Life With Ella

So we got home from Anguilla and had some more amazing time with our family and friends.  Here are some pics from the rest of our New Jersey trip…

We went to the New York Botanical Gardens to see the Frida Kahlo exhibit.  It was beautiful and we took a lot of pictures of beautiful flowers but I am not going to post those pics here because there are too many!

That evening, Grandma and Papa treated us to “The King and I”.  It was wonderful…

 

Now I am going to post a bunch of shots that are all about love and fun!

 

And now for scenes at Papa’s club…

 

Ella and Milo had some sweet cousin time with Georgia…

 

We all had a great time with Jordin and Twyla…

Had a blast with Nikki B…

 

Super fun family time in the pool…

Big night out in Leonia…

Ella and Milo took golf lessons…

Ella hung out with Ashley…

She did a lot of diving…(I have so much video that I need to put together)

Took a great picture of the sisters and parents…

Most importantly, spent so much time and shared so much love with Grandma, Papa and Milo…

 

Dog cousins hanging out one last time for the summer of 2015…

And then we had to go home to SF… we love you guys so much and summers are super special!

We had an amazing summer!  After Ella came back from Camp Winnarainbow, I went to Colorado for a conference and Ella and mommy had a week without me!  Ella went to an ice skating and bowling camp and fell in love with ice skating.  When I got back from Colorado, Ella and I headed to NJ and were met by mommy a week later.  During the first week, we celebrated Milo’s 6th birthday, did a lot of swimming, saw Inside Out again and also saw the Minion Movie.  We had an amazing time in NJ and then headed for Anguilla.  Anguilla was a fantastic trip.  We mostly stayed with KK and then ended our trip at the Frangipani.  Here are pictures from the first week in NJ and our trip to Anguilla.  The rest of the NJ trip and the rest of our summer will follow.

 Ella, Panda and I on our way to NJ.

 Grandma and Panda watching us catch fireflies.

 Ella and Milo reunited!  They were catching fireflies on the first night.

 Ella made this birthday card for Milo.

Sweet Milo very focused at the Leonia pool.

 Ella was super happy to see her friend Emma again.

 Ella and Papa before Milo’s birthday dinner.

 Happy birthday Milo!

Sweet and goofy family photos at Kiku.

 Ella practicing her shot.

 Ella and Emma had a great time together.

 Cousins in the sun!

 Our mermaid.

 Beautiful cousins.

 The Minion movie!

 Milo drying himself off!

 Fun and love on the front yard!

 Chillin at the club!

6:00 am and we’re on our journey to Anguilla!

 It took Ella about 4 minutes to get comfortable.

 So happy to get some quality time with KK!

 First family ocean shot!

 We were swimming in the ocean with this beautiful creatures.  I was pretty freaked out by the ray.

 Reading…

 Building sand castles…

 Baking a cake… life is pretty incredible on the island!

 Ella checking out the water while we have lunch.

This is the life!

 Best family shot EVER!

 We did a dolphin experience.  It was amazing.  I will have to find our disc full of pictures of us with the dolphins and post it.  

Later on that day we went to Junk’s Hole where we were invaded by seaweed.  Ella wasn’t very happy about the sea weed!

 We did manage to get a few smiles out of Ella despite the sea weed.

 Here are some shots from a gorgeous day at Da Vida.  We all tried paddle boarding.  Ella was awesome!

 We had a beautiful dinner at Malliouhana with KK.

 We love you Ella!

 Love in Anguilla.

 A view from the pool at Frangipani.

 Nothing like having a delicious dinner on the beach at Smokey’s and Ella getting to play in the sand.

 Ella had a fantastic time tubing.

Perfection.

 Lunch at Blanchards.

Ella and KK taking a dip at Frangipani.

 Attempting the skim board.

 Last day of lounging around for us!

 

Sending a lantern off into the moonlight.

 Boat ride back to St. Maarten.

 Panda and his buddies.