Merry Christmas Eve!

We went to Aunt Mary & Uncle Rick's house for Christmas Eve as we do every year and look who was there!  Unfortunately, trying to get that many kids in one picture to cooperate is not easy.  Hopefully someone else got better pictures than I did on my iphone!

Happy 1st Birthday Sara!!

We celebrated Sara's first birthday with a Barney Garden Party. Karen & Nonna (and everyone else involved) did a great job. The decorations were adorable. The cake was gorgeous. A great time was had by all! Here are some pictures of the big day:

Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas Eve at Uncle Rick & Aunt Mary's house, as usual. It was so nice to see everyone. The girls had fun playing with Dylan and Sara. Juli made a new friend, since their neighbors came over and they have a little girl about her age. We tried to do family pictures like we always do, but the kids are all at such a tough age that we didn't really get anything good. The best ones I got are below.

Christmas Eve 2008

We had our usual Christmas Eve celebration with Nonna's side of the family. We do the traditional 7 fishes feast.

Juli and Livi in front of Aunt Mary's tree.

Livi being silly.

The family singing happy birthday to Uncle Frank and to Mike.

Livi, Juli and Dylan

Cousins. We were missing Jenn.

Uncle Mike, Nonna and Uncle Rick.

Livi and Frankie

Livi, Sandy, James and Juli (not sure why Juli is a little blurry!)

Nonna and her girls.

Showers of Happiness

Today was Karen's baby shower. The theme was "Cute as Can Bee." All of the favors and bee related things were made by Donna, of course. I just photograph them. ;-)

Favors - tea bags and little honey "pots".

Close up of the tea bags.

Diaper Cake

Real Cake

The guest of honor, isn't she "cute as can bee"?

Dylan, Brigette and Livi

Livi, Aunt Connie and Aunt Irene

Karen and her "helpers", Juli and Katie.

Aww, cute baby stuff.

The obligatory bow hat. I won't really embarrass her by putting the big bib picture on here too. Her face is red enough here.

Aunt Sue, Mom Mom, Katie & Michelle

Stay tuned for pictures from party number two!

Livi's 1st Birthday Party

Yesterday we had Livi's birthday party. As you can tell, it was a Winnie the Pooh themed party. Here are some pictures of the day:

Birthday Hat

I'm ready for my party!

Cheese!

They were probably hoping the guests would arrive, so I would stop taking pictures of them!

Maybe reading will help pass the time.

Cheese again...

Will you leave me alone???

I'll pose for you!

Livi's cake, courtesy of Nonna.

Close up of the top part. Yes, that is Livi on there playing with Pooh and the gang.

Livi's honey pot smash cake.

Pbbbthh Livi!

What? I'm playing nice!

That's more like it!

This is what happens when you try to get a bunch of kids together for a picture.

This was the best of a bunch of shots!

I don't want my picture taken anymore!

Smiley Dylan!

Awww!

Livi almost fell asleep while we were singing Happy Birthday to her!

Hmmm, this looks yummy.

Let's see...

Oh yeah, it's yummy!

What?? She said I could have some!!

And then I put this in the bath tub and...

What a good book!

One more picture before bed.

Livi had a great time at her party (as did everyone else)! She got a lot of great gifts and had a ton of fun playing with her cousins! Thanks everyone!

Thanks to my friend Laura from Blueberry Daisy Atlanta. She made Livi's beautiful dress!!