Auntie Joyce's

I forgot to mention that Maria came of from LO and Joyce came EB side and we had dinner together. We were supposed to BBq some of the fish that my dad brought home, only by Dad blew out the power trying to fix the pool filter (that I blew out) and we were without electricity for a few hours (quite a few hours).

but that was yesterday.

today joyce invited us over to her p's a father's day bbq (one day early). sophia had a great time with joyce's newphew's. i think sophia is into ryan, he sings micheal jackson (and other 80s songs), is funny and looks good in a uniform. (remember boring school pics, then there were those crappy reflection ones? well times have changed, at ryan's school's school the kids get to dress up in costumes(they choose what) and take pictures- we saw the ones where he was dressed as a fireman, park ranger and captain stubing (or a missing village person)).

Lickies

Look at that big dirty mouth! I made brownies today, my mom taught her lickies!

Arzo

this is my fab friend arzo, she used to cut my hair all the time back in the day. then we moved to italy and she moved to NY so we hadnt heard from each other in a few years. i heard she was back and i desperately needed to cut that long hair off. she cut sophias too. it was great catching up with her and hearing what was going on.

houdini

we went to coyote hills to see the butterfly garden, but it was closed...so we wandered around the little natural museum they have with the native american displays. the best part was houdini, the turtle!

Lake Elizabeth

well, mom already has us on the go, making us 'have fun'! we went to play at lake elizabeth, it's a big giant park that has several different play areas. back in da' day (i sound so old school) i remember there were paddle boats that you could go around the lake with-and a 'lagoon' to swim in, they are tearing down the lagoon now and building water slides). i can tell when sophia is out of her element all she wants to do is go on the swing. but she had fun.

tiramisu

the Cologno Monzese Crew is coming over tonight for a TTFN dinner. Sophia helped make tiramisu.

Then we made some pizza dough!

Bea needed some last minute help on the translations and adding pictures into her presentation, so she, antonello and sophia mandato came over. antonello was great, he kept the kids occupied, got us lunch (pizza) and even cleaned up after everyone. the kids screamed and jumped and ran all over the place and had lots of fun. i didnt actually get any pictures of that...too bad!

afterwards we were supposed to go out for a bike ride, but it rained...oliver lucked out!

Good Gravy!

great....i've been trying to clean the house before we take off. i knew it was too quiet for too long...the little booger wrote on the wall. i made her clean it off with one of those magic sponges, this one doesnt actually work that great. note to self, buy some in the states. sophia went back into the room later with max and said 'no one wrote on the wall, there is nothing there.' l ike i said, little booger!