Ketchup

Well my blog feels a bit neglected so I thought I would give it some attention! To Ketchup with the last month here is what has been going on.

We went to Reese's baby blessing, unfortunately I didn't get a picture of Reese in her beautiful dress.

This is Ella's Grandpa Ed and Grandma Lisa with their kids Tyler, Emerson (holding Ella) and Mackenzie.

Ella had a few firsts this past month!

She holds her head up very steady!

She reaches for toys...........

She swims....... and did not enjoy it!

Ella has found her thumb which you see here she is attacking it quite vigorously. She prefers the open hand method and will usually occupy her other hand by grabbing her ear or a tuft of hair.

I just thought these were a few cute pictures!

This is Grandma April.........

and Grandma Cheri......

and Grandma Lisa!

And the final news is that I went to Wicked with Robert......

and a few friends:)

I went with Robert, Dondra, Pam Mofford, Sam Buntin, Doris Mofford, and Trisha French. It was so fun we all loved it of course. It might be deemed my new favorite musical but for the present that place is reserved for "The Sound of Music".

Ella over the ages....

So I haven't been very good about posting Ella at each month milestone so I will do so now....

4 months old, my little chunky monkey!

Ella at 3 months, she started to grab objects and was holding her head up pretty good but we were still calling her "Bobble Head Ella".

2 months old, Ella first knowingly smiled at 2 months (although she didn't do it for the camera until 3 months old).

1 month old, just a lump on a log....

Camping Trip

So my brother Tracy got this awesome new 5th wheel so we decided to go camping. You can see my dads much older 5th wheel there in the background, that is where Ella and I stayed.

This is how Ella spent most of her camping experience. She absolutely LOVED being outside!

Sadly Robert could only come up for a weekend but we got to get out and go on walks and have a little fun with daddy before he had to go back to school and work.

I took my sisters kids crawdad fishing we only did it once because it was a little hard with an infant strapped to your chest.

Ty loved playing in the water!


Dallin was pretty diligent in searching out the little critters an he was eventually rewarded.

He found and caught a dead crawdad, turns out the dead ones are the easiest to catch.


There was pond there where we would go and feed the fish and ducks they even have an island just for the ducks.

Although the ducks don't really hang out there much. There were a couple of ducks there the day we visited.

We played at the pool a lot, it was pretty hot there in the middle of the day. These are my brother Tracy's kids and my sister Dondra's kids too.

I didn't put Ella in the pool since it is a public pool and she hasn't been vaccinated yet but we enjoyed walking around the shallow end.

Of course in a pool like this you must always watch out for the sharks.

oh wait......that's just Carson......anyway here is Ella soaking up the shade in her summer suit.

gotta love the shoes!

My friend Pam even came up for a visit we are enjoying s'mores with my niece Lauren.

Well that was our camping trip. I probably won't do that again anytime soon. It was kind of difficult with an infant, maybe I will try again when she is a little older.

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!!