A Play Date

Ellie spent over 20 minutes just staring at Brinley (from the ward). By the way, Brinley is 2 weeks older. Ellie, as you can tell from the video, is a bit closer to crawling. Having a crawling baby around got me to baby-proof the bookcase in the front room today. :)

The Last 2 Months

Michael and I have had a blast being with Ellie (and I think Ellie has, too, judging on this video). Ellie is just about to crawl. Any day now and I think I'll be getting a lot more exercise than I am now!

I hope you enjoy the update!

Half an Update

So, this isn't the all out update that we normally do. We have all the pictures in Provo and we are house-sitting for Grannie in South Jordan. I'll give a real update as soon as we get back.

Michael is doing really well in school (he just found out that he got 100% on his latest assignment), Ellie is almost crawling. She makes to almost do it and than decides that it's too hard. Sarah is just enjoying living with her two favorite people.

Six Months!!!

A woman in my ward has a photography business and was wanting to expand it to include children. She asked if she could do some photos of Ellie for her website. She took 300 pictures and 200ish were really cute. The video here is of my favorite shots.

It is amazing to think that it has been half a year. I was looking at Ellie's slide shows that we've done in the past and it's amazing the difference a few weeks make. She definitely isn't the helpless infant she was before. She holds herself up, she is sitting (though it's new), she's eating solids (baby food) and is still adorable. What lucky parents. We have our 6 month check up next Tuesday (her actual six month birthday).

As an update:

Michael was going to get a job and do school in the evenings. We thought it would be best and that way Ben (my brother) and Laura (his fiancée) could live in the condo we are in. It was all working out. Michael got a job offer, but we just didn't feel right about it. It didn't make sense. This was what we had planned and prayed for. We prayed again and we knew that we shouldn't take the job. We don't know how things will work out, but we know they will.

So, Michael is studying for his final this week. He'll start taking two classes at a time instead of one and therefore be done with school next May. We are excited for that.

I am going to get my hair cut. I've waited and waited hoping that it would be less tiresome to do as Ellie got older, but that just isn't the case. I'm not getting it cut too short, though.

We are happier now then we've ever been. We don't know how things will all work out, but we do know that all will be fine as long as we stick together and stay close to the gospel.

Ellie Update

We're finally done with the new video! It took forever because there was so much to show! We ended up making a two-ish minute movie but had to cut it to under a minute. Here is the short version.

Ellie has been absolutely wonderful. Cranky some from teething...but overall a delight to have. The video will show why.

Hope you enjoy it!

We had Ellie's blessing yesterday. It was so wonderful. We had it at Grannie and Pop's house after church. Lots of family there to support. Grannie made the dress and bonnet. Ellie was blessed with a lot of wonderful blessings. Some of which include a sweet disposition and character, an eternal outlook and being blessed with the peace of the Holy Ghost. It was really beautiful. Wet eyes all around.

Snow Shoeing and Making Forts

Michael went snow shoeing with his brother-in-law, Tim and had a blast. Sarah stayed home and built a afghan fort with her sister, Tona and also had a blast. Ellie slept most of the time (by the fort).

(For those of you who are curious about why the fort is named Fort MaGa: it's because my name is Mama and Tona's is GaGa (a 'great aunt' and a 'god-aunt'). Hence - Fort MaGa.)

A little clip we made of Ellie from birth to now. I hope you enjoy it.