Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays to one & all! We've had a fun first Christmas on our own here in Italia, Ella had lots of great gifts to open and play with ALL day, great fun! Thanks to everyone for all the cards & gifts & holiday wishes, we miss all of you and wish we could be with you during this special time of year...

And on a non-holiday note, here's a little something I found through my friend Kori's site - thanks Kori! - a silly site that comes up with random peculiar royal titles for you with your name, really silly. Here's the titles given to myself and our little princess Ella, click on the link to go get a title of your own (and try it more than once if you don't like what they give you, it appears to be totally random):

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Her Most Serene Highness Lady Abigail the Talkative of Melbury Bubblewick Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Reverend Lady Ella Maria the Uncanny of Barton in the Beans Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

Oooh, an almost funnier one for Ella the second time round...

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Honourable Lady Ella Maria the Eldritch of Biggleswade by Biscuit Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

Aaaah, silly holiday times, you'd think if I have this kind of free time I could get off my lazy rump and get out some new pictures of Ella to all her deserving loved ones, right? They're coming, I promise, one of these days, along with belated holiday cards and thank you notes and flying pink candy fairies : )

Hope all our friends out there are having a fun & relaxing holiday. Lots of love & hugs to all...

Crazy busy holiday time

Trying a quick post, they just updated the blog system here, we'll see if it's easier or faster to use now. Anyway, Ella & I have been trading germs back & forth since Thanksgiving, and we're both trying to get over the second bug as we speak, this one's a doozy, I think every sinus pore in my entire head is clogged up AND both ear tubes, I did not know I could possible make this much mucus... yum, right? On top of the colds we are crazy busy with holiday plans, just like everybody else the globe over. This weekend we are in charge of throwing a kid's Christmas party for daddy's whole squadron (all of civil engineering), so we're scrambling with all the final details since only two of our hundreds of spouses volunteered to help - yay : ) Let's just guess who will be refusing to head this up next year, hmmmm.

Well, hope to post more soon, just gotta get through this last big weekend and then we can relax and spend our time up till Christmas just baking lots of yummy holiday treats and then, well, eating them - hooray!

Here's a few OLD pictures of Ella from the last couple of months....


Sitting like a big girl at her new table & chairs -
Thanks Nana & Papa!!!


























Our halloween lion, can you tell she's saying ROAR!




























Ella's first halloween candy - what an awesome chocolate face!



























A fuzzy, but cute pic of our little elf - Thanks for the outfit Grandma Penny! (we'll take more pics in this soon, I promise, but this fuzzy one was the best one I could catch in her first outing)