Elia Cooking??

Beef anyone??

Project 365 Week 25

Sunday, June 17th

Miss Ginette next door was outside this morning, so I asked her to take a picture of us before we headed out for church.  Happy Father's Day!  :)

Monday, June 18th

Liliana wanted to see how long her hair was...

Super fun day with Daddy!

Liliana and Noah rode their bikes while I ran and Donnie ran and pushed Elia in the jogging stroller.  I found myself cracking up while running because of how unbelievably cute Noah was!!!  LOOK:

...making his "mad" Batman face for the picture:

Then we went to a local farm for ice cream and animal feeding time!  Love this place!

Tuesday, June 19th

Valley Falls Fun with the neighbors again!  :)  We go as man times we can before the open it up for the season and start charging...
Elia went right to business burying my feet...

and swimming like a big kid copying Liliana and our neighbor friend Jordan... here her body is floating and she is pulling herself around by hand walking in the shallow part of the pond!

Love these!!

After showers, food and naps, we headed out to the church cafe for Liliana's very first Piano Recital!
Rosie, Liliana and Emma after the performance!

Daddy's Girl!

Liliana and Miss Casey, her Piano Teacher... We brought her some hydrangea's from our garden...

Casey gave each student a gift of popcorn and Swedish fish... the kids dove into the popcorn as soon as we got home to celebrate the big occasion!

Wednesday, June 20th

Casey's Pool!!!!  The first time this year!  Been looking forward to this day since January 1st!  Haha!  :)  Woooh!

Our Sweet Fishy... I brought her into the water with no floatie just to hold her and hang out and she fussed and screamed and squirmed!!!  Turns out, she wanted INDEPENDENCE in that water, she wanted to, as Nike says:  "JUST DO IT!"... So, I put ONLY these orange floaties on her and she kicked her legs and was totally SWIMMING... she would swim and keep her little chin up and spew water out of her mouth when necessary and kick non-stop for about 4 feet and I would bring her to the steps where she would climb all the way out of the pool and back down in to swim some more!  She did this about 15 times while my friend, Casey, her mom and I watched just flabbergasted!  We had never seen anything like it!!!  I did not even coach her, it was like watching a little baby fish just go by it's brave and bold instincts without the slighted hesitations!  Knowing that we would be at the pool for a good 2-3 hours, I went ahead and added the swimmer floatie thing to her belly so she wouldn't drink so much pool water. 
SO SO SO SO COOL!!!  What a special day this was!!!  Love you our big swimmer!!!  Keep at it!

So silly!!!  :)

Noah had to follow suit and asked me to take his picture too!  :)

Prepping for the Olympics, first practice!  Hehe!  Look at those legs kicking!

Baby girl, I am so sorry, but this was just WAY TOO CUTE... I had to take a picture... 

Upon arrival to our house after the FUN...

Thursday, June 21st

Liliana left for the weekend (3 nights/4 days) today to spend with Auntie Joy and Emma at a cottage she rented on the beach here in CT.  Here are mine and Liliana's feet...

Friday, June 22nd

Watched Rosie, Stew and Timmy for Kim in their backyard while she weeded her veggie garden.  It was muggy and hot, but we had a sweet time, as always!  :)

Look at Elia's finger nails!  Mommy painted them a couple days ago, fun!

I brought over these balloons from Roxie's Highschool graduation the night before.  This is Stew...

Elia and Timmy looking over the fence for turtles in the pond...

Liliana and Emma at the beach house:

Saturday, June 23rd

Fun at the park:

Noah needs a new MIXER

For the past few weeks Noah has been talking about the mixer that Grandma sent them... well, I thought it was maybe a year ago, but found this post below dated 11/13/10... it was over a year and a half ago and Noah talks about it and wants a new one like it was just a couple of weeks ago!

Before you read on, here is what Noah has been saying these past couple of days... even in his first words of the day upon awakening: 

"Can Grandma buy me a new mixer?"

"Let's call Grandma and ask her about my mixer."

"Grandma is going to get me a bigger mixer because I growed bigger."

He has been looking out on the porch for it these past couple of days and says he wants to make pancakes and oatmeal with it when he gets it and that he will share it with Yana.

Look how little they look in these photos... feels like a few weeks ago to me too!  crazy!  :)

Grandma Sends us some FUN!

Grandma has a special gift for picking out THE COOLEST toys for the kids!

This mixer was on for about 3 hours straight after it left it's box. I helped them concoct a disgusting pancake from scratch...
...and they ate every bit of it!!! They were SO proud of cooking all by themselves with their new mixer! Thank you, Grandma, for the awesome new pj's! We LOVE YOU SO MUCH AND MISS YOU BIG TIME!!! XOXOXOX

Project 365 Week 24

Sunday, June 10th

Donnie and I traveling from Franconia to Nashua, NH... He is acting like he is sleep/driving... so silly... he did this for old times sake as this is something he did to make me laugh when we were dating. :)

 Monday, June 11th

Yard work day!  We had a blast kicking the huge ball around!  Liliana ended up soaked from jumping into the water as I gave the plants a big drink... so crazy!  :)

Tuesday, June 12th
The Kindergarteners had a year-end celebration in the gym.  They sang songs for us and we took photos, and had snacks.  What a SPECIAL time!!!
Here is Mrs. Then with Liliana and Ashley, one of Liliana's dearest school friends. 

  The three Kindergarten classes together ready to sing!  The principal, Dr. Ruggiero is the on the bottom left introducing them.

Liliana and Ashley:

Liliana and Timothy, one of her biggest fans... hehe!

Wednesday, June 13th

Noah and I went to Walmart and had the sweetest time!!!  I searched and searched for 15 minutes for the right size for him in this Batman shirt and found it! It glows in the dark! Here he is in the van after he put in on straight away! Here is Liliana after she got off the bus... it was PAJAMA DAY at school for the Kindergarteners.

  

Thursday, June 14th 

THE LAST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN FOR LILIANA!!!

I can't believe it!!!

They had a rally at the flag pole that morning just like they did the first day of school.  AWE!!!

 After school, we talked with Mrs. Then for a while and then played on the school grounds with the C's just like we had done the day before school started.  WOW, they year FLEW by!

Friday, June 15th

We started off summer break right by going to Valley Falls with the C's!  Fun, messy, fun! 

 Saturday, June 16th

Daddy and son and the Father's day Breakfast at church... Noah had these shades on almost the entire time!  Such a cool dude and a big boy who just sat quietly through the whole event!

Handsome!!!

 After church that evening, we lavished gifts upon Daddy and a poster-board sized card for Father's Day!