5 Little Pumpkins

My little pumpkin!

The girls FORT

We have a HUGE pine tree which makes a terriffic fort for the girls, and a home fo all the extra small chairs we had lying around!! We put down a big peice of plywood and it is their "dance stage" - so cute!!

Looking up.................

And the view from laying down :)

Halloween pics

On Monday he says to me, I want to be Cookie Monster for halloween, wasn't easy to find blue fur on such short notice!! COOKIES!!!!

Our pretty butterflies playing party games at the Moms Group party

All the parents lined up and the kids trick or treated us :)

Checking out her stash!

DON's Birthday

Happy Birthday honey!!!

Isabella's first day of pre-school

The house

Some pics of the new house!!
Austin sweeping leaves off the roof (in between texts to his girlfreind!).

Our resident turkey family.

Front

Back of house and back deck

Stream that runs along hte whole back of our property

The stream is right behind the Tiki Hut!!!! Electric, TV, Stereo, fridge, and fire pit nnext to it!!

Don's TWO car garage :)

FALL FUN

Lina shooting some hoops...........

Bell loves all the leaves here at our new home :)

Angelina, Bell and Landon. The girls were SO excited to see Landon when they came for hte weekend!! It was a full house, and a lot of fun! We can't wait for htem to come back again!!

Isabella is FOUR!!!!

The pictures are backwards (forgot I need to load them last to first in blogger - erhhhh), and I can't move them :( Scroll down and work your way up............


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Playdooh birthday cake.

ELEFUN.............

Daddy is taking her FAVORITE present out of the box...........

New princess shoes from her little sister!

Blow!!

Cake and presents!

The birthday person gets to request what they want for dinner. Grilled Cheese and soup was teh birthday dinner request. So the girls made a sandwich making assembely line :)

I'm Back!!

OK, after requests from a few people, I am back to blogging!!
It has been a crazy few months:
Don got a new job in April and lived in NJ M-F for MONTHS!!
We sold the house in July and move in with Mom and Dad for a few months (Thanks Mom and Dad!!).
We closed on our new house in Warwick, NY in Spetember - yeah!!
We are finally settled in (mostly), at least the boxes are gone from the house - the basement and gargage are a VERY different story :)

I will post at least weekly, so come back and catch up with us again!
Don, Karen and the Kids

TWO years old!!

It is hard to believe Lina turned two today! She is getting so big and so smart!!!

We had a playdate with their friend Emma today that turned into a impromptu birthday party, the girls made birthday hats, we blew up some balloons, had spagetti for lunch and cupcakes with a candle for Lina. On Saturday we are going horseback riding (hopefully the weather will hold!) and will have cupcakes with her friends then too, as daddy is not home today to celebrate.

Our artists

On Sunday we went out to breakfast after Mass. The restuaraunt (diner type) that we like to go to when we do go out has white paper placemats. And since mom always has crayons in hte diaper bag, we usually color. While I was teaching Bell how to color a sun and a person, Asutin was using his 60 second sketching he has been doing in Art class at school to color Bell. She was wearing her gold and black Saints jacket. Take a look.................

Cool, right?

Here is Bell's very first drawing on her own!!! I started the sun for her and she did the rest of it (the very straight lines are mine :)), and then she drew some flowers on the left, and Austin on the right. This is hte first time she has drawn a person!! (Proud mamma!!)
Here is a close up of Austin!!
Daddy drew a school bus on Lina's mat and she colored it purple.

My artists!!!

I figure if daddy ever needs a part time job he can become a hairdresser. Last week he cut Bells hair and yesterday gave Lina some rockin ponies!!

OK, you can't see daddies smile in this pic, but you can see it goes right up to his eyes!! Boy, he loves his little girls.

Look what I got mom!!

I finally got a table top sewing machine. The old in table Singer I had jsut never worked right!! I bought it at Goodwill for $20, and could bring it back in 10 days if it didn't work. I had a problem with it and tracked it down to the bobbin track. Don figured out it was in backwards and voila!! Works like a charm and is in great shape, so I made a cover for it and a bag for the foot pedal to refresh my sewing skills.

It is not a big name machine, but works great and does zig zag, overcasting and even button holes and buttons!

Happy Day

HAPPY SAINT PATRICKS DAY!!!!!

Kids can be so funny!!

Lina:
Lina was trying to get out of going to bed the other night by snuggling up to daddy!! She was all about mommy that night until I told her bedtime, then she said "I daddy" and went right into his arms!! Toddlers!

Bell:
We were in the car listening to a CD of kids songs and there is a song called "There's a present in the potty and it won't go down" (yep, about just what it sounds like!). Well the whole song played and when it was over and quiet, Bell says "Barack Obama". When I asked her what she was talking about she said " Barack Obama, he is the PRESENT, just like in the song". Austin and I were rolling on hte floor!! At least she knows who the president is!! Preschoolers!

Austin:
Last week track practice started, and they practice at the local public high school. The coach arranged for the older kids who drive to drive the younger ones over to practice, so I only need to pick him up after practice. So on the first day, my cell phone rings and it is Austin. Apparently there were 5 kids in the car and none of them knew how to actually GET to practice! They had been driving around and were lost. Teenagers!

Don:
So last Monday I went to bed and he was still up, and at 2 AM I feel him shaking me awake. Well he had just opened his e-mail and gotten his "Welcome Aboard - your offer letter is on the way" e-mail. And felt he needed to share at 2AM!! (But really I was VERY happy:) Daddies! - Yes they can be kids too.

I LOVE my family.