What can you do with a Tio?

Joseph's family was in town this weekend for the blessing of our
newest nephew. The girls especially enjoyed visiting with my older
brother who stayed with us a couple of nights. The girls love
visiting with their uncles, and they kept uncle David constantly
entertained. Meeting our nephew was a lot of fun as well, and we
enjoyed being able to have everyone together to welcome him.

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V is for Vacation

We recently returned from a 2 week vacation to California.  We decided to drive so that we could visit family in Arizona along the way.  We had a wonderful time visiting family, going to Disneyland, staying in San Diego, enjoying the coast and the beach and beautiful spring weather.  Now I have about 1500 pictures to go through and blog posts to make which is a bit of a daunting task.  I hope to get some of our favorite pictures up soon.

 

Christmas Morning!

Coming down for Christmas morning was a magical moment with the girls. They were both very excited, and it was after 9:00 A.M. so mommy and daddy were awake and rested. Adrianna was especially excited and Alicia followed her lead. All of us enjoyed unwrapping our gifts, and watching them enjoy the moment!

Cousin Bobby came over and we enjoyed a deliciously late breakfast of Pain Perdu (Stuffed French Toast), made with Egg Nog. Yummy! After that we just relaxed, played with the new toys, including a new Wii game, and enjoyed munching on various snacks!

…to all a Goodnight!

From our family to yours, we want to wish everyone a wonderful Christmas Day!

Happy Birthday Bobby!

September 30th, 2008

We recently Celebrated Sarah's cousin Bobby's birthday. Adrianna knew his birthday was coming up because Sarah was making a cake, and she wanted it to be a special party. We needed to have balloons, hats, cake, etc. Instead of buying transformers hats we decided to use her dress up hats. As always the girls had a great time playing with their cousin. Adrianna especially loves tickle time and playing firefighter with him.

Uncles

What are uncles for if not to throw you around and get hyped up?

At a recent family dinner both girls enjoyed getting thrown around by their uncle David and uncle Zane.  Alicia is a little trick though, she will latch onto you for dear life if you try to throw her too high!

Reading with Tio David

Uncle David came over to the house on their recent visit to Colorado. He came by to join us for Soccer Practice and we recruited him to read to the girls. They enjoyed having a new narrator. Both girls enjoyed reading with their uncle. Alicia couldn't just allow her sister to have all the attention. She made it a point to get into the middle of the action and to be the center of attention.

Thank you David for spending you evening with us, the girls had a blast and can't wait for the next reading session!

Chalk Art

We had Sarah's cousin Bobby over for dinner the other day. The girls always love when he comes over. This time it was nice enough to go outside to play and Adrianna had been dying to use her sidewalk chalk. Bobby showed her the fine art of body outlines. They had fun drawing outlines and other art on the patio. Alicia even had fun opening and closing the door, and playing in the play house.

8 Year Anniversary

Sarah and I celebrated our 8th Anniversary this week on the 22nd. I took the afternoon off and we went to lunch and a movie with everyone. Lunch at Olive Garden was nice and then we went to see Nim's Island at the dollar theater. Adrianna enjoyed the movie, Sarah and I tried our best at taking turns entertaining Alicia. Popcorn worked well, until she dumped it on the floor and tried to eat it from there.

We kept our Anniversary simple this year, we are enjoying our girls very much and neither of us could ask for anything more than to enjoy spending time as a family.

Nacho night

July 8th, 2008

To celebrate Adrianna's "big girl" hair cut (she had about 4 inches cut from the back), we enjoyed some homemade nachos. Sarah has a wonderful recipe for nachos piled high with cheese, meat, tomatoes, green onions, olives, and sour cream. After dinner we enjoyed some banana slices (since the bananas are sliced we can't call them banana splits). Adrianna enjoyed everything so much she insisted on giving everyone high fives, which she exclaims: "give me five hands!!!"

4th of July Weekend

This Fourth of July we spent most of the weekend with Sarah's cousins who were in town to celebrate her Aunt Carol's birthday.

On Friday we enjoyed homemade pizzas at her Aunt's house with her children and grandchildren. Aunt Carol has 14 grandchildren ranging from 3 to 17 years old. Adrianna was dreadfully shy at first but after about an hour she was running around with the gang hunting grasshoppers and enjoying each other. Alicia enjoyed the attention as she was the youngest little one there (and the cutest, in my opinion).

