baby showers and pizza parties!

sunday we had a baby shower for dave and enna at our parents house. what an amazing turn out we had and what wonderful gifts they received!! we had a little over 30 people at the house for brunch. frank and his cousin richard were busy in the kitchen preparing made to order omlettes for all the ladies and frank made his now famous fried french toast! the food was awesome, as usual! and dave and enna were truly blessed. we had asked that everyone bring a book signed with their name and everyone came through without any duplicates! they got adorable outfits and many other baby necessities. it was a ton of fun and so awesome to be able to share in this exciting adventure with them. if only they lived closer so we could spend more time with them and the lil' guy when he arrives!

monday, dave and enna, dom and dana all came over to have lunch with frank and i and the kids. the twins went down for a nap before lunch started and tuscan was a little to excited about all the visitors to eat, so lucky for me, i was able to turn the leftover pizza into a pizza party/ice cream social for the kids for dinner! and they loved it. i chopped up all the pizza into bit sized toddler pieces and added a side of strawberries and then for dessert we had ice cream sundaes with cookies and cream ice cream, cool whip and m&m's! if only dinner could be that much fun every night!

tuesday was a pretty good day too...frank and i were able to get quite a bit accomplished working together around the house most of the day, as well as spend some good quality time together as a family. he and tuscan went out into the yard to clean up a little bit. we had so many chunks of tree laying in our yard from this windy winter we have had, as well as garbage that had blown in from the neighbors and the good ol' cleaning up after the dogs!! meanwhile, matteo was still taking his nap and cenzo was helping me sort and put away my huge box of scrapbooking stuff that kellie sent me! she is amazing and now i should have more than enough paper in my suppy to finish the twins albums and more! im so excited to get scrapping with all my new stuff. many times a week i say to myself "what would i do without her" this was just another one of those times!

and on another excited note. randy will be home from iraq, back in the arms of his wife in less than two weeks, and i have been given the honor of seeing the pictures of the house that kellie picked out for them to rent while living in KS!! its a big deal to me because i will actually have a chance to see this house in person in about 6 months!! i know six months probably seems like a long time away - longer than most people would start counting down for, but if you check out the very bottom of my blog page, you will find i have added a ticker counting down for our roadtrip to KS and CO this year!

i am setting a goal to myself to get back on track with blogging...i miss it, yes i miss my own daily posts. i read everyone elses on a daily basis, even those of people i dont know, just have common interest with and i think to myself "i wonder if anyone enjoys reading my blog as much as i love reading these" so if there is anyone out there who really loves reading my blog, im sorry for not being better about it and i will try harder to keep it more up to date. i need to make it a priority because most of the time this is the only way i document the things happening in our life!

my post later today (about today) will include: twins walking and climbing up on the couch updates, tuscan's potty progress and will we become home owners again this year??