Good times!

Our fam took a little trip to Galveston about 30ish minutes away and went to the beach a couple of weeks ago. We had a fun time seeing some of the sights of Texas.





El and Daddy.

As you can see, Ella has become "Miss Independent" and she had a ton of fun feeding herself yogurt!

Disclaimer: Don't mind her hair again...i had her hair in a little rubber band and i pulled it out because it was falling out after she had tried yanking it out.











I think she poured some on her tummy and it was pretty cold.



She is just so animated with her facial expressions that I just can't get enough pictures of them!



Ella and Daddy love playing together. Look at her staring at her daddy so adoringly!

More of the catch up series!

As most of you all know we moved to Houston Texas around two weeks ago for Chad's summer sales job with Preventive Pest Control. So far Texas has been treatin us right but as for the humidity we could do without out it! The sad thing is it will only get worse!



This was taken while we were packing up our things to move and as the cruel parents we are we thought it would be funny to tape Ella's arms down!



At first she thought it was pretty funny then she was trying to bust out, no worries though we let her free! Even though sometimes it would be nice to just tape her up and keep her in one place for a little while! Ha :)



It was a sad day when I had to say my goodbye's to all my friends especially my buddy Hayley Redder.



Ella sure misses her little bud Jake that she kinda bullied on accident just because she's older and more mobile. Sorry Jakers! p.s. Don't mind Ella's crazy hair...she's going through this awkward hair stage and truly i am at a loss of what to do with it...and this is pretty much how it looks after taking a bath and just letting it air dry. If only she would grow more hair on the sides of her head then it wouldn't look so reverse mullet-ish!


Ella and I were able to go visit my family before going down to Texas and it was a good time...
we also had fun at the park while we were there.



My brother Tyler was having a blast with Ella on the playground.



My mom was having a great time as well...she took Ella on this slide and I think it surprised her how steep and fast it was.



Ella would always look scared as she would go down the slide but at the bottom she would be grinning from ear to ear!



Swings were her favorite.





Good ol' mom and dad lookin cute as always.





Grandpa Lamb helping Ella rock out on this rocking toy.





Discovering wood chips...



Tasting them...doesn't really like them but...



keeps on chewin'!



Gotta love this girl!

Ella's 1st Birthday!

Part of my "Catch-up Series" was Ella's 1st birthday party on April 10th!



Ella and her little buddy Jake Redder. We were pulling them around in this laundry basket and they were havin a good ol' time before her little party.



We gave Ella her own little cupcake and at first she just picked at it and didn't put any in her mouth then when she finally took a taste she went to town!











By the end she started just smushing it all over her face and up her nose! It was so funny!







She loved her birthday cupcake!



All happy and sticky!



After giving her a bath we gave her a huge stuffed animal bunny present that she LOVES!



When i was shopping with her at Walmart she saw this bunny and just started getting so excited, I just had to get it for her for her b-day.



She seriously loves this bunny she kisses it and hugs it and snuggles with it.





It's so cute cause she tries to carry it around with her but it's about double her size so she is always like grunting and tugging to try to bring it along with her.



Here's the video that we took of Ella eating her b-day cupcake.




All done with her cupcake and rubbing cupcake all over her face!

Playing Catch-up!

Our lives have been pretty busy and crazy the last couple of weeks! Here's a the low down of what we've been up to...
I decided that I'm going to divide some of the events into separate posts because i realized i have a lot of pics and it will take me too long to do one huge post.



Ella is just a little character.... she's constantly becoming more and more independent and hilarious. She loves to do everything on her own, it truly has to be her idea to do pretty much anything in order for her to do it. For example I will try to put a cheerio in her mouth and she will refuse it but if i put it on the couch or something for her to grab she will take it and eat it. She is so funny, I'm just learning to accept my child has a very strong little personality and letting her become her own little individual independent self.



How do you like those tonsils!

The last week we were in Idaho we tried to get together with as many of our friends as we could to say good-bye before we left for Texas for the summer! So Ella and I went on a walk/visit with Hayley and Jake Redder and Dulcie and Camrie Clayton. It was a lot of fun. ( I miss you girls!)

Another fun experience I had was throwing my sister-in-law, Diana's baby shower! I had a lot of fun with preparing it and putting it all together, plus I had a lot of great friends who helped me accomplish it! Thanks again everyone!



I made my first diaper cake for my gift and a center piece for the shower. It really wasn't too hard at all. I used a baby shampoo as the center core to build around.

It was a lot of fun...i started looking up how to make them on the internet and how much people were charging for them and I kinda thought maybe i should get in on doing some of that....well i don't know how well they sell but if people are buying these things, some for like $600 that are seriously so simple that I'm thinkin I'm going to start a business!



I also made her some headbands which i had a lot of fun with! Ella won't wear any of hers anymore because she pulls them out, she won't even let me put a little barrette in her hair, she just rifles around in her hair until she finds them and yanks them out! I'm so sad because i made her a bunch of cute hair accessories and i can't use any of them anymore. That little stinker!



Angie, Chad's sister was our great little photographer while I was hosting.



We played this candy bar game where they had to guess which phrase about having a baby went with the name of a candy. For example baby's poopy diaper went with "Milk Duds". :) It was fun! We played some other games as well but this is the only one i have a picture of.



Cute little preggo Didi opening her awesome gifts she got at the shower.



So i forgot to take pictures of my tables before everyone came so after everyone left i kind of tried resetting them up so i could have somewhat of an idea of what they looked like, so they're a little sparse but here's an idea of how they looked.




This was the food table and pretty much all of it was gone when I took this pic...but oh well. Lots of yummy food, it was great!



Here's the Henkel family gals, look at those hot mamas! And isn't Diana such a cute preggo girl!



So i know this picture is totally out of focus but it was the only one we took that was all of us Henkels together and for some reason my camera was taking blurry pictures when i put it on timer. Weird huh?



Angie was reading to Ella and she was just loving it. Any book that has animals in it
and in particular dogs she has a hay day!

Well that's all i'm going to post for today but hold on to your seats they're still more I need to catch you up on!