Hair

Ella is starting to get more and more hair. We took these after her bath this morning! Her hair seems to have some curl to it we shall see if it lasts! If you make the first picture bigger and zoom in on it you can see her teeth!

She is eating her hands because this is what she does after I put lotion all over her she licks it off! It can't taste that good but she does it every day she eventually tries to get it off her arms too!

Couldn't resist taking one more once she was dressed!




These I took the other day because I loved how the sunlight was coming through the window onto her hair! It made it look really red!




This is her favorite spot to sit! Every picture I have taken lately she has been there!

60th Wedding Anniversary

On the 15th my grandparents celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary! Last weekend my mom's family had a party for them in their honor! Even though we weren't there I still wanted to post it so it can be in my blog book when I print it because it is such an amazing milestone! It looks like they had a great time! Wish we could of been there I miss my grandma's hugs and teasing my grandpa nonstop! Love you guys!

All my cousins and spouses and one of the four great grand kids! Those who weren't there was us, my brother Jared and his wife Celyn, and my niece Jocelyn who live in Texas, my cousin Brent and his wife Emily who live in London, and my cousin Jennifer who lives in Atlanta!

I am guessing they had peach pie since this is what my sister put on her blog! My grandma makes the best pies! I really want some!

10 Months!

Our Ella Bella turned 10 months old today! I cannot believe she will be 1 in only two short months! She is such a joy in our lives and makes us laugh everyday! She is very hard to get a picture of as well! Her new favorite thing is standing to everything! She especially loves the windows in our new house because they are less then a foot off the ground so she can look outside all day long and splutter to herself about it!

She thought it was pretty funny that I couldn't get her picture!

She loves her dad so much she lights up when he walks in the door at night and won't come back to me after he gets home!

She also will not stay out of the kitchen she prefers it over anything! She loves to go and check herself out in the oven! I trick her to get her to come back to her toys with my phone, works like a charm! She will eventually catch on when she continues to not get the phone when she comes back!

She must have just woke up from her nap when I took these she has major bed head!

Pampering Party

Wednesday night we had a surprise pampering party for two girls who are having babies in the next few weeks! It was a lot of fun, we didn't start until 8:30 so all kids were in bed and husbands were studying! We all came in our pajamas and enjoyed foot scrubs, nail painting, facials, good food, friends, and ten minute massages by one of the massage therapists in our group! There was a movie on in the background which no one watched! It was such a fun night and before we knew it, it was after midnight!

Ashley enjoying her massage, we surprised her really well!

Happenings

We have been busy lately doing lots of fun things and moving (not as much fun)! These are in no particular order...

She is cracking herself up. She had just thrown up all her dinner, wish I was that happy after I threw up! We decided she throws up when she has a tooth coming in.
The Saturday before Labor Day we drove down to Jackson, MS for the day. Andrew had seen this place on the Travel Channel as having the best Gyros so we went down and ate and found some outlets to browse. He loved his food, I had a chicken gyro and it was amazing! I would recommend it if you are ever in Jackson.

We went to the Zoo again with some friends! Ella is starting to notice the animals more and had plenty to splutter about as we walked around.

I made this chicken dish a few weeks ago. I took the picture for my mom to show her I eat my veggies :) It was really good, it had 9 or 10 different fresh vegetables in it and made enough Andrew took it for lunch for two days! We also made this yummy bread sticks to go with it!

Just a picture of Ella she prefers to sleep on top of her blankets.

A few weeks ago we went to Jones Orchard to pick peaches. It was so hot but we had some fun picking.

She really was only happy when we took this picture she just wanted out of the stroller!
The peaches were so good and we ended up with 7 quarts and 7 pints after they were canned!

Labor Day at the Lake

We spent Labor Day at Lake Sardis with some friends! We wading and played in the lake and sand and followed it up by grilling some yummy burgers! Most everyone went back to the lake after but we left so Ella could have a nap! It was perfect weather!

The wind was blowing

She was just thrilled to be there. She thought it was the ocean again, she eventually warmed up to it!

24th of July

For the 24th of July we went to the parade and enjoyed seeing all the floats! We had a lot of fun!

Playing games before it started!

Ella and Aunt Sarah

cAliFoRnIa

This is long but it is more for my journaling then anything!

After Kamas we had one day home again and then we headed for Anaheim. We left Saturday July 10th and drove to St. George and stayed the night then headed to California the next morning. Once we arrived to California we headed to Knotts Berry Farm first to enjoy the chicken dinner which my family loves! Then we rested the rest of the night at our hotel and played games.

Of course no trip to the beach is complete without a pedicure first! We all went before we left for my mom's birthday!

