Since it is Ella's first Christmas, she got to have her own personalized tree topper.  She helped make this silver star that is decorated with snowflakes and says "Ella's 1st Christmas" on it. 

Ella was a very busy girl on Christmas Eve - she decided to do a whole lotta growing up all in one day.  She started the morning off by saying "da-da"!  (And hasn't stopped since - it's nonstop da-da from this girl!)  Then later that evening while we where at cousin Dave and Cindy's house, she decided to start crawling and pulling herself up to stand!  She is quite the little show off since she decided to do this while the entire family was watching!  Even though the weather was a bit scary, we were lucky enough to be with family and Ella was able to meet, Dave, Cindy, Uncle Don, Aunt Pat, Uncle Kirk, Aunt Lisa, Uncle Gordon, cousins Chris, Kassie, Abbie, Dalton and Dylan.  Ella, just like Bob and I, were so happy to see everyone - it just needs to be more often!  We had a great night with great food, drinks and family, (Dave & Cindy it was delicious!) and can't wait to see everyone in the summer when all of this snow is gone!