Memorial Day Fun

Last year we began the tradition of attending the Memorial Day parade in Florence.  It's a great parade and the kids really enjoy it.  It's a fun way to kick off the summer!  I just love seeing the kids in their patriotic outfits waving their flags!  Lilah really got into the candy collecting this year.  She's feisty, that one!

After the parade we were lucky to spend some time with our great friends from high school/college.  It was a great day!

I sent this picture to Brian's music teacher.  Because of her he knows the names of most of the instruments in a marching band and he was mesmerized by it!

Easter 2014

We hosted Easter on Holy Saturday for Shawn's family and then went to Easter Mass and brunch with my family on Easter.  I cooked dinner that night and we finally got around to dyeing eggs!  The kids had a ball playing with their cousins Saturday.  It's a lot of work to host, but it's fun to see the kids all together.

NYE

The kids were BEYOND excited to throw our 2nd annual kid friendly NYE party!  We doubled our guests this year (since we knew from last year the party would be a hit!) and made sure that we would have plenty for the kids to do.  You would have thought our kids never see people outside of our household when the guests started to arrive.  They ere bouncing off the walls!   It really was a fun night for the kids and the adults and the best part is that our midnight happens at 8p.m. with a cookies and milk toast so everyone got to bed at a reasonable hour!

A Catch Up Holiday Post

Well the Christmas season just flew by!  With two extremely excited kids, I had to just do Christmas rather than write about it this year.  It was so much fun though.  They were over the moon excited about Santa, baby Jesus, Ralph (our reindeer alternative to the Elf of the Shelf), snow, trains...

My favorite part of Christmas is the skit at church.  I am in charge of it and I just love it.  This year I let both kids be in even though Lilah is technically too young.  They were mice with their cousins Jade and Junior.  Candi dubbed them "the rat pack."  They were so freaking cute!  I have no pictures.  Mom fail.  My work assistant may have some.  If I ever get a hold of them, I will post some.

The kids got all they wanted and more from Santa, family and friends.  We had lots of time to spend with those that we love, ate a lot of good food and played with a whole bunch of new toys!  It even snowed in the weeks leading up to the big day, which gave us a few extra days off of school and a bunch of memories.

So here it is ladies and gents.  My Christmas photo dump.  Enjoy!

A quick side note....sad that this is a side note and not it's own post...you may notice the gigantic bruise on Lilah's nose in some of the pics.  We thought she broke it, but she didn't. She face planted into the foot board of our bed while running one night.  It bled a lot and she cried a lot.  Thankfully, our professional Christmas pictures were taken before it happened!