Happy Birthday to Me!

I celebrated my birthday with my two favorite girls. We came home to find some beautiful flowers from James and the girls. Juli asked me who they were from, and I read the card and told her, "They are from Daddy, you and Livi." She said, "They are not from me. I didn't buy them." LOL

Our fun cupcakes had butterfly rings in them. Eat the cupcake, get a ring. What could be better? ;-)

Yum!

Lil Mama

Livi absolutely loves playing with her babies. She is really into dressing them and changing their diapers. She is more into them than Juli ever was. Here she is rocking her baby and singing "Rock A Bye Baby" to it.

MY baby!

I love babies!

Aunt Karen's Photo Shoot

While I was upstairs, Aunt Karen decided to use my camera to have a photo shoot with the girls. Some were pretty funny, here are a few:

Juli four-arms.

Lucky for Sara, I think she slept through all of this!

Blueberries!

Last weekend, we got two blueberry bushes since the girls love them so much. James planted them in our yard. They were looking kind of blah when we put them in.

Today, not so blah. There is definitely something going on.

This is all new growth.

I'm not sure if they will turn into berries or more branches. I'm not too hopeful since I read on line that they can take 3 years to actually have berries on them. I guess we will see.

Our dogwood also bloomed this weekend, seemingly overnight.

I think our yard is liking this heat wave.

Summer Fun... In April

Believe it or not it has been over 90 degrees in Philly in April! We had an official heat wave! We took advantage of the awesome weather and spent pretty much all weekend outside. Karen and Sara came up to hang out with us too.

We pulled the pool out and filled it up. The water was actually freezing, but the girls didn't seem to mind at all! Here's a bunch of pictures of them playing in it:

Sara hung out in Livi's stroller watching the girls play in the pool.

I think she had a good time too.

All that fun tired out the girls! Both Sara and Livi crashed downstairs.

A Day at the Park

Last weekend we went to the park so the kids could play and Juli could spend some time on her bike.

Livi relaxed with a juicebox while Juli rode around Safety Town.

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Want a Good Laugh? Easter Outtakes!

Ok, while going through these pictures I was laughing so hard. I couldn't not include them, but there were so many. And there are so many more! I just kept shooting hoping to get something good. I didn't get too much good, but I did get good laughs. So for your viewing pleasure, here are our Easter day outtakes:

Pop and the girls.
I love the way Livi is looking at Pop.
Sara looks like she is thinking, "Oh crap, she's touching my head!"

Livi is spacing out the window, but it's still cute.

My girls are like "what the heck is all that noise?"
Even Katie looks a little like, "Quiet please!"

Look at Livi's face!

No better. In fact it's worse. Katie looks like she feels a migraine coming on.

Livi: Man can he scream!
Juli: I'll just keep smiling no matter what!

Juli: Just keep smiling. Just keep smiling.
Livi: My gawd, my ears!
Katie: I wonder if my ear drum has burst. Oh well, I'll try to smile anyway.

Livi: Cic, what the heck is up with this kid?

Livi: I'm holding Sara. My mom's probably going to take her from me. Maybe if I don't turn my head towards her she won't take Sara.

So close... if Sara would have kept her tongue in her mouth and the big girls would have looked at the camera we would have been good.

Sara: HELP! Please. Someone. Anyone. They're going to drop me on the floor!
Livi: C'mon Kate, get off me!
Juli: Just keep smiling.

Given the situation - 1 out of 5 ain't bad.

Nothing good about this one. It makes me laugh though.

Juli holding "baby" Katie.

Then, of course, Livi had to have a turn.

Sara: Eww, boy germs!

Sara: Aww c'mon! Get him away from me!
Ryan: What'd I do?

Sara: I will bowl him over with my super strength!
Ryan: Ehh! Get her off of me!!

Hey what's Karen doing hanging from the ceiling???

Hahaha! I had way too much fun with that one!

Easter Dinner 2009

This is a HUGE post. There are tons of pictures!

Our Martha Stewart Easter baskets, finished and filled!

Pretty girl! Livi was grumpy and wouldn't get in the picture too.

Livi's birthday cake, made by Nonna of course. Livi was afraid of it and wanted nothing to do with it!!

Pop and his girls.

Sweet baby Sara. Happy first Easter, sweetie.

Livi LOVES Sara!

My pretty girl!

Cake by Grandma. Fun confetti decorations!

Homemade lamb butter, by Nonna!

Karen & Sara

We tried getting a picture of ALL of the kids. This was probably the best that I got and that's not saying much.

Livi was just happy that she was allowed to hold Sara.

Karen & Ryan

Sara & Ryan (Sara is almost a month older than Ryan).

Two cuties!

Not sure if they were trying to snuggle or if Sara is praying we stop taking pictures while Ryan works on Karate moves to get rid of the paparazzi.

Wassup? You want a piece of me?

Smiley Sara! Ryan looks like he's trying to figure out how to get away!

Happy Birthday Livi! She finally stopped crying/whining about the terrifying bunny cake long enough to blow out the candles.