Oh Ella......

What else do I ever blog about?  On Friday, it was one of those "I'm gonna document the whole day" type of days.  She is growing and changing so fast, I feel like if I don't capture her on camera on a regular basis, she will slip right through my fingers and I'll never remember the "good ol' days".  I just know that I'm gonna blink and she's gonna be a hormonal, moody teenager who wants nothing to do with me :(  But for now....heaven.

If this is not Adam's mini-me, I don't know what is!!!  My only hope is that as she gets older, she gets his freckles too.  It's one of my favorite things about Adam :)

In the middle shot, she was yelling "HANDS!!"  I really love when she does this, there's just nothing better than that little hand in yours, clinging on just because they want to be near you.

I had a rare Friday off, so we finally got to go to play group at the church.  We didn't know it was dress up, darn it!  Ella especially loved "Pin the nose on the pumpkin".  Girl loves her pumpkins!



Like I said, loves pumpkins!



We went to Mueller Park when Daddy got home from work.  I had no idea there was going to be so much snow up there!  Ella loved looking at the stream from the bridge, and she really loved stomping in that puddle!

These pictures make me want to cry everytime I look at them.  I LOVE how much Daddy and Ella love each other!  I mean, come on!!! Doesn't the one on the left melt your heart to mush!!!

Some beautiful scenary at Mueller Park.  I love the contrast of the snow and leaves.

Oh man, Ella can JUMP!  She will point to the trampoline from the window and say "BUMP! BUMP!"

Kitty has gotten so very patient with this one.  Ella loves to snuggle up to Kitty and say "Nice.."  Kitty gets extra back scratches when she's so nice to my baby :)

California happened

Yeah.  California happened.  I never blogged about it because..  A) I didn't take any pictures because on the second day we were there, my camera fell out of my pocket into the ocean.  B) I just plain didn't get to it.  So, I wanted to document that it DID in fact happen.  We left August 1st and stayed a week.  It was really such a fun trip.  My bro Randy hooked us up with our hotel.  It was right on the beach and had a great pool and two hot-tubs.  The funnest thing we did while we were there was went deep sea fishing.  I was one of maybe 4 girls on the boat, which I think held about 35 people!  But I was happy because I caught fish :)  This pic below was taken with Adam's I-Phone, and he's not big on taking pic's, so it was pretty much the only picture we have from the trip.  Oh well! 

Ella stayed with my sister Amy and her girls Abbey and Sophie.  They took SUCH good care of her and sent me pic's every day.  Adam and I missed her like C-R-A-Z-Y!!!  But I'm not gonna lie, it was heaven sleeping in for 6 days straight :)  Below are the pic's that Amy sent me while we were away.  Pretty sure Ella didn't even notice we were gone with all the fun she was having ;)

Yep, even I can catch fish!!!  It was amazing to be on the ocean all day.  I did have to take a few naps, that rocking really puts a girl to sleep!



On the left, Ella waiting to go to church with Aunt Amy.  On the right, Ella trying on cousin Zach's shoes.




Amy managed to get a pig-tail in Ella's hair!!! This was her first ever pig-tail!




Amy was nice enough to make Ella green smoothies ;)  Girl loves her green smoothies!




Sophie helped with nap times :)



Can you tell that she loves swimming?  Anything that involves being outside, really.  Thank you SOOOOO much Skinner girls for taking such great care of Ella!!  She had an amazing time :)



Gorgeous girl

 Oh man I have SO much to blog about, but life is a wee bit busy these days.  Some recent updates:  I WENT PART TIME!!! I haven't worked part time, like, ever.  Not to brag or anything, it's just always been necessary for me to have a full time job.  With Adam working so hard, and really growing in his position, I've been able to go part-time.  Which enables me to do more worthwhile things, like spend time with my gorgeous daughter!  Something Ella and I have begun doing is going on "Grandma-Great dates".  We take Adam's Grandma Irene out a couple of days a month and run errands and go to lunch.  She is going on 91 and legally blind, and only has one child living near by, so she doesn't get out as much as she'd like.  We really love spending time with her and hearing all her great stories!  I also get to go to the Temple with my mom once a month now, which is always awesome :)  But mainly, I just love watching Ella grow and learn.  She is just SO STINKIN' SMART!  She is very talkative and curious about the world around her.  Her new favorite thing to do is yell "Hands!!" and I then proceed to give her my hand and she drags me around wherever she wants to go.  The other day it was up the hill, down the hill, then down the even bigger hill and back up again! (we live on the east benches in Bountiful).  She still loves to rough house with her daddy, and she loves cutting teeth (NOT!!).  I think we are getting closer and closer to being done with teething though, they all have just been coming at once.  Oh, and dare I forget to mention she LOVES LOVES LOVES watching "Backyardagains".  She runs around the house singing " Yo yo yo fends...da da da againths!" Which his her rendition of the theme song.  I don't feel too bad letting her watch it a lot because it's very musical and creative.  Yeah, she likes watching TV, but she loves being outside more, so I'm not too worried (yet).  Adam has been traveling quite a bit for work.  We always miss him a lot when he's gone :(  He's going to New York in December and I've informed him that I'm coming with!  I don't know if he's taking me seriously or not, but I'm goin'!  Well, I won't ramble on too long.  I've got a lot more pics/info to post, but I'll save it for later.  Enjoy the pictures of my gorgeous daughter :)



1st and 4th generation Miller girls :)




The middle pic, she's growling at the lion on TV.  The one on the right, she had her first ring-pop, thus the blue tongue ;)



The kissy face is my favorite :)

It blows my mind how much she grows and learns every day!  I have no idea where my baby went, but the little girl who has taken her place sure is amazing!