6 months

I don't know if you can really tell in this picture but for Elle's 6 month birthday she got her ears pierced!!! I love it! She looks like such a girly girl now!! Jon was not too happy about it but I think deep down inside he thinks she looks even cuter than she did before! :)
Weight: 16 pounds 4 ounces - 57%
Height: 26 1/2 inches - 77 %
Head: 43 cm - 66 %

Our little Elle Bell is getting so big!! I can't believe how much she's grown and changed so quickly! She sits up and plays with toys and keeps herself entertained pretty well. She can roll like a champ. She laughs and smiles all the time, she's such a happy baby! She says "dadada" all day long. She loves other babies and kids & gets so excited when she sees them. When she meets adults she just stares at them and won't smile though!! She is SO much fun and such a blessing to have in our family!!! WE LOVE YOU BOO BEAR!!!

Happy Halloween!!

Elle and Maya are both bumble bees!!! They're both so dang cute.. mostly Elle! We went to the Halloween party at Petsmart last night.. it was HILARIOUS!! People get pretty creative with their dogs... There was Pocahontas, Little Red Riding Hood, a farmer, a fairy, a hula dog (complete with a coconut bra!) and Batman and Robin!! Too funny :)

Big thanks to my MIL for finding the costumes!!!

kevin & jenny's wedding

My cousin got married on 10/09/2009 in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple.. SO beautiful!! my dad is the amazing photographer:

holla to wireless internet

Jon's parents have wireless internet so now it's my goal to blog everytime i'm up here... we'll see how that goes.. Here's a little bit of what we've been up to:

Elle's first camping trip:

Elle got a Bumbo:

Elle is eating rice cereal and baby food:

Elle got a Jumperoo:

Elle loves her handsome daddy:

I ran my first 5K with my MIL & SIL's:

and I pushed Elle in the stroller so it was her first 5K as well!!


That's about it really... Everything is just the usual!! We're just watching Elle grow like a little weed!! She's gonna be 5 months on Sunday! We love her more than anything!!

Basically I live in a cave...

So I know that I suck at keeping up with this thing ever since I quit working at Wolford's where I sat in front of a computer all day and blogs were my life. I've been even worse since becoming a mommy, can't really complain about that though. I love being a mommy!

So I don't have the internet, accept for on rare occassions when Jon brings his work computer in from his patrol car and when I'm at work. But when I'm at work I actually have work to keep me busy the whole time I'm there and then I go home.

I also don't have TV. We used to have Dish, then we became poor and cancelled it to pay more important bills. Then we had nothing for like 2 years. This summer we got all excited about the whole Digital Cable thing because we thought we would at least get a few channels like 2,4,5,13,14. Those have plenty of good things to watch. Well we got the converter and we got an antenna and now we get......CHANNEL 8. THAT'S IT.

One thing I do have is a cell phone. Other than that, I LIVE IN A CAVE. The only people I see are Elle, Maya, sometimes Jon, and sometimes my family.

So anyway that's my life. And those are my excuses for not keeping up on my blog. The only one that really applies is the internet, I just thought I'd throw the other things in there. So when I do have the internet, it's a TOTAL pain in the butt to load pictures because nowhere and I mean NOWHERE in the world has a faster internet than Wolford Collision Repair. I really miss that place. So I have to resize all my pictures so they're small enough that they'll upload in a timely manner. So here's a quick update sans pictures (until a later date):

Elle has a cute smile and a cute little giggle

Elle is holding her head up like a champ and even lifting it up while she's in her carseat

Elle is learning to sit up better by herself. She totally slouches but she sits!

I love Elle

Jon put in his two weeks at lowes and is going to do security at the coyote farm so he can be come in the evenings with us. He also has a new assignment so he gets to work days and have weekends off for the next two years WOO HOO!!

I'm still working part time

I'm doing Weight Watchers and I've lost 14 pounds (on top of the baby weight) GO ME!

Jon's parents and my brother both just bought new houses.

I want a new house

That's about it!!

Elle's Blessing Day

We blessed Elle on July 5th. Everything worked out really well considering how stressful it was to get ready for!! Jon gave an awesome blessing and we had tons of family and friends there to support us! Thanks to everyone for coming and for helping out with food and everything!!!

Elle would NOT smile... I'll have to put her back in her dress and try again sometime!!

Our happy little family!
We love having Elle as a part of our family!! She is such a good baby, we're very spoiled!

4th of July

Elle and McKaylee giving cousin kisses!!

Friday we went over to Bear Lake. Mostly just for the drive.. my brothers and dad went for a motorcycle ride so we followed them over there and had lunch at LeBeau's and then came back!

Saturday I ran around all day getting ready for Elle's blessing. We also went to the parade in Hyrum and the Cruise-In!! We love 4th of July weekend :)

Our little patriotic family! Happy Independence Day!!!

LAS VEGAS BABY!!!!

Meeting Great Grandma JoAnne!!

Jon's grandma came to visit from California for a couple weeks!

It was so good to see her again!

After grandma's visit, we headed to Las Vegas with Jon's whole family. She rode down with us and then Jon's aunt took Grandma back to California with her.

We started things off right with dinner at Cheescake Factory! mmm

Our first night in Vegas we stayed at Treasure Island. This is the king size bed (awesome!) with little elle hiding in the middle of it!

The next day we could check into the house we rented... it was SO awesome. There were enough rooms and bathrooms for each little family to have their own space, a pool with a waterfall and shallow end for the kids, sunken bar you could swim up to with a grill, fridge etc, basketball court, batting cage, fire pit, ping pong, pool table, and pretty much anything else you could ever want!!!

To the left you can see the sunken bar you could swim right up to. There's the waterfall we jumped off, pictures below. And at the back of the yard is the basketball court and batting cages. Pretty freakin' sweet set up!! We had a blast there!

Elle's first time swimming!! She LOVED it! She loves bath time so I figured she would like the pool! This little raft was just her size!!

Twins! Mr. Tiki Man and Jon

These guys were all around the yard!

Our little family enjoying the pool!

Back flip like nobody's business!

Jon has great form doesn't he?

We had the most amazing WEEK in Vegas! It was SO hot and we loved every minute of it! Being in the pool all day you didn't even notice the heat. We went down to the strip a couple nights and Jon did some gambling (he won $30 woooow!) But mostly we just hung out in the pool (which was so nice to have to ourselves!) and at a lot of food!! Thanks Jack and Pam for everything - we couldn't have had more fun!!!

more elle bell

random pics

our pretty girl...

...knows how to smile now!!

meeting mommy

and meeting daddy

i can't believe how much she's changed already!

we love our bows aunt holly!!!

Remember this? (I'm still trying to forget that I looked like that..eww)

Jon's sister Holly gave me this bow-mania at my shower! She is AMAZING and MADE all of them!! now i finally get to put them on my sweet elle baby!! Here are a few pictures for your enjoyment. Thanks again Holly!!

Elle had a major blow out right after this picture.. I think she was only in that outfit for like 15 minutes haha

Rockin out

I have to make up for my last post... I posted a picture of elle with her "favorite cousin" mckaylee. then i realized that she has 5 other cousins HAHA that wasn't very nice was it?! so once again here are elle and mckaylee - her favorite cousin on the NELSON side!!! we still love lacey, reagan, carson, jace, and owen!!!!

Tummy time!!

SO that's pretty much what we've been up to... hope you enjoy looking at our baby as much as i do... she's pretty much the only thing i ever take pictures of now!!