Ella turned 9 years old!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELLA!!!

This girl is growing up so fast and I don't know what we'd do without her.  

She is always so helpful and kind and brings so much joy to our family.

First we celebrated her birthday with G&G Wagner and then we celebrated with our family and then again with G&G Jones.  So she had 3 parties. :-)

Cute girl...she is our petite daughter.  She still totally fits in her baptism dress and wanted to wear it on her birthday. :-)

She asked me to make her an oreo cake again this year.  I changed it up a little bit from last year.

Got herself a new pink guitar.

And as a surprise we signed her up for horse riding lessons.

 

Something that is special is that Ella shares her birthday with her Great Grandpa Chambers who is still alive.  And this year they got to celebrate together!

Ella at her horse riding lesson.  We let Addi go with her for fun.

Snow Trip

Every winter we try to take the kids up to the snow.  We found a place not to far away that is great for sledding.  So we rounded up some snow clothes from our friends from Utah and headed up the mountain for the day.

Cooper is ready to go in his onesie pajamas.

Mae was our little eskimo.  We had her covered head to toe and she had little nubs for limbs because we layered her hands and feet.  She just crawled around the snow and loved eating it!

Our Costco sleds worked like champs!

Tyler and Cooper got some air!

Clara was a little grumpy at first and didn't want to be there but then she warmed up to the snow and had fun.

This is my favorite picture.  Cooper got the most air of the trip.

We brought our cousin along with us.

What good would a snow trip be without coming home and splitting your chin open on the bathroom floor.  Luckily our friend Dr. Mike glued her up so we were able to avoid the emergency room.

Happy New Year! 2015

2014 came and went so fast.  It's hard to remember everything that happened.  Here's to another great year though!  New Years Eve we celebrated with an early dinner and fireworks around 7 p.m.  I think we were all in bed by 10...haha!  We're not really late night people.

This boy LOVES fireworks.  But I guess what boy doesn't right?

Ella with all the "goods".

  

  

 

Then we had some snow on the mountains to welcome in the new year! 

This doesn't happen very often for us in AZ. :-)