My husband with his girls....

I LOVE Italo! He makes me laugh all the time for so many reasons! This morning, I was folding clothes and this is what I hear from the other room:

Annabelle saying-"Daddy!"
Italo saying, "Annabelle, I want to show you this great car video"
I hear the video play several times with no reaction from Annabelle
Then I hear Italo say, "hufffffff-okay, let's look at the American Girls dolls (in a defeated voice)"

I had to laugh! When we found out that Annabelle was a girl, Italo was pretty quiet....Finally-after probably an hour he says---Do you think Annabelle may like to play legos? It was so sweet---and I could feel him trying to get used to be a daddy to a little girl. Now we will have 2 little girls and Italo is THE BEST daddy in the world to little girls. He dances, and hugs, and kisses, and plays dolls with Annabelle all the time---These are her favorites. He also gets the lego down and plays with cars and she likes that too. But he is so patient to let her have her favorites and truly enjoys what she likes. I just hope that Maggie or Annabelle will like Legos too :)

Saying goodbye to old tires

The time has come again for new tires for the Frigoli vehicles. My car in particular has needed them for probably 3 months now, but I have been waiting for Inspection time to come around before I did anything about it.

I found a great deal on some tires are tire-easy.com. Head and shoulders above what any other tire store locally could do for me. So I purchased the tires, and they arrived the last Friday of January to the house. They look fantastic in comparison to my current balding set.

The idea was to have them installed on Saturday, but that didn’t quite work out as planned. Amy’s car ended up needing new tires as well, and the time needed to change my tires slipped away.

The more I thought about my situation, the more I really wanted to have fun with it. Amy and Annabelle were very supportive of the idea of burning through the old tires before putting the new ones on. On Friday after work we are looking for somewhere close by to do the burnout, but Annabelle was getting hungry and we called it off.

Saturday morning we decided on the place to do it. We went to breakfast, and then went to our secret location. Amy got out of the car and went to the side to take pictures, and we put up a tripod with the video camera to capture the event.

I’ll be honest – this was my very first time doing a burnout. I failed 3 times before getting it right, but here was the final outcome. Hope you enjoy the video as much as we did making it! :-)

Annabelle making Valentine cookies

We tried to make some cookies for Annabelle's school friends...but Annabelle was more interested in eating all the cookies---and the icing!

Valentine Cookies

Here is a video of Annabelle "decorating" the cookies for her friends!

Christmas Outfits and Silly Pics

Annabelle got tons of clothes for Christmas. So many, that we have had a hard time finding places for her to wear them all! But today we were going to a SuperBowl party so we figured it was a good day to break out the party outfit! Before we left, she was taking her baby for a walk and I was able to snap some pictures!

Andrea gave Annabelle the outfit above. She really went all out in finding something that went together nicely. She even dyed the tights to match :) Annabelle enjoyed dancing to Bruce Springsteen during the SuperBowl party tonight in this fun skirt :)

This adorable outfit was given to Annabelle by Uncle Andy and is so super cute! This picture was taken right after Christmas, but she has loved wearing it lots of time!

There were lots more clothes, but I have not been able to take pictures of them all :)

Thanks everyone!!