Happy Solemnity of the Assumtion of Mary and...

Happy Birthday to my sweet Austin! The old geezer turns 30 today! ;-) Lucky for me I am still a young twenty-something (at least for another month!).

What a day for celebration. We started the day bright and early with 7am mass, at which all 3 girls behaved beautifully, followed by a quick breakfast of birthday cake. Then he was off to work, and the girls and I colored pictures of Mary and then ran errands. This afternoon we will have a special tea party (pictures to come hopefully) and then a yummy dinner out to continue the celebration of two of my favorite people! Thank you, God, for the life of my wonderful husband and for your mother, Mary!

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The tea party...




And my little "walker" who is pulling up on my hands to walk every chance she gets and tries to use anything else she can...gotta keep up with those sisters!

Neighborhood block party

It is that time of year again....

We actually entered the float contest and parade this year, and received honorable mention behind some great friends of ours, and we received a free pass to the children's museum!

Here are our recycling pirates (theme was trash to treasure, recycle). Mariana sports her aluminum foil sword.



Allia was really going for the disgruntled pirate look here...actually she was melting in the heat! And you can't see our sign from this angle, but it said, "Please Recycle...or Walk the Plank!"




The first prize winners, the M family...aren't they cute?! They made a recycle train


Unfortunately, we had to leave early this year, so we were unable to enter the crazy dance contest...things to look forward to for next year! ;-)

Tummy time, times three!

A visit and a tea

We went to see Austin's grandparents, Uncle, Aunt and cousins this weekend. Lala held a "tea" (aka big party with all of her friends...and this time some of ours too) for Gloria which ended up doubling as a birthday party for all of the August birthdays (Austin, Lolo, cousin Serina). It was lots of fun!

The cousins had so much fun together, but I didn't get many good pictures because they were moving so fast! Here they are just hanging out for a bit.


The giant cake!

Allia's godfather with our godson Stephen and Gloria

The shark song gets 'em every time!

God-siblings

Other fun

More help from grandparents when hubby goes on last-minute work trip


My old cabbage patch dolls...they love them!


How to entertain a baby...a Whataburger straw!


We will be out of town visiting family this weekend, but hopefully I will have some fun stuff to post when we get back!

7 Months old today!

We love you, Gloria! You are getting to be SO much fun! :-)

Party time

The girls dressed up for a friend's princess birthday party this morning....and here are some shots of my polka dotted princesses in action (polka dots were definitely the theme this morning...they even picked polka dotted tissue paper to decorate the gift!)