Our first day (Monday) we headed to Disneyland for the first half of the day. We got there about 8 and stayed until 1! It was starting to get crowded before we left and we had done half the park by then which was nice!

Ella can't sit normal it is always legs in the air!

We then headed to Newport Beach for the rest of the day, and no trip to Newport is complete without lunch at Crab Cooker! After we ate we walked over to the beach. We were hoping to swim and boogie board but it was so cold and windy that only the guys wanted to get in!

Waiting for our table at Crab Cooker

Another tradition my family has is to ride the ferry over to Balboa Island and get a Balboa bar or chocolate dipped frozen banana!

The first half of our group on Splash Mountain

And the other half

Newport Beach

It was so windy that on our ferry ride to Balboa there was about 15 sailboats loving the wind it was pretty cool to see!

Tuesday we headed back to Disneyland but we stayed the entire day! We did Magic Morning so we got in at 7 before they opened and stayed until midnight! It was a long day but we had so much fun!

It happened to be the Major League Baseball All-Star game in Anaheim that day and they were broadcasting from Main Street in Disneyland. This is the trophy I guess for the game!

Can't Imagine why she was so worn out!

My little brother Spencer and Ella

After the Toy Story ride, Ella loved this ride

Watching the Pixar Parade while we were waiting to eat dinner

That morning we walked in since we got in before everyone else we were able to walk up and get our pictures with Mickey and not wait in a line it was the best way to do it!

Watching the World of Color. About 5 min after this she was sound asleep!

Riding the car ride which is hard to do, the pedals are really hard to push! A great calf work out!

This year California Adventure has a new show at night called the World of Color. It is on the Pier, it is a show totally of water and color. It was amazing and worth buying fast passes for!

Wednesday we went back to Disneyland. When we first got there we got to ride this awesome fire truck down Main Street to the Castle! It was fun everybody would wave at us!

On the Fire Truck

I was so excited that we finally found Minnie Mouse since Ella was wearing her Minnie dress and shoes! We were leaving to go back to the hotel for a couple hours for a nap and we spotted her coming out so we ran over and didn't have to wait in line! She was so cute with Ella and loved her dress and I loved that she no longer had to wear the dress!

In New Orleans Square! A little story about all the green shirts. This day was my littlest sister Sarah's 13th birthday and her favorite color in lime green so everyone brought a green shirt to wear that day except us! So after lunch Andrew found a shop with these Disneyland shirts in them and three shades of green to pick from so we bought them to match everyone else! It ended up being really nice because we could see each other in a crowd we just had to look for the green!

Dumbo!

For Sarah's birthday lunch we decided to introduce my family to the Blue Bayou inside the Pirates of the Caribbean, a tradition Andrew and I have every time we go there. We all had the Monte Cristo sandwiches which are so amazing!

They gave Ella this hat which stayed on only for the picture!

She has a thing for falling asleep during loud firework shows

Thursday we took a day off from Disneyland. My dad has a friend with a condo in Laguna Beach and they just happened to be there at the same time so we headed to the Beach again hoping for a better day! The day was awesome! They live right off the beach and have a private beach which makes it a lot better!

All ready for the beach!

The guys played so hard in the ocean they were so beat that night and Andrew and Brent were burned really bad! Spray on sunscreen doesn't work for Andrew!

Trying to get her to take a nap she was beat! Once again legs in the air!

Ella hated the water! She wasn't sure about the sand at first but she got used to the idea!

We walked over to this old castle and ruins on the beach it was amazing!

After dinner that night we headed back down to the beach for the sunset! It was beautiful and such a pleasant evening! I could definitely do that every night!

The castle we saw is off in the distance

After the beach we jumped into their pool which Ella liked a lot better cause she could sit in the floaty and water wasn't crashing on her!

After a long day at the beach she fell asleep on the way back to the hotel and managed to pull both her feet up and rest one on each of our arms!

On the drive back we stopped at the Newport Beach temple and our photographer (my little brother Spencer) said this is the best he could do!

Friday we headed back to Disneyland again, but ended up spending most of our day in California Adventure!

Ella on the "L" outside California Adventure

Caramel Apples so yummy!

Inside the Innoventions they found Rock Band!

Saturday we packed our cars up and headed over to Downtown Disney to do a little shopping! Some of us went back into Disneyland where we found out it was the 55th Anniversary that very day! (That explains the crowds!). We were there a couple hours and then headed on our way home! Driving through Primm, Nevada (the NV and CA border) we can't help but stop at the outlets! We got some amazing deals like two swimsuits for Ella next summer at Gymboree for $3 each! We then ate dinner in Vegas and drove on to St. George getting in at 1 am to sleep for the night! We woke up Sunday and went to church and then headed on home! We had so much fun we weren't ready to come home! We could have gone another week!