Catching Up

So I have been slaking on my blog lately. I guess we have been having to much summer fun, or else time is just passing to quickly or both. So this is what we have been up to over the last 2/3 weeks. 

• Nana and Papa came to visit from Phoenix. It was there 40th wedding anniversary so we celebrated by taking them to the races at Del Mar. No child, free food, and drinks, we were happy!

• Saturday mornings have been spent up in Encinitas. Mom goes to yoga, Dad and Ella hang out at Moonlight Beach, then Mom mossies down to the beach after class. Dad goes surfing and Mom and Ella hang out on the beach. After that its Coffee's for the drive home. We all get to do something we love and we get to be together!
  

• Ella has been helping me teach a kids yoga class every other Friday afternoon. She loves her yoga. All the girls are older than her, but she hangs with them. They are so good at including her in everything, and they seem to think she is very funny, but how could they not right! 

• Ella's really into singing and playing music. Right now her favorite song to sing is from Snow White. She walks around making big gestures with her hands and sings " Some day my prince will come." It's crazy cute, she also likes to play guitar with Daddy.

                     

• We hosted our first date night last Saturday. It went really well, all the girls had a great time. We hung out in the back yard, played musical chairs and freeze dance. Then we had mac-n-cheese with carrots and peas, and brownies for desert. The girls all played for a while, then we piled everyone in the living room for Cinderella and popcorn. It went so well, even Troy had fun! Once everyone left we realized how tiring 9 little girls can be.
• Right now we are planning for our trip to Santa Rosa. We leave on Thursday the 21st. I can't wait and neither can Ella. Her bags are packed and she is ready for her trip on the airplane. More to come on that later.  I will leave you with a great photo of bead head, and my sense of accomplishment for catching up on the blog, whew!

Date Night

Troy and I finally went out on a DATE! We joined our playgroups date night which is every Saturday night. Ella gets to play with all her friend and we get to have some needed grown-up time, except for the night that we watch all the kids. So, anyways we went to this new wine bar that opened in the Village of La Mesa called Gio's. We had so much fun, it reminded us of our newlywed days when we lived in Santa Rosa. We had wine and shared some tapas and a delicious pasta pomodoro. Then to top it off we ordered there warm pecan brownie desert topped with vanilla ice cream and drizzled with caramel and chocolate sauce (decedent). Ella had a great time too playing with her friends, and watching beauty and the beast! It was a win, win for all of us. We are really looking forward to our next Saturday night out! I'm actually starting to feel like a real person again and not just a Mom (yeah for me!).