Christmas Celebration part 4

The Merry cook...lalalala....
waiting to get started..

The general confusion in which everyone is getting seated..
My special creation...(ok fine, Gabe sliced the cold cuts..)

Christmas Celebration part 3 - presents

More to follow............

Christmas Celebration part 2

Gabe really really getting into part..snicker...( looks more like a beduin then anything else..lol..)
Elisabeth and Zacharias...of course with the name I've got which other part could I have been given....?
Mary and Joseph....looks quite like the confident carpenter..



Parts were given out to everyone so the the story could get rolling, of course when I saw Gabe dressed up to play Joseph I laughed so hard..for anyone of you who knows Gabe you can imagine what he was up too...

Christmas Celebration part 1

Pic by the tree..could not find Daniele around to take it with me..

He thinks it's so cool to smile for the camera...My girlies..
and the three big girls of the home together....


So Christmas morning started with a sleep in(blessed sleep), then having breakfeast(goodie bags) and then downstairs for a Christmas devotions all together before opening all the presents...well, we decided to have an interactive devotion with all participating to create the story of the first Christmas..I must admit I laughed quite a bit...pics coming soon...(you'll understand why)...

Christmas in Love

Have you seen love?
Have you ever seen love walking
Or sitting on a bed
Have you ever seen it on a women's face...


Have you ever hugged it
Or has love told you crying
That I would give my life to see you smiling...


Do you think my love,loves you that much
That I would die for you
And come back to life
Just to give you my life again...


I have seen love


Merry Christmas to all the people I love, to those I don't know so well, and to those who are searching for love...

Just too tired

Been wanting to update my blog since awhile, but it seems so difficult to find time to do so in the middle of a very busy Chistmas push and being tired at the end of long days....I haven't even taken any good pics lately so this post is gonna look pretty dead, exactly how I feel right now...maybe in the near future I'll delight you with a couple of pics of me and some other poor soul who has to put up with my talking all day at one of our stands where we do tooling and wrapping...it's fun, but tiring..oh well, I'll stop saying nonsense, till soon you all..toodles..

Happy Birthday Dad

A short little post to wish my dad a very Happy Birthday!! I know it's tomorrow dad, but since I will be busy outside of the home the next couple of days,(a.k.a. starting the Christmas push) I just wanted to know that I didn't forget, that I love you and that it was nice seeing you again after 2 years...hope this next year will bring you all of your hearts' desires and more...(photo caption: my mom and dad at my bro's wedding)

Family Photos

For family day we took the kids to the lake near to where we live...it was the most beatiful day, warm for being past mid November, and the twins had lots of fun rollerbladding...and since my sister in law came along I finally managed to get a picture of all of us...

The kids

Just a couple of pics of the kids,Mattia with Lorenzo, (Gabe and Crystal's kid) and the twins on an outing they did in October...poor Mattia was sick when I took that pic, in fact he looks a little pale...Thank God now he's better, just has a bit of a cough left...till soon...

I saw the sun

Of late, I had never really appreciated the sun as I did today....I guess after a long, hot summer, sunny days were just the usual thing to see; But after having had rainy, foggy weather for over a week and not being able to see a blue sky, today when the sun rose, it felt and looked wonderful...

Ama, Credi E Vai

Guarda fuori è già mattina
questo è un giorno che ricorderai
Alzati in fretta e vai
c'è chi crede in te
non ti arrendere
il sole alto già ti chiama
e qualcosa in te già trema
metti le ali
al bambino che c'è in te
e lui correrà

Amo Credo e so
che per vincere tu dovrai vincere
Ama credi e vai
e tutto quell'attimo darai

guarda avanti e non voltarti mai
accarezza poi i sogni tuoi
le tue speranze
e poi
verso il giorno che verrà
c'è un traguardo là

amo credo e so
che per vincere tu dovrai vincere
ama credi e vai
e tutto in quell'attimo volerai

Non arrenderti, qualcuno è con te.

Andrea Bocelli


Dedicato alle mie sorelle......

Another year went by.....

Yes, it is so,
Another year of my life went by
and I don't really feel any diffrent.
Last year on my birthday, I wondered
what the future had in store for me,
if I'd still be in the same home....

Well, this year did bring many changes
and I got to do one very special thing for
which I'm very thankful: see my youngest brother
get married, getting to go to that side of the world,
and also get to see part of my family that I had
not seen in two years....

The Lord is good to me..

More of Amalia

Mattia and Amalia

My Sister Chiara was just here visiting for 2-3 days and brought with her, her smallest bundle of joy..was so nice seeing my sister and the baby, and Mattia was just loved playing with his little cousin, giving her kisses and hugs ecct;...here's a little video of him and her..

For Kathy

Solo ieri c'era lui
Nella vita mia
Solo ieri c'era un sole
Che metteva allegria
E io mai
Credevo che proprio mai
Mai piu' andasse via..

Forse è stata tutta qui
La mia ingenuita'
Proprio ieri quando era piu' leggera la mia eta'
Ora so
Si paga in pianto pero'
Per crescere di piu'
Ora lo so..

Parlerò al futuro perciò
Guarderò più in là nel tempo
Con la convinzione che ho
Che da questo momento ne uscirò..

No, non può finire così
La vita inventerò
Ancora per un pò
No, non può finir così
Qualcuno troverò
E rinascero...

Già, da domani in poi
Pensando ad oggi dirò
E solo ieri ormai..

Prima cosa che farò
Via non butterò
Tutto quello che di buono
Ho costruito fino a qui
E da qui,
Io ripartire vorrei
Da nuovi passi miei,
Ricomincierò..

Parlerò al futuro perciò
Perchè c'è compreso il mio
Qualche idea in testa c'è l'ho
Ad arrendermi, non ci stò..

No, che non può finire cosi'
Non può finir perchè
Vedo che davanti a me
Un pò di luce c'è..

Un'altra luce c'è per me.

I love you sis...keep your chin up...

Just too cute

I so wanted him to say something cute, as he's getting to be quite the talker, but as soon as I started recording he just gave me this blank stare, but then broke out into this adorable smile...

Big boy

I've noticed that when I'm home and not doing anything out of the ordinary, I blog about once a week, not that I chose it like that but I just sort of seemed to aquire this kind of routine...I guess I just need to start taking more pics of the kids and putting them up..so here are a couple of Matthias..

With Michael......

The last couple of days we got to stay with Michael, and the day we left, since our plane was leaving in the evening, on our way to Lax airport he took us to see Huntington Beach...twas' fun to actually got to see the place were the Family first started out..

Ensenada

Rosarito beach

A couple of days after the wedding mom and dad brought me and Andrea to see Rosarito and Ensenada...pics of the latter coming soon...Elena came along too that day..

Some of my fam at the wedding

Me, Kathy and Elena
Us with mom
Mom and Dad looking good

The perfect couple

Here they are married, and looking beatiful....love you guys

Wedding rehearsal and Balboa park

Wedding rehearsals
my 3 cool brothers
the pic-nic afterwards with Luca and Claire
At a park we visited that after noon

Me and my brother are finally home, got here just last night and thankfully we are just a bit tired, haven't had any major jet lagging...I'm putting up the pics in order of the things we did as our trip progressed....