Easter Sunday

To make Easter Sunday particularly meaningful, we drove out to Tooele to see Grandma-Great. Elle was able to meet a few more cousins and Uncle John! She also was able to see Grandpa Workman's headstone.
FYI, Elle travels GREAT. She is super chill in the car. When she starts to be a bit fussy we just start singing to her and she calms right down. She also does great meeting new people. She got downright excited (flailing her arms and legs with a huge smile) meeting cousin Colette at Aunt Judy's. Sadly, we don't have a picture of how cute that was.
Here is what our trip looked like:

 Since it was Easter Sunday, we simply need to say that we know we will indeed be with dad/grandpa Workman forever and we are thankful for Jesus Christ who makes this possible. We love them both.

It's worth a post...even though it's not Elle

So the other day Elle and I had to go spend the day at Ted's school. He was asked to join in the faculty band for the school talent show. The gal in charge of the band went a little crazy trying to get him into character. The pictures will prove it.
The best part is that Ted is always this FUN!!! In his defense, he was really out of his comfort zone running around like this. I just have to show you how hilarious this was!

Yep. That was a Choose The Right shirt. Pretty classic

Seeing that in public was TOTALLY worth spending 8 hours at a school with a baby--away from the convenience of home!

And We're Back!

Sorry about the long-time-no-post business. It's been a busy time at our house! As Ted puts it, I'm about to "post pictures like crazy". Some will speak for themselves. Some I might decide to explain. We'll see as we go!

Elle is getting much better about smiling on cue!

While my pictures are trying to be found I will tell you a bit about our adventures of late. Elle has had many firsts recently. Last week, she met many of her non-familial aunts (old college roommates, etc) for the first time. As several of them live FAR away (Boston, for example!) it was great that this was able to happen so early in her life; we thought it might take a while. She also met Aunt Marnie, Aunt Lindsay, Uncle Dan, Uncle Mike and Uncle Dallin for the first time. She met seven cousins, who live in St. George, and she watched her Semi-Annual general conference, where she listened to prophets of God for the first time!
Here she is shaking hands with Bethany Robison, the cousin she is closest to in age.

Although it wasn't a "first" to see Grandma Workman, it was her first time at Grandma's house. We are grateful Grandma has a place for us to stay! We were lucky enough to be there at the same time as Uncle Mike and Aunt Lindsay. Elle had tons of fun being around so many playmates!

Elle witnessed her third baby blessing when cousin Carter was blessed, which was right after cousin Harrison's baptism--her first opportunity to see one of those! Here are four pictures of Elle with Harrison. They're all similar, but really. How am I supposed to choose which ONE is the cutest? Not in the job description people.

Today is Elle's first Easter and she also had her first Stake Conference, instead of regular church. We'll snap pics of her Easter dress soon.
Elle has been spending lots of time on the BYU campus lately, where she cheers loudly for the cougars! Her favorites are the baseball games, but she likes the volleyball matches a lot because that is where she really gets to interact with Cosmo Cougar. She tries to wear her "First Cougars Tee" to all of the events, but sometimes a girl has to do laundry, you know! Anyway, thanks Aunt Trish, cousins Sabrina and Halle for the shirt to wear to the games!

We hope you enjoyed all these pics and are looking forward to more!

Sleepin like a rock... star!

Elle LOVES to have her hands up in the air. We haven't caught it on camera yet, but she actually really enjoys the Superman pose (one hand shooting out from her shoulder with the other arm flexing her bicep). We'll have to catch it one of these days.

In terms of general updates (we have to start with the picture, b/c that's really the whole point, right?!), Elle is LOVING her swing... thanks Uncle Mitch and Aunt Mel.
She is also sporting her Elle-phant blanket (it's the yellow animal on the green side; it's covered up right now. We'll get a shot of it some day). She also got a package in the mail the other day with a super darling Elle-phant from her aunt Lindsay. It's a decoration in her room. There's another picture we're going to have to grab. Holy cow. Who's going to remind me of all of this stuff I've promised? I'm just saying--there's no deadline.
And her dad just went and snagged one of the pics for me. He's the real superman!

All in all, we're pretty happy down here in Happy Valley. Elle and I went for a 90 minute walk today. The weather was GORGEOUS!!! It's 11:15 pm. I think she just fell asleep for real, so now is when my sleeping needs to start. Here's to hoping she doesn't wake up when I walk in the room to go to bed...

From January 21 to February 21

Elle is ONE MONTH OLD today!!! Congrats!
She has grown quite a bit in the last month... in her size and in our hearts.

As you can see from her stunned, cross-eyed look, Elle had a GREAT time at her party! Uncle Robby and Aunt Kathryn came over. We ate Elle's cake on her behalf... !

Wow!  How time flies!  This past week has gone by in a blur.  We'll highlight the week in with pictures.

This first picture is Elle sporting a new outfit that she wore to a baby shower.

This is Elle movin' and shakin' while on Ted's lap.

These next two photos are pictures of Elle with a few of her new friends who were WAY excited to meet her.

And what blog post would be complete without a couple pictures of Elle enjoying her favorite pasttimes- sleeping and eating!

Elle had her two week check-up this past Friday.  The doctor said she looked great.  He also recommended that she start having "tummy time" to build up her neck muscles.  She has done it a couple times now and she is so cute doing it.  Today we laid down next to her and showed her how to move her head from one direction to the other.  She did great!  She was able to go back and forth a couple times. 

Yesterday Elle went to a baby shower and got all dressed up.  Below is a picture of her in the outfit she wore.

The highlight for us yesterday was at the end of the day snuggling with Elle.  While Ted read in preparation for his class Elle just snuggled up on his chest.  Later she did the same with Elise.  What a joy.