EllaKate Turns One!

Where does the time go!?!?
It seems like I was just holding this adorable new 5lb baby girl in my arms and just falling more and more in love with her by the moment!

Now its a year later and I have this spunky little fire ball on my hands with so much personality it's ridiculous, and yet I still fall more and more in love with her by the moment!

Here are her stats at her 1 yr apt. She weights. 18.25lbs (9th percentile) She is 28.54in long (32nd percentile) her head is18.1 in (77th percentile) Ya, she's ours alright!

Ella loves to be right in the middle of the chaos and a big part of it! She has been crawling since she was about 8 months and is so fast she doesn't really have a huge desire to walk! She LOVES to play/torment Jaden and couldn't love Duke more if she tried! She is very friendly and outgoing but snuggly too!

She loves to talk/scream and can say "mam" (mom) "dada" (dad) d"uge" (a mix between duke and dog) "peese" (plase) "Taetu" (thank you) "mo" (more) & "my" (mine)

She loves to giggle and play she LOVES to tease and even though she is young she LOVES to test the limits! :) I love it though! I love that she is strong willed and will fight for what she wants, even when the answer is no, and she can throw a tantrum like I have never seen!

This yea my sister got married on Ella's birthday (congratulations Sarah and Doug) So we celebrated her birthday a day early! Since we spent the weekend in Salt Lake for the wedding, we decided to just do a small low key family day with her!

When she woke up she got her birthday presents which included lots of clothes a walker/stroller and her first baby doll, and a stuffed kitty from her big brother!

She loved everything especially snuggling her baby and kitty! I'm hoping the stroller will motivate her to walk!

After breakfast we took the grandmas and headed to the aquarium and the to McDonalds (Ella loves the parfaits) It was so much fun to spend the afternoon with the grandmas and the kids especially enjoyed it!

After the lunch we headed back to Shawn's parents for nap time! Afterwards we had birthday cake! I made Ella a caterpillar cake because she is our little bug!

Ella was so funny and WOULD NOT TOUCH THE CAKE!!!! She would not eat it even if I fed it to her! She wanted NOTHING to do with it, until.....

I gave her a spoon to eat it with....I don't understand it and I thought it was SO funny!!! Once we gave her the spoon though, she dug right in and loved it!!!

That night I went to dinner and for mani-pedis with my sisters as a kind of Bachelorette Party and Shawn's parents took Ella on her birthday date and then they all headed up to her cousin Dylan's birthday party! When I got home they had all crashed and it seemed like she had a great day!!!

Ella's actual birthday was a crazy day and I should have gotten more pictures but I honestly think we were all just exhausted!!! It was a great day thought and my sister looked absolutely beautiful and my kids...adorable of course!!!

Here is Ella playing with daddy at the luncheon

and with mommy.... (Jaden was so busy playing with cousins he wouldn't hold still for pictures

Ella woke up at 7 that morning and FINALLY crashed (for like 20 min) at 2 pm. For a child that usually takes a nap every 2-3 hrs....it was a long day!

Ella we love you more than you could possible know!! You are a joy in our lives and in our home! We thank Heaven everyday for the privilege of being your parents and can't imagine life without you! I hope you will always be your silly spunky strong willed self!!