Over the river and through the woods...

...to grandmother's house we go!  Well, it was more like up and over the pass we go, but either way we made the trip to Ephrata to visit Cody's family.  We had originally planned to go in November, but since I had my little surgery the trip was postponed until the first weekend in December.  Ella loved seeing her grandparents and her Uncle Beau!

We're switching bloggers to Cody.  Ella is a little hungry so Bethany is going to tend to Ella and I'll take care of this blog post.  

My parents hadn't seen Ella since she was born in September, other than a couple video chat sessions, so we were really excited to take her to her grandparents house for the first time.  The minute we pulled in the driveway my mom was on the front porch waiting to see her darling granddaughter.  Before we got there my mom kept saying all she wanted to do hug, kiss, and squeeze Ella so needless to say she was a little excited!  As for my dad, let's just say that I am not the only one Ella will have wrapped around her finger.  My dad had the heat cranked up so the the house would be nice and toasty for Ella to be at the optimal point of comfort.

As for the rest of the day.  We had lunch and watched the Civil War game between Oregon and Oregon State where we saw Uncle David on TV a couple of times.  Uncle Beau came over later in the day to play with Ella and join us for dinner.  My dad made some amazing homemade spaghetti sauce with Italian sausage and it was nice to be able to sit around the table and have a meal with my family since we don't get to do it that often.  After dinner it was time to watch the Apple Cup which was surprisingly a really good game.  We had some of my mom's super delicious cherry pie for dessert and it was time to head home back over the mountains.  All in all it was a perfect day!   

It was a lot of fun for me to see my parent as grandparents!  I loved seeing them light up when they saw Ella and all her smiles, cries, coos and, of course, poops.  I am really looking forward to seeing them again over Christmas and with as fast as Ella is changing and learning new things she'll have a whole new bag of tricks to show off for Grandma and Grandpa Lamens.

 Here are some pictures to highlight our trip..

Ella slept the whole time during the car ride over :).

Ella and Grandpa

 Ella and Uncle Beau

Ella smiling at Grandma