I win the horrible blogger award

Since there is NO WAY possible to catch up since May, I hope this will at least make up for not posting just a little bit.  I made a slideshow of Halloween, Toby's birthday, and Christmas tree hunting.  Maybe if you are lucky I can put together a slideshow later of summer.  We are all doing well and we miss everyone very much!!!!

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Toby's Preschool Graduation

I just simply can't believe that Toby is old enough to graduate from preschool.  It seems like yesterday we were bringing him home.  He had a GREAT year and a wonderful set of teachers.   They understood who Toby is and what his needs are and accepted him and loved him as if he was theirs.  I just could not have asked for anything more.  Now Liliana is begging to go to preschool and Toby is excited to be in "Mommy's class" next school year.
I didn't film whole songs because I was also taking pictures on the same camera but here are some of my favorite parts.  Hope you enjoy them too!!

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Easter 2011

I know I am the MOST horrible blogger ever!  I hope these photos from Easter will make up for it alittle bit.

Christmas Eve Photos...finally :)

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from Christmas Eve....

 Look at how sweet they are!

 I love the hand holding.  Too cute!

 Mid-jump

 Our best and only family shot from the holidays.

 My brother got engaged a few days after Christmas.  Welcome to our family Des and Jay!  At least you know what you are getting into. lol  So very happy for you guys!!!

Our Ohana

I'm almost caught up!!  Hot damn!  Check back tomorrow for one final catch up post.  Then I'm going to try and stay on top of this.  I know it's the only way some of the fam and friends see pictures.

That's what PapPap's do

A PapPap will sit with you until you both fall asleep (in a way that can't possibly be comfortable) all because he hasn't seen you in 3 weeks and beacuse a certain someone didn't want to be alone.



Milk and Cookies

The kids really enjoyed making cookies this year. It's so much fun to watch them get more and more into Christmas every year. As you can see we were all about the silly. Their two favorite cookies to make were the sprinkle sugar cookies and the gingerbread reindeer cookies. While the cookies were baking, they entertained us with the ninja chef moves. Love it...Love them!

Great Tree Hunt

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Sorry it's been so long. It's been CRAZY the last two weeks! This are the pictures from our Great Tree Hunt of 2010. We went to a tree farm out by my school. They were super nice. The only problem we had is we are used to the types of Christmas trees that grow fours hours from here....trees that are unable to grow here. So it was a hard decision this year to pick just the right tree. I liked our tree, but I think next year we will try to get a tree more like the ones we are used to. As you can see from the pictures we had no snow. This is the first year since Toby came home that we didn't have snow on the ground for our search. Kentucky made up for it though cause we had 12 total inches of snow for the month of December...it even snowed the day after we picked out our tree. figures. :) Come back again soon because I have other posts scheduled. Love to all!

What we've been up to....

We were very busy over the Thanksgiving break back in Ohio.  In fact we did something and saw friends and family every day that we were there.  It was a whirlwind and I was exhusted but happy after visiting.  here are just a couple of the things we did.  You can click on any collage to see the larger version.
We celebrated a special little boy's 5th birthday!

We had fun at Nan and Pap's for Thanksgiving.  (I'd like to just say that PapPap was pretending to fall asleep with "Tom" to get a rile out of the kids, only to really fall asleep. lol) And most of the pics in this collage were taken by Toby.

We even got to hang out with our friends Natalie and Joel and their cutie pie, Eliana.  Toby and Lili LOVED getting to see her, since they ask about her often.

CINCO

Five Days Old

TWO!

THREE!

FOUR!

FIVE!!!!

Where has all the time?  Happy Birthday my wonderful child!!!!

What a way to spend a weekend!

Last weekend we were blest to have friends from back home come to visit us.  All of us loved having them here.  The kids enjoyed having other adults to play with and Mommy and Daddy enjoyed the nightly adult time.  Here's a couple of pics from our day at the Levee....

Better Late, Than Never

Buzz and the giraffe had a great time trick-or-treating in our new neighborhood!  And even though our part of the subdivision isn't anywhere near completed, the connecting subdivision is great and so are the people!!  We had a blast!  And we can't wait for next year.

What to do with an extra visit day?

Why go to the Kentucky Horse Park of coarse!  ...very kentuckian. :)  It was a nice, relaxing day just strolling through the park and visiting with the horses.  We even made it in time to see a couple of the shows they put on.  The kids liked the Parade of Breeds because they dressed up the riders and the horses for Halloween.  It was really cute!

Hope you're having a great week!

Celebrate

Tomorrow begins National Adoption Awareness Month, a cause very dear to me.  Please consider opening your lives and you heart to a child in need of a family, domestic or international. 

Here's the rest of the "photo shoot" that goes with the new header.

Pumpkin Patch Fun

So I've been a very, very bad blogger lately.  I hope these collages help.  The first two our from our trip to Hozak's.  We go every year, so while we were up visiting Mom and me took them kids for very quick trip after dragging them shopping most of the day.  The last collage is from our family trip to a local patch.  It was nothing like the ones where we're from, so needless to say we won't be going back.  The kids didn't mind it, but then again they weren't the ones paying for it.  :)   I have some other pictures I need to upload so check back again on Monday to see them. To see the collages in Full-Size just click on them.

Newport on the Levee

A couple weekends ago, while my parents were here, we went down to Oktoberfest at Newport on the Levee.  There wasn't much for the kids to do so we grabbed a drink and sat down to watch the Riverboats.  After we finished up, we took a walk along the Riverwalk to the park.  The kids loved the park but even more than that they were doing helicopter tours, so we sat on the swing and watched the helicopter take off and land.  It was a wonderfully relaxing day!  Here are a couple of my favorite pictures from the day....

Look, I am Alive!

We were recently home for the weekend and a wedding.  Since Greg was in the wedding that meant two nights in a row kid-free.  I wasn't quite sure how to act, but it sure was nice to just have some time with Greg.  Here are some pics from the wedding night...It was held right next to PITT's campus, so we all went to the college bar we used to hang at.  It was a great night and a great wedding.

Looking pretty good

Greg falling off the PITT Panther...he didn't realize he'd be so slippery :0

I learned from Greg's mistake and just stood with him

GO PITT!

While home we also had a Labor Day Picnic complete with celebrating my MIL's birthday (that we missed).

Blowin out the candles

Grandma and the kiddos

Nope, they are still not all looking.  Oh well...it's cute anyway.