Pigtails, new tricycle and I love Daddy....

Daddy thought Isabella's hair was long enough for pigtails so we tried it. She looked so cute...













































Our neighbors down the street gave Isabella this tricycle that they had outgrown. She's still a little small for it but that didn't stop her. Check out the videos of her and daddy riding. ;-)


















Isabella sure loves her daddy!

Isabella's Photo Shoot

Here is a link to view some pics of Isabella on Shutterfly.com. There are too many too choose from to put my favorites on the blog.

http://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?fid=4552c31ad4950c9f&sid=0AcMWbNm0aNWTjg

A friend of ours from church is getting into a photograpy business and used Isabella as a model for her portfolio and we get to enjoy the pictures. There are a lot to look at but hope you enjoy them.

Our Happy Girl....

Here are some pics and a couple of videos of our fun little one. Enjoy!!




















Just another day around the house...




























This is before bedtime the other night. She loves laying on her teddy bears.













I have to point out the 2 bears on the right (as you are looking at the picture); the white one is made from my mom's wedding dress and the blue one is made of clothes from my dad. My sister, Amy had these made for Isabella and I for her 1st birthday. So that is her Grandma Zarra and Grandpa Rusty bears.















These next three videos were taken the same night as the ones with her playing with her bears. She was in rare form this night. :-) Enjoy!!!


























She wanted to try on Daddy's KC Trail Nerds skull cap. It's a little big. :-)




















































These two pics are of Isabella's first tea party. We went to a play date this past Monday and it was a tea party theme. She had a lot of fun!!

Around the house and skiing...

This was our first full week with our niece Alexis living with us. It has been great and we feel like she has settled in fairly well. She has set up her bedroom in our basement and it looks nice and cozy.

These first few pics are from dinner the other night. We were eating stew beef and rice and Isabella seemed to be enjoying the rice a little too much. :-)








































Yesterday, we went to Keystone so Alexis could go skiing. Ben, Isabella and I just enjoyed being outdoors and tried to get a glimpse of her skiing. The weather was nice yesterday and not too cold. Here are a few pics of our little girl enjoying the snow and being outside.














Our little snow bunny with daddy!














Ben wanted to get closer to see Alexis and get some pics and of course Isabella wanted to go with him. He let her walk around in the snow and she loved it. It was pretty funny watching them as I was a little ways away and she looked so tiny out there.














Here we are having a late lunch while waiting for Alexis.


















Here is our snow bunny! She said she had a great time. She will definitely get to do it more now that she's here with us. :-)














This was on the way home. She was pooped.














I couldn't resist taking a pic of her little toes. She had pulled her socks off before falling asleep. I just wanted to eat them . ;-)

Here are a couple of fun videos. The first one is of her enjoying breakfast and the second one is of bath time. Enjoy!!

While Ben was away...

First of all, I apologize for not posting anything sooner. We have had a crazy couple of weeks.

Ben had to go out of town for work from 1/26 until 1/29. So Isabella and I kept busy that week. Mainly for mommy's sanity. :-) Here she is on Monday with her friends Ava and Marin. Their mom, Megan and I are good friends and we went over for a play date the Monday that Ben left. We stayed busy the rest of the week and had a really good week while Ben was gone. We both missed him terribly but we survived.































On Friday of that week, Ben was on his way to Las Vegas to pick up our new roommate, our niece Alexis. So Isabella and I went to small group (with our church) without him. Here are few pics of Isabella and the other children. We really enjoy our small group and it's pretty neat that all the children are around the same age. They are all just a few months apart from each other. Isabella is the oldest.













Isabella with a mouth full of cookies.














Cutie pie!!!













Her playmates, Liam, Greg and Sylvia.

Here is a video I took of her playing. It's pretty funny to see the static in her hair...