Pasta Fest

Last week my friend Leanne and I spent five hours making pasta salad for her stepson's wedding. We were in olive oil and garlic heaven. Leanne makes the BEST Italian food--she is, after all, half Italian. And even better, she loves to feed it to me. I love her food!!

Olympics Recital

The kids, along with some of their friends, participated in this Olympics recital. They had to talk about the piece before they played it. It was a fantastic recital.

Unfortunately, the recital was proceeded by a huge storm that scared the kids and blew trees over in the city. Luckily, no one was hurt and the storm passed before we had to leave the house for the recital.

It was an exciting day!!

Peace Out

Lady K's 10 year old party was a peace theme. It was hilarious to plan all the activities and the food. We had peace pizza and cake, we played a game involving moving jellybeans with the suction through a straw, another involving passing life savers with toothpicks and a game where the girls designed an outfit for their models using duct tape, tissue and news paper. It was a great group and a ton of fun. Happy Birthday sister.

Cast Your Vote

Which do you like better, the haircut that Baby R gave herself, or the one I gave her afterwards?

Double Birthday

Dad and Lady K love to celebrate their birthdays together. Don't ask me what the math is for figuring out the candle on the cake, but somehow they represent that Lady K is 10 and Dad is 36. Happy Birthday guys.

Two Concerts

We have just been to two concerts that, sadly, were not captured in pictures because the batteries were out. One was the Youth Orchestra concert that our two oldest participated in.

The second was a fantastic concert by the Kremlin Chamber Orchestra. We were delighted to hear yet another concert by internationally renowned musicians. They played a very interesting piece by Prokofiev and then finished with a piece by Tchaikovsky. The audience was so impressed that they got standing ovations and received a double encore. That was fun to experience and the kids were really interested in the process of getting an orchestra to play encore pieces. It was a ton of fun and our whole family got to attend. Even the little ones were able to sit through the concert. Miracle.

Tenderfoot

Our brave little 11-year-old scout just received his tenderfoot rank. I say brave because he had to camp in December to receive this rank so quickly. He has had fantastic leaders who have helped him to achieve this goal. Way to go bud.