It's a secret....

Devin and I are eagerly awaiting on an offer we made on a house, the sellers approved so now we are waiting on their bank.....please keep your fingers crossed....it's the most beautiful house and we would be so excited to get it!!

Here's a sneak peak :)

Family

Some photos from Christmas...I must say, I love my family ^_^

Uncle Cade and Uncle Cody

As I mentioned before both of my brothers were home for Christmas.  

Cade and Cody don't really get to see Ella a lot in fact, the last time Cade saw Ella was on Thanksgiving of 2010. Needless to say, she's grown a lot since then. 

 I was so excited about Ella getting to spend time with her Uncles.....sadly, Ella was a little bit leery about both of them.  Cade tried SO hard to get her to smile and to play with him...but the death stare continued. 

 I think Cody's height was the thing that scared Ella the most.  

Either way, she finally came around and I got a few cute photos of my brothers with their niece. 

Oh snow

There was LOTS of snow in Pinetop for Christmas.  This made me so happy because Ella's first Christmas there was hardly any of the white stuff on the ground.  I love snow :) I think it's soo beautiful and I was so excited for Ella to experience snow for the fist time...the feeling wasn't mutual..

The Merrill's were kind enough to let us borrow a snowsuit.

After we were done "torturing" Ella, we made a snow man :) 

Wall-E

Ella is growing like a weed!!

She is looking more and more like a toddler everyday.  

She is the silliest girl and loves to make people laugh.  

Her favorite movie right now is Wall-E.  We have watched that movie too many times to count.  She likes to say "wall-e and eeeevaaa" 

 She still loves her "bapo" (puppy) and carries him around everywhere. 

She is talking up a storm now and is a VERY quick learner.  

She also loves to be mommies little helper.  

If anyone out in the blog world knows where I can get a Wall-E "Cuppy" please let me know....Wall-E things are surprisingly hard to find. 

How time flies

I realized tonight that I haven't written a blog in a VERY long time. So, let me see if I can re-cap :)

December was crazy busy.  Planning a wedding, buying a house and, the holidays = lots of last minute shopping.  Two weeks before Christmas I am sure that we went to the mall every night after work as well as on the weekends.  I am sure this made Devin so happy.  We were able to get everything done :) and spent Christmas up in Pinetop.  I love going home to see my parents and this year, both of my brothers were there too.  I love my family and I was so happy that both the boys were able to spend some time with Ella.  I think family is really important and I am sad that the boys don't live closer.  

Christmas was chaotic.  Here are some pictures:

Christmas was always my favorite holiday because my parents made it so special.  Some of my best family memories come from Christmas Eve and all of the fun and crazy traditions we have.  Ella LOVED Christmas Eve.  We were a little unsure how she would do because she didn't nap that day but, she rallied very well.  She loved the attention and she loved when everyone started singing Christmas songs. 

We were very spoiled this Christmas and we are so thankful for our family and friends.

This was just a small tid-bit of Christmas but, I don't have a whole lot of time to write.... I figure I will do a couple more blogs on our on-goings of these last couple months.