Timmy's Influence

My brother, Tim, has been teaching Ellie new words. His latest is 'booger.' Here is a video of his teaching her the word 'why.'

Ellie at the Beach

This was in September. We went to San Diego for a financial conference for Michael. It was an unexpected and fun vacation. Ellie was adorable.

Great Times

Summer Portraits!

A September video (really of August and September) is almost done. Thanks for your patience!!!

Wow it's been a while!

So sorry to all of you who keep up with this blog. It's been a while! Here's an update.

Michael - Finished his masters in Financial Planning and is now looking for a job. Hopefully we'll stay in Utah, but it looks like we'll probably move out of state. He's been a wonderful husband and father.

Ellie - Talking more than ever. Our conversations are in depth - though still mostly baby talk. I am picking up more words from her every day. Yesterday she said, "Bye-bye bubbles!" when talking her bath. The cutest, though, is when she goes to bed and I kiss her and say, "I love you," she says, "eye wo you."

Jack - Growing and growing. I can tell he'll be fun because he lets me know he's there with all the kicking he's doing. We go in for his big 20th week appointment on the 8th (but I'll be 21 almost 22 weeks).

Me - Just trying to help everyone feel good and happy. I'm currently 'house sitting' for my mom while she is visiting Joy. I say 'house sitting' because we live there now but I am making dinners for my dad and bro while keeping things clean and the laundry going for my mom. I miss her.

Because of the move from Provo to South Jordan and all the crazy stuff that's happened since then (like a leak in the basement) we don't have a lot of pictures of Ellie for August. Sorry. I will post what we have of Ellie and Jack, though, when I get a minute.

A New Video!

Sorry we missed June. We took pictures as a family, so I'll make a video of that and it'll be the June video. We hope you enjoy the July one!!! Ellie is SO CUTE!!!

The Month of May with Ellie

Ellie has been learning a ton this past month. I was shocked when I went back and looked at it all. As you can imagine, many cute moments not on the video (Simon wouldn't like that). Sorry it was late, I've been sick lately. Feeling better, though.



The end is hard to read. It says: I also learned: Mom, Dad, more milk, yeah, wow, uh-oh, bird, come on, outside, weee and please.

Dressing Up

Lest you think Michael and I don't do anything but watch Ellie and take videos, here are the pictures of us at the BYU Traditions Ball a couple of weeks ago. We just got the pictures.

It was so much fun. There was a live band, stand up comedians and food. It was almost like prom...only TONS better because we were together.

New Video

I tried to upload this yesterday, but there were issues with the Internet. Anyways, we've had fun this month. We hope you enjoy watching it.