*GEORGIA*

OK, finally have enough time to sit down and post some pictures from Georgia! The last week of summer (well..my summer), Deanna & Kai and the girls and I went down to visit Grandpa in GA! It was an AWESOME trip. The kids all did really well on the drive down, they had a great time hangin' with Grandpa, they played well together, and the girls slept GREAT every night that we were there (7pm-6am...wish I could figure out how to get them to do that here at home!). Here are some highlights from our trip...

Finally got Grandpa to sit down for a family picture...too bad he closed his eyes in all of them :)

The whole gang!!



Isabella's teeth (we call her our little vampire)



Leah's teeth..

I am writing this two weeks later and they are already SO much bigger than this picture!

Leah's teeth..



I am writing this two weeks later and they are already SO much bigger than this picture!

My smiley girls!

Grandpa and Isabella playing on the porch

This pretty much sums up isabella's attitude toward the pool...she just wasn't sure if she liked it or not!

Leah LOVED the pool! She would just lay back and relax (when she wasn't trying to drink the pool water)

The girls had a great time playing with Matt and Micheal. Here Isabella is using Matt as an obstacle course!

Grandpa already spoiling the girls...they LOVED the Popsicles!

The Bay

Saturday, we went to the bay to see the family! Sam & Christine and Liza, Jim & Geneva came down from NY/NJ for a visit. We had such a good time hanging out with them and Jerry, Jim, Jen and their families! The new house is just absolutely gorgeous...especially at sunset! Here are a few pics from the day.

I wasn't sure how to zoom in on this, so if you want to see it better, you'll have to click on it and make it bigger.

Leah really liked the sunset too!

The girls (especially Isabella) absolutely LOVED the dog! It made me think we should really get one (well...I thought that for a second...then I thought about taking him out on cold winter days, doggy puke, dog hair all over the house, vet bills, expensive doggy food...etc., and I decided maybe not!). It was still very cute to see how much she loved him.

Best Friends!!

I have a lot of pictures to put on here from our AWESOME trip to GA last week, but it will have to wait until I can find time to sit down and sort through them all. In the meantime, here are some pics I took today. I was in the kitchen getting the girls' dinner ready and I heard them laughing hysterically around the corner. When I went in to see what was so funny, this is what I found!! Sorry there are so many pics of the same thing, but I just couldn't resist posting all of them!

Having fun with Daddy!

Cesar left today for Ecuador :(

We are REALLY going to miss him!

BUT...we are also excited for the week! Grandma is going to come over tonight and tomorrow night for a sleep over! Then we head to GA with aunt Deanna and cousin Kai to spend the week at Grandpas! We are very anxious to get there!!

Since Cesar was leaving today, we spent the morning as a family. It was really fun!! We got some good pics of Daddy and his girls!!

(this picture cracks me up because it looks like Isabella has a mouthful of huge teeth!!)

The girls have begun a new climbing phase. They LOVE to climb on everything! Today, they were so excited to have Cesar's luggage to climb on...

...and to climb in!

Familia!

Santi and Fernanda were in town this weekend so we all got together at Gaby & Jim's for a BBQ. It was so much fun to have everyone together. I love this big family picture!!

The girls took a much needed nap while we were there!!

Silly babies!

Leah eating cheese. I think she was just saving this for later.

The girls deciding they would be better in the laundry basket than all of the dirty laundry that they pulled out!

Crazy Leah & the Stairs

Today, I was at the grocery and Cesar was home with the girls. Isabella was still not feeling well, so she was sleeping on her Daddy's chest. Leah meanwhile was happily playing on the floor in the family room. Then she ventured off into the kitchen and then the living room. This is not unusual..the girls go back and forth between rooms all the time. The way our family room is set up, you can't see the living room from the couch in the family room, but Cesar could hear Leah playing and figured she was OK. All the sudden, he realized he hadn't heard her in a while. So, he got up and walked into the living room, figuring that she had gone into the bathroom to play (another normal occurrence). He looked all over the kitchen, living room, and bathroom and couldn't find her anywhere. Then...he looked over and noticed the gate on the stairs was open. He called her name and heard her making noises UPSTAIRS. She had gone all the way up the stairs and into her room to play! Whoops!! Good thing we have been practicing the stairs recently! Glad we learned our lesson the easy way and didn't have to make an emergency trip to the hospital!!

Isabella sleeping

Our poor Isabella is sick! Yesterday, she fell asleep in her chair like this! Well, she was sitting in it normally, but in her sleep she turned over and then just stayed like this.

We finally picked her up and moved her to a pillow and she slept like that for a long time..

But, it was getting close to bedtime, so we wanted to wake her up so she wouldn't be up all night. This is Cesar trying to get her up...clearly, she did not want to wake up. The funniest thing about this is Isabella is usually a pretty light sleeper. If you touch her at all, she usually wakes up. Guess not when she isnt' feeling well! He was moving her all over the place and she just slept through it all.

Finally, we got her to wake up...isn't she pretty :) HE HE!