Christmas at Papa and Nana's House

We were able to fly out to California for Christmas this year. Stella's first plane ride and she did alright. Our flight was suppose to leave at 3:00 but we weren't in the air until 7:00 because we didn't have a pilot! I still think David could have flown, but once we got there we had a lot of fun. One of Nana's traditions is making tamales so she prepared the meat as we spread the masa in the corn husks. They were the best tamales we have ever had. She made so much good food we mostly ate and hung out in our jammies the whole time.

Stella in her christmas dress


Penguin Christmas


Stella loves her Papa

We made our own portrait studio at home. Stella LOVED be a stocking stuffer.

She ate a lot of the fuzz.

The day after Christmas we went to Columbia, a cute little old fashioned town with horse and buggy and all sorts of fun stuff to look at. David's favorite was the black smith.
We stopped in at a saloon and had Sarsaparilla

We got to pan for gold and we actually found some. We also found turqoise and other gems

Thanks Papa and Nana and Jessy for a wonderful Christmas!!!

This is the tail end of her rolling over, I didn't get the camera out fast enough. And even though it's 'so last month' and she's moved onto more interesting things, I thought I would post it anyway.

We didn't do a Christmas Tree this year, this is our Christmas palm instead and our little

present underneath

Family Photo

Singing

Stella loves pulling herself up holding onto our thumbs

She also loves my princess poofy bed as much as mommy does

Stella's latest thing these last few days is talking, she's adorable going on and on like she's a part of the conversation. David took this video on his phone, I hope you all enjoy it.

Here are some more pictures and updates on our little Stella.

The poor little thing had an ear infection followed with a cold this past month, but as you can tell by the pictures below, she's a trooper and smiled through a lot of it. Not to mention she rolled over for the first time from her back to her tummy!! I was so excited I called daddy right away.

For her first Thanksgiving we made the rounds. We had thanksgiving dinner with David's new step-dad, Steve and his brother and family. The next day we went to my mom and Tom's house where we got to see most of Stella's cousins, aunts and uncles. Mom's house was a zoo with all grandchildren running up and down the halls, but watching the proud grandparents, they didn't mind one bit =)

I'm not sure what happened to the format here, but enjoy the pictures anyway. Her little legs are getting so strong.

We just balance her and she'll stand up. No more laying down in our arms either, she's always got to be sitting up watching what's going on.

In her pretty little dress Aunt Jenny gave her.

Then the Saturday after thanksgiving we went to Lynn and Lori's house. Mema, Grandpa and Aunt Amy were visiting too. Lori was excited for sunday because she bought stella some cute clothes for church. (pictures will follow soon) And I was spoiled and stayed home to sleep since the little pill passed what she had onto me and daddy.

There's a picture on the wall that Stella has stared at since she was born. It's a blown up wedding picture of me and David outside the temple. This is her looking up at it, it makes her happy.