Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all.
We had a very nice Christmas. Christmas Eve we went to my parents house. Everything was great except Coy had an allergic reation to something and had to go to the ER. He is fine thank goodness! We waited for Brian, Jody, and Coy to get back and then opened presents. It really was a very nice Christmas.

Christmas day we spent the morning at our house and then about 1:00 we went over to Eddies dads, and had a great time as well. Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

what's up

David is potty trained! Happy Happy I am! He can now go to preschool at Starline. We are so excited. He starts on the 13, the same day Jacob will start 7th grade. Ella is really doing good with her walking. She can get pretty much anywhere she wants to. Eddie's job is finally getting busy Praise the Lord! My work has been steady and I am keeping very busy with kids and job. Jacob is going to play fall soccer, he has not played for a really long time, It will be fun, he has a friend who will be on the same team with him. Uncle Marc let him borrow some shoes, I can't believe my 13 yearold son has feet as big as his uncle!

Eddie and I are celebrating our 16th wedding anniversary this weekend. Today is our anniversary. Jacob is with his cousin Ira. They are going to Natarita,(somewhere in the mountains) for a youth revival. Ella and David will be spending the day and night with Grandma. We are going to go to Estes Park and just hang out. hopefully do some hiking and maybe a horse back ride, we shall see. It will be nice to get away, even if only for 1 night and day.

Oh we also got a new kitten Ye-Ha. After this weekend i will get some pictures posted.

Ella taking her first steps!

weekend at the Renaissance festival

We went to the Renaissance festival this weekend with Jessica and Travis. We had Ella stay at Joe and Eva's . It was a really fun day. Eddie and Jacob jumped on these trampolines with big stretchy bands hooked to them so they could jump really high. Nobody took a picture of me throwing hatchets. I actually got one to stick! It was cool. David, Jacob, and Travis rode the elephant. $4.oo for 30 sec of fun what a deal!!! It started to rain about 2:00. We decided we had had enough fun and headed home.

Ella's party

Uncle Joe

Uncle Travis. Ella loves to rip up paper. She is so serious:)

Aunt Jody and Cousin Coy

Grandma gave Ella a toy kitten, she loved it.
Alex had fun on the trycicle untel he fell of the edge of the deck :( he was ok

Ella's Party was very nice we had many people show up to celebrate. The day turned out to be a really pretty day, so people were able to go out side and it was not so crowded inside. Ella loved all the attention and was smiling most of the time. Lots of people held her and we let her crawl around. Her cradle care family got to come. It was good to see them. They were excited to get to see Ella. The last time they saw her was when she was 12 days old. She let them hold her and was very cute. They gave us a plaque that says-Family The Greatest Gift I Ever Received. That is so true for us. We are so happy and feel very blessed to have a wonderful family and great friend who love us and support and encourage us. Thanks to everyone.

Ella is crawling!

Ella started crawling on April 30. Eddie, Jacob, David and I had all guessed a day that we thought she would crawl and whoever got the day or the closest to it would get to take Ella out for ice cream. Jacob won! So of course we all had to go out :) Jacob didn't think that was fair . He thinks we need to let him and Ella go by themselves to get ice cream. I am suppose to just drop them off at the store and leave my cell phone , just in case he would need to call me. I am then to go shopping or something until they are done. These are Jacobs orders. We shall see.
We are celebrating Ella's adoption being final this weekend. It is not suppose to be a very warm day:( I was hoping for good weather so kids could be outside. Thanks to all who answered my invite. It's great to hear from all of you. I have been feeling a little sentimental lately and have been missing everyone. I am hoping to see some of you this summer.
I will try once again to get a video up and running soon. Talk at you later.

Cousin Emry

Cousin Lilly

Cousin Nakeesha and Aunt Jessica

Silly Jacob

Pretty Easter Dress and Pretty Girl
David at church Ella and Mommy before church


Ella at church

Before church


Eddie, Jacob, and David dying Easter Eggs

We had a busy Easter day.We went to church at 8:30 to have a breakfast and a scavenger hunt. Then church service, on to my mom's house to eat, then on to Eddie's brothers house to eat, then home. So basically from 8am to 8pm we were gone, and stuffed. It was fun but tiring. The weather was cold. It usually is at Easter. We are in for some more snow this weekend. It is suppose to hit tomorrow and go through the weekend and then I think next week is going to be nice again. Crazy weather. hope you all had a great Easter.