In the meadow we can build a SNOWMAN!

Ava and Tony built the cutest snowman today!!!!! I used my old camera as my new one needed charging, hence the pink snow!

Christmas Morning 2007

The girls enjoyed all of their gifts. Some more than others and Gia is still at the age where the paper/boxes are more fun. Just realized I have no pictures of Gia opening her gifts! Doh! She was too busy running around.

Christmas Eve 2007

A few shots from our get together with my family at our house.

A few shots from our get together with my family at our house.

Holiday Shots

These were taken December 22nd, at our house and at my in-laws. We got together early to open our gifts to avoid rushing all day on Christmas day.


I love this picture! Ava looks so calm and quiet and Gia is screaming like a banshee!!!

The two of them on our kitchen island. Gia holding one of her many toothbrushes.

How cute it this little one?!

This cradle was made by Tony's late Nonno Chuck. Papa Tom refinished it and Nonna Yo sewed some cute new bedding. This is supposed to be for her baby dolls, however she fits in it quite nicely too!
Proof that Ava can take a bad picture!

Testing, Testing, 123

Here are some new pictures of our holiday decor with a working camera!!!!
Yippee, no more rose colored skys or frames! Also, I have been checking out my other friends blogs and mine is sooo elementary. If I ever have free time I wi ll try to fancy it up for you. (meaning when the girls are grown and move out of here!) anyway thanks for bearing with my technical difficulties. Ava's Christmas Program is tomorrow night so I am thrilled to have a working camera and will post those shots soon.

Village Tree Lighting

Ava's preschool sang at the Village Tree Lighting ceremony. Santa showed up at the end and I was able to get some much better shots than the overpriced picture I posted a while back.

Gia Kay 12/6/07

A few shots of our little firecracker. I didn't think God would bless me with another child with this much energy...I was wrong!

Our decked halls

Took some pictures of the house decorated for Christmas. I did a little more this year than last. I would love to do more outside, but Tony does not do outside lights, so I do what I can. One of the pictures is the view from the floor of our foyer ceiling. I hung large ornaments with fishing line from the chandelier. Kind of looks like the solar system from this perspective! Sorry about the bad pictures,my camera is still broken and likes to give everything that "rose colored glasses" kind of look.

Hello Gorgeous!

Tony and I are in love with someone new...the Margaritaville Frozen Concoction Maker. It is our Christmas Present to us from us with love!

If you haven't experienced it yet, I can only tell you as far as I am concerned it is worth it's weight in gold! We are experimenting with different recipes. We are loving fresh mango margaritas...gasp...almost nightly. Hopefully the novelty will wear off or we could be in serious trouble. It should be a fun Christmas Eve celebration at our house this year!

Memory Lane

My girlfriend since Kindergarten, Michelle Haro, sent me these pics of us as children. How precious it was to see these and how scary to see how much Ava looks like me as a child. What's more wonderful is to have a friend with whom I have this much history, we have so much to reflect on when we get together. We are currently planning a 20 yr grade school reunion, that should be a blast!

A visit to Santa

At our local mall on Nov26. A rip off for 2 3 1/2 by 5 photos at $19 something with tax, but they won't let you take your own anymore, so what are ya gonna do. Now I find out Santa will be at Ava's tree lighting ceremony tomorrow night. The problem is my camera is broken...so I can take some stills with our camcorder but they won't be the greatest.