Tuesday, August 28, 2012

and we're off...

SO, as you may know, we went on vacation last week. SO.MUCH.FUN! I can't even begin to explain now, because the next post will be all about the amazing time we had in NC and how we're totally doing this every year!!! Since it's such a long drive, we decided to stop at my Nonna's house in Northern VA to break it up. Made it easier for the girls to handle, and for us too!
All packed and ready to go, WOW!

We got to Nonna's on Friday around midnight and put the girls right back to sleep from the car. We woke up nice and early Saturday morning and headed outside so we didn't wake anyone up.

When we were all up and fed, Nonna put Ry right to work. Trimming the shrubs and even cutting down a tree! Too bad mountain Mike wasn't there with us!

The bean went outside to pick some beans and tomatoes for dinner.

She absolutely loved this job!

Nonna loved it too!

My cousin, Charles, is living with Nonna right now. So it was nice visiting with him too. Thanks for lending us your bed too Charles!

CUTE! Ash is rockin a dress that my great grandmother made! My mom and aunts wore this too when they were little, LOVE those types of hand me downs.


We hit up the park for a bit. Really wanted to find this park that we used to go to when we were younger. It was an all wooden playground. I'm pretty sure they took it down cause so many kids were getting splinters though. We found a good one though. Ash didn't know what direction to run to first.

Mya was taking everyone on a plane ride.

Ash just kept going down the slide. Everytime she tried to climb back up the slide, didn't work kid.

Mya made a few friends and they were making sand muffins. Ash wanted to join in too.

Got back to Nonna's, had lunch and Ry and Frank started trimming the shrubs...Mya helped clean up.

Than they cut down a tree...


Peek-a-boo

I asked Nonna if she could make biscotti with us. I wanted to learn from the master! Mya got a lesson too.

love those helping hands and tippy toes.

helping Nonna

smiles...

MMMMMMMM

So much fun.

Thank you so much for everything Nonna. It was great to see you and spend the day with you. Hope to do it again soon. xoxo

Friday, August 17, 2012

iphone upload

Here are some of the thousands of pics I take with my iphone. Some may be dups from other posts but I love them so much I had to upload again.
Mya came running over to me and said, look mommy I wrote my name. Sure looks close to it! Don't quite see the y but the M and A are there for sure! GO BEAN! And yes, that's a marble notebook. Ryan got it for her when they were at Target one day. She's constantly "writing" and drawing, so he said you can keep all of your stuff together in this!

Ash on her tippy tippy toes, love those little feets.

This girl is OBSESSED with the stairs. Mya even taught her how to slide down them on her butt, her new fav thing to do, JOY!

I can't take this girl. She said to me, as we were getting ready to go to Mary's in the morning. "Mommy, I look so pute, take a picture of me!" LOL!!!!!

Yes, he did bend the cap up, wackerdoodle.

Ash is a daddies girl...he loves it!

Those eyes, they get me everytime....

a costco trip...Should we get these??

Mya in her new twin sized bed! Thanks Mags!

Ya know, just another mani for daddy.

Ash went tinkle on the potty, I kid you not! She did it the first time on Aug 4th, and did it again this past week! GO GING!

diaper covers on her head, NUT!

Beany showing her Uncle Michael some lovin...

My typical, sit down I wanna get a pic of you 2 spot...Clearly Mya didn't want to smile and Ash just wanted to get up...

This chick LOVES corn!

Morning loves...I just adore when Ash comes into our room in the morning (casue you know Mya makes her way into our bed every night still). She sees Mya and says MAAAAAA, I put her on the bed and she races over to Mya to give her a hug. MELTS.MY.HEART!

Hi there....

More corn for the pale ale..

too damn cool

NUT

LOL

Playing in the car....flipping over the seats....fun times

It was a blue kinda day...

love

Mommy, I look boo-tiful!

poor ging was sick. She sneezed, I turned around and had to pull over to capture this gem. STELLAR!

seriously, love

In a tank, like mommies she always says.

my 2 favs...

my little dolly, it was an all purple kinda day....like ALL purple!

Mya looks like a tourist...

LOVE LOVE LOVE

Love my family more than anything...feeling so blessed!