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I have messed with this long enough. For today this is the best it will be.




The morning this video was taken Ella had a bucket full of energy and was super happy. I love watching her have fun and play.


















So, a few weeks ago was Easter weekend and guess what . . . While we were there we found a few "wabbits" and look how cute they are.

I am so lucky to have such a cute and lovable little girl. She is our little person.































Fa'Dori can be so funny in the car. She really is a nervous Nelly but in this image she looks like she is sad to leave Grandma's house and the wide open sod field to run on. Who doesn't love a big field to run on? I know I do... Wait I don't like running - I almost forgot.




















Here are two pictures for the Grandma's.














I have a nephew that was with my father tasting vinegar cucumbers. I saw some at Easter and wanted to re-enact that photo with Ella.





























Our little Ella will not keep her hands inside of the blanket when we "burrito" her any more. While she falls asleep, while she sleeps and when she wakes up, she plays with the blankets near here. In this picture she got a hold of the picture that drapes over the edge of the crib and happened to walk in and lift the other edge to look in. "HI." She is so cute.

I love my brother Mitchell.

Sara wanted to say you look good with your new haircut.

Myself - I have wanted to dedicate a song to you for a while. Here you go.

This is Ella's first time eating Oatmeal.



Tonight we were giving her a bath and she had slid down to the deeper end and she got very still. Which usually means that she is done - sometimes she starts to get a bit cranky. then all of a sudden she starts splashing crazy. She actually got Sara wet. I ran out of the bathroom for the camera to record it and we were not disappointed.

Snow Pack'N Dogs

Three hours ago, this was live. Levi, the dogs (Oakley & Dori) and I went camping up Millcreek canyon. We cross-country ski'd in then snowshoe'd to get to our destination. And the lucky doodles got to sleep inside the tent with the big dogs. Loads of fun.

And here we are on our way down the mountain. When Sara saw this video she smiled so big. She said, "Ah, they look so happy. I love seeing them run side-by-side."


So, pull up a chair, put on a smile, and watch the dogs play.

It is so hard to decide which pictures to put on the blog. This one took place just before dinner. I don't really know what it is that gets into me to do strange little fun photos of Ella, but they are fun photos. I think its my mom. She does fun photos from time to time.

So, I hope you enjoy the next one too.








So, in this picture we were getting ready for church... notice the good looking guy in a great sweater from my dad. Again, I some how got a strange yet fun idea as I walked by some bags. Here I am playing messenger - however, my little helper has dropped the delivery. So, we might not get paid for this service.

"Mom, you're embarrassing me. I know that I am cute and dorable but you are kissing it out of me."

So, in this you can also see why Ella has gotten the nickname... SQUISHY

Somehow I think that Ella knows that she is cute.

Let's see. One more picture.






Sara, loving to kiss Ella herself, decided that everyone should share in the opportunity to share the love. So, here is Fa-Dori eagerly taking that given opportunity to give Ella a kiss. As you can see Ella is willing to give kisses right back to whom-ever is giving. Gotta love bonding.

This video rocks

hope you like it

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And here we are again. Getting a little bit faster on updating our blog...because you know...our little girl is so darn cute, we can't keep her all to ourselves!
She is enjoying a nice afternoon in her bumbo chair, sporting a hawaiian print top and enjoying the company of her chew toy, Waddles. Life is pretty good for this little flower.



I told Richard today, as we were admiring her while she was sleeping, gently sucking on a binkie, "It looks like we poked a binkie into a marshmallow-her cheeks are so big they come out the sides of the binkie!"





And best of all, she tastes like chicken!

Splish Splash Ella's Tak'N a Bath

On about a ... Monday Night...
I think I could say more about this little video but actually it speaks for itself. However, I will add that bath time is not only fun for Ella, but it is so much fun for us as well to watch. We wanted to share it with everyone.

Push play and enjoy watching Ella play.

Here we are again. The beginning of a new year and the 3rd month of our daughters life. Dad decided to celebrate with some soup. But our campbell's supply was low so he made some "ELA"- bet soup. He also prepared her a few weeks ago as a yummy stew.
Mommy was infatuated with Ella's lips and decided to post a few lips of her own...


Ella was blessed on December 14th in Idaho by her father. The dress she is wearing was specially made for her in Hawaii and graciously given to her by Aunt EmilieAn. And wow, how beautiful babies look dressed in white. Here she is next to cousin Abby. What a special time to watch the Priesthood being exercised as she is held and given a name and a blessing.

She rolled over. Yahoo

so here you go the latest update on little Ella's progress. She has been doing so much and we are so happy for her. Her Grand mother Mallory saw her one week then again about a week later and stated that she had changed so much. she is sitting up so well - - sorta. at least holding her head up very good and here you can see it in "belly-time." I was looking through some of her pictures on the 'puter here and was in awe at how much she has grown in the past few weeks. She is not just holding her head well but is also starting to talk. In baby talk that means "coo-ing and ka-ing". It has been great. some times sara can get some dialogue going back and forth with her. Sara will say something then Ella makes a sound - then Sara - then Ella - and back and forth. We heard that baby's younger than 18 months old also start to build their sound knowledge for language. That being the case, Sara has started talking to little Ella in Russian. We'll see what happens.

Also, I will try to do better at getting more pictures on. I have some of Sara's family with Ella and will try to get that in the next week.

Bath Time for Ella

Back by popular demand,... **Mitchell** :)



Here is a fun picture of Ella in the bath. I used to think that this is such a delicate process, but I have learned that kids are very resilient. I used to not want to bath a child because I thought I would somehow break them. Well, you still need to be careful but the little thing is strangely strong to being flopped around in a sink tub.
































Usually I am great at doing the bath, however I did not get through this session with out a scream. There have been a few times that I have done this without a single peep. Sara thought I had not started the bath yet but I was already done.

She is a lot of fun. Oh and while the bath is underway, she is very slippery.

Activities of Conference Weekend w/ Tio Zachary

On Friday night my brother Zachary came to visit for the weekend. He went to General Conference afternoon session and a party Saturday night. Outside of that Zachary was back in our house having fun like he did this summer for three months. Having Zachy here this summer was a lot of fun. Sara made a great complimenting statement, which really put a smile on my face. She looked over at him during the Saturday morning session, while he was cuddle in with our two dogs and said, "you are part of this family and it is nice to have you back."


If I am not mistaken, Zachary is wanting to have a dog at home too. I am not sure how I know this ... oh I think he said it here:




While Zachary was here, he also spent time with our new little addition - Ela. She is cute with her Tio (uncle) Zachary. I would wake up Zachary early some mornings. If you know Zach, you know that he is not much of a morning person but to his great credit I needed only state that Ela is up for some short play time before her bed tome. "Get up if you want to be part of that play time." Zach was a great tio - he would pop up right away and spend some time. So, here are some pictures of Zachary getting Elizabeth dressed. It was a bit funny and very cute to watch him so it.
The pictures of Zachary getting Ela dressed are awesome. I also did a video of this but I wish I would have started it a bit sooner.







































It was so great to have Zachary here for the weekend. I loved seeing him hold Little Ela. The two of them together was sweet. It was neat to hear Zach express how amazing it was to feel an instant love for something... someone.

Here are some of his thoughts of little Elizabeth Lynn Haralson: Wow what a beautuful little girl. So small and delecate. Tuly a little girl that you can esily love. But i will admit, it is a trick and a funny show trying dress the little girl. But she is a good sport and i like to think that she laughs at me when i try to dress her.

Thank you for coming Zachary. And the dogs will miss you too.