Celebrations..

Lily then and now after 2 years!

Its hard to stay up with this blog lately so I need to combine a few celebrations.. Lily turned 5 on July 28! We celebrated all week-starting with a Build-a-Bear birthday party in Jackson with her cousins. It was such a cute fun party for the girls. Everyone made their own bear and chose an outfit. Afterwards we went to Erin and Lee's house for some Hello Kitty birthday cake and gifts. Lily was glowing with all of the attention. Later in the week on her actual birthday we had cupcakes and Lily got a brand new pink big wheel! Right after came Gotcha Day celebration. We went out to eat pizza for that special day. So needless to say Lily very much enjoyed the limelight and being the big Tomato for awhile. She is one scrappy little girl!

Fourth of July at The Grand

We enjoyed another fourth of July celebration at the Grand Hotel. Glen and Olivia left Thursday and enjoyed the day together riding bikes and swimming . I couldn't get off work until Friday so I brought Ave Kate and Lily with me then. We had fun enjoying all of the holiday activities as well as the traditional Grand activities like afternoon tea and beautiful sunsets over the bay. Casey came over Sat. night with Alyssa, Cohen and Sailor for dinner. Afterwards we all went to the pool and watched Tangled at the dive-in movie. The kids loved floating in the pool while watching a movie. Sunday we enjoyed the wonderful brunch. That night we watched fireworks from our balcony. Later we walked down to Julep Point for a little dancing. It was a great long weekend.

Summertime

We started our summer out as soon as the girls' school was out. We went to Orlando for 4 days and visited Mickey. We left there and went to Palm Beach for another 10 days. It was a wonderful vacation. Beautiful beach, great weather and wonderful relaxation. I really was not ready to come home when it was time..

Olivia's First Communion

This past weekend was a very special one for Olivia. She made her First Holy Communion Sunday. It was so nice to have everyone there to watch her make this important sacrament at church. We were very proud of her.

After church we all went out to eat and afterward everyone came back to the house. It was another beautiful day spent with kids, grandkids and granddogs.

Mother's Day 2011

Mother's Day weekend was very enjoyable. It started Saturday morning when I received 2 deliveries of beautiful flowers-one from Glen and one from Erin. I felt very special!

After that we met my sister, Karen and her friend at Shaggy's for lunch. Karen came back home and stayed with us. Sunday morning we got up and went to Mass. We had a nice lunch after that at the Buttercup. It was such a beautiful day. We ate outside on the front porch. It was so relaxing. Later that day the Littles all worked hard in the yard planting the flowers we bought.

Being a mother is such a wonderful blessing and I fully enjoyed my day!