Growing up and Catching up!

Well after a couple month absence in the blogging world it is time to catch up on a lot! We have been so busy and done so much in the past couple of months! Isabellas is growing up quickly and is now 21 months old! We can hardly believe it! And to catch you up on another detail that will make her and the new baby!, 29 months apart! So that is why I have been MIA in the computer world. Too lazy and tired to do it! But we are very excited and all is going well. The baby is due in October which makes me a little over 10 weeks right now!
So to get up to date on everything else we have been up to I will start from now back to January.This month Lindsay and the girls have been in town and we have been spending most of our free time over there. Rich is traveling all of the time, so their company has made things less lonely! We will be so excited when they move back to Arizona next year! Rich and I took a little get away in early February to Flagstaff and had so much fun. But those pictures are on another camera and I will post that later!

Here is Isabella one Sunday after Nursery. She loves it and always comes home a little hyper!
In February, I got to watch Keith and Lindsays girls for 5 days and we had lots of fun. But 3 girls under the age of 3 was no small task. But we survived and have lots of fun memories! We ate ice cream naked(well with diapers) every night with Hannah and Isabella. Here is Hannah cleanly eating her ice cream

and Isabella with her feet up on the table and an ice cream go-tee going on!We had a picnic one day which mostly resulted in a lot of playing and not a lot of eating
The two girly girls, eating there hot dogs. As soon as they walked away I think the dogs ate half of their plates!
In January, my brother Ryan got engaged to Kylie Bell! We are so excited for them and can't wait for them to move to Arizona in April after they get married! She is the best and they are such a cute couple. I took a few pictures of them while they were waiting for the real photographer to show up for their engagement pictures. And this is my favorite one and I just can't put my finger on why?!

ahhhh! Don't they look so cute together!

Here is their awesome photographer, THE Natalie Montez, laying in the middle of the road in order to get the right shot! What a dedicated photographer!Rich and Isabella playing in the Hammock
So we/I made our first attempt at Sugar cookies for Valentines Day. She was so funny that as soon as the batter was done she started to eat it. How do they automatically know that it will taste good. We must all come born with that intuition.
The final result

The next day when she ate one for the first time. I don't know if any actually made it into her mouth!


Taking a ride on the Carousel at the ZOO. Isabella threw a large fit getting off!
Sweet Gerber baby Brynlee. She is so cute!
Grandpa and Grammy took the older girls ahead of us To the zoo and did a little shopping! The got animal print sunglasses and were feeling HOT!!!
Isabella playing it cool!
We all went to the zoo on New Years Day! Isabella loves the petting zoo, but mommy is allergic so she is happy when Daddy is there to take her in. She giggles the whole time!
Keith and Lindsay came for Christmas and we got to spend a few days with them after we got back from Oregon. Including New years Eve, when we stayed up till 3 in the morning, acting like teenagers who didn't have children that wake up a 7! Ouch
So I feel a little caught up now and hope it won't be another 3 months before I blog again.

Merry Christmas!

So I feel like this picture explains it all. Lots of fun, lots of chaos, lots of laughing, and LOTS of people! We were lucky enough to have another Newell Christmas this year in Eugene, OR. And Santa granted my wish and brought NO rain all week. For Oregon that truly is a Christmas miracle! We went for a week and the time flew by! We had lots of activities and not a lot of sleep, but that is what makes the memories! Isabella was a champ with moving from place to place, being woken up in the middle of the night, airplanes, no schedule, and lots of cousins(whom she loves, but is not quite used to yet!) Our newest member of the family, Zac, was baptised on Dec. 18th and we all got to be there on the Sunday after Christmas as he received the priesthood. It was pretty neat, and he is a pretty great guy. We are all so happy for him!!!
So our activities included lots of caroling, roller skating, games, lots of food, the nativity, family pictures, shopping, wrapping and lots of opening!! We had a great time and are so grateful for our family and how loyal and supportive they all are. Not to many people can say that they like everyone in their family, and that they all get along and that they all(29 people) fit into One house and three trailers and all come out smiling with memories!!! We just want to give a shout out to MOM who works unselfishly and endlessly on our behalf, so that we are all happy! You are amazing Mom and we love you!! You threw an awesome week long party!!

all the grandchildren with grandma and grandpa. Did we mention it was about 30 degrees when we took this and the children were such good sports but very cold!

The last and final attempt at a family Christmas picture.
When we went roller skating, Aaron dedicated a song to amber and she had to go to the middle of the rink all by herself to accept the rose! Just like in high school. It was so funny!
Christmas madness! all 29 of us AND our gifts
These cute girly girls and their Christmas matching outfits from Grandma!So cute. There is a one year difference between Isabella and them!
Opening gifts with Isabella was a little challenging! But she did enjoy her gifts!
Sharing a family skate!
SO cute! Tyler who is 4 months older than Isabella was so sweet to her all week even though she bit him a few times!( sorry Tyler) He would just walk up and hug and hug her and kiss her. She didn't know quite what to think but it was so cute. And I think that she finally warmed up to him at the end!

Aren't we GORGEOUS!
Before we left we got spoiled by having another Christmas with my parents! So fun! Mom even got out the Martinellis and Snacks so it would really feel like Christmas!

