Julia's Baptism

On November 22, Julia Grace was baptized at St. Philip's Church in Coral Gables. This is the church I've grown up in. I was confirmed and married here, as was my brother. My friend Enid Lorenzo and my sister-in-law Ceci are Julia's Godmothers, my brother Don is her Godfather. Our pediatrician Dr. Ernie was there too, because his nephew was also getting baptized that day. And of course Julia cried when she saw him. Poor Dr. Ernie. Our new Rector, Mary Beth Conroy, did a great job. Julia didn't make a sound when she was getting water poured all over her head!

Cake from Sweet Art by Lucilla.... mmmm Vanilla Rum!

Tia Maddie, Tia Enid, me and Julia and Uncle Don

Sarah and Georgia with me and Julia

Wish I could lick the cake mirror too!

Tia Ceci, Mom, Betty, Tia Enid, me and Olivia, and Tia Maddie

Shell and Rick with Grandmother

My Little Pilgrim

Olivia's Pre-K class at St. Stephen's had a class party for Thanksgiving and they performed a couple of songs for us. Talk about so adorable!! Now I get why there are obsessive parents that try to record every bit of performance, even if it means holding a video camera up to your face the whole performance... I won't be one of THOSE parents...umm... er... oh.

Babo's Birthday

We won't tell you how old Babo turned this year, but we had a fun family dinner night to celebrate it. There's nothing like Shorty's Bar-b-que, a Publix cake, and a rousing game of Duck, Duck, Goose! You should click here to view it.

More Halloween Fun

My Little Pumpkin

Our neighbors Luke, Kim, Noah and Tony Tremols

The Halloween Party for the Pre-K class at St. Stephen's School

That's Olivia's friend Amelia. Cute shirts!

Halloween

So I had purchased this beautiful witch costume for Olivia and a cute little pumpkin outfit for Julia. Did Olivia want to put the costume on? Of course not. She wanted to wear her Cinderella costume (again.) Nor did we wish to torture the baby with the pumpkin outfit because it was 80 degrees outside. C'est la vie!

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, but this year I wasn't going to dress up. I was just too exhausted. But at the last minute I decided to put the bee costume on, because it's very hard to not get in the Halloween spirit when your three year old is asking "Where is your costume, Mommy?"