Ella's 1st Thanksgiving

This year all of us (my family and Edward's family) got together at my Dad's house for Thanksgiving! We had a great time with amazing food!
Some of the group:


Dad tried something new this year instead of turkey, we had a turducken! I had never heard of it but it was very interesting and pretty tasty! I even tried the duck just to say I tried it, duck is not my thing!

Ella had a great time being passed around to everyone!
Alicia and Ella


Justin and Ella

Ginger(my grandmother) and Ella

My Dad and Ella

more cute pictures of Ella...

A Visit from Mimi

Earlier this week my mom (or Mimi) came to visit us from Florida. We had a blast, she arrived Saturday am and stayed through Wedneday pm. Ella was pretty much spoiled the whole time by her and enjoyed every minute of it.
On Monday, we went to Williamsburg for a shopping trip, we try to go every year to get some Christmas shopping done at the outlets. Ella slept the whole way down there, I was shocked! She did GREAT while we shopped the whole day but I was a little scared about coming back because Ella hates riding in the car in the dark (not sure why). The trip coming back wasn't that bad but in Charlottesville is where it started going down hill. (Sorry Sara, I should have called you on the way back through but I failed to do so but at least I know Ella can travel to Richmond, we'll visit soon.) Here are some updated pictures:

Cooking with Ella

Edward's 28th Birthday

Monday was Edward's 28th Birthday and I tried to make him a cake with antlers on it. It was a failure! They didn't look right. What do you think?

Ella playing in the tissue paper from Edward's gift

And here are the pictures that Edward really wanted me to post:

Edward and Ryan posing, they thought this was the coolest picture ever.

Ella's 1st Halloween

The Goldfish




Ella hates grass!