The Apple Avenue

Wow life if flying by! Ella will be 1 next month and i can't believe it! heath is out of school for the summer, we now have a backyard full of grass and i am starting my own online business. i had been thinking about starting one for some time now, but i was not 100% sure what to sell. i love to make beautiful things and i have finally decided to share the love (by popular demand) and create a site so all can enjoy these delectable accessories! its called "The Apple Avenue" and i am selling beautiful and trendy hair accessories! visit our site at "theappleavenue.blogspot.com" and facebook-the apple avenue- the site launches on Friday at 10am on etsy www.etsy.com/shop/theappleavenue. see yo there!!

finally an update!

Wow it has been a while, but i am proud to announce that we just got actual internet. our own internet, so now i can keep up with the blogging stuff! christmas has come and gone and now that it is march, i am in need to update the last 3 months.

Christmas was great! with the rauch clan, the weed clan, the thomasson clan and us. its so fun to see all the cousins play with each other!

-ethan playing it up with his potato heads.

ella enjoying her first christmas with her fun, new spinning toy!

Emmett and I, snuggling on the couch! I LOVE YOU EMMETT BUG!!!!!

Ella and her Grandma and grandpa great Thomasson at the christmas get together.

Ella and her first dolly. she loves her minnie mouse doll! her face is classic!

Ella and Emmett playing in a fire truck at the fire fighter museum. Mama and Ella hanging out at grandma Thomassons house. we had sooooooooooo much fun!

The 3 NERDS!!!! Michael, scott and ethan playing their computer games. what nerds they are. even the 3 year old is in on the action! NEW YEARS 2011!!!!!

We were sooo very hyper! that was the most energetic new years i have ever experienced

Yes that is only sparkling apple cider! the way we were acting you would think someone spiked it!

The 4 sisters!

New years eve

Pretty girl in her tutu!

Ella, wearing her first pair of tennie-shoes

This past sunday we went to the duck ponds close to our house and the ducks just loved ella (and her cheese-its) they came right up next to us and ella was looking around, smiling and trying to figure out wat the heck those silly little duckies were!

Big girl playing in her crib.

Ella and mama!! she does this funny, shocked look whenever a camera is on her.

HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!!!!!!!

Pretty girl growing fast!

Look how B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L my little girl is becoming! she will be 6 months on january 1st and i can't believe it! she is soooooo sweet, and boy did i think she laughed and giggled before, wow she really does now!! These are some pictures from our family pictures we had taken. Last week we started on Bananas and she absolutly LOVES them. We can't get them in her mouth fast enough! Life has been busy. I am working from home teaching piano lessons as well as teaching a music preschool and loving it! Heath is busy working as well as getting classes set up for the Spring semester. Thats right, Heath is going back to school and starts at NAU this coming Spring. He will be a full-time student majoring in Business managment, and will hopefully be graduating in Dec 2012! We had a change of plans in our future and prayed about going back to school and we got our answere. Ella and i are excited for daddy! we hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Growing like a flower and Wedding

Ella loves all of her new toys she gets to enjoy, now that she is a big 4 month old girl!

Ella and her cousin, ShayLee having a swing (daddy's idea, can you tell).

We went to our waed trunk or treat and ella was an adorable pink flower, stem and all!

My little flower!

This is my most favorite picture! she is saying i love you

Ella started on Rice cereal this weekend, and she LOVES IT! my girl is getting sooooooo big!

This past weekend we attended heath's little brother Kaleb's wedding. It was a wonderful day! I'm excited to have another sister in law in the family!

Ella and ShayLee hanging out on the grass at the Temple. They love sucking on their hands!

Tired baby girl! It was a long day for her.

Wedding, Birthday and Ella

One of my most bestest friends got married this past weekend. Tracee and Reese are such a BEAUTIFUL couple. There ceremony was wonderfus, so was their reception! They had a trendy vintage themed wedding, I loved it!

The four of us girls, finally married at last!

Wet-N-Wild With karla and emmett in the wave pool! ELLA LOVED IT!

Ella is the happiest baby i have EVER seen. she is non stop smiles. mommy can make her smile almost on demand, it is absolutly adorable! Ella is 12 pounds now and 23 inches long. she is growing sooooooo fast-

Mommy and Ella at Heaths family birthday dinner. We had Spagetti with Sausage meat sauce, salad, french bread and very yumme brownie cupcakes topped with cream cheese marshmellow topping with strawberries! YUMMY! Happy birthday daddy!

HAPPY 27th BIRTHDAY DADDYKINDS! (DON'T THOSE LOOK YUMMY!)

Ella is sooooooooo in love with her little purple butterfly hankey blanket. she holds it in her hand and rubs it on her face and sucks on it. she loves it!

Smiley baby!

Asleep at church-

Ella loves the cool bouncer that aunt karla let her borrow. This is Ella watching her baby einstein DVD. she loved those movies. She literally will not turn her head till it is over.

Her favorite toy is her moo Cow thing (im not sure what it is called) it has REALLY annoying music too it, but she loves it-

My smilie little flower head! She absolutly loves to put her hands together like this! Its absolutly adorable!

New SUV and 8 week ella update!

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE my new SUV it has sooooooooooo much power with its Turbo Engine.
We started having some expensive problems with our honda accord, so the spirit promted us to look for a new car and we got a great deal on our 2007 Mazda cx-7. I never knew it, but Mazdas makes some really top of the line Vehicles! and they are really safe and have really great features! ours only has 26K miles and is very very clean! I LOVE IT and it even is AWD so watch out snow, i'm going to kick your butt this winter!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHH my baby is already 8 weeks, where does the time fly!!!
This used to be my outfit and hat when i was a baby!!! i found it in a box in my garage!!

Ella and her cousin ShayLee are 5 weeks a part and love each other. this is them having a ball at Friday park day!

They are sooooo cute!!! AshLee please don't move to Camp Verde!!!!! Please Please!!!

Blow out #2 and this was after i wiped her off with a towel! any one want to bet their child has bigger blowouts??? i beg to differ...........she blew it all the way up to her face!!!! SICK!!!!

TERRIBLE--HEATH TEACHING HIS DAUGHTER AT THE YOUNG AGE OF 7 WEEKS TO PULL HIS FINGER!!!!!!!!!!AHHHHHHHHHHHHH i'm afraid of what else she is going to learn from heath!!!!!

Ella is learning to like tummy time on her boppy! she is HILARIOUS she even tries to sit up in her car seat. my child has a very strong neck!

I love that hat on her, she is soooooooooo beautiful!

This is a prime example of the adorable face she makes when she wakes up from a nap! yes it is her laughing)

My Sweet girl!

Ella LOVES to laugh and it is hilarious! she will wake up in the morning and start jibber jabering for like 20 minutes and smiling! it is the cutest thing. she is such a happy and fun baby!

Being a HAM in the car!

Sleeping at dad's soft ball game! (yes they are boring, sorry dad)

A couple of weeks ago Ella and I went to Wet N Wild with grandma, grandpa, aunt karla, uncle michael, Candy, Scott and cousins Ethan and Emmett. We had such a good time and the weather was perfect so ella did'nt get to hot!

Ethan is such a HAM!!! I love all his funny faces!

Emmett bug, eating his hat!

Ella loves to sleep (which i am very greatful for!). Grandpa hung out with her while mommy went on water slides!