She's a walker...

Ella has been a full-time walker for the past few weeks...which is probably why we haven't had time to post anything new. We're tired! She is very busy running around the house and harassing poor Desmond (the dog). Here are some recent pictures. It was beautiful here last weekend and Aaron was off the entire time, so we went to the museum and Ella loved the animals!

A few more pics and videos (almost walking...)

Happy 2010!!!

We hope everyone enjoyed the holidays :) After a lot of requests/harassment and a few technical difficulties (Andrea's user error), we have finally updated the blog! We didn't realize how many people check for updates until we fell behind in our posts; thanks for keeping up with Ella!

A lot has happened since Ella's birthday. She had her last planned surgery in November and we hope it's the last one, at least for a very long time! She took longer to recover from this surgery and got very sick as a result, but she's doing great now.

Ella got to celebrate Halloween with all of her buddies from playgroup...she was a bee. Unfortunately we weren't able to join the family in Florida for Thanksgiving, but we had a house full of residents over for dinner who were also stuck at work like Aaron for the holiday. However, we did get to go to Michigan for Christmas this year! We celebrated with family in Royal Oak and then Grandpa and Grandma Burnell came to see us in NC right after Christmas...we missed Uncle Tom and Aunt Kelly, but we hope to see them soon.

Here are some recent pictures and we'll have some videos up soon, too.

Ella's 1st Birthday!

We can't believe that Ella turned 1 on Sunday! Mary and Betsy were our special guests in town to visit for the weekend and help us celebrate with Ella...they made it much more of a party! The huge banner you see in the pics is thanks to Betsy!

And since there have been quite a few complaints about the lack of posting lately, here are a few other recent pics...

Ella has been busy!

Here are some new pictures and videos of Ella. She is on the move all the time now which keeps us busy and tired. Ella has been cheering on the Wolverines and has even perfected her own "hike" pose. And we had a nice visit from Uncle Howard, Aunt Ellen, Rachel, and David!

I guess this is what Ella thought of the food we offered to her...

And here she is practicing the "hike" again...

Ella's First Trip to Michigan!

We made a quick trip to Michigan so that Ella could meet more of our family. We were only home for a few days, but as you can see from the pictures Ella got to see a lot of people during a very short visit!

Our trip started out in Port Huron (Andrea's hometown)...

And then we moved to Royal Oak (Aaron's hometown) for the second half of the trip...