Ella's 2 year old pictures...

So sweet!

I love this picture. Even though you can't see her face.

Ella started posing on her own. She is so cute!

We even caught a temper tantrum in action. She wasn't too happy with us!

I love everything about this picture.

My cute friend Angela aka "Rella" (Ella thinks she is Cinderella, I think because she has long blonde hair like her) offered to take Ella's 2 year old pictures. We went downtown on a Saturday night and took about 300 pictures. She did such a wonderful job in capturing Ella's cute personality even the hard times. Ella threw a full on temper tantrum for the first 20 minutes so I thought for sure Angela was going to run away, and never offer to take her pictures again. But we stuck it out and got a lot of good pictures of her. These are only a few of my favorite. We also got our family pictures taken, but had a hard time loading them. My good friend Dave took them for us. I will try to load them later. Thanks so much Angela!

Ellabella bug!

My little Ellabella bug is going to be two next month. I can't believe she is not a baby anymore, and such a little girly-girl. She makes us laugh everyday, and surprises us with all the things she says. Ella is getting smarter and smarter everyday, she is going to pass up Zach and me in no time. She also is hitting her terrible twos, let's hope she is at the worst she is going to get. She has learned how to talk back and goes to time out at least a couple times a day. She is still really good, just has her moments. If you do something Ella doesn't want you to do she will tell you to quit it, or tells you to listen. She gets a mean voice, and says it. She will also tell us No way if we tell her she has to go in timeout. What can we say she is independent and a little sassy, but what toddler isn't. Now let's focus on the positive, here is new things Ella does:

- Sings her ABCs including the end, "now I know my ABCs next time won't you sing with me."

- Counts all the way up to 13 by herself.

- Copies everything you say.

- Speaks in full sentences and can put sentences together herself. (She shocks us with stuff she says sometimes.)

- Loves to dance. She would dance all day if she could.

- Somersaults. She figured it out and now does them all the time. So funny!

- She is starting to want to dress herself, and pick out her own outfits. Last night she wore a tu-tu and t-shirt to bed. Today she wore her dress up shoes with one of her purses to church.

- She knows some spanish words thanks to Dora. She loves to say Adios!

- Loves to say,"look" and show you everything.

- She knows her colors and loves to point at everything and tell us the color. So smart.

- Loves firetrucks, Dora, and Cinderella. She made up a song about her birthday and firetrucks. She also told me last night she wants a Dora, firetrucks, Cinderella party. I never thought I would be buying a firetruck for my little girl, but she loves them.


I can't believe how fast they change, and grow up. Everyday is a new thing and new adventure with her. I love you Ellabella! You are the best!

Trip to St. George

All done swimming ready to take a nap!

Zach blew this up so he could go lay out on the water,

but Ella threw a fit as soon as he tried to sit on it. She

wanted it all to herself.

Ella and Aunt Chanlie lounging. She is so goofy!

Aunt Jadey throwing Ella in the air her favorite thing in the pool!

Ella and Grandma Keri. She loves her Grandma, and was a Grandma's girl, which

Keri loves!

Ella giving Chanlie one of her many looks.

We finally got time to go down to St. George again, and visit our family. We of course didn't take a lof of pictures. We are always having so much fun, and forget to take pictures. We took Ella to the Roadrunners game, then after they had a big cash drop. Zach, Ella, and I ended up with a big grand total of $4.00. Chanlie's friend Emily ended up with $19.00, we were definetly disappointed in our winnings. Oh well it was still a lot of fun. Zach was a little upset that Paula's was closed for the week, so we went to In-n-Out. Then we went swimming at Green Valley, Ella loves swimming there because they have a little kid pool, and she can walk around all by herself. Then on our way out of town we stopped at In-n-Out once again. I got Subway since two hamburgers in one day is a little too much for me. Don't worry Zach doesn't always eat like that he just has to get his In-n-Out since they aren't up here yet. We had a lot of fun, and can't wait to see you guys soon. Love ya!

Zach's new ride...

Zach got a new patrol car Monday. It's a 2009 Dodge Charger. He found out he was getting it almost two months ago and has been anxious for it ever since. After he found out he was getting a new car, a girl he had arrested for DUI peed in the front seat of his old car. Since then, you could say that the new car couldn't come fast enough. Now that he has a brand new car, he's going to get a big plastic garbage bag to put the drunks in, if he thinks there's even the slightest chance of that happening again!

Hyrum Lake

My nephew Christopher and Ella playing drums together.
They are only 6 weeks apart so I love when they play together.

