We went to the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs with the fam. The top was above 14,ooo ft. It was quite the drive but we had a good time.

On memorial day we went to the worlds tallest suspension bridge. It is in Canon City Colorado and it is just over 1000 ft above the Arkansas river. It was a fun day, but I don't recommend walking across the bridge when it is windy.....IT MOVES!! Kind of creepy. But we had a good time and it was pretty incredible to look at and wonder how in the world it was built. Enjoy!!

Here a just a few pictures of Ella. kind of random but since I haven't posted anything for a while i thought I better get on it. Enjoy!

This was taken after she helped her dad in the garage. She was black everywhere. My bathtub was proof of that. But she loved every minute of it, as did i since I got a break!!

She loves sitting in my lawn chair. Even when I put hers out, she still would rather sit in mine.

Ella takes after her mom and has a true love for clothes. If she finds any piece of clothing laying within her reach she will put it on and wear it around the house. She was so excited when she found her dads work shirt.

One tired baby!!

Grandma came and visited us for about a week in may. We had so much fun and didn't want her to go home. hopefully she will see this picture and decided that it is time for another visit!!

WE MOVED...

Yes, we are no longer in the state of Idaho. Around the beginning of March Wayne had a job interview in Pueblo West Colorado. Needless to say he was offered the job, so we picked up and moved. We did all of this in about three weeks time. He closed the shop, packed up his tools and we hit the road for Colorado. We were both so busy that for the two weeks prior to the move I don't think we really saw all that much of eachother. Yeah, stressful to move a shop and house in three weeks. I don't recommend it. Wayne now works for Elite Diesel Engineering here in Pueblo West, and he loves it. I still am dealing with paperwork from the shop, but that is coming to an end rather quickly. Ella just had her birthday and she is really keeping us on our toes. She has been walking for a while, which means she can get into more things a lot faster than when she was crawling. Packing and unpacking with her was quite a challenge. We hope you are all doing well and here are some pictures.

This is our house in Colorado. Our landlord built it, tried to sell and couldn't so he decided to make it a rental. We never thought we would be so lucky as to move into a brand new house. As you can see we don't have much of a yard yet, but it is progress.

Ella got her first horse. It even plays music that she will dance to. We were looking at a few other toys for her birthday but decided that we couldn't pass up the pink pony.

Ella has been cutting teeth lately....here is the before shot of her without tylenol.

And here she is once it kicked in.

This year was Ella's first Easter. Everything on the couch is for her, except of course the legos. The Easter bunny left those for Wayne. Pretty sure that Ella stuck almost every piece in her mouth before her dad got a chance to build the car.

Here are a few pictures from our trip to Oregon. We had such a good time, until of course the weather turned cold. I will do another post soon, sorry I am so behind. Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Here are just a few funny pictures of Ella. When she eats any kind of cereal, she takes a handful and attempts to shove them all in her mouth at once. You might think that the choking that comes after would help her to realize that maybe smaller bites would be a good thing, but it doesn't. The more she can get in the better. A couple sundays ago, I was at church alone with ella. The only way to keep her quiet was to feed her goldfish crackers. I was unaware that she was keeping them all in her mouth....no swallowing involved.....I realized this about 10 crackers into it. She then decided to open her mouth and let some fall out. It was such a mess. When I went home after the first hour I noticed that I had dry cracker "stuff" on my neck. Yeah, so not good.

I know this picture looks bad, but I moved her right after I took a couple of pictures :) I had gone to check on her before I went to bed and this is what I found. She gets her sleeping habits from her dad, but I needed to prove it. Now, there is no denying!! And, she didn't even blink when I took the pictures. She was out cold.

Here are some fun pictures of Ella...Enjoy!

The licorice trick worked again. And as you can she is still on the skinny side and we can barely keep her pants around her waist.

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Gibb for the new kitchen. Maybe I will learn to cook even if my mom won't. :)

Can you guess who did the hair? Mom or Dad....I wonder.

Ella likes her free time but it only lasts until mom puts on the lotion and then comes the diaper.

Peek a Boo


TV time with Dad



Yes, that is Wayne's Bob the Builder pillow case you see in the background.

I couldn't resist posting this picture. We love the dress from cousin Shona and the fact that the dresser is doing the supporting is great. I was actually able to take some cute pictures of her standing somewhat alone.

On Christmas Day we went to the Yates family cabin down by Price Utah. We had to snowmobile in and it was an adventure. Once we got in and warmed up it was really fun. Every time we would take Ella on the snowmobile she was fall asleep, which was nice....until we would stop and she would start to cry. She looked a lot like the little boy in "The Christmas Story" that wears the snowsuit and can't hardly move once it is on. Yeah, she looked pretty cute if you ask me. In some of the pictures you can see that Ella is playing with a little jingle ball tree ornament. Within thirty seconds she had the whole thing in her mouth. It was about 1 1/2 in. in diameter. She could almost close her mouth entirely so the the little string would be the only thing haning out of her lips. Yeah, it was really funny.

We were in Kingston Utah with Wayne's family for Christmas this year. Here are some pictures from Christmas morning.

Shelby didn't bring bibs for Reed at Thanksgiving so she had to borrow one of Ella's. Those are little pink horses. Kirk did not appreciate it.

These pics were taken in Pendleton on our way to my parents house for Thanksgiving. She started getting fussy so Wayne decided to give her a piece of licorice. She had it all over her self, all the way down to her toes and her car seat is now forever red in a few spots. BUT....she stopped crying until I took her into Wendy's to clean her up. Yeah, we got a few strange looks.

This is the binkie that Wayne spent $14.00 on to get for Ella. The funny part about it is that she doesn't even really like it that much. Funny how thinks work out :))