ok, so here i am out of town for the night and im actually finding time to blog!! amazing the things you can do without kids around. so here's whats been accomplished today...
i left the house at 820am...stoppped at starbucks and got my grande soy no whip 3 pump white mocha with caramel drizzle on top. got on the thruway by 845...
stopped at the outlet mall in waterloo to get some winter jammies for the babies - i had a 25% off coupon for carters...and yes i did stop in the children's place, was tempted..but resisted! and by 1055am i was headed for the northern lights plaza where i was meeting kelly at the christmas tree shops ( www.christmastreeshops.com ) awesome store, i love it!! got all the paperware for the twins bday party out of the way...then we grabbed some lunch and got really great pedicures...and they were only $25!! the best part was that while your nails are drying, they come over with a hot towel and massage your shoulders! it was awesome...something i havent done since last summer when my parents got married! i was over due!
then we stopped at starbucks, for my round 2...i had to use my treat receipt!! im never out of the house after 2, so i have never had a chance to use one before...stopped at wegmans for shower last minutes (lunch meat and cheese) and came home to finish preparing.
since arriving home we have rolled 25 ham and cheese roll-ups and 25 beef and cheese roll-ups, finished the shower favors, i painted wooden signs for the baby's nursery, we re-arranged furniture for tomorrow...its been a pretty busy day!! but awesome, lots of chatting, reminiscing...just really great girl time for both of us.
and i have heard that my parents had a great day with the kids. beth said they are like clock work and everything happened exactly when i told her it would!! good news...maybe it means they would be willing to do it again (like on oct 25th when mandy is in town??) anyhow...tomorrow will be fun, the whole weekend will go by way to fast, but its nice to know that i will see kelly again on oct 26th for my lia sophia party (her aunt is the consultant) and again the week that kellie is in town, we are already planning a day up here whether the baby is born yet or not..(keeping our fingers crossed that "he" is...)
pics to follow of pedicures and other shower weekend festivities!
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
painting, painting, painting...
i apologize, i havent blogged in a while, again! but i have been very busy, painting!! i can now say that the foyer closet is complete, as well as the front half of the livingroom....finally - something is complete!! my dear friend andrea came over last night and helped me get the second coat of keoki coffee on the walls in the livingroom. with her help we were able to get it done in an hour!! amazing timing i must say...then i finished the trim and crown moulding when i got home this morning. i painted the closet during nap time and tonight i might work on scraping off some more border...but we'll see how much energy i actually have after i type this blog!! it might turn into a a bowl of popcorn and movie kind of night, something i havent done much of recently! i promise to post some pics of the livingroom after i get the mess cleaned up!
i have recently received some amazing news too...not only am i going to spend this weekend in syracuse for kelly's baby shower, but mandy is flying up from florida for a weekend at the end of october and there are already plans in the making for a girls night that weekend!! i am super excited!! and kellie is flying in from colorado on the twins 1st bday to spend 8 days with us!!!!!!!! i cant wait - it has been a year and a half since we last saw each other...i cannot wait to spend a whole week with her!! and how amazing that she gets to meet the twins for the first time on their first birthday!! i dont know if she will ever understand how absolutely amazing that is to me!! and the best part is, the whole week was a big surprise for her! obviously she knows now...but i knew about it long before she did - the date just hadnt been set in stone until recently. we are planning on taking a drive up to syracuse while she is here, really really hoping that kelly will have had the baby by then, but otherwise just to hang out with kelly for a day. kellie and kelly have only met once, the week of my wedding, but over the years through me and the internet they seem to have developed quite the relationship! so it will be fun to spend a day with both my kelly-ie's!
so many things to look forward to in the next few months! i just hope i can have most of this work done around here so i can really feel comfortable relaxing and enjoying the mere moments that i'll have with some of the most important girls in my life!
nothing much else new around here...the boys are good, getting more bumps and bruises everyday as they try to become more and more adventerous. frank has been spending a lot of time in the yard this week trying to get things cleaned up for fall. we have spent a lot of time picking apples and pruning those trees...hopefully soon when the temps drop we will have a day to devote to pie baking!
heres a few recent pics of the kids, incase you forgot what they look like!!
i have recently received some amazing news too...not only am i going to spend this weekend in syracuse for kelly's baby shower, but mandy is flying up from florida for a weekend at the end of october and there are already plans in the making for a girls night that weekend!! i am super excited!! and kellie is flying in from colorado on the twins 1st bday to spend 8 days with us!!!!!!!! i cant wait - it has been a year and a half since we last saw each other...i cannot wait to spend a whole week with her!! and how amazing that she gets to meet the twins for the first time on their first birthday!! i dont know if she will ever understand how absolutely amazing that is to me!! and the best part is, the whole week was a big surprise for her! obviously she knows now...but i knew about it long before she did - the date just hadnt been set in stone until recently. we are planning on taking a drive up to syracuse while she is here, really really hoping that kelly will have had the baby by then, but otherwise just to hang out with kelly for a day. kellie and kelly have only met once, the week of my wedding, but over the years through me and the internet they seem to have developed quite the relationship! so it will be fun to spend a day with both my kelly-ie's!
