utah vacation baby!!!

our family went on another ski vacation to Utah, our favorite place!! We were there a whole wonderful week! we skiied, snowmobiled, & went tubing and we had a blast!! Josh and the boys skiied on their blues and double blues...Rayne , Mallory and I stuck to greens like we normally do..and of course did our round on shopping!!!Mallory did great for her first time skiing!!

Merry Christmas!!

Here is our latest picture!

YEE HAW , SCHOOL IS BACK IN SESSION!!!!

YESSS!!!! I AM LIKE THAT COMMERCIAL WHERE THE SMILING DAD IS FLYING DOWN THE AISLE RIDING ON THE CART GETTING HIS NOT-SO-HAPPY CHILDREN ALL THE SCHOOL SUPPLIES THEY NEED...
HERE IS A PICTURE OF MALLORY AND JOSH'S FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, JOSH IS IN 4TH AND MALLORY JUST STARTED SCHOOL IN K-4.
THE OTHER PICTURE IS WHEN MY MOM AND DAD TOOK THEM AND KOREY (THEIR COUSIN) TO METRO ZOO...NOTICE WHO IS THE PRINCESS RIDING ON THE FRONT???????

SARASOTA BEACH - SUMMER 2009

Today we went with our friend Jennifer, Kyle, and Emily to Siesta Key in Sarasota .. We had a really fun time with most of the day overcast..the waves were actually pretty high too (for being the Gulf) which the boys loved!!






Then I had to bury Mallory which she loved!! She loved looking for shells too!

Happy Gotcha Day!

well, as most of you know it has been 3 years since our little gum-chewing cowgirl has come into our lives and made us a family of 4! (i am a couple of weeks late)..i wanted to post a few pics of when we were over in China....enjoy!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

So this year was an excellent one!! We had our traditional Italian Christmas Eve dinner of fish, calamari, crab legs and claws, and percatelli with sardine sauce aka:"green" sauce...
Then on Christmas Day we do a progressive dinner. We start discussing what country theme we are doing around June, then we all have to research it , along with the foods each of us are preparing....This year we did Australia..g'day mate!!!!!

We started at 11 am at Bianca's house for eggnog, a game, and exchange of presents, then off to my mom and dad's for appetizers, a game and presents, then to G-ma Marge's for soup and salad, a game and presents, to Rayne and Brian's for entree, a game...you get the idea, and last is our house for desserts and a birthday cake for Jesus...so here are some pics of us throughout the entire day...which usually ends around 9pm...the kids love it!!! (yeah, we do too!!!)

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PICS!!!

We have some friends who have a really nice camera , so we decided to take some family pics of each other's family, ours turned out really nice, especially the kids!!