Family Photos

This is a park near our home in Allen. Aiden loves to go there and feed the ducks.

We go to this park all the time, and I had never noticed this little waterfall.

The two men in my life.

My sweet baby girl.

My handsome little man.

Silly Aiden has his finger on his nose.

In Love Forever!

We decided to get our pictures taken outdoors this year. We are friends with a photographer from church and she did an awesome job. We love them. Here are a few.

Brazil Trip

Us at the cinematographic city where my brother is filming his soap opera.

At the buffet pizza place. Dale is contemplating the chocolate with strawberries pizza...yumm!

Giovanna's Birthday.

My cousins and their younger children and Giovanna and I.

All of us at the Circus. We had a lot of fun.

The four of us.

View from the top of the moutain where the Christ statue is.

Playing in the water. Giovanna loves it and Aiden stayed as far from it as possible.

Not so sure about this sand business.

Playing in the sand.

Matt and Dale being proudof their super deep hole.

The Christ Statue. It was being remodeled, but it still looked awesome.

Aiden playing in the sand with his cousing Lucas



I know I haven't posted anything in a long time, but after the trip to Brazil I had to post some of our pictures. I have been busy with a new job and trying to manage the house and the kids at the same time. Hasn't been easy, but not too bad either. We had so much fun in Brazil. The Giovanna had her first day at the beach and loved it. She wasn't so sure about the sand at first, but once she got used to it, she didn't want to leave. The water on the other hand, was an instant hit, she loved it. Aiden was a little scared of the water, but loved playing in the sand. He and his cousing Lucas playied in it for hours. They loved building castles and digging holes.

Matt and Dale also loved playing in the sand. Go figure. Two goof balls together. They dug a hole so deep that they could fit Matt's whole leg in it.

Myrtle had a good time, but I think we made her do too much. She was so tired at the end of the trip. Janet had fun taking lots of pictures and enjoying the good food. Anyhow, here are the pictures.

6 months photos.

I brought Giovanna to get her six months pictures taken and this is one of the ones we came home with. I love this one. She didn't smile much and by the end of the session she was really annoyed at the flash from the camera, but we made it through.

Family NIght.

I made these fun little sheep cupcakes for family night. Ok, I know they look like bunnies or something else. Aiden called them bunnies. They didn't taste very good (too many marshmellows), but Aiden thought they were so much fun. He ate his and most of ours.

Imagination Movers.

My in laws gave Aiden tickets to see Imagination Movers for his birthday. Imagination Movers is one of Aiden's favorite shows on the Disney channel. He had an awesome time. He danced and sang the whole time. It was lots of fun. Thank you Grandma and Grandpa!

Catching up.

Ok, I haven't put anything on the blog for a long time, so now I am going to try to catch up. Here it comes.

Pacifiers are for what?

Ok, so ever since Giovanna was born, I have been trying to get her to take a pacifier. Most of you know that I have not been successful. The other day she was being fussy and I had a pacifier in my bag and I decided to give it yet another try. She LOVED chewing on it. She won't suck on it, but oh well, the heart wants what the heart wants.

Aiden is 3!!!

Aiden turned three years old on February 1st. We had his birthday party at this place called The Little Gym. My very talented cousin Leah made this awesome Lightening McQueen cake for the party. Aiden had the best time, and so did his little friends.

Sometimes it pays off to get sick.

Last week Aiden came down with a virus that was awful. He started with vomiting, than diarrhea, fever, the works. For the first two days he ate almost nothing. On the third day he seemed to be feeling a little better, so I made him a especial breakfast. He loved his Mickey Mouse chocolate chip pancake. He was so excited he ate the whole thing (starting with the ears)....AND kept it down. So exciting.

Spring is near.

Spring is almost here and we have had some 80 degree weather this past week. I am so excited to dress Giovanna in her spring outfits and so decided to share the last two I put her in. So much fun.

Geee mom, what is THAT?

So the time came, and oh it came so fast, to feed Giovanna cereal. I delayed it for the longest time, but she is almost 6 months old and I thought I just had to do it. Well, after looking at this picture, there is not much else to say about how Giovanna felt about the whole thing. She hated it and after a few tries she got really irritated. Oh well, we will keep trying. She will like it eventually...I hope.

Giovanna is just being cute.

Giovanna loves to sit in her Bumbo chair and watch me while I cook.

Just chilling and being cute.

First Day at School

This is his new teacher Mrs. Laura. She is showing Aiden his new Cubby.

Aiden is so proud of his backpack and lunchbox. How cute!

Aiden just started preschool today and he was very excited about his new school. We went shopping for a lunch box and surprise, surprise...he picked out a Car's one. He was very excited about it. Hopefully he will adjust well to the new routine. We started him on friday's only to get him acclimated to going to school. Hopefully we will be able to transfer him to the mondays and wednesdays class soon.

Giovanna is growing up!!

I put Giovanna to play in the saucer for the first time. Does it look like she was having a good time or what?

Baking Cookies for Santa

After stuffing ourselves with our Christmas eve dinner, Aiden and I baked cookies for Santa. They were these lemon-sugar cookies that were really yummy. Can you tell I ate most of them?

Christmas Morning

We bought Aiden a Train table and put it under the tree. His little face when he saw the table was precious. He also love the other gifts, but it took some convincing to get him to go open the gifts under the tree. Too funny.

Santa

I brought the kids to the mall to get their pictures taken with Santa. Aiden had lost his shoe and I didn't notice it until we went to a different store after we had left the mall. Oh well. No shoe, but he was happy to tell Santa all that he wanted for Christmas.

Making Christmas Ornaments

So, we decided to make Christmas ornaments for Family Night. Aiden had a great time. He made a star and it had so much paint that at the end we could barely tell the ornament was a star. Matt made a stocking with the BYU logo on one side and University of Chicago on the other. Mine was Santa.