so many things to look forward to in the next few months! i just hope i can have most of this work done around here so i can really feel comfortable relaxing and enjoying the mere moments that i'll have with some of the most important girls in my life!
nothing much else new around here...the boys are good, getting more bumps and bruises everyday as they try to become more and more adventerous. frank has been spending a lot of time in the yard this week trying to get things cleaned up for fall. we have spent a lot of time picking apples and pruning those trees...hopefully soon when the temps drop we will have a day to devote to pie baking!
heres a few recent pics of the kids, incase you forgot what they look like!!
a very happy mr. matteo!
a big mouthed grin from mr. cenzo!
sexy italian boys showing off their baby bodies!! and vincenzo's amazing standing abilites!
and the biggest stud of them all, tuscan -
with his hair all done and his nice shirt on for uncle dom's wedding!!
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
summer is over...
so we went on our vacation...it was a vacation...it was nice to get away.
the construction was 98% done when we got home, so that was even better!! now we just have a lot of painting to do...but thats the fun part, when we can find the time!
the twins went to their 9 month dr. appt on the 2nd.... vincenzo weighs 20lbs...and matteo weighs 19, but he also had a temp of 103! not good, we were relating it to teething at first, it started on sunday and was that high by tuesday, so we knew something was wrong. they tried, unsuccessfully to draw blood at the dr. office and ended up sending him home with a script for motrin. he took the motrin around the clock and by wed morning his temp was even higher. back to the dr. we went and from there they ended up sending us to the hospital because his temp had gotten up to 104.6 - very scary, especially since he hadnt been showing signs of anything...no ear infection, no sinus infection...nothing. i spent the day with him in the hospital, beth spent the evening so i could go home and take care of tuscan and cenzo and then when frank got out of work he went up and spent the night. by thursday morning matteo had broken out in a rash and the fever dropped immediately. apparently he had roseola...we were very grateful that it ended up being something diagnosable before we had to run anymore tests and by friday at his follow up appt. he was given a clean bill of health, so thanks to those of you who were praying for us....needless to say it was a very stressful way to spend our first week home from vacation!
im happy to be back to work, i actually missed it, a lot!! and frank was able to admit the same thing! we have gotten the new closet in the new foyer primed, but thats about it so far.
matteo has 3 teeth, cenzo has 4...they have started stage 3 baby food and they arent sure whether or not they like the chunks!!
my brother in law dom got married on labor day (my dad and beths 1st anniversary) we had our parents over on the 7th for dinner - happy grandparents day!! and today vincenzo decided to climb up a stair...looking at me the whole time with a look on his face that said he knew he was doing something he shouldnt be! that i am not ready for yet!! crawling is one thing, but they all need to stay in the same room!
thats all for now, time to get the little ones to bed - hopefully i will be able to get back on track now that the craziest month of my year is over!
the construction was 98% done when we got home, so that was even better!! now we just have a lot of painting to do...but thats the fun part, when we can find the time!
the twins went to their 9 month dr. appt on the 2nd.... vincenzo weighs 20lbs...and matteo weighs 19, but he also had a temp of 103! not good, we were relating it to teething at first, it started on sunday and was that high by tuesday, so we knew something was wrong. they tried, unsuccessfully to draw blood at the dr. office and ended up sending him home with a script for motrin. he took the motrin around the clock and by wed morning his temp was even higher. back to the dr. we went and from there they ended up sending us to the hospital because his temp had gotten up to 104.6 - very scary, especially since he hadnt been showing signs of anything...no ear infection, no sinus infection...nothing. i spent the day with him in the hospital, beth spent the evening so i could go home and take care of tuscan and cenzo and then when frank got out of work he went up and spent the night. by thursday morning matteo had broken out in a rash and the fever dropped immediately. apparently he had roseola...we were very grateful that it ended up being something diagnosable before we had to run anymore tests and by friday at his follow up appt. he was given a clean bill of health, so thanks to those of you who were praying for us....needless to say it was a very stressful way to spend our first week home from vacation!
im happy to be back to work, i actually missed it, a lot!! and frank was able to admit the same thing! we have gotten the new closet in the new foyer primed, but thats about it so far.
matteo has 3 teeth, cenzo has 4...they have started stage 3 baby food and they arent sure whether or not they like the chunks!!
my brother in law dom got married on labor day (my dad and beths 1st anniversary) we had our parents over on the 7th for dinner - happy grandparents day!! and today vincenzo decided to climb up a stair...looking at me the whole time with a look on his face that said he knew he was doing something he shouldnt be! that i am not ready for yet!! crawling is one thing, but they all need to stay in the same room!
thats all for now, time to get the little ones to bed - hopefully i will be able to get back on track now that the craziest month of my year is over!
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