Taking a dip!

FUN IN THE SUN!!
(with sunscreen of course)

Not to make every one jealous of our weather. . . BUT the Weather here has been just ridiculously wonderful (upper 80's) this week. Friday we went with some friends to the pool for the first time this year! We got Elle in her new Swim Suite (so cute!) and headed for a swim!

Wearing my very first swim diaper!
(Thanks Sophie for letting me borrow one! My mom was very unprepared!)

Me and my daddy about to take a dip!
(my mom keeps saying she loves my legs)

Brrr..It's a little cold,
a foot dip is good enough for me!

Now this is the life!

Ahh!

What a fun day!
We should all go swim again soon!

Bye for now I'm all tuckered out!

A new trick!

I know it's not Sunday, but we couldn't resist this one. . . We haven't laughed this hard in a while!
Ella just had a new discovery. . . her tongue! We couldn't resist posting this video! We hope you enjoy. . .we sure did!

(I love that her hair looks like a little mo-hawk, keep on growing, keep on growing)

Baby

practicing sitting turned into...A fun photo day!

I love those little rolls!



This baby babbles out great stories!

a very serious face

I love these little feet!



So big she holds her bottle by herself!



Modeling Grandma's blessing dresses!
(my mom makes blessing dresses, so we wanted Elleah to model
a few so we can have a photo on display when selling them.
Her blessing dress will be sort of similar but a little different too!)

she kicked and kicked when I put the dresses on..so much soft fabric!
(her blessing day will be quite the adventure!)

DRUM ROLL PLEASE....

ELLA ROLLED TODAY!! It was such a great day with this baby. She is such a little smarty. I love watching her discover how smart she is... When she does something like imitate a sound I make (or in this case roll) and she looks at me and laughs making sure I noticed how clever she is! What an amazing baby! Here are the photos right after she rolled over! hopefully next time I'll catch her in action with my camera!

Happy Valentines day and Happy birthday!

We have been having a crazy week, but it has been so fun! Ella went to her first Valentines party and even took treats to exchange! Mike's parents are here visiting, so we have been taking them around this large place we call home and last, today is Mikes Birthday! Horray!!

Here is Ella on her way to her first V-day party!



This is our guided tram tour to see the back lots of NASA. It was really amazing to see everything in person! She did so great and just cooed all along the way!

She got a little bored with the tram tour and decided to take a little rest!

Here is Ella this morning on our way to church for Mikes Birthday! Mikes Aunty Jane gave her this new little dress, it is so cute I wish you could see all the little details!

Any reason to celebrate

Feb 6 was national wear red week, so I thought that for the family I would try to go all out and make it a day to celebrate awareness for womens heart disease. After serving a mission in Spain where everyday is a holiday of some sort I'm always on the look out for a reason to celebrate. We celebrated by not only wearing red, but also eating red foods (spagetti, strawberry jello gigglers, fruit punch and Mike's favorite treat swedish fish) and painting our nails red . We are doing the 12 days of Valentines Day so every day til the 14 there is a present in our "mail box of love". Today Mike and Ella both got red presents to open. Ella got a head band, Mike some Pj's. Ella's new red head band is far too big, but still pretty cute! Happy red day!

Happy 3 months Elleah! These past three months have been the very best of our lives as we have tried to start our new family! We have been amazed at how this little girl's spirit is so strong. We know she has so much of her birth parents traits in her, and for that we are grateful to you two amazing people. She is a strong HAPPY little girl, who has a huge smile on her face every time she wakes up. She is very strong willed and like my grandpa James says if you get her pointed in the right direction we won't have to worry about her...she'll be too stubborn to go any other direction! We love her and are grateful for her everyday! Thank you so much!

I love that little dimple in her cheek..when she laughs hard it comes out even more!