"Where will our leaf blow??..."

Noah has being learning about Fall in preschool, all about the leafs falling and the wind...


Often his teacher hangs the kids work outside the door for parents to see. Today when I get to school there was a new work and I couldn't help but shade a few tears.


The teacher's page said "Where will our leaf blow..."  and each child colored theirs with fall colors, and the teacher wrote theirs answers; some said "to Kings Island", some said "to the Park"....

Noah's said: "to my Grandpa's house to see him"


He also wrote "Elan" to his best knowledge, if you notice it, there is a L, a E sideways, a N and a A

We all being thinking of you grandpa - each day... all day... Praying and we hope we get to see you soon!!!

Scooby Doo Silly bends

For the goody bags!! How fun!!!

More wedding stuff...

This was the party favor from a wedding - isn't this so cool and such a good idea?
By half way to the party everyone took their shoes off and weared the sandals!!!


Eatble fudge! Awesome delicious deserts and so well done! I can't believe the perfection of this little candies! It's art! and whaaaaaaaat a yummie art! =)

Every Sunday morning there is a street fair in my parent's city. Seven , maybe eight blocks of downtown is full of arts and crafts. All kids of things you can imagine - or not - like household, food, craft, clothing, shoes... you name it!

My mom kept the kids and I went there with my sister and my aunt. Up and down those hills. If I had money - it woud be all gone! =oP

* A street full of nice places to eat, learn or just see "art"

* I loved this idea for shelves...

* A little piece of the street fair

* and I came home to some happy and well fed kids! =)

Some more of what we are getting ourselfs into....

I don’t need to write anything as the pictures speak for itself! (Or maybe I’m just saying that because I have no time to write – lol)

* Me learning "decopagem" (Im not sure how that's called in English) with my cousin Anna



* I was taking picures during all steps... paint... added the picture...



* Glue the "mini" coffee set...



* The final product and it's creator! ehehe - I look awful btw - it was so late at night, I coudn't stop working on it until I had it done!



* I had so much fun doing it! This is actually a dish towel holder... I want to see if Michael or other places have the items I need to kkeep on doing those once I get back home!



* Of course Benji & Noah wanted to join in the fun!!! Finger paint for them!

* Benji and tia Claudia at the pool!

* I do get a turn too!!! =D

Noah "relaxing" - What a hard life!

* N got into the water gun fight too! He never stopped long enought for me to get a picture, this was the best I got

* Cousins playing together!

* No comments!

* Benji SO cute - on the way to another wedding! (Let me tell ya - The Alberico Family has a busy social calendar!!!)

*Me - ready for wedding # 3

* My funny grandma getting her hair done for the wedding

* My grandma and her sister - Don't they look a lot of like? People think their are twins! But they are like 5 yrs apart

Pic from the trip

At the airport we hanged out with grandpa Elan - and Benji loved the statue - kept on making the funniest poses and asking me to take pictures! hilarious!



This drawing is a grasshopper - don't you love it?! * Benji bored out of his mind on such a long trip! poor lil guy!

Before we left home...

I was downloading the pictures from the wedding and found a few pictures from before we left home. So, a little catch up:

Here is a couple pics of our x-mas card we made to Benji's classmates! I did the first one for the teachers, Noah's MRDD teachers and any other person we don't have a mailing address for. The one in the bottom Benji helped me - he did such a good job, I was impressed! He stamped over 10 of those x-mas trees (this was the nicest looking one) and helped me color them. We had a great time together while Noah was napping.

If you didn't get one of those - please don't feel like we ignored you. I actually got picture x-mas cards ordered before I left for Brasil but for some reason we won't get them until December 21st. Dan has the address and I hope he has time to send them out - if not, by the end of February you should be getting one! =D

Our "cooking group" get together a few times of year and try out brand new recipes, last year, our "teacher" Cindy gave us a cookie press, so this year of course we just had to have a cookie day! Cindy decided she wanted us to bring the kids too, so it worked out perfect to have our "secret santa" between the kids. Even thou Tati is not really into the cooking class she came that day, the kids had fun decorating cookie and I LOVED seing how the cookie press works! It's awesome how many shapes we can do, so perfect and so quickly! I'm totally doing it again when I get back home!

* Noah & Thomas exchanging gifts & hanging out together.

* Benji & Isaac (Benji can't get his eyes out of the cookies) - they had a blast decorating and eating the cookies!

Art by the Golan boys

Noah drawing with ketchup and french fries…  (Click here for the video)
And Benjamin insists that the hangers look great and belong to the x-mas tree


Double check

Perfect! he was proud of his job!