Blessing Dress..

We are blessing Briella on February 7th. I took a few photos today of her in her dress. It's so hard to take them by yourself when they are so little. Either that or I haven't figured it out yet. I can't get her to smile she's too facinated with the camera in my hand! Well here is what we got!

This one is my favorite.

Her cute little pedicure!

Big smiles

She just wanted to eat the dress.. lol

4 Months!

Briella is 4 months old today. She loves sitting in the bumbo chair and her bath. She is talking and cooing alot and drooling in buckets! She's eating 6 1/2 ounces and is still only awake for about an hour after she eats. She's so happy. Smiles, laughs and really only cries when she's hungry. We got her ears pierced on January 11th with some cute little rhinestone flower stud earrings. She still sleeps from about 8:30 at night till 9:00 in the morning. She's definatley my textbook baby.

I took her in for her 4 month check up and shots and she was 11lbs 1oz and in the 5th percentile for her weight. She was 23 inches long and in the 10 percentile for her height. Her head measured at 40 centimeters and was in the 25 percentile. She's just a tiny little thing and so happy and fun.

Matching Hair!

The other morning Jose got up to make Briella a bottle and I noticed they had the excat same hair do. This poor kid's hair is outta control.

2010

This New Years we had plans to go to Payson with some friends for a pajama party. Well we had a little surprise ( more details to come ) and we changed our minds and went to the Venzuelan party. I called Cale's girlfriend Nicole and asked her to curl my hair and we headed over to the church for New Years Even. I totally forgot to take pictures until about the end. Here are a few.

Jose and I.. I swear he does know how to smile!

Alyssa in her party dress and her new hair cut!

Alyssa and Mom..

Valerie and I..

Trying to get Dominic to hold still long enough for a photo!

Briella slept through the New Year.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Briella Laughs

Today we got Briella to finally laugh! She would squeal and get excited but she wouldn't laugh out loud. Tonight she thought it was pretty funny to put her hand on my nose. It was so cute! She's also finally grabbing toys.

Christmas

Oh Christmas! What a fun day! The kids had so much fun. This was the first year we stayed home on Christmas Eve. We've always gone to Jose's aunts house for the traditional Venezuelan Christmas dinner. This year we decided to stay home and just hang out. Christmas morning the kids woke up to this...

Santa had come.. and I surprised Alyssa with the bedding she's been waiting for that my friend Kira made. It turned out awesome. Now if we can just figure out her bed.

Kira made the girls matching bedding and all the kids a hooded towel with their names on it.

The fun begins....

Alyssa gets the DS she was hoping for!

Dominic got his Buzz and Woody

Briella just sat and watched...

Buzz Lightyear to the rescue!

Dominic with his Transformer Bumblebee head and Buzz

Briella with her cute new hat.

She's so sweet...

Then off to Grandma's house....

Alyssa and her funky hat! She begged and pleaded at Nordstroms for over an hour for that hat. My mom surprised her with it. She was SO excited.

That's my girl!

Cale.. Leo and Briella with her awesome hat hair.

At Christmas dinner we played a little air hockey.. Dominic thought it was pretty cool to bed on dad's team. What a wonderful day!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Santa

The kids with the big guy himself! He's coming tonight!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS

Briella 3 months

Briella is 3 months now. She's such a good baby. She sleeps from 8-8:30 at night and loves to talk. She will smile and laugh and coo. She's so much fun. She's eating 6oz now every four hours and weighs in at about 10lbs. She's such a blessing and a joy to have in our family.

Festival of Trees

The festival of trees was a lot of fun this year. The kids had a blast. I'd have the say the coolest thing was the giant bubble and the cinnamon rolls.

Face Painting...

Pretty girl!

Shelby was named after this car. It's a Shelby Cobra 427. Shelby's birthday is also 4/27

My favorite gingerbread house.. from the movie up.

Briella's 2 week pictures!

I just Briella's pictures back. These are so sweet! If you are having a baby.. go see her. She's amazing!