asleep once again. So instead of a pumpkin she was a snoring pumpkin/sleeping pumpkin. Well we didn't do too well at recieving candy. Not a lot of houses by Laura's parents had their lights on for passing out candy. Of course all the people who were passing out candy ohh and ahhh at ella and said that she was so cute. Thomas and Laura didn't really dress up for Halloween this year.

The reason for the fish picture was that the other night ella would not calm down and we tried everything until Alicia brought a fish for her to chew on. The reason for the fish is because we were trying to find things that will fit her mouth and the only thing that would was the green fish.

Well since i hav some time before i have to be in math tonight I decided that i should get a blog done. Here is what has happened so far. Oklahoma has beaten its rainfall record for the year and yet we still have a few months left to go. I beat laura's mom on a test. I missed one question that should have been easy to remember but i didn't. I got 99% and Laura's mom got 91%. I was really excited about that. I have a 85% in that class. I am trying to get it up to an A. I have had an Interview for a banking position. The same bank that Laura's sister is employeed. It is going to be about 20 hrs a week and $9.00 an hr. The postion that it is, is less than 20 hrs. The branch manager that interviewed me said that this was the most informal interview that i will ever have. I am supposed to hear back soon on it. It looks promsing. He said that he takes recomindations from other employees very high. Since Laura's Sister works for the same bank she told him about me. Once I get into it I can easily get into other banks as my referrals get up which he said that he will mentor me and show me how to do it. I will not be able to get full time at the place where i might be working at, but i can apply for other full time postions within the business and other banks.
Well I have to get to class so I will talk to you guys later.

October 18th

Hello family. I hope that everything is going ok? As for our little family things are going great. Well sort of. Work is still cutting me on hours. This last week I got 35 hours. I have had a job interview and it looks promising. Only problem with that is, it is less than 20 hrs. Atleast I will have a foot in the door for banking, possibly. We have moved into the house and so far we have the living room and the kitchen cleaned. Next room to tackle is the bedroom. Once we get that done we will post pictures on our blog.
Speaking of pictures I have put three new ones up. One of them is of ella sleeping, another one is of ella and I sleeping and the last one is of Ella smiling that we have been trying to get a picture of. More of her will be coming...
Ella had her 2 month shots on Monday. They weighed her at that time she now weighs 8lbs 12 oz(fully clothed). She is also 22 inches long. So we have a baby girl that is long and skinny. after me of course. She sleeps at times the whole night without waking up and other times she wakes up at 1:30 and will not go back to sleep unless she is laying on daddy's chest. She also likes to stick her face into my chest, she gets to hear my heatbeat a lot better because of my crater that I have there.
Laura is doing fine. Still watching Halen. She does that to help out the best that she can. Hopfully she will go back to school next semester. We are going to try to take some courses together so that we can help each other out.
As for me things are going al right. Wish things could be better, but it is going alright. Like I said earlier work is going all right, nothing too fancy there. So here I am in a little delima. I will work through it. School is going ok. I got my first "A" on a test. I was still 1% behind Laura's mom. This next test that we took last week I am hoping that I am going beat her.
Well got to be going. Laura's mom needs to do homework.

Everything OK

Well here I am already out of English, and not knowing what to do. All that we did today was turn in our essay, read a letter out of our book and then left. I have been out of class since 6 pm tonight. As you can tell I figured out some information on the blog and now I can do some things. Just to let you know about what is going on with us here is the low down on our little family in Oklahoma. We hope to move into our house this weekend. We we have to. Later on that.

First things first. Ella is now 6 weeks old and only wakes up once a night(Usually about 12:30 or 1). Then she wakes up inbetween 5-7 usually for the rest of day. She hasn't been sleeping much durning the day because cousin Halen is always doing something. Her appointment that she had Yesterday told us some new information. She now weighs in at 7lbs 10oz. She is 21-21 3/4 inches long. Since her last appointment she has gained 10oz. Dang those Gentry Genes. The state nurse(Since we are on WIC) that we went is a little afraid that she isn't gaining enough. We keep telling her to look at Dad. We had a little scare from her a little while ago. We had to take her to the Emergencey room and they took an X-ray of her. From what they saw nothing happened, but a closer look they found out that her heart was shaped as a boot. So we had to do a cardio gram on her to see if there were going to be any complications later on. The doctor said that everything checks out OK.

Laura is doing really well. Keeps up with babysitting her Nephew, and watching Ella. She watches Halen Monday-Friday while Alicia is at work and so is everybody else. She is always happy to do the work to help everybody else out. She will be happy once the house is ready to go so that we can finally put Ella on a routine. It seems that she also wants to put me on as well.

As for me well things are going ok. Work still isn't giving me the hours that need every week in order to pay the bills. I have now applied for so many jobs it s amazing that I don't have a new one right now. The ones that I have applied for is what I have done previously and one is with banks.Just waiting to hear back from them. For some reason every month we manage to do just that. Pay all of our bills. It is all due to Paying Thithing. It is a marvelous thing. School is going ok. So far I have had at least one test in all my classes except for English. As you can tell we are hardly in class to learn anything. Every Tuesday I am in Biology with Laura's Parents and so far so good. On all the test that We have taken in there(which is 3) her mom as pulled A's. On this next test lets see how she does. My other classes are going good also. I am working hard to learn everything that I need to know. Somthings are harder for me than others but it is really an eye opener. Once you have to pay for your own schooling you work twice as hard to get good grades. Only wish I could have done it earlier.
Now about the house. Sorry no pictures this time. Hoped you like what the rooms looked like before we painted over them. Now the rooms look so much better. The living room is in pale green color to make it look biger. The master bedroom that was Pink and Black with Zebra print carpet is a pale blue color. The baby's room is going to have a blue with sparkles in it to refelect the light. We are doing a Faries theme in her room, and by chance Ella means beautiful farie. That we didn't plan for until we saw her. Her room is going to have a Tinker Bell Light, with a Tinkerbell picture ont he wall and little faries around the room. There is no more carpet in the house only wood floors which are being put down as we speak. We are going to have to move into it this weekend as we have to out of our apartment complex by October 1st. So we are working hard between school and work to get it all taken care of. Pictures will be coming soon.

I guess it is time for me to say farwell to you guys. More posts will come.

The House

Hello Everyone,

Well I told you that I would give you more about the house later. It is offical Laura's Parents got the house and are starting to do some(ok a lot of) fixups on it. This past weekend we (meaning Mom, Dad Gentry and I) started painting over what was in the original rooms. The rooms beginning were pink. The baby's room was pink with yellow trim, the master bedroom was Pink, with black trim. The master bedroom's carpet was zebra print. Needless to say that was the first thing to go. Right now all that we have done is torne up the carpet in the master bedroom and the living room. Also we started painting over the hideous colors and they are now white.
We have a theme for the babies room. It has to do with faries mainly Tinker Bell from Petter Pan. We have a fan, pictures and we are going to be painting the bedroom a blue with glitter in the paint. The living room is going be a light green and our main bedroom is going to be a light blue.

Ella's Blessing

Hello all,
Today was Ella's Baby Blessing. Grandpa Gentry was the one to bless her. There is a picture of her in her blessing gown on the left hand side. Grandma Inge was of course the one that made the blessing dress. It was a beautiful dress that was made. We stayed for the whole church block. We also had a luncheon afterwards. It was a very nice day. We also went to the Okalahoma City Memorial Center for a little walk this afternoon.

Ella Elizabeth Gentry is Here