Over the 4th of July weekend, Chad wanted to take the kids to Cedar Cove. It is a refuge for large cats that have been abandoned by their owners or for people you realized after they had a leopard living in their home that maybe that wasn't a good idea. :) We had a great time and the kids loved it! Thanks, Chad!


Carter annoyed he has to model his. :)

Kennedy modeling her new sunglasses!


"Hmm, really..interesting.." The trip was very educational!

Last week, Tony and I went to Aruba with his company. We had a great times, but didn't take many pictures. Here is one of the last night on the beach.

Too much!! Nancy had dinner with the kids and I tonight and Kennedy, as usual, stole the show. As we are driving back from Chili's, Nancy makes a comment about how Carter has such long and beautiful eyelashes. Kennedy pipes up and says, "Nana, I am officially your granddaughter! Don't you like me, too?" With her hands out and an accusing look that would make any italian grandmother proud. Nancy and I just laughed. Oh, Kennedy!

Here is Tony showing off his gifts from the kids for Father's day. We made him a tie with their picture on it. Kennedy cut them out so they are perfect in every way and they both colored them. The great thing is that Kennedy wrote his name on it, not Daddy, but Tony and Carter contributed several food stains to his. Priceless!

Kennedy had her dance recital on June 2nd. June 1st was the rehearsal and I took some video. Unfortunately I am not good at watching and videotaping as most of the video is of her feet. Way to go mom! However, she is still cute and thankfully the recital was professionally videotaped and she did really well at the recital. At the rehearsal you can videotape. At the recital you cannot. At the recital, the little girl next to Kennedy (who did not participate in the rehearsal as seen in the video) was trying to boss Kennedy and Kennedy told her to pay attention to the teacher. That's my girl. Don't mess with a performance! :) Most of the kids are already 4 and Kennedy is by far the youngest. As you can see, she can hold her own, but boy is it fun to watch them!!

The last picture is of Kennedy at home. I might have a career in make-up for beauty pageants. Can anyone say stage mom?! just kidding...

Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted her families to see her kids grow-up. She created a blog and added pictures quite often so her family would not miss the important events. That girl still exists, but sucks at updating the blog. I will try to do better. I promise! Here are a few pics.

Tony's godson, Tyler, had his first communion this past Sunday. Here they are together. Who knew they would have matching suits!! So cute!! :)



Uncle Jim has a new best friend! From the second he got out of the car and ran to Jim, Carter was attached to Jim's hip. He sat so nicely with him in church and then went to him afterwards at lunch. It was adorable!

The whole motley crew! Thanks for taking the picture, Jim!

Kennedy wanted to take pictures with everyone individually. What a ham!

Carter and Nana sharing a laugh!


A nice squeeze from Kennedy!

Here are Nancy and the kids at Easter. I thought this was so funny because Nancy is trying very hard to settle them down and yet the kids are having no part of it. This is what I must look like in every picture! :) Needless to say we had to do individuals with Nancy and the kids!

Happy Easter! Here are the kids hunting Easter eggs at Kevins house.

Well, Kennedy has done it again. The other night we were having dinner and I told her to eat her green beans. I was singing to her to the tune of Row, Row, Row your boat and this is her response. We have our hands full.

Kennedy and Carter love to dance!!! Carter is very subtle, but usually puts his hand up in the air. It's great! Kennedy, not surprisingly, is a little more animated! Here is a video to prove it! She has the ipod in so you can't hear the music, but look at her shakin' it!

Carter is growing faster than Kennedy. I'm not sure how they get so big so fast, but Carterman is doing it! He says Daddy all the time! Of course I gave birth to that wonderful head and he calls me Beth. That's right. Kennedy went through a phase and called me Beth so now that is all Carter calls me. Its great. I'm sure he will say it when I least expect it!

Obviously this isn't allowed, but he is so proud of himself!

Doesn't he look so busy!!!

I'm quickly becoming second fiddle to the much more fun Daddy!

Here is a picture of Kennedy taken last week. She is getting so big and saying the craziest things! Tony made her breakfast one morning and she told him that it made her nauseous. Yikes. You can imagine how well that went over! In the car, she tells Tony and I that she, "needs a minute, I mean 5 minutes of quiet time." And then she doesn't want us to talk! What will she be like when she is 15....hmmm...can't wait!

I know that it has been awhile since I have posted. Carter is walking everywhere. He is still a big guy, but his weight is staying the same since he is getting so much exercise! He has started tormenting Kennedy, like every good little brother should. I promise I will post more however for some reason I can't add a note under each picture. I will try again tomorrow and hopefully it will work. Happy New Year everyone!!!

New Years Eve.....

Tony and Kennedy popping "firework." Carter enjoying or not enjoying the confetti. Oh, and did I mention this took place at 8:30 pm. :)

Making donuts the day after Christmas. This a new tradition that we are starting and can I say that it is quite a delicious one!!!

Christmas with TOny's mom....

Well, here it is. The 1st of many pictures of one of them crying on santas lap. At least Santa looks good! :)

What a picture!!!!

Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer!!

Performed by Kennedy and her cute little friends

Kennedy's school sing-a-long. You can see Kennedy in the middle there with a striped sweater dress. She had a great time!!!

Holiday Baking!!!

Kennedy dipping preztels and putting sprinkles on them.
Carter trying to figure out how to get to the pretzels!

Kennedy on another day making cookies...

Kennedy posing in her apron. She touched the butter and her hands were yucky. I told her I would get a paper towel and wipe them off. She said, "I'll just wipe them on your apron." I told her to wipe them on hers and she said no, she didn't want to get her apron dirty. wow.

Snow day!!!
As I am sure you heard, a couple of weeks ago we had a bunch of snow. Kennedy was so excited....Carter was not. :)

It was too cold for Carter to crawl around the snow so we put him on his motorcycle (Nona and Papa got for him for Christmas) and left him in the garage. Not happy!!

Kennedy doing a snow angel.

Kennedy checking out the snow...

Carter, politely, saying he wants to go inside!