Christmas part 1

surrounded by presents!

  

 Cousins

 

 Checking out what Santa brought her!

 

  

 We tried E in the "Tot Rider 2", her feet don't reach the floor yet to move it around but she still liked it!

 

Week 16

Elsa meets her first reptile. This is Seth and Marianne's snake Cat.

 

look at those chunky legs!!

The Steelers' Good Luck Charm

We like to think that this little cutie just might of helped the Steelers get out of their 5 game losing streak!

Week 15

Elsa loves to join Grams in the den to relax and watch some HGTV with her!

 

 

Hair

Anyone that knows Elsa, knows she was born with lots of hair and still has a good amount of hair on her head. It's mostly in the middle and Alex and I have discovered that you can do all sorts of stuff to it! Mostly hairdos that we would never take her out of the house with, but we hope that one day she finds this as amusing as we did!

The Mohawk

The bow in the middle

Bangs and the bald spot cover up!

The part down the middle- the worst but very funny!

Week 14

 

Elsa's getting some chunky cheeks-love it!

 

 

Hanging out under the Christmas Tree

O Christmas Tree!

Elsa's new favorite thing to look at!

week 13- Three months old!

Football and dirty diapers

We took a trip this  weekend to Huntingdon to watch the Utah vs. BYU football game. We had fun wearing our our red and cheering on the Utes. Sadly the Utes lost in overtime but we think BYU just got very lucky.

It was a nail biter for E!

Elsa had a dirty diaper and she sat like this while we waited for Alex to get the diaper and wipes. We have a  very cooperative baby when it comes to getting her diaper changed!

Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving here in Pittsburgh with the DiPietro/Shepherd clan. We had great fun visiting and eating delicious food. Elsa got to meet lots of new family but she was a bit under the weather so we didn't get too many pictures.


E with Great Aunt Sally


This year we deep fried the turkey. It was a success- yummy turkey and nothing caught on fire! (Thanks Julia for letting us steal your pictures!)






The proud cooks!


The feast!

week 12

Doing the laundry with GG

Growh Spurt

Elsa had a major one this weekend!!

Happy Birthday Jessie!

Happy 22nd Birthday to our sister Jessie! We found some fun pictures of her but of course you need to click to enlarge it, I am still not sure how to make it big in the first place!

Hope your day is great and lots of fun! Miss you and can't wait to see you at Christmas!

Elsa, the new conversationalist

Elsa loves to talk. She will have a pretty long conversation with anyone that will talk back to her!

Week 11

This week's pictures aren't the best. Our camera battery is about one picture from being completely dead and the charger is in a box somewhere in GG's basement.

We are getting pretty settled in Pittsburgh. It's been great being so close to our families. E got to meet her Great Grandma Pat and Great Grandpa Joe. Sadly I didn't take any pictures but will check to see if GG took any. Next week she gets to meet some more DiPietro family that are coming for Thanksgiving! Hopefully we will have found the camera charger by then.

Elsa and her new friend Laddie



We have discovered that E loves the TV. We were learning how to make gnocchi.



E got a big package from her Aunt Sally in California. She got all sorts of things for her crib. She loves her new bunny mobile.



We think E is going to be a side sleeper. You can really start to see her chubby cheeks here.



Making a face at her dad