More Easter Fun....

Additional pre-Easter activities for us included going to church, egg coloring (of course), homemade sweet bread, homemade Easter bread and gifts from Nonna!!! Dante wanted NOTHING to do with the coloring of the eggs...but he settled for putting on the stickers...:) Gabs, on the other hand, was ALL about the painting and the coloring. She is SO patient with it too....definitely a traight from her father!! Nonna sent them really cool gifts too along with a ton of Italian traditional Easter cookies...which I LOVE!!! Thanks mama!!!

This year I also decided to make both my mom's Easter bread AND Easter sweet bread. Usually I only make one or the other, but they made great gifts for my friends and everyone seemed to enjoy having it around!!

Geezzzz....2 kinds of Easter bread, cookies, candy.....no wonder I cant fit in my pants!!!

Gabby at work!!

The family...all accounted for!

This is what Dante did during the coloring of the eggs...ha ha!!!!

The famous "one-eyed" smile!! Ha ha!!!!

Dante's eggs

My Easter bread...Yummmmmmm!!!

Again...the smile while eating one of Nonna's cookies

Gabs enjoying Nonna's cookies now too!!

Nice bite Dante!!!

NONNA'S GIFTS!! THANKS NONNA!!!

Easter Fun!!

We took Gabby and Dante to the Lakeland Easter Egg Hunt this year and met up with our friends the Craigs and the Potters. You should have seen all the kids.....so cute!!! Too bad is was FREEZING outside or we would have stayed a lot longer!! It was fun to watch Dante this year....he is at the age where he can actually do the hunt and enjoy it!! I was emotional watching him....just another reminder that my "baby" is no longer...:(

Anyways....it really was a great time!!!

Dante's egg hunt set up

Ready to go!!!

My friend Christy's dad is from PGH (yeah!!) and I LOVED that he wore a Pittsburgh Pirate Hat to the event!!! Love it!!!

Dante and good friend Brennan (soon to be school buddies!)

Gabby with good friend Rylee

Gabby, Ava and Rylee

Finished product!!!

Gabs with Ava!!

Lunch with Ava...McDonalds!!

New Sunglasses!!

Getting ready for summer!!! Dante got new sunglasses....he is so freakin' cute I cant stand it!!

He's already got "the look" down. (Yeah right....no dating until 40 Dante!!!! Ha ha!!)

Mt View's Special Person's Night

Mt View (Gabby's preschool) held a Special Person's event where the kids bring there dads (or whomever is special to them) for a night of fun!! Bob wanted to make it really special for Gabs so he took her out to dinner before the event started so he could have some more one-on-one time with her. Gabby LOVED having a "date" night with her daddy!!

I love this photo!!!

Just for fun....

Just a few silly pics.....:)

Ta-DA!!!!

My girl LOVES chocolate!!

Seeing how many dum dums can fit in his mouth...not a choking hazard at all, huh???

Dante's first painting!!

And you think dum dums are just lollie pops???? Dante will prove otherwise...

Nice "D".....

New wings!!

Dante's classic "one-eyed" smile

My family.....love Dante

This is from a while ago....but I still wanted to share....:)

My baby boy....not so much a baby anymore...:(

Dante is growing up WAY too fast. He climbed out of his crib at the beginning of the month so he is now in his "big boy" toddler bed (yes...at 22 months old?!!?!?) His vocabulary is through the roof and he is so active and so much fun to play with!! Gabby and Dante get a long so well and is nice to finally have them at the ages where they enjoy each other. Oh yes...we have our moments too....but for the most part they love each other and it shows!!!

My little man asleep in his "new" bed.....

Here is a cute video of Dante recognizing and saying all our names.....