Christmas Preparation :)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!! We have been busy baking, decorating and getting ready for the holiday! Francesca is particularly excited and enjoying every last minute (even waking up early) of the decorating. The kids are all at a really fun age and we're all looking forward to Christmas!

Be grateful.

We are so fortunate to have the family we do! We spent the Thanksgiving holiday discussing what we were thankful for...Francesca's responses included 'bumblebees', 'apples', 'pizza' and 'Daddy' (I think he bribed her!) We also spent the weekend celebrating David's (our nephew/cousin) 11th birthday!

Fall Festivities!

In the spirit of catching up, I'm posting all of our fall highlights in one entry! This fall we have a lot of special memories together as a family - although Francesca still gets special time with her mom and dad from time to time which are the pics that begin this entry. Next, we had a great Halloween (even though I left my camera behind!!) The kids all enjoyed the fact that we got to see and do so much. Last but not least, we had to capture the World Series memories with a few days of Yankee outfits!! I hope you enjoy the pics!! I'll post our Thanksgiving update sometime this weekend and resolute to keep up with more regular updates. I hope to capture and share our holidays through the eyes of my kids! Happy Holidays!

Apple Picking 2009 - I love these photos of her. She loved the wagon ride the most!

We went to watch Alysia play field hockey and right before or after this photo Francesca told me she wanted "to do that someday!" I can't wait!

Francesca also has come to LOVE the carousel!!

Halloween 2009 - Who wouldn't love my mice :)

World Series Celebrations!!! (with bed heads!!!)

Happy 1st Birthday TJ & Ella!

In no particular order (actually I think they should be in the reverse order), below are some pictures from the twins birthdays! On their actual birthday September 24th, I took them for their 1 year portraits and we had so much fun! Then, we went to dinner as a family for the first time. The twins were angels...our other angel on the the other hand was her typical self. We had a lot of interesting looks that night. We did presents and cake on our own at home. On Saturday, we celebrated with our extended families and friends. I hope the twins had as much fun as we did celebrating this big milestone!!!!