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I haven't posted all about my adorable Ella in quite some time. But today we had several cute moments that I caught on camera. First was her "blanket time". Where she has to stay & play on her blanket for 10 minutes (we're moving up to longer times as we go). I usually have her do this in the morning while I'm schooling with the other kids. She likes to push the limits & hang off her blanket. :-) She had her first watermelon of the season. Apparently she likes it. Then I asked her if she could smile for the camera! What a cheeseball!

I wanted to share some of the funny things my kids say along the way of life. This is just a few of them. They crack me up most everyday with something they come up with. Enjoy: On our way to the fair, we pass some dairies. Savannah starts saying how smelly it is, Hunter sniffs the air & then says, "I'm too old to smell the cows now". On our way to the hospital to see Tim, Savannah asks if Daddy is in the same room as last time & I reply "No". She then says, "Oh good, a new adventure!". One morning at breakfast, Dawson says to me, "Could you be a nice lady & get me a cup?" While I'm making dinner, Hunter comes up & asks, "what's that smell?". "onions" I answered. "Well, it hurts my brain" replies Hunter One morning I woke up to the smell of coffee (which is unusual) and come to find out Savannah had made me a cup of a coffee with just the right amount of creamer in it and everything. Then ...

Savannah turns 9 as time marches on. Instead of the traditional cake & ice cream, we did ice cream sundaes with ALL the toppings! Savannah loves ice cream, just like her father. Here they are all making them. We got Savannah this cool new game...Twister. Savannah hadn't ever heard of it before & it quickly has become one of her favorites & was a hit at her little party. Me & my baby girl. We're both getting so much older....where did the time go? Hunter picked out Apples to Apples Junior for her, which also worked well as a party game for her & her girlfriends. I even had a good time playing with them. I'm enjoying birthday parties more now, the older they get. She has such a great smile. And she got a little sun that morning. :-)

So my friends & family threw me the most amazing Surprise Birthday party ever! I turned 30 & boy was I shocked by this party. I had absolutely no suspicions whatsoever. And I got the gift of getting to go skydiving with my dad. Have to schedule that soon.

It's always going to be hard to figure out when to cram a birthday party for this girl into our schedules. Poor thing. Well this year it was January 2nd & we just had a few family members over to have some brownies & ice cream. Ella was all the entertainment we needed. She enjoyed all the attention & took each new toy or book around to the people to show them & show off. The toys with music were great as she would stand in the middle of everyone & just sway & dance for them. What a ham! Aunt Teddi made the perfect little cake for her...a ladybug! Ella enjoyed daintily picking off each purple spot on it's body & then eating the whole piece of cake that was the head.

Let's just get it out of the way...Ella is one of the cutest Christmas children ever (since Jesus, I'm sure he was the cutest!) (grin) And it's incredible how every one of her uncles just eats her up & will make a fool of themselves to make her smile. Uncle Justin Uncle Charles (reading to her, of course I would expect nothing less from an English major) Uncle Jeremiah And finally, Uncle Philip! (I love the look she's giving him here) She gets those cute photogenic genes naturally...( eg . My sister & I) (or...Tim & I) (Then again, there are the non-blood relatives being photogenic as well...lovely sisters-in-law) I LOVE this picture of my honey & my baby! Oh & one of my gifts was EA Active 2 - a workout program for the Wii . Yeah! Hunter was thrilled with his light sabers. Savannah is loving her look-alike American Girl Doll Dawson was so excited to get a Toy Story puzzle & Buzz SpaceShip . And there are lots of pictures of the kids GIVING gift...