On Saturday we went to Bear Creek park to celebrate Aunt Carol's birthday. We were joined there by more of Sarah's cousins. We had a great time playing at the park with all of the kids. Alicia learned to enjoy the slide with some help from her cousins. She went from being deathly afraid to go down the slide with me to not being able to get her away from the slide before the evening was through. All of us had a lot of fun, thank you to everyone for inviting us.

Memorial Day Weekend

I took an extra day off over the long weekend to get some projects down around the house. We finished painting the family room, we put up a storm door, got some book-cases, did some yard work, etc. My favorite part was spending some extra time with family and enjoying eating out on the patio and playing on the swings. The girls did what they could to help with the projects, insisting on being held while I was painting, and making sure I did a good job behind the fridge. Overall, it was a very productive yet relaxing weekend.

Soccer with Tios

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

We went up to Littleton for a gathering with my family. Adrianna got all dressed up to show off her soccer talent! She had a blast playing with her uncles, though I think the most fun was going after her uncle rather than the ball.

Easter Sunday

We had a very nice Easter Sunday. Grandpa Fedele joined us for a ham dinner, Grandma Fedele was visiting her mom for spring break. Adrianna helped me make rolls, Alicia raided the pantry and found some of her food jars, and she loved snuggling up with Grandpa. Sarah prepared an increadible diiner and we all had a very good time visiting. The girls enjoyed their Easter baskets full of goodies. Adrianna got a bunch of soccer things, including soccer ball eggs filled with chocolates. Sarah also made some amazing peanut butter chocolate eggs, yum-yum! Make sure to get a tall glass of milk with those.

Abuelos visita

March 1st, 2008

The Abuelos and Aunt Cristina came over to visit with my parents this past weekend. They were in town for Barrett's (my newest nephew) blessing. We had a great time visiting, the girls were especially adorable. We enjoyed a steak dinner, and some brownie bites for dessert. As you can tell from the pictures Alicia put on quite the show in eating the brownie bite. We are so glad that Adrianna and Alicia get to interract with their Great Grandparents. Thank you so much Cristina for driving out here, it was wonderful to see you and we hope to make it out to Utah soon.

Family get-together

December 29th, 2007

To finish off our Christmas week we got together with my family at my parents house. Judith and Kai came up from Blanca, Kurt came down from Steamboat, and Tamera and Crew came down from Denver. We enjoyed seeing Kai as he has grown considerably, and it was nice to visit with everyone, we even managed a game of Settlers of Catan which David won. Thank you Mom & Dad for coordinating everyone and for having us over. Here's to a growing family in 2008!

Adrianna did such a great job holding her sister and her cousin Kai!


Cousins with their Tio David!


Kurt and his "A" nieces!

Tio y Tia Visit

December 27th, 2007

We managed to keep our Christmas week busy with something almost every night. Thursday we enjoyed having Tio David y Tia Vanessa over for the evening. The girls loved visiting, snuggling & wrestling, with their aunt and uncle. We enjoyed catching up and it was a nice evening, thanks for stopping by!

Kurt and his nieces

 

November 18th, 2007

We went over to Grandma & Grandpa Terry's to give my father a priesthood blessing. Uncle Kurt and Zane, Tamera and Kyla were over as well. Here is a cute picture of Kurt and his nieces.

Great Grandparent's Williams

November 23rd, 2007

The day after Thanksgiving we went to visit my Gradparents on my Father's side, the William's. They have not had the opportunity to meet either Adrianna or Alicia. It took us a while to get in to see them because everyone wanted to see little Alicia. We had a very nice visit, though it was short, the girls got to meet their great grandparents. It was wonderful to be able to spend some time with them.

Thanksgiving at the Montoyas

We made a trip to Arizona for Thanksgiving where we spent most of the weekend with Sarah's uncle and his family (the Montoya's). We had a wonderful time, and enjoyed some amazing food. We enjoyed wonderful 70 degree weather, we even enjoyed a fire outside with a vwonderful view of the city. The day after Thanksgiving we got to enjoy some soccer and we also made a visit to my grandparents (see the post above). In all it was a fun packed weekend. Thank you Montoya family for your hospitality!!