Ella's Blessing

Ella was blessed on June 28, 2009 it was a beautiful blessing and we were so glad to have our family and friends there to share it with. Ella did wonderful and slept though the whole thing! Thank you to all those who came to support us!

Here she is all decked out in white!

It was so hot that day I think she hated being in this dress.

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Ella's BIG Premiere!!!

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Robert's cousin Selena is an awesome photographer but she lives in Utah so we had to wait for her to make a visit so we could get Ella's pictures done. Well she finally came! We were able to get Ella's new born pictures done a couple of weeks ago and they were worth the wait! I am so in love with these pictures and the people who are in them!

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I think this picture safely illustrates just how made Ella was that we did this to her!

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I LOVE this picture!!

Best Buds

So right after I found out I was pregnant my friend (and co-worker at the time) Brittany Nelson found out she was pregnant. We were even more excited to find out that we were both going to have girls and decided that Brooklee and Ella would be friends! Here are there first pictures together and I hope there will be many more over the years!


They were actually really good for the photo shoot....

that is until we took their pasies away!

Brooklee kept trying to find SOMETHING to suck but I think we got some cute shots in!

Cousin's!!!

After I announced that I was pregnant my sister-in-law (Robert's sister) announced that she was pregnant! Although, it did take a little of my thunder I didn't mind because I was so glad that my baby would have a cousin her age. As many of you know I am the youngest of my family so Ella had little chance of having a cousin to play with, not to mention she was old new since she was grandchild #17 on my side. So it seemed Ella's only chance at fame seemed to lay with the Smith side where she slid in just barely as grandchild #2 and the 1st girl grandchild. We recently found out that my sister is pregnant so it looks like the Abbott side isn't as bleak as I thought.

Baby Ella and Baby Reese just two weeks apart. Look how much bigger Ella is!

Although it appears that Reese is the only one not cooperating Ella was just as terrible, she was just taking a breath as the picture was taken.

And here we are the happy little family!

I GRADUATED!!!!

Well with the excitement of having a baby I guess I forgot to tell everyone that I did indeed graduate as planned. I finished my student teaching on May 1st and finished my last class on May 6th. Little did I know just how busy I would be the following week. I went to ASU for the last time on May 12th to receive my certification to teach, on May 13th I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, and on May 14th I graduated, although, sadly I was unable to attend as I was in the hospital. Luckily, we thought this might happen since my due date was May 14th so we borrowed a cap and gown from my brother-in-law and took some pregnant graduation pictures the Sunday before the busy week.

I am kind of glad that I didn't have to wear this TENT in the commencement! Plus I heard it was really hot that day and that wouldn't have been very fun on my due date!

And here is my wonderful husband who supported me throughout my time at ASU!

Our darling little girl!

Ella Cheri Smith was born Wednesday, May 13th 2009 at 3:38pm. Ella was 6lbs 9oz and 20in long. I was pregnant 39 weeks and 6 days. She was very kind to mommy by having a small head and an easy birth. She surprised us on Wed at 3:30am when I started having labor pains. My sister took me to the hospital since Robert had just gone to work. I was dilated to a 6 when we got to the hospital and then we were sent to labor and delivery. Robert got there just in time to see me get my epidural which slowed down my labor. I was at an 8 for about two hours when finally things started to get going again. I pushed for about 45min and she was out. I had a great nurse named Karen Harleen who pretty much delivered the baby.


Ella is minutes old in this piture

The happy family

Chillin' on the sofa

Ella's close up!

We are so excited to finally have Ella in our lives. She is has been a blessing in our home. It is hard to comprehend the amount of love you can have for your child. We can just sit and stare at for hours, she is so stinking cute! She has already managed to wrap her father around her tiny pinky.