Just a little brain teaser!!!

Am I Ella or Owen?
Am I Ella or Owen???

I was just going through pictures of Ella when she was a baby. Can you tell which one of these is Ella and which one is Owen. They were both having their first bath in their big bathtub instead of the little bed pan from the hospital. Neither one of them were sure what to think of it.

I should tell you that maybe this is the reason Ella likes to take showers instead of baths. We put their little tub in the laundry room sink and spray them with the spray hose. Ella liked it back then and now Owen likes to be srayed too.

Tired little guy

It is 7:30 am and Owen is still in bed. He has been sleeping since 9:30 last night, whoohoo!!! He has been doing about 7 1/2 to 8 hours a night, so he has been doing a great job at sleeping through the night. But 10 hours, that deserves a whoohoo!!! I guess I did get what I wanted for Christmas. This will be great now that I have to get ready to go back to work.

Daycare shopping:(

Stretch!!!!
Look at that sweet smile!

I hate to say it but my precious time at home with the kids is winding down. Only one more week to go before I have to go back to work. Can you believe that Owen is already 2 1/2 months old. Where has the time gone? You definitely can't blink when you have kids, because just like that they grow right before your eyes.

Yesterday we bought Owen's supply of diapers and formula for daycare. I am sure hoping that leaving a second child at daycare is a lot easier than it was to leave the first one. With Ella I cried getting her ready in the morning, I cried driving her to daycare, I cried at daycare, I cried on my way to work and I cried at work every time somebody asked about her. Let's hope that I'm not that emotional this time. Let's pray for smooth sailing this time.

Christmas Celebrations

Carson (2), Ella (4), Isaac (4)
Oh my goodness, look at all those gifts!

Ella's new bike from Santa!!

New cousins!! Owen (2mo.) & Kianna (7mo.)

Well here we are, it is the evening of Christmas Day and everything we have prepared for has come and gone in the blink of an eye. I would have to say that everybody here had a pretty terrific holiday. Ella and Owen made out like bandits. They each got way more than their share of gifts, and when I say gifts, I mean toys, toys, and more toys!!!

We spent Christmas Eve with Brian's family at his parent's house. Ella had so much fun. She loves playing with her cousin's, Isaac and Carson. The three of them wore me out just watching them run after one another. Owen and Kianna (their other little cousin), are just the babies of the bunch and had to settle with just watching all of the comotion. But they too, will all to soon be running themselves.

Christmas Day was spent at home with my family. It was so nice that everyone was able to make it. Owen spent the day (at least 3 1/2 hrs.) in his room taking a nap. I think he must have planned that so that he didn't get passed from one person to another all day long:)

To wrap things up, I would have to say that we are very blessed to have been able to get together with everybody this year. Family is what makes Christmas!!

First time Blogger!!

Working at getting the tree together!!

Ella hanging her ornaments on the tree!

Look how high that is!!

O.k. let's see if I can figure this thing out. My sister-in-law set up a blog of her family and I thought that it was a great way to let everyone know what is going on and keep everyone up to date with the happenings in our life, so I thought that I would try it too!!

So here it goes. It is the day before Christmas eve and Ella has been counting the days down since we put the tree up in the middle of November. So, needless to say we had to make a paper chain to count down the days, because she was asking every day if it was Christmas from the time we put the tree up.