A Momma's Tale: An amazing week!

This past week was a mixture of amazing views, exciting new experiences and the feeling of missing someone more than you could ever think possible.

Dec 11, 2009 marked the four year anniversary of the unexptected passing of Lisa's mom. Lisa always goes away and does something fun to remember her mom. This year she suggested a trip to Colorado. Billy was of course stoked as he never thought we would go there when there was snow on the ground. We orginally planned on taking Ella, but instead invited friends to go along. Our 4 day trip turned into 6 and we were set to go. Never having left Ella before left us with fear and for Lisa naseau. Although we knew she would be in great hands (with her grandparents) the thought of leaving her left us both uneasy. It didn't help that we planned to leave on Thursday and on Monda we had Ella in the emergency room as she had croup and was still recovering from a nasty ear infection. Thankfully she did great, however we missed her more than we had missed anything before and both have agreed that 6 days away from her is too long!

While in Colorado Billy skied, Lisa went dog sledding, we saw Michelle Branch and Ryan Star (who Lisa LOVES) in concernt, went snow tubing, snow mobiling and on a "sunset" sleigh ride (we failed to see the sun set due to massive amounts of snow falling!) It was beautiful and so fun, however we were very excited to get home and see Ella, and equally excited that she was happy to see us.

Ella continues to grow and learn new things. She has offically taken up to 3 steps with out falling. We can hardly believe in just a month and a half our tiny baby will be a year old. When people say it goes fast you can not truely understand how true it is, until you experience it.

We are looking forward to the week ahead and spending our first Christmas together as a family. We can't wait to see Ella open her gifts from Santa and try her mommy's homemade Christmas cookies.