July 24th weekend to Setpt 27th

For the weekend of the 24th Tim's parents came into town. Ella fell quickly back in love with her grandparents during their short stay. It was a lot of fun to have them here and we miss them already! While they were here we had Ella's one year old birthday party! I can't believe my baby is already one! we also went to the 24th parade in bountiful, and had fireworks of our own at the close of Ella's party.

Directly following the Cartwright's departure from salt lake, my cousin's the Deveraux came into town, and we had my little cousin Alex Hoffman baptized. She looked beautiful! we are so proud of her decision.

We had an awesome trip up to midway, with my mom's whole side of the family. We played on the beach, at the pool, and just relaxed at the time share. We went to a park at like 10 pm to let all the kids run around and drain their energy as well. When we came back from midway we went to Raging Waters, it was a good 2 hours of play before we got rained out and were given "rain checks" to come back another day.

On Sunday Aug 8th my mom's side of the family did family pictures, and then Ella and I left for Bear lake with my dad's side of the family. Tim had to work and therefore stayed to hang out with my mom's family once his work day was finished until Thursday, when he came up to join us at Bear Lake. It was a blast! Ella loves the boat, the sand, the pool, the lake, and most of all Tubing! She was a natural! It was a very very busy and fun month!

Ella prefers to swim on her own it the pool, she has to be either in her tube or life jacket, however with neither she can float on her back for a second by her self! I love my little fish!

Tim started school back up, and so did my friend Mandy, this means Tim leaves for work in the morning, and I don't see him again until pretty late at night after school. To keep me busy I am watching Mandy's kids while she is at school. Maycee is in Kindergarten so she is gone half the day, and Emma is gone most the Day in second grade! That means Wyatt (16 months) and Ella (14 months) get to entertain each other and me all day long! Ella and Wyatt play really well together and I think Ella will be very sad when summer comes around and she wont have her boyfriend to play with everyday!

Other news, most of you know my best friend Jaclyn, She is getting married! I am so excited for her and her husband to be, Brad, they make a very cute couple! Congrats guys! love you!

We went to the State Fair with our good friends, Ty and Cristi, as well as Katy, Jared and all of our little munchkins, it was a lot of fun, just like old times!

We went down to St. George just last weekend for my new little niece to be blessed! She is gorgeous! My brother Dan did a very good, it was spiritual, fun and I really wish we lived closer, Ella had so much fun playing her cousins all weekend!

I think that is about it as far as updates go! sorry there are no pictures, I promise some will come soon!

Since my last post.......

The first thing that happened after my last post as most of you know, we moved. It sucks not having our friends to play games with every night, but it is really nice to be closer to my mom. Ella loves her grandma and being able to see her pretty much everyday now!



Ella and I got a pass to raging waters and go as often as we can! She loves the water and I have no doubt she will be swimming by the time she is two.. She can almost float on her back by herself! When I put her in her life jacket, like any baby she screams! but her little tube she loves, she learned that if she kicks really hard she can go across the pool and swim away from me!






Over father's day my adorable niece and nephew were blessed. My sister is a very strong and crazy woman! She was the proud mommy of a cute little three year old and one year old until March 23, when her twins Presley and Porter were born! The very next day Madicyn turned 4 and now she has 4 kids 4 and under! Go Monica!



We were invited to go down to Mayfield with some friends, Jason and Christie, for the last weekend of June. We got there late Friday night and pulled the four wheelers out first thing after breakfast on Sat. We took turns riding the four wheelers and taking Ella for little rides up the street and back. Sat. night we went to the Manti Pageant. It was a great experience. Tim had never seen it before and loved it! I walked up and down the streets of the near by neighborhoods to get Ella to stop crying for the first hour of it, but I got her to fall asleep and the rest was great!



The fourth of July was great! We went to the Centerville parade and had juice and doughnuts at my mom's house for breakfast! Ella clapped and waved to all the floats, but got really mad when her cousin Carter kept climbing into her little car. After the parade Ella proceeded to eat another whole doughnut by her self (I wasn't watching) and threw it up.. Joy! So she wore another of her 5 4th of July outfits up the cabin. Our good family friends invited us up to their cabin near Pineview for a BBQ, party and Fireworks! Ella loved playing with Bronx (4 months old) and his bouncy seat. I had to remind her 100+ times to not touch his face and be soft! She tried to play with Hudson (2 years) but he could walk and run and she just couldn't keep up!They had a few pinatas and since the babies couldn't do it, Tonya (mom's friend) had toys for each of the babies to take home. Ella got really cute pink keys, they are now her favorite toy to chew on. Everyone went to the Huntsville park to walk around the carnival and dance to every kind of music you could imagine! Ella's favorite was the hokey pokey! Right before it got dark a few parachute-rs landed in the middle of the park, and then fireworks started! Then on Sunday we went to my Grandma and Grandpa Joe's house for dinner, it was really fun until the end when we ended up with my grandpa in the Emergency room, he has 9 lives and is home again. It was a great weekend!







Since then Ella and I have done our usual hang out at the house or the pool while daddy is at work. Once Tim gets home it is just spending time with him and taking him to the pool. We can't believe Ella is going to be 1 years old in less than a month! I have been getting things ready for her party, we are doing a family thing about a week early so that Tim's parents can be here for it. We went and got Ella's one year old pictures taken the other day and started buying all of our decorations.

Also, Ella climbed out of her crib and landed on her head one too many times, she is now in a toddler bed before her first birthday! AGH! Crazy child I have!

January -March

It has been a very long time!
in January Ella turned 6 months old!



January brought sickness, Ella got RSV and was hospitalized for 4 days, when we brought her home she was on oxygen for another 4 days.



Once Ella got better, She was introduced to her first pancake! She loved it and now eats at least two for dinner when that is what we have!



To kick off Febuary, we took Ella swimming for the first time, she was scared to death at first but warmed up fast! when it was time to go, she was not happy when we took her out and wrapped her up in the towel.



Every Wednesday and Thursday I babysit for my friend's sister so that she can go to school, Jaclyn (friend) comes up on Thursdays to hang out with us... Jaclyn taking her niece Maycee and her nephew Wyatt down the slide at the park.



For Valentines Day, Tim took me out on Saturday it was a lot of fun! I got roses and jewelry! On Sunday, the actual V-Day, we went to put one of my roses on my dad's grave. Ella was so cute when we went!



On February 20th, my friend who we live with had her baby girl, Ella was very curious about her until I held her, what was even more funny was when William (her older brother) held her. Ella was furious that her mommy and best buddy were holding another baby!



Other than these events, we have just done everyday stuff, mommy and Ella play until dad comes home from work, then we play with dad until he has to leave for school.



Marchele had her 20 year old birthday! Bryan was out of town for work and Jason or Clyde as some of you know him had Rugby Try-outs or something. so My mom, Marchele, Tim, Ella and I went to Texas Road house for her birthday dinner. They have you sit on a saddle while they sing Happy Birthday! It was funny! She turned very red!



Tim's brother Kyle chose to come out to Utah and spend his spring break with us! We have had a lot of fun with him and we will be sad to see him go on tomorrow morning! We have gone out to eat at some fun places as well as seen 2 jazz games this week!