2010 in pictures

What a better way to wrap up 2010 than with a collage of the many funny faces of my beautfiul, baby girl throughout this past year. This year I have truly come to appreciate the saying, Time flies when youre having fun. I cannot believe yet another year has passed. I have to say this has truly been the most amazing year of my entire life; however, I am a bit sad that my baby is literally growing up right before my very eyes.

Christmas Joy

What a whirlwind of family, food, presents and travel Christmas was! The three of us headed to grammie joyces and paw paws in Botkins on Christmas eve. My mom's family has a huge gathering with her family every Christmas eve with 60+ people. Ella did such an amazing job considering she was up almost four hours past her bedtime. She never complained and played so well with all her cousins. She really seemed to have a great time and even got to enjoy a few cookies! Christmas morning we opened gifts at Grammies house and then had lunch with Aunt Tonia and uncle Kirk and cousin Emma, Adam and Alex. Christmas evening we headed back to our house for our annual Chinese take out with the three of us. Ella was so tired from all the excitement that we didnt even open gifts at our house til the day after Christmas. Grandma Joanne came over the day after Christmas for more gifts and food! We had an absolutely wonderful Christmas this year. So much fun and we feel so blessed.




One of my uncles dresses up as Santa for the kids each year. Ella had her eye on him from daddy's arms the minute he entered the room. Again she didnt mind him as long as he didnt try to hold her




We opened presents at Grammie Joyces on Christmas day. Ella received a ton of gifts from Grammie Joyce and paw paw. Paw paw also gave Ella a beautiful necklace and cousin Emma gave Ella a bunch of baby dolls and a baby bed that used to be hers.





After we got home on Christmas evening we had our second annual Heinl/Gazinski Chinese dinner



We did not open gifts at our house until the morning after Christmas. Below are some of the gifts Ella received at our house. Ella seemed to really love all the gifts she received this year but especially seems to like the little people farm






Winston loved his cmas present and refused to put it down

Coloring is AWESOME!!

Ella received an early Christmas present last week from Grammie Joyce. A new desk since she loves coloring these days. Ella absolutely loves this desk!

My baby is growing up!

Ella has been showing interest and understanding of the potty for quite some time and has pooped and peed on the potty in past. We decided it was time we purchase underwear and a potty for the house and see how things go. Today she spent a few hours in her underwear dry! We did have a few accidents in the evening but thats to be expected. The sitter plans to have her in underwear as many hours as possible during the day from this point forward. My baby is definitely moving into toddlerhood!

Snow Bunny

The three of us having been spending a lot of time outdoors in the snow the last two weeks. Ella absolutely loves it and we've been enjoying ourselves as well. Thursday mommy had another day at home and daddy worked from home as Cinci got 6 inches in some areas overnight!



Ella loves riding in her step2 push car in the snow so of course mommy was expected to do that through several inches of snow. I found I had fun pushing her around!




Ella fell a few times in the bulky snowsuit but didnt seem to mind.



Ella loves to walk winston so of course she had to do that while we were out...

Let it Snow!

A girl I went to high school with who does photography was interested in editting a pic I had taken and put on facebook. Thought Id share the editted photo with all of you. This was Ella playing in the snow last week.