Christmas Card/Random Pictures

First, I wanted to share a copy of our very first family Christmas card. We were so happy with how it turned out...our photographer did such a great job with the photos and designing the card!

Just thought I would post some cute pictures of Miss Ella from the past week too. We didn't do much last week, but enjoyed hanging out together at the house. This girl is all over the place and getting so brave! She is pulling up on things, turning around, and just letting go. Doesn't think twice about it! She also got her 5th tooth, which makes 2 on the bottom and 3 on the top. The 6th is visible too. I'll post a pic when I get a good one.

Attacking the camera! :)


She's getting pretty good at walking with her push toy.


Sitting by the Christmas tree...




Ella has been trying to feed herself for a while now, so tonight I let her grab the spoon and give it a go. As you can see, she has a ways to go, but man did she have a good time trying! :) She squealed and clapped the whole time. What a mess!!!

As for me, I have stayed busy reading the second book in the Twilight series, New Moon. (They are all SO long!) It is so good! I am going to finish it tonight and start the next one tomorrow. I also saw the movie again on Sunday with some friends that I taught with last year. I liked it a lot better the second time around. It is crazy how these books draw you in and make you want to read more! If you have thought about reading it...DO IT!

Hope everyone has a fabulous week!

Catching Up

Wow! We have been so busy lately. I feel like I have been lacking in my blogs! Miss Ella has been a little under the weather this week. She just cut her 4th tooth, so now she has her two top and two bottom teeth. Along with all of this excitement came one fussy little girl and some interesting diapers. (Sorry...I had to be honest!) It really looks like a lot of her teeth want to make their debuts very soon. I am not seeing an end to this in our near future. I will post a picture when I can get all the pearly whites in it.

This past weekend we had our family pictures taken at the Arboretum. Let me tell you, I was completely worn out after that hour and a half session! Our photographer was AWESOME and the setting was beautiful, it was our 7 1/2 month old that wasn't really into the whole posing thing. She did great during her candid shots though where she could just crawl around and be free, but as far as a good family pic, we just kept our fingers crossed that at least one came out where we were all looking at the camera. I guess we can't expect too much from a wiggly, independent baby like her! You can check out a few of our proofs on my photographer friend's blog at http://jallisonandrews.blogspot.com/. The girl who took our pictures is a friend of mine that I taught with my first year, and now she is a full time photographer as well as a designer of invitations, announcements, cards, etc. She is extremely creative, so check out her blog which has a link to her websites.

Lastly, I had to share a short video of Ella Grace clapping. I have been saying "Yay!" and clapping when she does something and she picked it up so fast. She will usually crawl and then sit up and clap and then repeat this over and over. It's pretty cute!

Hope everyone is having a good week!