Giant's Game

Chris and 3 of his brothers went to the game tonight. Before they left, we got a pic of them in their fan gear. The cousins were dressed too, even though they stayed away from the chilly San Fran air for the night.

Rave and Rapunzel

We have had quite a few dance parties up here in our cabin. Uncle Vince bought glow sticks, so last night we turned off all the lights and had a "rave." So fun.

The next morning all the cousins watched Tangled together.

Family Picture

It doesn't happen that often that we are all together for a picture. This picture was the best we got out of all the takes we tried. (we missed u Matt and Sarah!)

And the out takes:

California Love!!!

We are in the cute town of Arnold right now, about a 3 hour drive from Napa. Grandma rented an awesome cabin for 4 days and we have been living it up. There is a lake within walking distance so we spent the day there yesterday.

Today we are going to hike nearby and probably fit in some more swimming. Then Napa for the rest of the week!

More Cooking Fun

Yesterday we made ice cream in a bag. Another idea from pinterest!It was so super yummy and creamy. Gianna had a ton of fun jumping around and shaking the bag. I ended up doing most of the shaking (workout for my forearms!) but they did most of the eating.

Later that afternoon, Gianna insisted on making Daddy dinner and laid out all the ingredients for him. She basically cleared the bottom three shelves of my spice rack. Mmmmm fish sauce, rice wine vinegar, canola and sesame oil dinner. Sounds good to me!

Summer Loving

A few posts ago, when I said we go to the pool often, I meant we pretty much go everyday. We've been everyday this week and plan to go tomorrow. It is seriously the only way to survive this datgum heat. Gianna is looking pretty summery in this pic!

Oh and I usually don't talk about too personal of things, but thought I would give a shout out to all the NFP users out there who are keeping it natural and the way God intended! NFP is a way to use your body's signs as a natural tool to achieve or postpone pregnancy. We have Gianna and Elia because of NFP and I wouldn't ask for our life with them any other way!

Elia-isms

Oh that Boomy. She just gets to me every time! I wanted to write down a few things so I don't forget her cuteness in 10 years. Whenever she (or someone else in the the family;) burps, she says "I toot in my neck!" and then giggles uncontrollably for a few minutes.

Yesterday she was looking at our wedding picture, and after really studying it, she pointed to me in the pic and said "that's mama!" She then looked closer and said "a princess!!"

How could you not love her?

And lately she has become obsessed with dancing- she holds onto a chair or counter, puts one leg up in the air and says "I'm a ballarine!!" (hasn't quite gotten that its ballerina.

Perhaps more to come later...

Pinterest

*Pinterest is becoming more and more addictive to me! It is worse than facebook, blogging, and email all put together. It gives me really good ideas, but all I was doing was just pinning the ideas and not doing or trying anything. So this week, we remedied that. We made homemade gold fish (so good they were gone before Chris got home from work) and sweet potato cookies. The girls have loved these cooking projects, and G especially like making the gold fish!

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The best part of baking- licking the batter!!

In the next few days I'm going to try ice cream in a bag, homemade fruit roll ups and rainbow pudding pops! Watch out, Martha Stewart!

*Don't know what pinterest is? Let me know and I will send you an invitation. You will never be the same afterwards!

Slurpee Weekend

This weekend, we introduced the girls to slurpees. I originally wanted to take Gianna to get a sno cone (cuz whats more summery and american than that?) but a small is $2.50 at the sno cone place by our house. So I did the math and realized that at .79 cents, slurpees are going to be the new summery, american treat.

We went back for more the next night too!

She can swim!!

Sorry about the annoying bell in the background!

She is so amazing!

Here she is off the diving board- this is the 2nd, more successful attempt: