Some Treats....

"The Chicken Dance"



This one I found this morning and I couldn't resist. It's from March of last year, Elly was 15 months old. Sorry about the wind.

"Animal Sounds"

Snippets of Christmas

At Mima's house in California taking care of her new baby:


At Grandma Anderson's playing with the blocks and the chicken cheer at K-ma's:


Sledding in K-ma's backyard and learning to spell:

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Christmas Pictures

We had a fantastic Christmas. We spent time with both Brandon's family in California and mine here in Salt Lake. Both families were a lot of fun. I didn't take any still pictures in California- only tons of videos. I'll post the videos next time. Here is a little peek into our Salt Lake Christmas:


This is what my talented sister, Madelyn, taught me to do:

It's going to be a scarf.

This is how she taught my nieces, Emma (10) and Lily (6) to knit, too:





This is what we did in my mom and dad's back yard:

Emma, Lily, Elly, David and Dan at the bottom.













This is what Jacob looked like the whole time we were out there, mostly:






This is what we did after sledding:

Elly absolutely loved the hot tub! She didn't want to get out. She didn't want anyone to hold her, either. She thought she could just swim around on her own.


This is a picture of the oldest Fowles cousin and the youngest:



This is...three sisters:


This is Elly on Christmas morning in her Christmas jammies with her fake smile:

Signs

When Elly was little, we taught her some signs using a video. It turns out that she picked up a lot of signs from the video that we didn't even know. She still remembers almost all of them...

Fousand Dollars

I really can't add anything to this one.

Christmas Tree Dance

Our girl loves to dance. This particular time, there is no music to accompany her. (Usually, she requests "Hello Seattle" by Owl City.)