Twick or Tweet

For Halloween this year, our family decided to be part of the 50's. My wonderful sister in law, Wendy, made the cutest poodle skirts for us to wear. Our first Halloween event this year was our ward trunk-or-treat. It was a Halloween party followed by trick or treating in the parking lot. People would decorate their cars and kids would trick or treat car to car. Ella loved the concept of trick or treating. She loved going car to car saying "twick or tweet". It was soo cute. After we finished going to all the cars, she insisted on going again. She would walk to anyone who had a bag of candy and say "twick or tweet". She was soo fascinated with all the candy and would take breaks by plopping in the middle of the crowds and looking at her candy in amazement. When we got home she ate a lollipop and that was the last of her candy that she knows of. The rest is for mommy and daddy.

Bay Area Fun

Ella and Grammy Scott

Auntie Val and Jordan

Marjie and Marcie

Hanging out with Josh and Sara and the Yogurt Shack

Grandma Jean, Jordan, and Ella

Last week, we made a little trip up to the Bay Area to visit family and pick up some things. Ella and I flew up on Monday and Jordan drove up on Thursday. Jordan's grandma, Grandma Jean, had just been put into the an assisted living home and was moving out of her house. The sweet and kind grandma she is, gave us some of her belongings, including a car and the Scott family genealogy. Jordan's parents also met us there from Washington and gave us some furniture. We scored! Now our house actually looks furnished and feels more like a home. After our trip, we looked at the many boxes of genealogy we received and are soo excited to learn more about Jordan's family history. Grandma Jean is an amazing person who loves her family deeply. We are so blessed we get to have the family history and hope to keep up with the amazing work she has put into this.
While we were there, we were able to visit with family and see a few friends we haven't seen in a while. We love the Bay Area. Every time Jordan and I go up there, we always say "we hope someday we can live here". Beside the fact that you can't find a house for under a half a million dollars, you can't beat the beautiful weather and the friends and family. Maybe that will happen. You never know.

Jumping Jacks!!!

Ella and I went to a place called Jumping Jacks for Hannah Foate's Birthday. This place was soo cool. It was a giant warehouse with lots of bounce houses in it. Ella loved jumping on them. She had no fear of going through the obstacles and sliding down the slides. She even slid down all by herself. When we got home she was exhasted from all the fun.

Where have we been?

Okay, I know it has been a long time since I made a post. Lots of things have been going on. First of all, we moved in August to a new apartment. Several days after that, we went to the Bay Area for a week, Jordan started his second year of law school, we have had family in town, and we didn't have Internet so I couldn't post anything. Excuses, Excuses, NO MORE Excuses! Things have settled down and we finally got Internet about a week ago allowing me to blog again.

As for our family, Jordan started school again. It is going sooo much better than last year. He actually has time to spend with his family. Ella and I love it. He enjoys his classes and loves to study law. He had been working hard but also has time to relax and spend time with his family.

I have been busy taking care of a now 20 month old who is full of lots of energy. I have picked up a hobby of running every morning with 2 girls from our ward. They have kids also, so the 3 of us run pushing jogging strollers. It is quite the workout. I keep myself busy by also tutoring my niece Maylan in math 2 times a week and watching my cousin Paige 2 times a week.

Ella is Ella. She is as busy as can be. She is at such a fun age. Her personality shines. We got rid of the pacifier at 18 months (she gets it at bed time)and since then, She talks,and talks, and talks. She can say sentences of 3-4 words but most of the time she just babbles and then you recognize a few words in between them. It amazes me how much she learns each day. I feel like I will tell her a word once and she remembers it. She has an interest of using the potty and goes in it about once a day and she can say the letters of the alphabet(after repeating them from me). She is getting sooo big. She had developed an interest for Elmo and watches Elmo's world all the time (no more Baby Einstein). I am soo blessed that I get to be with her everyday of her life and see her accomplishments. I'm sad to see her grow up but look forward to watching her learn and progress. We love her!

Yummy! Fountain Water!

A few days ago, Ella and I got together with some girls from Jordan's Law school. Reilly, Camilla, and I met at Victoria Gardens (shopping mall) to hang out an let the kids play. Reilly has a little girl named Zoie who is a few weeks older than Ella. While we did a little bit of shopping, we let the kids play in the fountains. Ella is going through a hard time with teething. She is cutting her 2 year old molars which seems to be very painful. She bites on EVERYTHING! Well, while we were at the fountains, Ella kept eating the water. Although it looked hilarious,I felt bad for her because she was helping her with the pain. I tried to not let her drink the water but I did just to take one quick picture. We had lots of fun and hope to do it again soon.

