Lazy Day!

Ella has been pretty sick the past week, she had her first two molars come in which caused a cold that turned into more of a cold!  So, with cabin fever setting in, we needed out of the house for an hour.  Ryan looked up some local parks and we headed out for one 10 minutes away.  Its actually a little "town" set up with antiques and items from years back!  It was fun to walk around and see all the old items!  LIttle did we know the Botanical Gardens were connected to it!  So we walked thru there too.  All free!  You can tell, by the end of the hour, Ella was done.  Poor girl! 

 I loved this cool butterfly bench!!

All Done!  She was ready to go home!

Talking!

Ella is talking up a storm.  Of course, she has a long way to go and majority of her words are short cuts or one syllabus!  But, she is doing great at communicating!  Here is a cute little video of her saying a few of her favorites!

Low Key 4th of July!

This year we had a busy, but low key 4th of July week!  Grammy and Grampa came over on Tuesday and we spent all day at Sand Key beach!  Ella was not so interested in the sand and water, but warmed up to it after a while and had a blast with Grampa in the water! 

 Swimming with Grampa!

 My own little mini chair and mini umbrella! 

 Glamour Girl!

Then, on the 4th, we headed over to Auntie Kelly and Uncle Jeff's (mommy forgot her camera) and swam with everyone in their pool for a little bit!  Auntie had a huge spread of food and Uncle Jeff and Jenna made a fabulous Fourth of July cupcake flag!

MeeMaw and PeePaw, along with Ella's Great Grammos Park, came over to our house for the firework display!  We let Ella take a nap from 6-745pm so she was happy during the evening!  We were truly blessed to see a panoramic view of fireworks all over Clearwater Beach from our balcony! Ella danced to the music on the television specials for about 20 minutes full speed!  She was so excited to have her family on her turf!

 Dancing with MeeMaw!

 She really wanted to hold all the sparklers!  She was so interested!

 She would say "wazdat" to all of the explosions.

 Great Grammos and Daddy!

We love that all of our family is with in a 3 hour radius and we can spend holidays with everyone!!  Its truly magical to see Ella light up for her Grandparents.  I love it and she loves them!!!

Great 4th of July!