Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Cinderella?????

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Katie loves to do the dishes! I hope she still likes to do them when she is 15!

Monday, March 23, 2009

Uncle Jeff for Supervisor

On March 14th we marched in our local St Patrick's Day parade to support Uncle Jeff. He is running for supervisor of our township. The night before the parade we all helped Uncle Jeff get ready. We put Vote for Jeff RXXXX Stickers on lollipops and we tied Uncle Jeff's business cards on green beads.



The day of the parade we all wore green and Vote for Jeff RXXXX Stickers on our shirts. We gave out lollipops and beads along the parade route. Poor Katie didn't feel good. I didn't realize it until we got to the parade. She wasn't acting herself. She stayed in the wagon and I felt so bad. She wasn't sick the night before. She was sick through the rest of the weekend.



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Getting ready for the parade



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The beads



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Poor Katie



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Vote for Uncle Jeff



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Uncle Jeff working the crowd



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Uncle Jeff



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Katie perked up alittle at the end



We had a great time supporting Uncle Jeff's campaign!

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Catch me if you can.......

On St Patrick's Eve we set a Leprechaun trap. I covered a box with white paper and Katie colored shamrocks and rainbows on the box. Dan propped the box up with a stick and we put a bowl of Lucky Charms cereal under the box to lure the Leprechaun into the trap.

The next morning the trap was down and there was shamrocks and gold confetti all around the box. Katie was nervous to lift the box up so Dan helped her. We didn't catch that silly Leprechaun but he ate all the Lucky Charms. He left Katie gold chocolate coins in the cereal bowl and he left Katie new shoes. According to Katie's "St Patrick's Day Alphabet Book" Leprechaun's are shoemakers.

The Leprechaun left us a note and it said Dear M>>>> Family, You can't catch me! Thanks for the cereal. Sorry I turned your milk green when I used it on my cereal. Sorry about your toilets(he turned the water green) but I had to go potty. I left some gold chocolate coins and new shoes for Katie. You can try to catch me again next year!

What fun we had trying to catch that silly Leprechaun!

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Katie decorating the box

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Getting the "bait" ready

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The "trap"

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Katie wouldn't lift up the box. I think she was freaked out that the Leprechaun was under the box.

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But there was NO leprechaun under the box.

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Gold chocolate coins

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Lucky Charms for breakfast!

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Katie Min Min is 4!!

Katie turned 4 last Saturday March 7th. We celebrated with a party at a local Gymnastic's center. Katie and all the kids had a BLAST! I did a High School Musical theme for Katie with a Gabriella doll cake. I made music note and basketball lollipops for the favors.
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Music note lollipops

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Katie helping me wrap the lollipops and put the stickers on them. I can't believe I didn't take a picture of the finished product!

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Katie with her cake and cupcakes.

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Katie ready to party

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Frankie and Katie. Frankie delivered the pizza's right to the Gym for us for the party.

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Katie couldn't wait to open her presents.

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Katie had a blast!

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Loved being the center of attention.

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Happy Birthday to you!

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Opening her gifts

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She loved everything

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She keep telling me that her Daddy was getting her a pink Buitar(Guitar) for her birthday. She was so happy when she opened her pink "Buitar".

Happy Birthday to our sweet girl!

Friday, March 6, 2009

Flashback February

Since I used the whole month of February to blog about our China trip to adopt Katie, I didn't post anything about what we did in February. We had a FUN February. It started out with the Super Bowl. Uncle Jeff's Pittsburgh Steelers were in the Super Bowl and we were all on the bandwagon (well....Katie and I were on the bandwagon, not Daddy who was still upset about the Eagles) and ready to party. Of course you all know the Steelers won. We had a great time.

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Steelers Cheerleaders

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Katie and Uncle Jeff

February 7th we celebrated Katie's Gotcha Day. This day is also my Mom's birthday. We went out to dinner for Mimi's birthday the night before. On Gotcha Day we made homemade fortune cookies. Bailey helped and we had fun making up our own fortunes. We had a small family gathering and we enjoyed Chinese food and celebrating Katie's special day.

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Happy Birthday Mimi

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Making fortune cookies

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The finished product

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Katie and "Cookie" Uncle Tommy. Katie loves her Cookie Uncle Tommy. He always brings her cookies.

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Celebrating 3 yrs as a family

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February 8th we celebrated Chinese New Year. We went for Dim Sum with our local adoption group and then we watched the Lion Parade. The fire crackers were unbelievable.
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Katie enjoying Dim Sum

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Girlfriends~Katie and Lia

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Katie's reaction to the fircrackers

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Group photo


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Firecrackers
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Lion Dancers




February 14th~Happy Valentine's Day! We spent our Valentine's Day celebrating Aunt Mel's 40th birthday. Mark and Diane hosted a surprise 40th birthday party for Carmela.

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Roses from Daddy
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Making Valentine's Day cookies for Aunt Mel's party

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Katie trying out the cookies

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Our cookies

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My lovebug

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Happy Birthday Carmela





February 21st~We celebrated my Dad's 60th birthday. Happy Birthday Pop-Pop

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Katie playing with Pop-Pop trains

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Happy Birthday Pop-pop

February 28th~We went to the Please Touch Museum with some of our friends from our local adoption group.

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Mia, Katie, Emma
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The girls eating lunch




We had a busy but fun February!