Exersaucer Fun!!

Stella loves her exersaucer!! She thinks it by far the best toy ever invented. It has a circus theme and there are toys everywhere! She loves to eat the lion... it is so tasty! We had the exersaucer in front of the tv the other night, it looks like she enjoys "deal or no deal" as much as mom and dad do!! It could be a great babysitter if I would let it (but dont worry we don't)... Stella actually loves the tv... she finds it very interesting! We take her to movies all the time - she thinks they are pretty great too. She loves her favorite toy, but the floor is her new favorite thing because she has learned how to roll - and thats pretty cool too!

Stella's Stats

Stella got to visit Dr Mumford today - we love Dr Mumford! He says Stella checked out great and is very healthy! She got five vacinations which did not make her happy.She has been playing in her exersaucer all afternoon, its her new favorite toy!

Stella's Stats

4 month check-up

17.2 lbs ---94%

26 inches --- 95%

Giggly Googler

Stella started laughing a few weeks ago... we were finally able to capture it on camera! She is such a happy girl! Prepare yourself to start smiling, her laugh is so cute!! She is our little giggly googler!! (sorry its sideways, i'm not sure how to rotate the image)

Stella's Cousins!!

Stella loves all of her cousins so much!! She feels so happy to have so many friends! Here are some of her cousins on daddy's side. Emily, Olivia, Ben and Caroline. They are so much fun and lover her so much. They are soo good to hold her and make her smile! Thanks for loving Baby Stella!!! Come and visit us anytime!!

Bring on the New Year...

We had a very low key get together at our house for New Years Eve. Last year we had about 40 people and the house was crazy so this year we scaled back to just a few. Whitney and I made some yummy food... Taco Soup with all the fixins, a cheese ball, shimp cocktail, meatballs and a veggie tray. They guest list included Taylor and Melissa (hey Taylor why don't you propose already!!), Kristina and Adam (they are great), Whitney and Kaya (the cutest girls at the party!), Kjirsten (The fun and stylish one) and Me, Joe and Stella! We sat around talking about "The Soup"-- boy do we ever love Joel McHale, we had food and Kjisty brought miniture bottles of martinellis to bring in the new year! The little girls slept through everything - they are such good little girls when they sleep! We hope you all had a Happy New Year!

My First REAL Hairdo!

Look at me everyone, I am so so cute, I have piggies in my hair!!

Aunt Whitty came over tonight. She showed mama how to put my hair in piggies. Do you think I look so cute? I think I'm pretty cute!

I can't seem to keep my hands out of my mouth so they are always so cold and slobbery!

I hope mama can figure out how to do my hair when we are by myself! I don't want to have crazy hair!

Me and my mama are best friends. I love her so much! Thanks for looking at my blog today, I have a pretty cool mama. Love, Baby Stella

Grammy & Papa's Sweethearts

This week is the first time that Stella has been together with ALL of her cousins (on mom's side). It has made Grammy and Papa so happy - they love their grandkids so much - and they spoil them even more!! Kinzie is 5 1/2 and is the little mom of the group. Ayden is 3 and the only boy. Kaya is 15 months old and makes everyone smile. Stella is soon to be 4 months and generally happy. They are all so cute together!!

Kaya, Stella, Kinzie, Ayden
Girl Cousins all in Brown.

Rice Cereal Monster

We decided to give Stella a chance of being a real girl and doing big girl things. We mixed her some rice cereal and she LOVED it... we were not suprised since she seems to love everything that goes into her mouth! She actually caught on quicker than we thought she would... she is very smart - maybe even genius! Here are some of the cute shots we took of her messy rice mug!

Lovely Lights

Taylor and Melissa invited us to dinner and to go and see the lights on Temple Square. We had dinner at Cafe Rio... yummo!!! As we were driving downtown is started to snow. The boys did not think we should continue with our quest and that a drive around the temple would suit our fancy. They were wrong. We made them park and we took a stroll around Temple Square. The lights were so pretty!

Joe thinks we look like red and black pieces of licorice. I just think we look cute! Joe's sister in law made us scarfs for Christmas... boy were we thankful to have them on such a cold night! Thanks Sherri!

Taylor and Melissa are so much fun! We love to hang out with them!! Stella thinks they are pretty great too. We have lots of fun together and laugh a lot! We're so happy they invited us to go to Temple Square, without there invitation we may have not made it there this year.

We kept Stella warm and cuddely in her stoller with four blankets and her cute hat from Aunt Missy. We decided to take her out for a few pictures before we left. It was her first time seeing the lights and boy was she happy to be out of the seat to see the world!

Christmas Bells are Ringing

I somehow managed to lose lots of my Christmas pictures which is sad since it was Stellas first Christmas. Luckily my sister Whiney took lots of pictures too. Here are some pictures to docuemnt out holiday. Below are pictures of Papa and Kaya playing with the bubbles, boy are bubbles cool!! Ayden loves uncle Jeffy so so much - he is the coolest uncle ever!! Mama and Stella playing with Stella's new toy from Aunt Jodi, Uncle dan and cousins... she loves her new toy cow.

Stella's Cousins Kinzie and Ayden came in from Arizona for Christmas. They were so excited to meet their new cousin Stella. Ayden can not remember her name so he calls her the "little Kaya who can't walk". It's pretty cute. Kinzie and Ayden were so happy to spend time with their dad who they have not seen for a few months. We sure miss them living in Utah!!


Kaya loved Christmas this year. Every present she opened brought a very suprised look to her face! She loved all of her presents. (see more of Kaya at kayastarling.blogspot.com)
Mom and Dad bought ROCK BAND for the family. We have had so much fun improving our band which we named "The Haters".... our band rocks. We finally mastered the drums by having three people play them at once.. they are harder than you would think!!


Ashley and Tyson got Stella the cutest outfit I've ever seen along with the cutest pig i've ever seen. They got her the pig because she is a little piggy.. what do you expect it is the year of the Golden Pig according the the Chinese!!

The Many Faces of Stella Jane

Stella has so many cute faces. She was not sure what to think of having so many pictures taken. But Mama just loves taking pictures!

These are her freaky eyes!
Look at those chubby cheeks!
She is so cute!
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I love her new Christmas Snowflake Jammies. I think babies should be in PJ's always!