Happy Birthday Lauren!!!

Happy Birthday Babe! I can't belive you're already 31! Just kidding. (She's 27) Ella and me love you so much and hope you enjoy your big day!

Happy Birthday Mom!!!

Happy Birthday to my wonderful mom! She is such a great person and I love her so much! Thanks for always being such a great mom and a wonderful Grandma! We love you and hope you have a wonderful day!

My 2 year old...

Our little Ella Ann is 2 years old. I can't believe she is getting to be so big. Every day she gets smarter and sassier (as most 2 year olds do.) She is so much fun and I love talking with her. Her are some fun things she does:

- Counts from 1-13

-Counts in Spanish

- Knows a lot of Spanish words, sometimes she will call something by the spanish word instead of english. For example: She calls her crown Corona.

- Knows her colors

- If you ask her, her name she will tell you, "Ella Randall" if you ask for her full name she will say, "Ellabella Randall."

-Can tell you the color of her eyes and hair.

- She is almost potty train. I have been working on it. She will tell us or bring us a pull-up when she wants her bum bum changed.

-She speaks in third person. Everything starts with Ella. It is so cute!

-Loves to tickle daddy to get him to wake up.

- Loves singing songs. She has a new song that she calls "Ella's Song" it is "You belong to me" by Taylor Swift. It is cute she will sing the song and knows most of the chorus.



Her current stats at age 2:

- Weight: 25 lbs.; 25%

- Height: 34.5 in.; 70%



So she is still tall and skinny! Plus her feet are growing super fast right now. I starterd buying her size 7 in toddler so she can wear them all fall and winter.







Ella is at such a fun age. Yeah she has her moments and she is stubborn, but most of the time she is happy and full of fun. We wouldn't know what to do without her in our life. We love you our big two year old!

Lake Powell

We finally got to go to Lake Powell. My family goes every year, but Zach and I haven't been able to go for the last 3 years. We had so much fun! We got to spend a whole week down there to enjoy the warm water and nice weather. We went on lots of boat rides, did lots of swimming, water-skiing, wake-boarding, eating, playing with cousins, and hanging out with the family. We really enjoyed our trip and can't wait to go back next year. Thanks to my brother-in-law Trent for letting us come and enjoy the houseboat!







Our little family on a boat ride!

Ella and her daddy swimming!

Ella on her floatie lounging! She loves to relax all by herself!

Ella and mommy playing in the sand on the beach!

Ella and me with my sister Brittani and her little boy

Christopher on a tube ride. Don't worry we didn't go

too fast.

You can't go to Lake Powell without finding a lollygag hill!

This is the coolest place. My sister's family calls it the Scooby Doo

mystery cave! It is on the edge of a big rock and you climb

up and walk in between. It was really neat and really cold!

Ella's 2nd Birthday Party

Ella's Dora Birthday Cake!!!

Enjoying that Pizza!!!!

Ella's new Princess scooter from her Grandma-great

and Grandpa-great!

Ella opening up all of her presents!

Some of my family there to celebrate.

Some of Zach's family that drove up to celebrate!!!

Our little Ellabella is 2 years old. She turned 2 on Friday September 11th, and we had a big Dora party for her. We invited our family and friends to come celebrate such a special day with us. We went on a Dora adventure to find Ella's pinata that swiper swiped and locked up. I am glad that all of my hard work paid off. Ella had a lot of fun and everything was a success. Thank you to all that came and made special trips to celebrate with us. We love all of you!

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!