Christmas Morning-Part Two

Christmas Eve-the kids with my mom and Dennis.
Bella and my grandfather, the weekend before Christmas.
Bella and my grandma, the weekend before Christmas.

Christmas Morning-Part One

Christmas Eve-Part Three

Bella sitting on the piano box.
Tag team unwrapping.
Look at those expressions on Coyle's face=priceless!


Clay's parents gave the kids a Schoenhut toy piano. They loved opening it together and have been giving us nonstop concerts.

Christmas Eve-Part Two

The boys lounging together.
Coyle playing with his tractor and new wagon.

Bella loved opening presents, any presents. She really didn't care what was inside.
Gram Gram and Bella reading The Night Before Christmas. Bella kept going over to her and begging for crackers.

Christmas Eve-Part One

Bella hamming it up for the camera!
Uncle Jon and Bella playing with her new interactive Husky puppy.
Bella loves to be read to, she backs over to you with a book and just plops down on your lap with no warning. It's so cute and hilarious because sometimes she misses your lap by a little bit!

Various Recent Pictures...

Coyle decided he wanted to wear his train engineer outfit one day and turn Bella's crib, the two step stools and the little red chair into his own train. "All Aboard!"
Bella was sooo excited over this little baby doll my mom gave her. It giggles and talks, and it just cracked Bella up. She hugged and hugged on the doll!

Bella's First Haircut!

Wild hairs-before picture.
Bella was very quiet and mostly still during her haircut. She didn't seem to mind but was very serious.

SNOW!!

Yesterday we drove north to visit my grandparents. They had a couple of inches of snow on the ground up there, so we took our sled. They kids had so much fun trying out their new sled, although it was very cold!

Christmas Train 2009

O Christmas Tree

Halloween (better late than never)!

Ellie, Coyle and Bella before trick or treating.
Hang out with the Young's after trick or treating.

Here are our Halloween pictures, a little late, but better than not at all. Thanks to Jill for taking these; our camera got dropped that evening before we took any pictures.

Girls

Jocelyn sitting on the chair in a cute pose.
Jocelyn and Bella hamming it up in the chair.

13 months!

Bella is 13 months old! She has turned into such a little goof ball. She's really developed a love for her baby dolls. She loves to mother them, feed them, hug and kiss them, etc... She also tries to mother Jocelyn and Coyle, which is cute to watch. She loves to be read to now, she'll bring a book over and back up to your lap and plop down. She will do this over and over and over with different books. She still loves to eat and is a great eater. She'll go into the kitchen now, point to her food cabinet and kind of whine for a snack. Her other favorite pastime is playing in the backyard. She loves the playhouse, car and swingset. Poor girl has a double ear infection, when we were at the doctor's this week, she weighed in at 21.6 lbs.

Bubbles!

Bella our Little Elf

More Tree Trimming!