Italian Baby!

We have recently discovered Ella's love of Italian food! She loves everything Italian... spaghetti, pizza, ravioli, spaghetti o's... She has a great time eating it too!!

New Year's Eve 2006

Every year we have a New Year's Eve Party and we play Bunco. It is always a fun evening with good food, friends, and games! This year was no exception! Opening the wonderful "Bunco gifts" at the end of the night is always a highlight! The Grubbs' kids had a blast playing the game... and Cole ALMOST made it to midnight!

Christmas

Mommy and Ella


Ella in her new outfit from Nonna


Ella needed a little nap in the middle of opening gifts!


Ella and Daddy in there new hats!


Christmas was spent at Jessica's parents' house. We got a late start at opening gifts because Brady and Dave did gifts with his family first. Everyone got a lot of very nice gifts! Dave's family joined us for dinner Christmas evening. Tony and mom did and excellent job on the dinner of prime rib and salmon.

Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas Eve with longtime friends of Jessia's family, the Stennetts. We attended a very 'kid friendly' church service (perfect for Ella!) and then went to their house for a small get together. Ella was battling a bad cold, but managed to stay happy all night!

Finally Crawling

We never thought she would crawl and now we can't keep up with her. Ella was definitely a little late at the crawling thing, but boy has she mastered it now!! She is really into standing up too. She will pull up on anything and everything and loves to 'cruise' along the furniture. It won't be long before she is walking and really getting into everything!!

Friend's Christmas

We are very good friends with 3 other couples. The girls scrapbook together and the husbands and kids are dragged along to various dinners and weekends away! This is the third year that we have all celebrated Christmas together with a nice dinner and gift giving! The group continues to grow with the addition of children! We are now anxiously awaiting the arrival of Ramsey Elizabeth in late March!