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)