My baby is 1!

One year ago yesterday the sweetest most beautiful baby girl was added to our family and what a delight it has been. It is so surreal that a year has passed but at the same time I feel as though she has been in my life forever, every mom out there knows exactly what I am talking about. I'll never forget when the doctor handed her to me and I gazed into those sparkling blue eyes I knew there was such thing as love at first sight. Ella as your mom I understood the responsibility and teaching becoming a mom entails, but I never anticipated what you would actually teach me! Happy Birthday my sweetest baby girl (well toddler now but you will always be my baby) you definitely got spoiled but you deserved every bit of it!

It was so fun to watch her destroy her cake that took me so many hours to make! It was totally worth it:)

My sisters, mom and Grandma

She was totally posing for the camera here, ha ha you just have to know her personality she is such a ham!

Here are some pictures from the photo shoot we had at the beginning of October. She was not in a very good mood but somehow Amanda managed to get some great shots!

On her Birthday we sent this picture into Good Things Utah. She was the only birthday that day and Reagan commented that she was "just the cutest with the cake dress and big smile". Although they accidentally put up my name instead of hers, oh well:)

This one is my favorite picture, I'm a fan of the serious ones!

Jarrett's favorite picture, ha ha I love when she makes this smile.

Today it was time to box up some of her clothes that she has grown out of and it was a little emotional going through her newborn clothes. I know, I know I'm a little attached to them but oh the memories I have! It's time to make room for more that's for sure:)

Disneyland

My parents took us to Disneyland last week and we had so much fun! We flew out from Vegas and went to the Disneyland and California park for 5 days. I hoped that with all that walking I would at least loose a pound or two but NOPE, oh well. Anyway it was so much fun and my Grandma Egley came too and was more than happy to watch Ella on the fast rides. My favorite rides were the storybook (old school) ones where Ella could just enjoy looking at everything she loved it's a small world Winnie the pooh and peter pan. We got to ride the rides over and over again because we had a handicap pass so we got to go on most of the major rides of the park. I'll never forget the fun memories we made on this trip, we just had so much fun!

She loved the plane ride, She just wanted to look out the window the whole time, the ear pressure didn't bother her a bit.

During October they decorate the park all Halloween and The Nightmare before Christmas, I loved it!

My mom just had to get a Tinkerbell costume. They had trick or treating one night and Ella and Ali dressed up for it.

My sister and her husband Danny came too for 1 day, I unfortunately didn't get any pictures with them it it:( I just got a bunch of funny ones like this!

My grandma and Ella just love each other, moments like this are priceless!

She loved meeting the princess's. She ran right up to Cinderella and gave her a hug!

We went straight to Delta from the Vegas airport to be at Jordon's farewell talk on Sunday morning. He gave the most amazing talk, I don't think there were many dry eyes in the audience. He has shown so much maturity in the last little while, I can't believe how much he's grown. He and Kris have become my brothers and I will be so sad to see him go. But I am so proud of him and I know he is in the right place, doing the right thing. It will be hard not to have him for a few years but luckily we can talk to him through letters and emails. I know Danielle will be with him right by his side probably more than ever, I hope he shares all his experiences with us.

Random things

Ok so I've been needing to do a post about Ella because she is WALKING!! Ok so it's old news to us because she started a month ago so now she's a pro and can practically run. I was a little in denial that my 10 month old was taking steps but there was no denying what she was doing and it is pretty exciting stuff, well to us anyway. She's also throwing stuff, she especially loves to throw my nicely folded clothes off of the ottoman so I have to be quick to put them away before she can get her hands on them. She's getting a little naughtiness to her that I can't help but laugh at, as hard as I try not to. She understands so much, it's hard for me to believe what a little 11 month old can retain but she really amazes me. She says "my babba" before putting it in her mouth taking a sip and then trying to put it in yours. She can wave bye and holds her finger up for number 1 which she'll be turning at the end of this month, I know I know it's hard to believe.

Anyway We've had some fun mini trips lately and while I won't go into detail, we had a lot of fun. Plus a picture is worth about a thousand words right?? We'll start with park city a few weeks ago we got to stay in a condo with two other couples, I need to go back like now!

Ella could just stay in the pool forever, I don't have any pictures but she splashes and squeals the WHOLE time, she LOVES the pool so much.

So do we!!

Sitting watching the skiers do all sorts of flips into a huge swimming pool, it was amazing.

October fest was last weekend and it was a lot of fun, my only regret was not getting my face painted but I tripped pretty hard after holding Ella and we were kinda done after that.

This guy was funny it was his idea to take the picture, and after we did he thanked us, lol.

Everyone kept coming up to us and telling us how high maintenance our little girl was. Just because she was wearing a fur vest and legwarmers, ha ha I thought it was funny. People say the weirdest things.....

Anyway it was a lot of fun, that is perhaps one of the things I will miss most about summer is all the festivities. I was able to attend Steele days, Eagle mountain days, Art city days, Delta days, Swiss days, peach days and October fest in snowbird. Here we sat and listened to the yodeling, it was pretty cool.

Oh and this weekend Ella went for her first 4 wheeler ride. We went up the canyon with the Sorensen's and had a yummy dinner. My camera died so all I got was this one shot. It was absolutely beautiful up there the trees were so colorful. It ended up raining but we still had a lot of fun!