the big 1!

Ella's First Birthday!

Well the big day had come! Ella turned one this past Sunday. We had a big party for her on Saturday with all the kids and family.

Ella had a really great time- She ate lots of food and got some really great presents!

On Sunday- Babcia and I took her out to lunch and to pick some apples- Ella got to meet some goats and turkeys.

The best part of the day for Ella was the apple eating part- She loves just munching on them all day. Ella was pretty worn out by all the festivities. She even slept in a bit the day after.

And then she found all my old yarn and played dress up with it- Beautiful!

Did I Tell You How Excited I am about Ella's Birthday Cake?

Big News! We got the new camera!! Its a Kodak Easy Share-

Its pretty cool- its red. Kinda big though- we didn't expect that.

The other big news is that at about 3:30ish Sunday morning- Ella will be ONE! That is so...whoa. We got Ella some birthday dress up stuff- and I made her a special cake today. It came out soooo great.

Its funfetti - so thats why its bumpy- and I'm not really a pro yet- with an oven thats all level and provides even heat and stuff- but maybe someday?

I got some pointers from Chrissy Spencer and watched a bunch of youtube videos- and tada! I also taped Ace of Cakes last night- so

August Pictures

So I ordered a new camera yesterday- only to find the cord to our old camera today-

But its cool- I'm not super mad- just pretty annoyed. So here are some of the things we did this August.

We had a lot of fun. Ella is now into playing dress-up. Its really funny because I never taught her to try stuff on. One day she just found my fuzzy scarf and started wearing around the house. From there, she got in to all her clothes and hats and pretty much anything that fit over her head.

Ella is learning to do new stuff everyday. Today she learned to climb up the couch- I can handle that one- but this weekend when she climbed from her table to the kitchen table and I found her straddled from the kitchen table across to her high chair- I'll admit- I freaked out a bit. How does she get so high up so fast? She can't walk yet. Its her birthday this Sunday-so hopefully she will get her act together by then :)

In August we also threw my mom a surprise birthday party. It was fun we had Swing Buffalo come and do a dance lesson for us.

Can't find the camera cord...

So- I've been dying to blog and I have a ton of pics of the last 3 weeks- but mom and dad's camera is ghetto and requires a special cord to download anything. I can't find it :( I'm really sad about it- because we threw mom a surprise 65th bday party and did swing dancing and I have great Ella pictures with spaghetti O's- classic stuff- and its all trapped on the 1980's camera.

But otherwise we are cool. I started my jobs as a teacher and kid watcher at the chapel- I guess I'm kinda a kid watcher at both.
This week I am doing lectures on the microscope and mitosis- its been kinda lame- I need to make the microscope cool, or come up with some good mitosis jokes- Whats the best way to determine the sex of a chromosome? Pull down its genes!
Pretty good huh?
maybe I just stick some lasers on my microscope.
anyway- so a lot of the students are older then me- so thats weird- and I never see any of the other teachers cause I work at night- but I did get keys!