Uptown Santa Fun

We headed uptown and watched Santa arrive on a fire truck, took a carriage ride, decorated cookies, and bounced around in a bounce house, and of course acted silly! 

Holiday Party

Vince and I headed to Dario's holiday party and had a great time! 

Snowman

It started snowing late one night so Dario and I got dressed and ran outside to build a snowman! 

Bath time fun

Spreading holiday cheer

We continued our tradition of writing a holiday card to a solider. Dario was thrilled that we were doing it again. He said ," you mean I get to write to a real solider!" What a cutie! 

Perfect December Day

Going for a run in the snow, baking Christmas cookies, and having a family snowball fight! 

Decorating the tree

Thank you PaPa

Danilo and a Dario love the advent calendar, especially Danilo who discovered there is chocolate inside.

Getting our tree

We went to go find our tree. Dario enjoyed it and Danilo could careless bout picking one out but he loved setting it up. 

Day with Dario

On Monday Dario and I had no school so we headed to Columbus for a day of fun. We headed to the Lego store, loved looking around and then built three Legos guys. Then we went to Red Robin, played with our new Legos, eat, and had milkshakes. Then Dario went Christmas shopping for his brother and dad. We had a great day!

Thanksgiving

We have so much to be thankful for this year. We started off the day making Thanksgivibg Pinterest snacks Dario picked out. Then we got to spend Thanksgiving with family and have a good time. 

Playing in the cold

It did not matter that it was 22 degrees outside and no snow in site we had to go out and play in the cold all bundled up in our new winter coats! 

Hiking in N.H

Hiking with family in N.H

Veteran's day parade

I know I am behind but wanted to share that my school participated in the Veterans Day parade. Grades 1-6 all made banners for the parade to be judged. Kindergarten went up to cheer us on as I lead the school through uptown. 5th grade and 2nd grade won prizes for their banner. Then we headed to the ceremony that starts at 11:11.

I am so thankful for veterans and their families as they sacrifice a lot for our freedom. 

A reminder

                “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened"

I was reminded recently to live life to it’s fullest, because you never know when your time is up. A few days ago I lost someone that was part of the OU swimming and diving family.  I met Adam while in college and he was one of a kind, and enjoyed laughing, dancing, and living life to its fullest. I have so many great memories of Adam but one thing about Adam was he loved to dance, and he was a wild dancer, so much so one night at “The Cheese”, he was dancing so hard that he headed butted me by mistake, and caused me to have a concussion. Even though I had a concussion we laughed our butts off after it happened, and then again when we had to explain to coach why I was unable to practice.

Adam had contagious energy, dance moves, laughter, love, was charismatic and infectious with pure happiness. He had a way of making everyone feel like they were the most important person in the world.  I feel honored to have known him and blessed that his passing serves as a reminder to me that my time on earth is limited and that I should seize the opportunity I have to forgive, share, explore, and love.

Thank you for sharing him with us, he touched all of us and left indelible marks on our souls…..leaving a smile in our hearts and a passion for life.

Swing Time

Danilo is having fun while Dario pushed him in the swing.

Danilo's Halloween Party