Houston Children's Museum

We went with Aunt Marisa, Mason and Max to visit the Houston Children's Museum. What a fabulously cool place! Ella cried when we were leaving the Tot Spot. She was very entertained. We took lots of pictures, but we used Gram and Pop's camera and then forgot to upload the photos. Here's one I took with my phone after we got done painting our faces! What a cute kitty she makes!

New Hat and Sweater

Here's a quick camera phone shot of the beautiful hat and sweater Granny knitted for Ella for Christmas. She looks SO adorable in them! Nice work Granny!

Christmas at Granny and Popo's

She loved opening her gifts! She had already had lots of practice from her 1st birthday party a couple of weeks prior. She especially loved the toy Aunt Michelle, Uncle Spencer and Parker gave her. Press the button, music would start and the balls would pop up, circle back around and pop back up. She had a blast with this toy!

Ella's 1st Birthday!!

YAY!! My baby girl turns 1! It's so hard to believe that it's already been a year. She has changed and grown so much over the past 12 months I can hardly believe looking back at pictures that she's the same little girl that we met for the first time on December 11th 2006.

We had to go big for her 1st birthday party, so we had tons of family and friends join us in celebrating her. What a blast it was!!

Holiday Decorating

I was attempting to get a good photo for the holiday cards. I thought it would be really neat to get Ella's first experience with lights on camera and although they were cute, we didn't end up using any of them for the card.

Helping Granny

Ella thought she could help find what Granny was looking for in the pantry....

Baby Lauren's Shower

We drove into Houston to help throw the baby shower for Baby Lauren and Shelly. We are so excited to meet her soon! She is due on Ella's birthday. Ella was a pretty good sport as she napped during the bulk of the shower. She made it up in time to say hello to everyone and hang out with Casey for a while.

11 Months Old!

11 month pic's in the rocking chair

Uncle Trey came into town to help me rip up the old carpet and lay new tile in the living room while Kevin was working. Aunt Michelle was nice enough to entertain Miss Ella for hours and hours that Saturday! We love it and we're finally rid of that yucky carpet! Here's the before and after....

Exploring the Front Yard

It was a great evening to be exploring the grass and leaves. Ella crawled all over the yard and found all sorts of interesting things to explore.

Halloween

Still too young to go trick or treating, but we can still dress up a little for a photo op! She was very grumpy and was not happy with me trying to keep her in one place for too long.

Family Time

So the pictures aren't the clearest, but they're still cute! Mama and Papa giving Miss Ella a bath together. She just thinks it's the funniest thing to have the wash rag on her head!

Great Grandparent's Anniversary

Ella and I drove to San Antonio to celebrate Great Grandma Fleming's 80th birthday and their 60th wedding anniversary at Aunt Michelle's. Ella had fun with Uncle Chris, Aunt Heather and seeing her big ol' cousin Shane again.

Girl Smiley

Still only those 2 teethers!

Cutest Girl in the World

I couldn't help posting this. It's one of my favorite pic's of her~

Out on the Lake!

Brandon went and rented a boat and we had an afternoon of fun in the sun! The kids (and Brandon) tubed for the first time and loved it. That evening Papa joined us and we made dinner and celebrated Brandon's birthday before the Richter's headed back to Colorado.

Lazy Morning

We woke up and and had a lazy morning hanging out and swimming.

Lake Travis

The Richter Family came into town from Colorado and rented a fabulous house on Lake Travis. We had so much fun hanging out with Jill, Brandon, Morgan, Will and Emma. Aunt Deanna, Ella and I drove out to stay with them for a couple of nights and had a blast!