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 :))

For Halloween this year Wayne and I took Ella to Salt Lake for a couple family parties, so we dressed her up and went trick or treating. She was a Pea Pod and she looked very cute. Wayne thought it was worthless to actually take her to any houses, so we went and visisted some family to show them her costume. This first picture might disturb some people, but it was pretty funny to us. Wayne has an uncle who is a mortician and he has a coffin that he uses on Halloween. Uncle Blake lies in the coffin with the bowl of candy and when the children reach in he says boo and scares the *&^^&% out of them!! Ella is too young to be scared so we were able to get a good picture. I must admit it is a little morbid to be handing your baby to someone in a coffin. Overall it was a fun Halloween and I am glad that we actually were able to do something fun with Ella.

She was not a big fan of the hood. It cut off most of her face and she did not appreciate the restriction.

We took Ella out 4-wheeling in the mud for the first time. She did pretty well which made Wayne smile. When Wayne backed into the river to "wash" the truck he went a little too far and water spilled into the back seat and covered the floor. He had his cousins with him and they all screamed at the same time, opened the doors and water poured out of the back seat. I was happily sitting in my 4-runner with the heater on and smiling since my feet were still dry. It was really fun and I made Wayne's day by agreeing that I would go as long as I could take my car and do the driving. This next little part is for Mikey. There were two different places that my Toyota made it that a duramax didn't or it took multiple tries, were as I made it up the first time.

That is right...I drove the truck while we were out playing in the mud. It is fun to drive something when I know I won't get stuck. Even if I did I am sure Wayne would enjoy trying to get it un-stuck!!

Just a few fun pictures from our trip to Boise. Ella and I were there for about ten days helping Shelby out with the baby. Mostly we tried to occupy Madison. It was a really fun time and I am so happy that I finally have a nephew!! Hope you like the pictures.

Just some cute pics that I thought you all might enjoy. As you can see Wayne and I both do a good job avoiding the camera! I hope you like the pictures and I will post again soon.

Yeah, she got pretty messy.

We gave Ella rice cereal for the first time and she did pretty well. In the end she had more fun trying to feed herself and suck on the spoon then actually eating the cereal.

I usually think these bows are too big, but I love this one. And I figure I should make her wear them for as long as she will until she pulls them off once their on.

It is getting a little chilly in Rexburg. We had to bust out the winter hat and coat, because it was snowing outside....in October!!