Happy Birthday Dodo!!

We hope you have a great Birthday!

I guess a birthday is a good time to post random pictures on a blog, right? We love you!

TEXAS

We had a great time in Texas. Here is a recap of our week:

Day 1: Emily and Nora watched a movie and took a nap while Grace and Charlie watched Baby Einstein and took a nap.
Day 2: We celebrated Ben's birthday by taking cupcakes to all the med students, making Cafe Rio's pork burritos, and having chocolate mousse for dessert.

Day 3: We drove to some outlet stores and went shopping. Emily got her very first speeding ticket on the way there. The kids were super good in the car and very patient while we were shopping. We got some great DEALS!!!!!

Check out all those bags...

Day 4: Uncle Stevie came down Friday night after school and spent the weekend with us. We took the kids to a pool at one of Emily's friend's apartment complex. We had planned to go to this pool at the park but it was closed for a "dog festival." Emily went to see if it was open and there were dogs in the water having relay races and the city pound guy in a dunk tank. The park ranger looked at Emily like she was crazy for asking if the pool was open. He said: "Yes ma'am it's open... for the DOGS!! Good thing we had a back-up pool to go to.

Day 5: We went to church (sadly, we did not get a cute church picture of the kiddos). We had fun just hanging out with Uncle Stevie.

Day 6: We drove about an hour and a half and met up with Aunt Tami and Uncle Steve in Corsicana. We met at Walmart and sat outside on some lawn chairs and visited for a while. Then we went to lunch and walked around town. They were so sweet and super happy to meet Charlie and Grace.

Day 7: Photo shoot! Emily and I had a photo shoot before she took us to the airport. Charlie and Grace were being hilarious. Charlie would not stop sucking his hands and Grace was being super wiggly and she wanted to attack Charlie. We got some cute pictures out of it though.

Happy Birthday Alli

Happy 4th Birthday Alli. We hope you have a great day! Love...
Gracie,

Uncle Benny Boo,

and Auntie Emmy

These are our 4 favorite pictures of you!

Nursing the babies!!

Ryan has this thing with Alli where he asks her why she is getting so big. Usually the response goes something like this: "I want to get bigger so I can get baptized and have a slumber party!" Since I have had Charlie things have changed a bit. Now the conversation goes like this, Ryan: "Alli, stop getting so big! Why do you want to grow up so fast?" Alli: "So I can get boobies and feed my baby milk like Auntie Nora!"

Good luck on the MCAT

Good luck Dave-Bo on the MCAT. Let us know how it feels to have it over. I bet you'll feel so Happy...maybe as happy as you were to get your new blue loafers a couple of Christmas's ago.

Gracie and Stevie

We had a fun weekend seeing Uncle Stevie. He watched Grace for 4 hours (her longest babysitter yet) and it seems like they had a fun time. She wore her Espana shirt just for him. It was very sweet because he even took pictures of her while he watched her so I could see how cute she was being. Hopefully we'll see lots more of him while he's in Texas!

First Day of School

Steve-bo had his first day of school in Texas. He emailed me a photo and I told him I would post it for him....SWEET SHIRT.

Christmas is Just Around the Corner

Nora and I were talking and had wanted to know everyones opinion on gifts for Christmas...
Should we draw individual names? Couples?
Is there going to be a dollar amount?
Should it be a surprise who has who? What about the kids?

Everyone post their thoughts and we can decide what is best. Maybe David will come up with another great idea like he did last year for Christmas with Mom's ticket to Spain. It will be so fun this year with everyone together!

At Dave-Bo's request

Front and back of house

Mohawk hair-do. This really is always how her hair goes...I guess it kind of matches yours Dave.

Happy Anniversary!

Two years has gone by fast! I was also reminiscing about our Italy trip one year ago this past week. The only pictures I have of just the two of you are from that trip, otherwise my kids are in them! Happy Anniversary!!

Adam is a great husband to carry such a heavy load!

Adam: "Do you want to go make a baby?"

Nora: "Uh, let me think about it...ok!"

The happy couple sailing off into the sunset

So sweet!

Just for Grandma

We found this onesie and thought Grandma would like it since it's what she calls Grace.

New Trick

Grace learned a new trick when we visited California... it fascinates her all day long.

Zachy-boy has two bad examples...

... he sure looks happy though!

HAPPY 80th BIRTHDAY MIMI!!!

Talk about a funny picture! I figured since Mimi's 80th birthday bash was this weekend, I should post my favorite picture of her. These were taken last year at the Toffoli's New Year's Eve party. Here, Mimi is teaching Adam and Ben how to "get their freak on." It was a wild and crazy night, so wild that Adam and I drove Mimi home... I think she was exhausted from all that dancing! :) One HAPPY lady!!!!!!

Puts a smile on my face