Happy 2008!!

Well, 2007 is over and boy was it a wonderful year. Tyler finished his 3rd year of medical school and is now pretty much finished with his 4th year. The Lord blessed us with a beautiful, healthy little girl, who I must say is the most precious thing. Those are just a few things that we are so thankful for.

We've gotten off to a rough start in 2008. Ella has had some sort of stomach bug since the day after New Year's. She is just now getting over it. Now, her daddy has the stomach bug. It hasn't been alot of fun around our household. I'm just trying my best to avoid it.

Ella is changing everyday!! She is so much fun. She laughed for the first time on New Year's Day. She is also trying her best to roll over. She almost has it. It should be any day now. In a couple of weeks she should be able to start eating cereal.

We are anxious to see what the New Year has to bring. Tyler will be beginning his residency in July and we are praying that we will stay in Jackson. Please keep us in your prayers!!

I'm going to do my best to post at least once a week. As you all know, sometimes our crazy, hectic schedules prevents us from doing so. I hope everyone enjoys keeping up with what is going on with the Marks Family.





To explain the pictures below. Ella is quite the wiggle worm at all hours of the day, but especially at night. For the last several weeks we have had to slide her back up from the end of the bed into her wedge several times throughout the night. Well, this morning, not only did she manage to slide all the way down to bottom, but she managed to turn herself completely sideways, which is quite a feat considering that we are still swaddling her. As you can see from the pictures, she was very proud of herself, as was her daddy, considering he has woken up many a times wondering how in the world he got turned this way during the middle of the night.