Christmas Happenings

Here's a little Christmas recap for the Ellsworths:

We went to our ward Christmas party were Addie was able to meet Santa for the first time. It was not a good experience. Repeat, not a good experience!

At first Addie is reaching towards me, begging me to take her back.

Then she gives up hope, and simply sobs in the big man's arms.

Oh well, there's always next year.

We celebrated Sinterklaas.

Santa knew we were going to be on the road for Christmas, so he decided to bring some loot a little early.

Lights in the Heights.

Addie was mesmerized by all the lights and the performers.

(Sorry for the sideways pic)

Especially these little ballerinas.

I think we may have a dancer on our hands.

Amazing.

We also attended our Stake's Christmas Concert. If you've seen Addie in church or at ward choir, then you know that the girl loves music. She likes to conduct anytime there is music. At this concert, Addie conducted the Hallelujah Chorus in perfect time. Jon, the choir director was so impressed with his young apprentice that he captured it on video!

11 Months!

Here's what I'm like at 11 months:

I love making silly faces.

And jumping in bed with mom and dad on Saturday mornings... crazy hair and all!

I love my new walking toy from my Grandparents.

It plays some rockin' tunes that I can't help but dance to.

I love cheering for BYU football with my Daddy.

I'm still working on perfecting "Touchdown!"

I am such a mama's girl, unless Amelia is around.

Then I'll take her over my parents any day!

I was less than thrilled to have to wear my new Christmas dress.

I love stuffing my face with food!

No more baby pureed food for me. I refuse to eat that stuff.

I have to have exactly what mom and dad are having.

I'm still learning how to swallow.

I tend to store meals in my cheeks for up to an hour.

I love to play!

Stay tuned, because in a month I will be a whole year old!

Turkey Day

Sorry if you're sick of reading blogs about everyone's Thanksgivings because I'm finally getting around to writing about ours!

We started off the day bright and early by running the Turkey Trot 5K race with some friends. My loving husband did it too, just for me. You can tell by his face, that he was not there for himself.

The race was pure insanity! There were 10,000 participants this year!!! We were dodging people the entire way. I'm not even joking when I say that we really ran a 6K with all of the running from side to side we had to do.
It was such a humid, sticky day. We were sweating before the race even began... which makes the after picture that much prettier:)
While Scott went and played football with the boys, I headed home to make the turkey.
Scott arrived to fulfill his manly duties of carving the bird. He's getting quite good at this.
Nicole made the cutest place setttings and decorations. Her and Weston were amazing hosts!

Addie thoroughly enjoyed her Thanksgiving feast. It's like pulling teeth to get this kid to eat anything, especially meat. We were shocked when she ate everything, even the turkey!
After sample a million different pies (no pic, we were too busy with other more important matters), we headed to the Galleria for a Christmas tree lighting and fireworks. The cold front hit us while we were waiting for it to start. We were all left standing in the pouring rain, with no jackets. Luckily the babies had their blankets.

Addie was in awe of the fireworks. She wasn't scared of them at all. Standing in the pouring rain was worth seeing the look on her face!
This Thanksgiving we were especially grateful for all of our great friends that make it okay to be so far from family!

Bust a Move

Addie has started dancing anytime there's music.

Amelia, we think she's ready for your class!

Enjoy!

Our Disneyland Adventures

Addie and I were lucky enough to get to go to Disneyland last week! Unfortunately, Scott couldn't get away from school to come with us. We were able to spend a lot of time with most of my family too!

Side note: Due to a lack of camera, my pictures from the trip are crumby. I used the video camera. Mom, this is a friendly reminder to send me some pics:) We're looking forward to the new camera Santa's gonna bring us very soon!

Addie had her first encounter with Disney characters and LOVED them! We were hard pressed to convince her to stop mauling Tigger and look at the camera.

There were a lot of naps in the stroller.

There were no lines the entire week we were there, which made going on all of the little kids ride a whole lot easier. We went on Dumbo. Addie loved it until we took off, then she wasn't so sure about it. Her favorite rides were Winne the Pooh and Pirates of the Caribbean (she likes a thrill).

She got a whole lot of love from her grandparents, especially Grandpa Clark, who was always more than willing to take Addie off my hands.

Forgive this horrible picture. As it took, I smacked my head on a rafter. Apparently, you're not supposed to ride Snow White turned backwards.
It was a great trip. Thanks for letting us come Mom and Dad! Now, time to think about Thanksgiving!

Happy Halloween!

There was a bunch of celebrating to be had for Addie's 1st Halloween!

1st Pumpkin Carving

"I'm not so sure about this..."

"Well, maybe..."

"Outta my way Dad!"

"Mmmm, pumpkin sucker."

The finished product

You can't carve pumpkins without making something nice and sugary like chocolate dipped oreos!

Addie enjoyed her favorite treat, a dum-dum.

Thanks Grandma Clark!

*Note the brilliantly blue tongue*

We attended the church's Trunk or Treat and were a pack of crayons.

Addie helped me at the trunk for a bit.

Until it was time for her trunk or treating!

She went to 3 trunks.

Just enough for mom to snap some pictures.

Then there was a Halloween party.

We made some eyeball deviled eggs and carmel apples (quite the adventure).

As you can tell, we like to eat... a lot.

Now it's time to hit the gym after a weekend filled with sugar!

Playing Hooky

The past several weeks have been a little rough on the Ellsworth Family. Poor Scott had a week and a half worth of tests and weeks of intense studying leading up to those tests. To celebrate being done with tests we pack up the car last weekend and went up to Dallas for the BYU v. TCU football game (a blog post is in the works... maybe). We had a blast with friends, but it was kind of a hectic weekend. Not really the break Scott needed.

So on Friday Scott decided to play hooky!

We had so much fun having our Daddy back! We started off the day by heading down to the beach. Addie had so much fun two weeks ago and I was sad that Scott didn't get to come with, so we made a family trip down to Galveston.

Addie was an angel and slept the entire car ride there, thanks to her new big-girl car seat. Sidenote: She loves her new car seat. It's so massive and cush that it's like her own royal throne in the back seat. Who wouldn't love to ride like that?!

Lately Addie has been making this growling type smiling face. It is just about the cutest face ever. If you get the growling smile out of her, you can feel satisfied in knowing that you truly made her happy.

There was lot's of playing in the sand,

and walking in the waves with Dad.

The beach was great, though the weather was a tad on the blustery side. This made the waves a little large for a baby. Good thing Dad was there to lift her up over the bigger ones.

Our explorer

Warmin' up with Mom

A few months ago we were watching one of our favorite shows, "Diner's Drive In's and Dive's." This episode featured a place down in Kemah, which is pretty close to Galveston. As we watched the episode, Scott had to try hard to keep from salivating all over the couch. He vowed that we would go to that restaurant. So, Friday seemed like the perfect time!

This place did not disappoint. Scott had some big expectations for T-Bone Tom's and all of those expectations were surpassed.

How can you go wrong when your entire table is full of fried goodness?

I am being completely honest when I tell you that I have almost (excluding our wedding day and the day Addie was born) never seen Scott so happy as when he bit into the "Armadillo Eggs," which have nothing to do with armadillos. We will definitely be making another trip to this restaurant.
We ended the day with some window shopping at the Galleria. We couldn't afford to actually buy anything but had fun looking and dreaming of the day when we might actually have an income:)

We had so much fun spending the day as a family. It was great to have Scott completely to ourselves!