Happy Halloween!

Posted on | October 31, 2013 | 1 Comment

Happy Halloween friends!  We decided to do an Italian themed Halloween, since Italy is still fresh on our minds.  Hazel got her shirt in Venice, and our masks were handmade in Venice as well.  I think I'll dress her in that adorable outfit everyday, seriously.





I hope your holiday was safe and wonderful.  I plan to update more soon - finally fixed my mac's memory problems as of today, hooray!

Italy, the camera phone edition:

Posted on | October 24, 2013 | 2 Comments

We've made it back to the states!

Actually we made it back a week ago today.  Funny how quickly you jump back into routine with work, toddler craziness, and house chores and then suddenly I realized I haven't updated.

Italy was... wonderful.  I'm actually finding it hard to believe we were actually there, oddly enough.  I have a SD card full of wonderful pictures but am having difficulties with my Mac and it's storage space (I obviously keep WAY too many photos, gulp).  I'm hoping sometime between work and battling jet lag with Hazel I will double back up my photos and delete some off the mac so I can share some Italy goodness.

I'll share a few photos below that either me or my sister-in-law snapped throughout our stay on our phones.  I realized while there how lucky I am to have an in-law who is a photographer!

The town of Mondovi, Italy where we were staying (photo cred to my sis-in-law)


The photos below are various shots from Venice.  Love, love, LOVE that city.


After rushing to catch the train to Venice


San Marco Square






And then a few more back in home base... 


Learning how to make pasta with an old Italian woman!
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Desserts were AMAZING



Until next time, Italy...

Magnifico

Posted on | October 6, 2013 | 1 Comment

A quick note to say we made it to Italy!  The plane rides went smooth, & we're kind of sort of getting over jet lag (not counting Hazel - she magically wakes up around 12 am every night for 2-3 hours despite how tired she is from a full day). H slept for about 5 hours of the long flight from Utah to Paris, and there was only one meltdown (from mama - hah!) at the Paris airport.  I've decided being up for 27 hours, pregnant, and way too much nursing to keep a flying baby happy makes me nuts.  It's the hormones, right?

 

Here we are in front of my sister-in-laws apartment.  It's pretty darn magical here.  I hope you are all well, will try to post more photos.  Hazel's odd sleep schedule actually gives me some online downtime while on vacation, funny enough.

Ciao!

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