Happy Mother's Day

Park City

Alpine slide

Eclipse

Someone stayed up late for a midnight showing. Those in the theater should be thankful it wasn't me because I snore really loud.

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the awesome moms in my life.

This video is dedicated to Jess because she is my loveliest:

Animal Sounds by Alessandra

Mariella

Home

We have made it home from the hospital.

Date Night at Walmart

Me and Jess went to the Olive Garden tonight and then after wards we stopped at Walmart to pick up a few odds and ends... then we saw Andrea in the exercise equipment aisle.

Best Present

Bowling

Jessica & Ale

BYU Cougars

Alessandra Hiding

Dancing with the stars starring Alessandra

Happy Halloween

Feetball

So on Monday night we were at the house and I was about turn on the game to see who was playing on Monday Night Football. I told Jess I was going to put on the football game then I got distracted and was doing something else. Alessandra then starts pointing to the TV and saying: "Daddy... Feetball!" so she goes and gets her football and we played catch as we watched "Feetball". I tried to get her to say feetball on the video but she wouldn't... she does say "Ready, go!" really well though.... enjoy the video:

Sunday Nap

Jess & Alessandra

Jessica sent me these pictures from Utah and I just had to post them

Sil's Birthday

Alessandra saying some words for the camera then trying to tell her uncle sil happy birthday... enjoy!

Super Birthday Weekend for Jessica

We started off our super birthday weekend spectacular Friday with a drive down to Bradenton, Florida. We walked around the town center at Lakewood Ranches, had dinner and called it a night. Saturday morning we went to Siesta Key... the best sand beach that I have ever been to. At first we had a hard time getting Alessandra to put her feet in the sand and to get into the water but after a little bit of coaxing she was loving it. When it was time to go, she didn't want to leave.

She kept wanting to lay in the water

One happy girl

There were a lot of people at the beach because of spring break but the beach was so spacious it really wasn't a big deal because we had plenty of room.


Checking out the waves

Burying her shoes

The sand at Siesta Key was pure white


Saturday evening we went to St Armand's circle and walked around the shopping areas and ate at an Italian restaurant: Le Colonne. The food was good and the pasta was homemade but the bread wasn't that impressive. I had Gnocchi and Jess had mushroom and veal stuff Ravioli. I give it a 7 out of 10. There was another Italian restaurant that I would like to try the next time we go there. I gave Alessandra some San Pellegrino (fizzy) water to see if she liked it not thinking she wouldn't but she kept wanting more... it was a funny sight to see.

Birthday Girl


Goooood

While we were in Sarasota we went to the Ringling Brothers Circus Musuem and it was amazing to see how much work would go into those huge circus productions.
John Ringling's Ca' d'Zan and the The Mansion was amazing and was built in the Venetian style that you see in some parts of Venice, Italy. It was finished in the 20s and has been maintained/restored quite beautifully. "Ca' d'Zan" means house of John in Venetian dialect.

Ca' d'Zan terrace overlooking the water

The John and Mable Ringling Art Musuem had original Baroque works of Peter Paul Rubens and casts of famous Italian sculptures.

We checked out a different beach on next day ... Lido Key which is just a few miles north but the sand was nothing like Siesta Key. It had more shells but the beach was a lot smaller, making it seem more crowded.


A little while before we ended our trip to head back home

It was a great trip.

BIRTHDAY DINNER
Dinner at Manny's Chophouse with Silvio and Leslie just a couple of hours ago

Jess and Edward

Birthday time!

Beauty and the Gio

Sil and Leslie