Wednesday, April 22, 2020

January 2019 - December 2019




Another year completed......2019 summary below:




JANUARY

 Ella playing her trumpet with River Trail Middle School Band at the GMEA (Georgia Music Educators Association) in Athens, Georgia



FEBRUARY

Flew out to Minnesota to surprise my BFF Dawn on her 50th birthday....it was a fabulous 24 hours celebrating!!


MARCH

Paul and Ella attended "Daddy Daughter Dance" for her cotillion
class.

Sunday snuggles 😁



APRIL

 Ella's 13th birthday celebration with friends at "Breakout" and Cold Stone Creamery for ice cream!!



MAY 

Evan's 25th birthday


After Ella finished 7th grade, she attended Space Camp for a week with Abby in Huntsville, Alabama

While Ella and Abby were at camp, Paul and I spent a couple of days with Abby's parents (Steve and Linda) in Huntsville



JUNE


Celebrating Oreo's 5th birthday on June 9th.......we love her sooo much


Mid June, we (Ella, myself and dogs) decided to take a road trip to South Dakota....20 hour drive. We had fun with my sister Lisa, her daughter Jaden, Uncle Roger and Aunt Dolly.



While staying with my sister, I traveled to Waco Texas with Dawn for three days to visit everything "Magnolia - Fixer Upper"!!  We had a blast!!


While driving home from South Dakota, Ella took pics of the water damage that the excess snow the midwest received during the winter...so sad



JULY

Happy 50th to me...ugh!!


Mid July we took our annual girls trip with Mulligan's and McFee's.  We rented a cabin in Smithville, TN.

While in Smithville, we went to Harmony Lane Farm and Creamery.  This goat farm makes goat's milk products.  We got a tour, cuddled the goats and milked them.....so fun!!




AUGUST 

August 12th........1st day of 8th grade for Ella


Doggies loving that we are back to school and work lol



SEPTEMBER 

Labor Day weekend we rented a house with the Sewell family in Seaside, Florida.  We all had such a fun time hanging at the beach, riding bikes and enjoying the outdoors!!


OCTOBER

October 12, I flew to Minnesota.   My BF Dawn, as part of my 50th birthday gift, surprised me with a Chris Tomlin concert.  We had so much fun shopping at the Mall of America, toured Paisley Park and going to see Chris Tomlin, which was AMAZING! It was a crazy fun-filled 24 hours!!



NOVEMBER

Ella attended the Atlanta Trumpet Festival with her trumpet friends from school.






Our first family concert.....we saw Hillsong at the State Farm Arena


Thanksgiving day snuggles



DECEMBER


At the end of December, we drove to Florida and visited Paul's parents for week....so fun spending quality time together!!


After picking up Evan from the West Palm Beach airport, we decided to go to Lion Country Safari.  The safari is a drive through adventure and it was a ton of fun!!




That's a rap....see you in 2020!!!

Welcome to Ella's Blog

Hi everyone, Welcome to Ella Sarah Lazar's first blog.

How it Started

Laura, Evan and I will be updating this blog as we prepare to travel to Yangchun, China. Yangchun is located approximately 160 miles southwest of Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, China. We just received our match (referral) on Thursday January, 4th 2007 and aim to travel 4-8 weeks from this date (most likely 7-8 weeks as the Chinese New Year falls during this period).

Watching Ella Grow

Thanks for visiting - we had so much fun updating this blog during our trip to China, that we decided keep Ella's blog updated (once a month) to watch her (and Evan) grow up in front of our very eyes!


Happy 1st Birthday Ella

Happy 1st Birthday Ella

Ella Laughing for Mom

Ella Laughing for Mom

Daddy's Little Girl

Daddy's Little Girl

Ella's Referral Pictures #2

Ella's Referral Pictures #2
What a cutie!

Ella in Crib

Ella in Crib

Ella Referral Picture #3

Ella Referral Picture #3
Look at that Hair!!!

Announcing Yang Chun, Hua Tuan

Announcing Yang Chun, Hua Tuan
1st Picture of Ella