Father's Day 2010

I just wanted to post a couple of pics for Father's Day in honor of one of the greatest new dads..

We enjoyed a nice day while visiting Ella's grandparents in Crown Point and DeMotte. It was a sunny beautiful day!

Ella at 8 Months old ~ June 18th

Ella with her cell phone. :)

"Hi mom"

It has been a little while since my last post. Life is busy, but good. Since the last post, Mike and I celebrated 4 years of marriage (on June 17th). Ella turned eight months on the 18th of June.

We are out on the beach almost everyday enjoying the sunny weather. We had a couple of storms but nothing too bad. Mike is completely done with work for the summer so we are enjoying a perfect summer of relaxation. I am so glad he is home with us everyday! What a great help to me ;) Mike loves to take Ella out and do shopping and run errands with her, so this gives me "my time". All mothers need this!
Ella is almost crawling. She is in position but just has to coordinate her arms and legs. Crawling seemed like an eternity away about 8 months ago! How fast time goes.
Ella is gaining quite the social attitude...since last post she has started waving! I first noticed this as I stood by the window with her as we watched Mike walk up from the beach. She immediately put her little hand up and started waving to him. So cute that she recognized him. This is the first time she did it on her own.

She had another appointment to follow up on her hips...doctor said they are fine now.

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer!

First week of JUNE......

Ella asking Clare to borrow her comb. :)

Clare says, "Ella does your mom ever put that camera away"

Ella's unmanageable comb-over blowing in the wind. :P

"Hold on Clare, let me get the sand off your back"....

The first week of June and we are busy planning summer festivities here. I am looking so forward to enjoying the dog days of summer with Mike and Ella. Mike will be out of school for the summer soon. Yea!! This school year seemed to fly. Mike had a pretty easy year in terms of work. He took off 6 weeks to help me after Ella was born, then had Christmas break soon after. It seemed in no time at all his Spring break rolled around and here we are already in June. He is looking as forward to summer as I am :)

Ella and I did a little beach time when weather permitted this week. Our friends came out to hang out on the beach on Thursday. The weather was great. I also did a photo shoot of my friend's baby on the beach. Baby Ella and Baby Clare were definitely cute lil beach babes.