She Doesn't Just Love Princesses - Her New Hero is Bethany Hamilton!

Don't get me wrong...Ella LOVES princesses and Barbies but she has a new hero and I'm glad.

We went to the movies and watched Soul Surfer and Ella loved it.  It is the story of Bethany Hamilton, a young surfer that had her arm taken by a shark and the inspiring story of her life before and after that event! Bethany is an amazing surfer, even with one arm, but is even more inspiring b/c she didn't give up and even got back in the water like 8 weeks after that scary event. I don't know that I would ever go back in water!

Ella made a book about her and calls one of her Barbies Bethany and decided that the slip-n-slide was the closest thing to surfing so she put her gear on and went "surfing".  She wasn't quite a natural but she tried. I don't blame her for not really wanting to throw her body to the ground...I didn't want to! So Danielle and I decided to push her - literally - down the slip-n-slide! We had fun and that's all that matters! :)