Ella at 18 months

24.9 pounds 31.5 inches

Words that Ella is saying...

Toes

Kaiya (she says Kaiya really clear now)

Go away (one of her favorite sayings...don't know where she learned this...hmm)

Mommy

Daddy

Papa

Oh oh (says this whenever she spills something or knows she did something bad)

No

Water (wa-wa)

Doggy

Meow (whenever she sees a cat she says MEEE OWWW)

Owie

Casey

Stacey

Nice

Baby

Ball

Cracker

Heidi (yes, she calls me Heidi sometimes)
Cheese

Nose (she shows us her nose by putting her finger UP her nose)

Eye

Hot

Binki

Blankie

Bye Bye

Hi

Nice

Feet

This

Fish (ish)

Duck

Shoes

pretty

na night - when she is tired and wants to go to bed she tells me.

She loves to dance. When the music is on she is grooving. Sometimes her dancing is turning around in circles until she falls down. She really has some good moves though.

Ella loves to pull hair...especially if its Kaiya's. For some reason Kaiya hasn't learned to not flaunt her hair in front of Ella.

Sing - Just recently every time she puts on a hat or holds something like a wand or the roll of foil she starts to sing (la la words). It is always the same song and its so fun to hear.

Climb - I have to watch her 24/7 because she is constantly trying to climb on and over everything. She wants to always be on the highest part of the house she can find.

Feed herself - Very Ms. Independent and wants to feed herself with the spoon. She loves big people cups with no lid.

Lots of funny faces - She goes from her cheese face to her muggin face in the moment of seconds.

Loves taking pictures - I caught her the other day with my phone up in the air thinking she was taking a picture of herself. She says "cheese" ..... I almost died of laughter.

Laugh, tickle - She loves to laugh and she loves being tickled and tickling her family.

Run circles around the kitchen - She will run laps around the kitchen and the family room. I think the most she has done at once is at least 15.

Loves dogs !!!...she loves to hug and squeeze and love on pinkie

Babies - Whenever she sees a baby she has to touch and hug them.

She likes spicy food, salt and vinegar chips, jalapeno chips, mustard, lots of flavors, fish.

Just last week she started to undress herself. First it was figuring out how to take off her shirt then her pants and once her pants were off she of course had to take off the diaper.

She loves smelling flowers. Whether its in a book, on a shirt or flowers outside or on the table...she will smell them.

She gives the biggest tightest hugs and she loves to gives kisses. I get at least 5 of each every day.

2 years down...a lot more to go

Our wedding anniversary was Sept 15th. We decided we would keep with the tradition and go to breakfast at the place where we ate with our families the morning before we got married. Its a little bakery in Black Diamond and its delicious! We dropped Ella off to my mom and went to celebrate.

After we ate we picked up Ella and went to the fair. This is also a tradition. After we got married and went on our honeymoon we stopped at the fair on the way home so the fair now reminds me of being newly married. I am not sure if its because we went to Disneyland, Universal Studios, Arizona, Silverwood, the zoo etc this year but I was a little 'faired' out. Ella enjoyed seeing the animals, it was such a beautiful day out and it was wonderful spending the day together.

The plan was for Cirdan and I to go to dinner but after the breakfast, a big burger, fries and ice cream that we ate our tummies weren't feeling to great. We came home, hung out and watched shows on our DVR. I am so thankful that Cirdan and I were married 2 years ago. I will never forget the day that we met in the singles ward 4 1/2 years ago (thanks to my cousin JJ). Cirdan's a wonderful father and I am so thankful for all that he does for me and our family.

Our marriage has been exciting and busy these past 2 years. We were talking about all the stuff that has happened. Being pregnant with Ella, having a baby, Kaiya being a kindergartner and now in 2nd grade, getting laid off from our jobs, starting our own company, going through court stuff with Ava and now being able to see her and the vacations we have been able to take. So thankful for it all.

Happy Birthday Amy

We celebrated Amy's birthday over at my parents house and ate scones and cake. YUM. It was fun to visit everyone. Baby Emma is growing up so fast and every time we see her she changes. Ella enjoyed playing with Casey and Kaiya got a drum lesson from Papa. They forgot to buy candles so she got 1 big one. Hope you had a wonderful birthday Amy!

My mom wanted a nice picture of the grand kids. What do you think?

School has begun

Kaiya was reluctant to start school this year. She had fun playing during the summer and didn't want to have to go back to the 830-3 schedule. I remember being so nervous for the 1st day of school but Kaiya wasn't nervous at all. I'm glad that she is more outgoing.
I told Kaiya that she could have whatever she wanted for breakfast on the 1st day of school. I mentioned waffles, pancakes, toast...anything she wanted and she chose bacon and a pear (just recently she has had a thing for bacon)




She was really excited to have found a pink Seahawks bag for school. The one thing she was looking forward to was using her new bag.




Kaiya was lucky to have her friend from last year sitting next to her. When I turned to leave I looked back and noticed that Kaiya and her friend already chatting away.

Cirdan had the camera waiting when she walked out of her class when school was over. I think she was kind of embarrassed :)

Emma's Blessing

Baby Emma was blessed a couple weekends ago. Nathan gave a beautiful blessing. Afterwards we were going to meet at the gazebo across from my Grandma's but it decided to have a down pour of rain so we all met at Gramee's house for some food and cake.




All of these little munchkins are within 2 months apart from eachother. It was hard to try to get a picture with all of them trying to get away.




Since Amy's birthday was that following week and her parents and sister's family was in town we sang happy birthday to her.

They REALLY do love eachother...