COUCH POTATO!

We were given this little recliner for Ellie and she just loves it. Joel and I laugh all the time because we'll look over at her and shes just lounging there watching her "Baby Einstein" video and sipping her milk. She'll even invite one of her friends to sit with her every once in a while. I guess you could say life couldn't get any better.

TUBING!

Our family was fortunate to have "Uncle Ryley" and "Aunt Tarryn" come visit us in freezing Idaho. Surprisingly when they came we didn't have too much snow, but we thought it would be fun to go tubing anyways, plus we've been wanting to take The Elle for a while now. Ellie was such a big help with getting the tubes ready. She was too cute playing in the snow all bundled up. We drove up to our foothills in search of some snow, it was scarce (rare for us). The best place we found was a blocked off road that we had to hike up. Coming down we had to be careful not to hit any weeds or twigs that popped up, not to mention the big metal fence that was at the bottom. It was funny, we had to bail at the end to avoid the fence. All in all we had a blast though. You'll have to visit my sis's page for more fun photos of us tubing. (mccormicksquad.blogspot) Well Tar and Ry, we miss ya, thanks again for the visit. You'll have to come next year when we have better snow. Ha!

PLAY TIME

FOUR EYES!

Joel uses these white glasses for seeing even though they are sunglasses. He had lenses made for them, we pop the lenses for Ellie's eyes. Most people may think they are a little extreme, but for those of you who know Joel I would assume you would agree they fit his style. Ellie couldn't get enough of them. She loved the construction glasses just as much, which are way cooler. I've noticed a little "Like Father like Daughter", which is painful to admit.

CHRISTMAS DAY

We got Ellie all bundled up and had Christmas breakfast at Uncle Justin and Aunt Val's house. Ellie opened a few of her presents, but definitely enjoyed the boxes and wrapping paper more. If we would have only known...Then we had a big Christmas Lunch at Grandma and Grandpa Hendricks house. Yum, the food was good. The rest of the day was spent relaxing and playing games. We were just glad we could spend it with family, although we missed all our AZ family, Love you guys!

CHRISTMAS EVE

This Pics for you Aunt Tar

CHRISTMAS SUNDAY

We got Ellie all ready in her Christmas dress and had her pose in front of our Christmas trees (we had to set up our little ones this year and put them on our end table so Ellie wouldn't pull on the ornaments). Once we placed her on the end table, she did what every little "puppy" would do, she put the ornaments in her mouth. She ate some of the glitter and had it everywhere. We couldn't help but laugh. Where did she come from?

LITTLE BANDIT

Ellie really wanted her bib off and wasnt going to let anything stop her... until it got caught on her nose. It was so cute. Now she thinks it funny and pulls this move often.

SANTA BABY...

Joel was practicing taking some picture with his Dads old camera and who better to pose for them than a naked girl. Ellie was being so funny and loved being naked in her scarf, beanie and mittens we got her. What a tease. I guess you could say were just lucky she didn't pee all over the place...

ROUGH MORNING

Ellie was so determined to wear moms slippers the other day. They were so soft she would rather wear them on her hands rather than on her feet were they should go, not that it would matter anyways. I don't think she realized the were a few sizes too big. Then she got stuck on our bar stool and mean mom let her cry and stay stuck until she got the camera and took a picture. How Rude!!! Not to mention we were missing a sock almost the whole morning. Still cant find it to this day. Funny how those things just disappear.