{"id":7808,"date":"2010-12-26T08:22:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T08:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifewithella.com\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2010-12-26T08:22:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T08:22:14","slug":"if-you-wanna-go-and-take-a-ride-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifewithella.com\/?p=7808","title":{"rendered":"If you wanna go and take a ride with me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we were on our way out to Dim Sum and we bumped into the Kim\/Arena clan in the garage. \u00a0Justin and Julie gave Juliet an Escalade for Christmas! \u00a0The car drives 5 mph and Juliet is an amazing little driver. \u00a0When we walked into the garage, Juliet was backing the car up. \u00a0She saw Ella, got out of the car, opened the passenger door and said, &#8220;Come on, hop in Ella&#8221;. \u00a0Ella got in and off they went (the garage door was closed so they didn&#8217;t have too far to go). \u00a0The video at the end is a short clip of their joy ride. \u00a0Of course Ella wants to drive it and maybe she will be able to in the next week or so, but for now, Juliet is in the driver&#8217;s seat &#8211; literally. \u00a0The 5 of us went to Yank Sing for brunch and it was wonderful. \u00a0Later on in the afternoon, we went to the movies to see Gulliver&#8217;s Travels. \u00a0It was pretty stupid but Ella did laugh out loud a few times. \u00a0I&#8217;m just happy that we decided to see the regular version and saved some money on an unnecessary 3-D movie. \u00a0Tonight we had a delicious dinner at home and just relaxed and enjoyed each other. \u00a0At around 8, we went over to Stella and Juliet&#8217;s house to exchange Christmas gifts. \u00a0The girls were so beautiful together&#8230;they were self sufficient, no fighting, and the adults were actually able to have meaningful conversations. \u00a0The day and night were fantastic. \u00a0Tomorrow we go to see the Nutcracker. \u00a0Hope everyone had a great Christmas or some great Chinese food and saw some good movies.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lifewithella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/137.jpg\" alt=\"137.jpg\" \/>\u00a0Juliet taking Ella for a spin.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lifewithella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/216.jpg\" alt=\"216.jpg\" \/>\u00a0Ella and mommy having fun while grandma is just happy.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lifewithella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/312.jpg\" alt=\"312.jpg\" \/>\u00a0Grandma and Ella in front of the Christmas tree at Yank Sing.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lifewithella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/412.jpg\" alt=\"412.jpg\" \/>Grandma, Ella and papa at the movies.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lifewithella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/510.jpg\" alt=\"510.jpg\" \/>Helen and KJ, who really wanted to use his screwdriver on something.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lifewithella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/611.jpg\" alt=\"611.jpg\" \/>\u00a0The girls on their cool ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we were on our way out to Dim Sum and we bumped into the Kim\/Arena clan in the garage. \u00a0Justin and Julie gave Juliet an Escalade for Christmas! \u00a0The car drives 5 mph and Juliet is an amazing little driver. \u00a0When we walked into the garage, Juliet was backing the car up. \u00a0She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithella.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithella.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithella.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithella.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithella.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithella.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithella.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithella.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithella.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}