It's Christmas Time!!!

Bob in one of the small snow drifts that Nebraska had at Christmas.  We defiantly had a white Christmas this year!  He was scheduled to leave on the the 26th for Pasadena to work the Rose Bowl and National Championship games.  Instead of being in sunny California, he spent 2 more glorious days in Nebraska scooping and snowblowing!

Ella loved playing with the doggies Tagg and Maggie while we were in Nebraska for Christmas!  Then she found a stuffed puppy that was more her size to play with.

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!

So sleepy...all this playing and present opening really wears a girl out! 

I'll just take a quick little nap before I start playing again.

I'm not going to be the youngest much longer!  My new cousin will be born on January 11th and I can't wait!  I already like to play with him while he is in Aunt Meg's tummy.  At Thanksgiving he was kicking me while I sat on her lap, so I thought for Christmas that I would just sit right on top of him!  See ya soon buddy!

Playing with cousin Carson

More presents and more presents and more presents and.....

Hi Santa, are my presents ready yet?  I visited Santa at the mall, he was so nice. 

It was my nap time, so as soon as I sat in his cuddly lap I just wanted to go to sleep! 

Early Christmas presents!  I stopped over to see my favorite sitter, "Aunt Judy" and she had new books for me!  "Aunt Judy and "Uncle Gary" live two houses down from us and spoil me rotten!  I love when "Aunt Judy" babysits me, we play lots of game, read books and sing songs!  Mom and Dad love it, because I sleep without making a peep all night long!

Playing Pretty!

I decided to get decked out in my super fancy bow from my Aunt Pat. 

Thank you Aunt Pat, I love girly stuff!

Our 1 Year Anniversary!!!

Our First Anniversary!  We can't believe that we are not newlyweds anymore!  It sure has been a whirlwind year, the time has flown by.  Bob planned a surprise weekend getaway for us.  We need to give a special thank you to Aunt Megs and also to Uncle Ben's mom, Kathy for watching Ella for us.  We also need to thank Megan for our beautiful wedding cake.  It survived the entire year in the freezer and was just as delicious as we remembered.  We had a great anniversary and a darn good cake fight to top it off!  

Practicing for Christmas!

A present for me?!?!  Yummy!

Playful Little Peanut!

Ella teaching mommy and daddy the proper way to make "raspberry" sounds. We have nothing on her, she is the master!

Playing with Mommy & Daddy, what a sweet little girl! Ella loves to make you smile!

Working On My Thunder Thighs!

Dinner time! Yummy!