Summer is here and our little family couldn't be happier about it! This is what we've been up to the past several weeks.
***So I had a pretty upsetting experience...half way thru out vacation when we went to Utah and then on to California, I was messing around with our camera and I ended up deleting all of our pictures that I had taken up to that point! I was so MAD! I keep thinking about this one picture that I had of Sadie that was SO CUTE that I will never see again and I just get sick to my stomach! Anyway, thanks to my Falther-in-law, I still have a few pictures from a night that we went up the canyon with the family.
Cute little Hannah.
While we were in California, my cousin Aubrey used her "princess powers" to get us into Disneyland. We were so excited to take Ella because we went all the time when we lived in Huntington Beach but now that she's older and loves everything Princess, we knew she was the perfect age now to love Disneyland.
(BTW, some of the pictures are the wrong way, but I'm on Ryan's computer and too lazy to figure out how to rotate them. Also, be warned, there are way too many pictures.)
Aunt Mel, Kylie and Ella on the tram ride in.
When Ella was small, this was her FAVORITE ride at Disneyland. I was excited to let her ride it again. You can tell by her expression, she wasn't as easily impressed this time around.
Our girly little Storybook boat captain. So Disneyland! I love it. :)
Any of you out there that take your little 3 year old girls to Disneyland--you HAVE to take them to Bippity Boppity Boutique! They do your hair and make up and turn you into a real princess. My cousins hve gone before and my mom really wanted to take Ella. It was so fun for all of us to see how much Ella loved being treated like a princess!
This was Ella's audience.
They had her hold this little plastic thing that gaurded her face from all the hairspray.
Sorry Sadie. Bald babies can't get turned into a princess...
Hair's all done. Now time for the make-up.
A little sparkle sticker
After she was done, they pulled back some curtains for the "big reveal" and Ella couldn't take her eyes off the mirror! Then they had her do some princess poses...
We rode Dumbo while Sadie...
...took a little nap.
Ella and my cousin with the princess powers--Aubrey. Thanks again Aubs!
Sadie and my dad.
Ella showing us that she's tall enough for the Mattahorn (I don't know if that's how you spell it but Ella just called it the white mountain with the scary monkey inside.)
Ella and my cousin's son, Gid.
Ella and my cousin, Kylie.
***That last picture was taken right before Ella got knocked in the head by the gate that you have to wait behind when you're the next in line to get on the ride. What happened was the gate opened, the people in front of us got on the ride, we stepped forward and Ella went just a little too far forward and when the gate closed, it hit her right in the forehead! There was a huge knot right away and she was kind of crying but luckily she was tough enough because it was our turn to get on the ride!!!
Notice the bruise:
It's the end of the day and look how great her hair still looks! That was some strong hairspray.
When it was time to go home, Ella was convinced she wasn't tired. It took about five seconds for her to be completely out! For some reason, Sade was not only awake, but in the best mood of her life!
The next day...this is what all that hairspray did to Ella's hair. I thought she looked like Beetlejuice.
When we flew from San Diego back to OKC, we had a layover in Phoenix. My sister and her family were nice enough to come and spend a couple hours with us. Ella and Sadie with Kaitlyn and Chloe (Carson was there too...somehwhere.)
Back in OKC, we went to the zoo one day to check out the new Children's Area. There's lots of fun areas to play in the water which is noce since it's so stinking HOT!
We got a season pass to a little water park out here so excited to spend some more time in the sun there with friends!
