The leaves of fall!

Ella continues to amaze us everyday. New words, phrases and even sentences are coming from her little voice. Now if only we could get her to go pee pee on the potty! This fall has been full of fun and busy times. We have gone to the apple orchard and made homemade apple sauce, gone to the pumpkin patch and picked our own pumpkin, trick or treated for the first time, and even got to see the Christmas tree at the local shopping mall have its lights on for the first time.

This week we enter a time of Thanksgiving. We are blessed in so many ways, however Ella is the greatest blessing in our lives. She is sweet and loving. She will kiss your boo boos, and is the best mommy to her babies. She loves to take her friends by the hand and walk with them. She says "bless you mommy/daddy" when we sneeze, and "bless you Ella" when she sneezes.

As we enter the Christmas season we can't wait to put up the tree and have Ella help us decorate. This year will also be the first year that Ella will follow in a Bridge family tradition, baking cookies as a family. Lisa would do this with her mom and we can't wait to Ella help make Lisa's mom's cut out cookies. We can't wait to share the nativity scene and story with her so she can hear about baby Jesus.

Life is good!