Baby Girl Dawson

We are happy to announce the arrival of our second little angel!!!

Ellianna Michelle Dawson

Born: Wed. December 29th 2010 @ 5:07p.m

@ Arrowhead Hospital in Glendale, AZ.

Weight: 5lb 11oz

Height: 17 3/4 in

Alexander has been extremley sweet to his new sister, and very very helpful! When he's not helping mommy he's playing with his blocks and trains!

All of the sudden Alexander seems like such a big boy!

Ellianna has lots of dark hair on the back of her head, and just a little bit in the front.

She has a very red, darker complexion like her daddy!

Our little sunshine! So far she is just a quiet, mellow, sweet little bundle of joy!

Alexander, Ellianna and Daddy watching 'How to train your Dragon" Alexander's current favorite movie.

Ellianna's nursery.

Coming home from the hospital!

Our little cup-cake!

Alexander getting to meet his new sister for the first time.

Ellianna is quite the little cuddle bug. She almost never cries. Here's her and Daddy taking a little nap! :)

Now the proud parents of 2 beautiful little angels!

Adam got to cut her cord, and then they gave her to mommy!

Happy Holidays!!

We want to wish everybody a belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! This holiday season has been a little crazy around our house. During Thanksgiving break we were able to go to Colorado and visit my family; while there we toured the mint, went to the Midnight showing of Harry Potter and got to spend lots of wonderful time with family!

When we got home Adam participated in a small triathalon on Thanksgiving!

December was spent getting ready for our baby girl to arrive and of course getting ready for Christmas! Alexander's Uncle Bradley received his mission call to Brazil :) Uncle Brandon graduated from ASU, Uncle Daniel Hunter graduated from Thunderbird International Business School. Christmas was wonderful; it was our first Christmas alone with our little family :) Alexander was very excited about all the presents, and wanted us to open them with him, in turn he wanted to help us open ours as well! At the end of the Christmas break we thought things were going to calm down, but were wrong when our precious little angel decided to come 4 weeks early and help us ring in the New Year!

Isn't he adorable!

Christmas Morning!

Congratulation's Hunter family!!

Congratulations Uncle Brandon & Aunt Alyssa! (You cant tell by the Pic. but it was raining through the entire graduation, poor Brandon was soaked...Alexander thought it was awesome to get to play in all the puddles! )

Uncle Bradley will be serving a Mission in Brazil!! :)

Alexander's first time meeting Santa!

Alexander and Opa tuckered out from all the fun!

Halloween!

Our Silly Little Monkey!

We had to bribe him with cookies to get him to wear his costume, but once people started giving him candy he was pretty content to wear it.

This year Halloween was more like a week long event. Alexander got to go trick-or-treating with his cousins Miley & Anya at Uncle Dan's School. (Unfortunately. due to camera malfunction I don't have any pictures of it, but they were adorable!!) Then he went trick-or-treating at Daddy's school; then he went to our ward's trunk or treat.... Needless to say we have way too much candy!

He Loved the concept of people just giving you candy, we couldn't get him to say trick-or-treat, or thank you when trick-or-treating(he would say it to us but when he was actually in front of someone he would just smile quietly), he would however, blow people kisses after they put candy in his bucket :)

By the time Halloween arrived he was a little tuckered out from all the fun! On Halloween we got to spend time carving pumpkins & playing with cousins! :)

Alexander & Anya playing beautiful music!

At the end of the night we went to Papa & Nana Dawson's to play and although all the little kids were adorable, Aunt Ashley takes the prize for best costume, and make-up! :)

Carving Pumpkins

Alexander's Pumpkin!

On Halloween we carved pumpkins with cousins, here's how they turned out! :)

Mommy's Pumpkin

Uncle Daniel & Aunt Nicole's Pumpkin!

Daddy's Pumpkin!

Random photos from Sept. & Oct.

(Our crazy AZ hail storm!)

Trying on crazy hats with Aunt Mickey!

Alexanders first mini-golf game!

First Family Camping Trip

We took our first family camping trip this last July! The weather was beautiful, the view was amazing. We got to spend time with family, see elk and deer, go hiking, play in the water, Alexander hand more rocks and sticks then he knew what to do with... And Papa Dawson took us all to a spot that had literally thousands of ladybugs! It was a great trip and hopefully something that will become a family tradition in our home! :)