Just a few quick pics

We have the suitcases out, the laundry is being folded and we are getting ready for a big trip. Tomorrow, we are heading down to Atlanta to see DeeDee and Papa. Mike is going to play with my Dad in a golf tournament all weekend and Mom, Ella and I are going to have some bonding time of our own. We are also super excited that we are going to get to see Amy, Jason and meet baby Abby for the first time! On Monday, Mike and I are are flying out to California for a couple days to celebrate our anniversary while Ella and Dakota stay and play in Atlanta with DeeDee and Papa. We are so excited about visiting San Francisco, hiking in Yosemite and wine tasting in Napa! Definitely will have lots of pictures to share from that but before we head out, wanted to post some pictures from the last week. We had a super busy weekend and I actually hardly took any pictures but here are a couple I captured.

On, Sunday, we went to watch Mike play soccer and actually broke our back luck curse and his team won and Mike scored a goal! My parents got Ella a soccer jersey from Barcelona last year when they were on the cruise and this is first time she was worn it and I think she looks pretty darn cute in it but she definitely need a bow in her hair so people know she is a girl!
Ella is all about the pool and water table ever since we have pulled them out a weeks ago. She is also obsessed with swim suits and goes into her room and pulls then out and puts them on over her clothes. I think she is ready for the beach!

This picture was actually from last weekend but I forgot to post it so here you go. All the girls climbed onto the bench themselves.

After the soccer game and a nap on Sunday, we headed over to Addie's 4th birthday party/ice cream party. Ella didn't really care for the ice cream but loved the m&ms and sprinkles! I didn't get any pictures of the birthday girl or eating her ice cream but did manage this one with Ella and Wesley in Wesley's hot pink convertible! It won't be long until they are driving for real, scary thought!

One of Ella's new favorite things to do is to "walk doggie." She immediately grabs Dakota's leash and follows her around the house trying to put it on, we help her and then outside and up the street they go. Ella must listen to us a little too closely because we hear her saying "heel doggie" or "sit doggie" all the time.

Dakota is usually pretty tolerant and lets Ella take charge and walk her up and down the street.

It's official. This girl loves shoes! Putting them on (herself of course), taking them off and repeat. And her favorite is finding other people's shoes and putting them on. She will find her friends shoes while playing at their house and has to try them on or find Mom and Dad's shoes and put those on.

She is like a magnet to shoes, she can hunt them down anywhere and put them on and try walking around in them.

And she doesn't discriminate either. She will wear Mommy's or Daddy's shoes, they are both equally fun.

I think we are in for big trouble as she grows up!

And if you noticed the scratches on her nose and chin in the pictures, yes, that was from a fall she took on Saturday while at our annual neighborhood party. Trying to act like the big kids and sit in a big kids chair and she lost her balance and fell sideways onto the pavement and scratched her nose. I think it has been much worse for Mike and I then her, she doesn't seem to mind and when I open the neosporn, she says "chin chin" because she knows I am about to put it on her chin. I guess these little bumps and bruises come with the territory but it still breaks my heart.

So, off to do more folding and packing. I know we are going to miss our little one like crazy while we are gone but it will be nice to get away also for a couple of days and we know Ella will be spoiled rotten while we are gone.