My cute niece Sadie and Ella on the boat

Zach, Ella, and me lounging out on the boat.

Ella didn't want to look at the camera she was upset.

Zach doing a nosegrab and clearing the wake on the wakeboard.

Ella eating ice cream with her cousins

The gang eating cake and ice cream for my sister's birthday!

Ella loved pushing my nephew's bike around

Cute little Ella playing at the campground.

Mommy, Ella, and Daddy.

Ellabug wearing her lifejacket

Every year my family goes to Hyrum Lake (which is up by Logan) to go boating and camping. It is a lot of fun. The lake is smaller and not really known so the water is usually always good. This is the first year that Zach has been able to go up there with us. He really liked it and improved his moves on the wakeboard. Ella had a lot of fun too being outside all the time, and playing with her cousins nonstop. She even went behind the boat with mommy on the kneeboard. She was kind of nervous at first, but then she was okay. She loved her lifejacket and never wanted to take it off. She kept saying, "lifejacket so we can be safe." Of course she learned that saying from Dora. Eventually we got it off sometimes it was a fight, but that's okay. We hung out on the boat a lot, ate a lot of junk food, and just relaxed. Thanks mom and dad can't wait to go back next year!

4th of July with My Fam...

Ella watching the parade waiting for Avery

My cute nephew Preston watching the parade

Ella and my niece Avery. They look so cute together!

Ella driving the little car... she now thinks she can drive mommy's car

and freaks out if I put her in her carseat. She screams, "I drive, I

drive." She is so funny.

Loving that Ice Cream

Sadie, Ella, And Avery hanging out!

Mommy and Ella wishing Daddy was there.

My sister Brittani her daughter Sadie and son Christopher, My sister

Alisa and her daughter Avery, and Me with Ella bug!

We had such a fun 4th this year. We would have had more fun if Zach didn't have to work, but Ella and I made the most of it without him. We first woke up early in the morning to head up to Layton to watch the parade with my parents, sister Alisa and her family. My cute little niece Avery was in the parade with her little tumbling group. She was so cute doing round-offs, kart-wheels, back walkovers, and back handsprings. Of course when I was going to take a picture the batteries died on my camera so I didn't get a picture of her. Then we went home and took Zach out to lunch at Texas Roadhouse since he had to go back to work that night we wanted to see him for some little celebration. Then Ella and I headed back up to Layton with my parents to go to a BBQ with my sisters and their families. We ate lots of yummy food, jumped on the tramp, played a baseball game, feed horses, did a little bit of fireworks, and then went and watched the Kaysville city fireworks. Ella and I had such a fun day together; we missed Zach, but hopefully next year we can watch fireworks together. Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!!!!

Big girl Ella...

I just had to post this picture of Ella. She has been helping me pull off and on her pants. This was her first time pulling them up all by herself, and she was so proud. She pulled them up a little high, but she still looked so cute. Don't mind her messy hair, she had just woke up and started playing.

The potty training has come to a little halt. She was doing so good, then changed her mind and refused to go on the potty for a few days. So we are starting again, and going to be better this time. I don't want to push her too much so she completely refuses to altogether. My sister pushed a little too much with my niece so she didn't get potty trained until she was 3 1/2 and her little brother was getting potty trained. I would like her to be potty trained by the time she is 2 which is a couple of months, but it will happen when it happens.

Warning: Keep out of Reach of Children

When you see that warning on stuff you usually keep it out of reach of children. Well about a week ago Ella and Zach had gone swimming during the day while I was at work. We have a swim bag where we keep all of our lotion and other stuff for the pool. Well when I wasn't looking Ella got the bag and grabbed the lotion out. She loves to put lotion on because Mommy puts it on everyday so she has to do it too. I was in the other room for a minute, and came out to find her covered in sunscreen. She was starting to cry because she got some in her eye, then she used her sunscreen covered hands to rub her eyes and got more in them. So I ran and put her in the bath, and just let the water run into her eyes so we could get it out. Also I had to wash her hair 3 times and the sunscreen still wouldn't come out. Her eyes were getting worse to the point that she could barely open them. So we eventually had to call the poison control to see if there was anything else we could do or need to be worried about. They told us to rinse water not rub in her eyes, and then just let her go to sleep so they can rest. We did just that and in the morning her eyes were all better. It was the saddest thing ever, and now we make sure that the lotion is really out of her reach. We are so lucky it wasn't worse then it was and she is okay. Let's consider this lesson learned for me.

Not too sure what is happening

I think it is starting to sting