Monday, July 21, 2008

a summertime tradition...7/20/08

so today was a fun filled, action packed day...for some reason two of our favorite summer festivals decided to finish up on the same weekend - the canal fest and the italian fest. and come on, who can choose between those?? canal fest = craft show, italian fest = great food! so we didnt choose, we went to both!


our sunday started, as every sunday should, by going to church and i can honestly say, church has been so much more enjoyable lately since tuscan has made the decision that he would rather go to kids church than sit with us! so he goes and does his thing and we hang out with the twins during the worship and sermon...we're almost ready to start sending the twins to the nursery too though so that we can truly regain focus on the things we actually go to church for - no interruptions, i can barely imagine that in any aspect of our life!


from church we headed out to the canal fest and no sooner do we find a place to park, its starts pouring rain! fortunately we were able to kill time in the van feeding the twins lunch and letting tuscan watch a movie because once the rain cleared up we had a pretty good time. it was just nice to be out and about, walking! we didnt get anything for ourselves, but we did get nonna's request taken care of... all three of the boys handprints in clay that will be turned into a gorgeous ceramic piece to hang on the wall.. beth has done it the last two years with just tuscan and this year she needed all 3! ill post a pic when it gets here.


then we headed over to the italian fest, it rained the whole drive over there, but was fine once we parked...matt, bridget and chase met us there and we were able to share a summertime favorite with some of the favorite people in our life. FYI - they are friends of ours from church, chase is a few months younger than tuscan but they are pretty much best friends! we ate all of our favs...stuffed peppers, stuffed artichokes, gelato, pastry hearts, giant pizza! it was awesome, we had a really good time. tuscan and chase ended the night with a few games of "i got it" and then we all headed home. we got our babies to bed quickly and quietly and started a new movie...hopefully we will finish it before the week is over!


it was bright out, we're all squinty! but we sure do all look italian!

oh, and the twins were there, i promise!!

tuscan really enjoyed that pizza and finished his night off with a giant smiley face cookie...it was as big as his face!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

where is the twins picture with their first cannoli?! thats one of my favorites of tuscan from when he was itty bitty....but seriously...randy and i need to get up there for that festival someday! i can never turn down good italian food!! well scratch the festival...randy and i just need to make it up there...i'll let frank take care of the food! :)