Pee Pee in the Potty!

I know it my be a little early but Ella has shown interest in the potty. I started putting her on the potty right before her bath and she started going. I would reward her with a sucker if she went. she likes having a sucker in the bath so she continues to go in the potty. She has also gone a few time throughout the day but not all the time. We are so pround of her accomplishments and love her soo much. Hopefully she will be potty trained before she is 2! She still has 4 1/2 months.

Farewell to Elder Montgomery

Last weekend, we went down to San Diego to attend my cousin Michael's farewell. He is serving in the Tucson, Arizona Mission. We stayed in a hotel down there along with Ryan and Wendy and my parents. While we were there, Jordan went to see the Aircraft Carrier Museum while my mom and I went shopping at the San Diego Swap meet(O.C. swap meet is way better). We had a fun relaxing weekend. On Sunday we went to Michael's farewell at church followed by a get together brunch at his house. We are sooo proud of Michael and his decision to serve the Lord. We know he will be a great missionary.

Labor Day Weekend

For Labor Day weekend, We had our friends Matt, Mari, and Taylor Larson come visit us. They got to visit our new apartment. We are trying to convince them to move up by us. Hopefully Matt will get into Western Dental School so they can. While they were here, we went to the Orange County Swap Meet, swimming, Tio's Mexican Restaurant, and church. We love having them come and visit. We all get along so well. We hope we see them soon.

Our Family Pictures

We finally got some family pictures done. We did through my friend in Corona. She is amazing and actually got some really good picture of Ella. I highly recommend her if you need any pictures taken. Her website is rachelkirkphotography.com

2 Best Friends

While my brother and his family came into town, Ella got to spend some time with her cousin Abigal. These two little girls were sooo cute playing but a lot of work since the are both 18 months. With both their personalities shinning, I can see they will be good friends when they are older. As you can tell, I could not get one picture of both of them looking and smiling at the camera.

Legoland

This is only made of legos including the cars and the people.Pretty amazing.


Today we went to Legoland with Rob, Raelene, Wendy, my mom, and all the kids. My brother came into town for the week so we had lots of fun things to do. Yesterday we went to Disneyland but I didn't bring my camera. Legoland was fun but there weren't a lot of rides for Ella to ride. In fact, she only rode 2. They did have an attraction full of lots of water and she loved to run through that. However she didn't have her bathing suit so we let her go in her diaper. I normally wouldn't do that but she could do anything at the park and she really wanted to run through it. I felt bad for her. I didn't want her clothes to get wet because it was toward the end of the day and I didn't want her to sit in her wet clothes. oh well. she had fun and I had fun.

Pixieland

While we were in the bay Area, Marcie, Drew, Marjie, Ella, and I went to Pixieland in Concord. I really wanted to go because I used to go there when I was little. Back then, it was called Funderland and they have all the same rides. Ella rode the airplanes all by herself and wanted to ride the dragon roller coaster but wasn't tall enough. she would just stare at it in amusement. We had lots of fun.

Bay Area Fun!!!!

Brent, Jared and Paige and Chevy's
Jordan, Me, Nicholas, and Jess
Ella hanging with the Nosal Boys.
Auntie Val and Ella

Marcie and Jeff

After getting pretty much everything moved in, We decided to take one more quick trip up to the Bay Area to visit family and friends before Jordan starts school. We first stayed with the Nosals for 3 nights followed by Marcie's for 3 nights. Our vacation was filled with visiting family and friends, Marcie's birthday, Marjie's birthday, laying poolside watching TV day and night in the Nosal's pool, Pixieland, shopping, watching the opening ceremony of the Olympics, and the finale of So You Think You Can Dance (Go Joshua). we had a blast and Ella didn't get sick like last time.

Say Cheese!! OC Fair

After spending a few days of straight unpacking, we decided to take a break and visit the Orange County Fair. We had lots of fun. When we got to the fair, we looked around in the arts and crafts, visited the petting zoo, and watched the people ride the crazy rides. It was a fun day.