Part of what I love about the girls' names is that they were both popular 100 years ago and many people with those names are now great-grandmas. Both names evoke a vision for me of sweet old ladies rocking away together on a porch. I pray Ella and Sadie will live meaningful lives full of love and will be enjoying each other on a front porch somewhere many years from now.
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Friday, June 3, 2011

Back in the 'Burg



Because of my fabulous college years at W&M, we've loved to visit Williamsburg since we moved back to the East Coast 5 years ago.  I've blogged about the trips here and here and here .  This was Ella's 3rd visit in her short 5 year life!  This time, the trip came as a response to an invitation from my dear friend Ana (I can't believe we've been friends from 8 years already!) who was able to get two timeshare units right next to each other and asked us to join her family for a long weekend trip!  
Ana and me enjoying Cracker Barrel!

We had really fabulous time.  Traveling with friends and 3 kids under 6 could have been disastrous hard but it really was so much fun! Ana and Jonny are so sweet and our families meshed together so easily!  What a blessing.  Ella and their sweet son Daniel (3 years old) played well together the entire time despite the age and gender difference.  We were so happy to see them spontaneously holding hands and really enjoying each other all weekend!

 We had a great time in Colonial Williamsburg checking out the sights...





  Sadie was cranky the first day until we realized she had a fever! Poor thing! After that she returned to being pretty easy going and slept SO much better than we expected in an unfamiliar place.  She napped and slept through the night really well!  She did however discover the new skill of shrieking on this trip.  Mostly when food isn't coming at her fast enough.  Oh dear Lord let this shrieking phase be short. Good thing I love her so stinkin' much!

I got to give a little tour of part of William and Mary's campus which made me giddy with all the great memories I have there...
entering the Wren building
Sadie looking regal on an ancient chair in the Wren Building

next to the Sunken Gardens
  
Back at the Timeshare (which was spectacular-I highly recommend the Marriott Manor Club at Ford's Colony) we got to do a lot of relaxing as well as swim...

 And had an amazing picnic dinner in the gazebo right outside our front door...


Jonny was our gracious chef!
 
And snagged as many family and group pics as we could...




It really was a great trip and we are so thankful for great friends.  Excited to share and create more memories like these!

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

The last couple days...

Pics from the last few days...


On friday we had playgroup at our house and Ella and her friend H disappeared and I went to find them thinking they'd be up to some mischief....nope...reading books to each other in Ella's room...and they continued for a good half hour!

Uncle Drew and Aunt Ping took Ella to a little festival on Saturday. She got to ride a zebra on the carousel, wear a paper crown, and eat ice cream-a perfect day!

Yesterday we got to see our good friend and her baby Daniel. Ella LOVED holding him!

In the last couple days Ella has eaten 15 olives in a sitting as long as she gets to eat them off of her fingers-I'm all for it!

Mmmmm :-)