Isabella is definitely a Grammy's girl. She will take her over ANYONE!

Attempt #496. Way too many chins in this picture, but it was fun!
Hope everyone had a great holiday! We are excited to start a new year and can't wait to see what life will bring us this year!!

The Holiday Season

So we were lucky enough to be able to go to Utah for Thanksgiving.My sister Nikki lives there, my brother Ryan, and my aunt Kelly and cousins. It was a great trip! The weather was not too cold, the company was great and the food was good! We had an early flight on Wednesday morning and by the time that we got to the Hotel and got Isabella's crib set up she literally begged to get in it so she could take a nap! It was hilarious!
Hangin out in her crib in her swimsuit. We were on our way to the spa which was closed because someone put shampoo in it! We were way bummed and so was she!
Why, do you ask, does she look traumatized? Because she was recovering from a meeting with....
SANTA! Santa tried to say hi to her. We went to breakfast with Santa, Charming right?! She did not think so. She saw him coming before I did and immediately grabbed on to me and started screaming. It was pretty funny. So this is our picture with Santa for this year.
How many people does it take to change a light bulb? Apparently 2 men and a dog!
A magical sleigh ride!
The host of Thanksgiving! Our Aunt Kelly. She has just moved to Utah and so we went to spend Thanksgiving with her
Nate and Kellene with the Jazz's mascot. Our hotel had great activities including Teddy Bear town and he was going to cut the ribbon f
Nikki and Dad on Thanksgiving, cooking in the kitchen
Mom and the two girls being silly with the spoons. I wonder where they got their blue eyes?!!
This is Dad and Ryan's buddy Dick. He has become an extension to our family and we love him!
So her new thing is to lay down anywhere she feels like it to see what that particular floor feels like. And i mean anywhere, in stores, at church, in the middle of the airport.....
We got to see Aunt Jill for an evening when we were there. Isabella Loves her!
Mom being goofy as we make another attempt at christmas pictures, we probably took 150 different shots and not ONE has all of us looking at the camera!

This is Rich and Ryan striking some very serious poses for the camera!
Isabella and I
She said," He comes out of where?!?"
Christmas pictures this year have been disastorous! This is one of the only decent ones
At the Zoo with our new Wagon!Thank you Grammy and Grandpa!
We are excited for Christmas and will talk as little of Santa to Isabella as possible! We get to go to Oregon to be with Rich's family and have a cold Christmas! I hope everyone has a great Holiday!!!

Isabella's first day at nursery

She is now 18 months old, which is hard to believe and went to nursery! We were looking forward to this day for a while. So a nervous mommy took her in and with all of my courage and faith in the nursery leaders, I left her. And she did great! No tears and drew a picture and everything! Look how well she color in the lines, my child is a genius! ;) We were so happy!! I think someone was jealous of her bow and tried to rip it out because that is not how it looked when I left her!(actually most likely it was her that tried to pull it out!)

Where did she go?

Where did she go???
I saw this picture of her and thought, " Where did my baby go?" :(

A little flower

So she was a flower for Halloween. The selfish in me wanted her to be as baby as possible for one more year! But I should have known better! My instincts told me she would hate the hat and she did! But she did wear it long enough to take some pictures and for trick-or treating at two houses!! I just couldn't resist the waddle and the big fluffy feet! SO fun!
Oh this lady bug smells funny! I tried to tell her that the lady bug is supposed to smell her not the other way around!


Seriously guys!? I hate this thing!
I am going to tear it apart with my teeth. That'll teach them!!

Talk about Fashion sense!!??

So I am finally posting pictures from our Mexico trip in September. It was mostly just girls, but the boys did make an appearance for the weekend. My mom, Nikki, her daughter Kellene, me and Isabella, and our friend Heather. The weather was a little warm but was still nice enough to be outside. Isabella loved the beach again and especially the Quads. We would get down to the beach and she would walk around for a bit, eat some sand, and then walk over to the quads while pointing and saying,"vroom, vroom!" So we would take a ride and repeat!
We had a great time and did learn that the jelly fish down their don't sting, as we were throwing them like baseballs by the end of the week!

This is a little outfit that Kellene just threw together one night. When we asked her if it was new she said," what, this old thing?!""

BUBBLES! she can say it now and loves for us to blow them in the bath tub
This is sadly the only picture I got the whole week of both of the girls together. Lets just say that they weren't at good ages for playing together!
Here is some more amazing fashion sense. She said she did NOT want tan lines so this was the best thing she could think of to fix that!
But I might say that this outfit wins the Prize!!! Kaden was a serious beach adventure man!!
Mom and Isabella


These are the jelly fish or as Kellene would say "belly bish" there were hundreds of them everywhere! This one however was a casualty of the tide:(
I love the gut!! She is so much fun! She loved the sand and eating it, but the sand in the diapers did get a little old by the end of the week. What can we say she likes crunchy and salty food!!She is at such a fun age and is understanding so much of what we say. It is so fun to watch her explore and try new things. She is so happy but definitely know what she wants and will let you know! I love it! and Her!!!!