Things are great here at the Whiting house...

(By the way, no one try to tell me this was gas--we know for a fact she was simply dreaming of heaven where she just came from!)

We are enjoying the joys of tiny hands being held...

Here's Ella posing after her bath--what a bathing beauty!

Sunny and her had quite a bonding moment together here.

Dad has also taken advantage of the fact that he has some time off work and that our old table had to be put to some use and has gotten the girls to do puzzles with him.

By the way--he is super dad--he can read and feed at the same time!!

Oh, and in other news, Logan lost his first front tooth. I am not a big fan of kids getting the front teeth back in--the grown up ones. It seems like they never have quite the same "little kid look" after that. So, I told him it's good thing that we have a baby now, or Mommy might have cried to think that all her children are loosing their baby teeth!

Oh, and one more item of business--Ella felt the time had come to dawn her adorable new coat from her birth mom. Well, there's an update for ya--Early Merry Christmas to all!!!!

She is here!

Ella Anne was born on December 12, 2007 @ 11:50 P.M. She weighed in at 8 lbs. 11 oz. and was 21 inches long--She is a healthy gal! We all fell in love with her right away and have continued to adore her as the days have gone on.



When Jack and I were able to bring her home from the hospital, the kids were very excited. They had had Grandma help them make signs to welcome her and put them all over the house. Even Logan made one that showed off his new "big brother" statis. What a wonderful day! Adoption is a true miracle, and we very very blessed and humbled to be a part of it. Life is great!

Before you totally get into Christmas--don't forget about...

Thanksgiving! It was very fun this year at my mom and step dad's house. A bunch of family was able to come and the kids got to see their NC cousins. Good eating and good laughs all day long--some great Apples to Apples memories!

Then, of course Aunt Mel got the kids together to do a show--She is the ultimate director of holiday shows--and luckily all the kids in our family are basically hams!
We also went with my mom and Lyle to a really fun fallish old fashioned place called "Oak Glen." Angie got picked to be the Sheriff's deputy at a gun show. She always gets picked for this stuff--at Sea World she kissed the sea lion and at Disneyland she was the assistant to Jafar or something like that. I think it must be her winning smile--or maybe her quick hand up in the air!
The Monday after Thanksgiving my brother Danny had the hookups and got us all into Disneyland for FREE! Yeah, that was cool! And we had a great day with relatively short lines pretty much the whole day--several with no waiting at all. We are sort of becoming Disneyland junkies though--we have gone four times in the last three and a half years! So, we decided we need to lay off the park for at least a few years--hopefully we can last that long!

Oh yeah! Totally cool to meet MARY POPPINS and BERT!
The Christmas decor was FANTASTIC--but of course it was--hello--this is DISNEYLAND we are talking about! (Did I mention we are Disneyland junkies?)
A dream is a wish your heart makes....when you are so tired from walking around all day that you want to go to sleep.... (See if you can fit that into the melody!) So a fun trip with great people--we are so blessed!