Life With Ella

This weekend, Sunny, Ella and I went to Calistoga and joined about 12 other families from Ella’s school for a really wonderful weekend.  One of the families from Ella’s class has a vineyard in Calistoga and we went “camping” on their lawn.  We had a CDS tent city, on the lawn, right in front of their pool.  The kids ranged from 2 – 14 years old.  The host family made the whole weekend so easy and fabulous.  We ate all our meals together, played in the pool for hours, went to a county fair, had a live blues band for entertainment last night and watched fireworks from the lawn.  Ella had a blast.  There was a small group of younger girls, a very large group of boys from about 4 – 8 years old and then an older group of girls.  Ella loved hanging with the older girls.  Her swimming is getting better every minute.  The pool was 8 feet at its deepest and Ella swam from the shallow end to the deep end all by herself with no help ( I was about a foot away from her at all times).  Yesterday she said that she thinks that we should stay for 6 days instead of 2.  It was great to get away.   These shots were taken after a water balloon fight that freaked out the little ones.  It was too much for them to handle so they got some TLC from their parents. Ella so happy and relaxed in the pool.Posing for the under water shot. Starting to do a little diving into the pool. Tent city – this is our tent that we rented.  Sunny put it up with one of the 10 year old girls.  The reason that there is that funny material on the top because we needed to air the tent out.  It kind of smelled. Kids dinner time! Ella and Tess – an incredible “big girl”. Ella is threatening to get someone with the water gun because the pool cover is on the pool. Our tent at night.At the county fair – turns out that it was almost the exact fair that we had across the street from us a few weeks ago. Eating chips and listening to the blues band. Ella LOVED the tire swing. Ella and Tess on the evening of July 4th.Here is a movie of Ella in the pool this weekend…it’s pretty cool.

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