Life With Ella

This year, Ella’s baseball team is called the Tiger Sharks.  They had their first game on Saturday.  Sunny and I are still both coaching.  The game was a lot of fun.  It’s a sweet group of kids.  Ella played second base and catcher.  She is still batting lefty and puts everything she has into the game!

Our beautiful Tiger Shark.

Ella and Dillon hanging out in the Tiger Shark dugout.

 So beautiful!

Mother and daughter out in the field.

 Getting ready to make a play at second.

 I’m pitching again this season.  I only sort of hit one kid during the game.

 Our lefty slugger.

 I wonder if she likes being the catcher if if it’s all about the “costume”.

We just came back from Scottsdale Az after a fun filled weekend.  We went down for Spring Training – Sunny had her Giants Community Fund Board weekend of selling mystery balls to raise money for the Junior Giants.  The board sold all of the balls and raised a lot of money for the Jr. Giants.  We arrived on Thursday and the weather was beautiful.  Ella hit the pool about 1/2 hour after we arrived.  We spent about 2 hours at the pool and then went to David and Jackie’s house to see them, Cindy and Bob and meet Ella’s new little cousin Emma.  It was really sweet hanging out with everyone.  We woke up the next morning to rain and 46º!  It was incredible – the weather was the exact opposite of the day before.  Sunny went to the field early for a field visit and to get to work while Ella and I slept in and had a great breakfast at the hotel.  We met Sunny and everyone else at the ballpark and basically just sold mystery balls.  It was raining way too hard for the game to happen and they finally called it at around 3:00.  At one point, Ella got to see her very first hail storm.  There were a lot of kids there and Ella still had lots of fun.  We were with a great group of people and we didn’t let the weather stop us from having a great time. On Saturday, we went to the game and the weather held up although it was maybe 56º at the most.  The Giants lost by a lot but it was great to get to see a baseball game.  Here are some shots from our weekend adventure.

 Beautiful Ella playing around in the pool.

 Here is sweet Emma.  She’s 10 weeks old.

 The proud father David.

 Happy Aunt Sunny with her great niece!

This is a terrible shot, but Ella found a new sport – skee ball!

 Ella and her spring training buddies Jesse and Bella.

 Sunny and the kids getting shelter from the rain.

 Ella and our friend Julia doing some exercise in the rain.

 The kids were sitting by a warm and cozy fireplace.  Ella really did not enjoy the hail and stinging cold rain.

 Ella and Jesse on Saturday coming back from the game.  A much better day.

 Mommy the sports commentator!  Here is Sunny in the booth with Martie Lurie.

 Mommy giving some pointers to our catcher Hector Sanchez.

 Mommy and Bruce Bochy.  This is a great shot.

Grandma and papa came in last Thursday.  We were able to spend some great time together.  These weekend drive by trips go by way too quickly but we have many beautiful times ahead to look forward to.  We had a great dinner on Friday night and then grandma and papa had a date with Ella while Sunny and I had our own date – Zero Dark 30.  We’ll see you guys again in less than a month!  Can’t wait.  Here are a few pics.

 Walking down the street on Friday night.

 Ella and papa had a heated game of schmear!

Beautiful

 Totally silly!

We love and miss you guys.