Wordless Wednesday

 

One of Gianna’s pictures from her 1st birthday photo shoot. 

 See the rest here, trust me, Tami did a flipping fantastic job!

Just call me Rosie

I know I’m late, but I am doing a birthday/memorial day post.

Don’t judge, I’ve been busy!

My birthday was fabulous. I rode around a restaurant on a pony. My husband painted our living/dining room – which was a huge surprise! (it’s not all the way finished, once it is I will show it off). My baby girl snuggled me a lot. And I got to spend time with friends and family.

It was unseasonably, and freaking wonderfully warm last weekend. Which was fabulous since we spent all our time here:

Gianna enjoyed her time floating and splashing and sunning her well-sunscreened self.

So did me and my un-sunscreened sisters.

I got the freaking WORST sunburn on my shoulders/back.  I have not had a sunburn in years because we are blessed with Italian heritage and therefore lovely tanning skin. Except when you are pale and then spend 2 days in 90* sunshine without sunscreen. Then, you get a sunburn.

Gianna was shocked at my utter disregard for my skin. Also, she was not feeling bad for me and making sure I learned my lesson by pinching my shoulders every time I picked her up.

You can kinda see my ridiculous tan lines, or rather lobster lines as they should have more accurately been referred.

I am happy to report that I have itched and peeled and now my shoulders are tan. Thank you mother for being Italian.   Now I need to stay in the sun, with sunscreen, to maintain and enhance my tan-ness.

Alternative ABC’s :GIVEAWAY

We love books in our house.

ALOT.

I was contacted by Sarah of Ammobooks (via Buisness2Blogger) to review an awesome new book.

I wanted to see what Gianna thought of her new book.

A new house AND a new book?! My lucky day!

We sat down to read this incredibly illustrated book.

please don’t mind my bed head. it’s been a long few days.

We flipped through the pages and read about how E is for earthday and V is for vegetarian.

This book is hugely different from any of the other boring old A is for Apple ABC books we already have. The binding is sturdy (Gianna tested it out for you all). The colors & illustrations are stimulating.  It gives us new words to learn and great pictures to look at.  This has quickly become a new favorite in our house.

And?

We want to share this rocking book with all of you!

Tell me what “alternative” thing you would use in an ABC book to win!

Mine is O is for Oreos – totally unoriginal, but you can’t go wrong with an Oreo….

Extra entries (leave a separate comment for each, even if you are already awesome and doing one of the following):

• Follow me on twitter
• Follow my blog

Entries accepted through June 14th 11:59a – winner will be notified by email, so make sure you leave a valid addy!

This will make a perfect gift for all the rock star kids and kids-in-the-making out there.

Copyright: © 2010 www.ammobooks.com

Available wherever books are sold June 2010.

 

**book provided to me by Ammo for review/giveaway. All opinions & pictures are my own unless otherwise noted**

So much to say, so little time

yet another whoa-is-me post from yours truly about how I have so much to say and so little time to say it in.

But GUYS! I do have such little time. And so.many.things.to.do.

I just edited lots of adorable pictures. I need to upload them, soon.

Also, I need to make a cute “we moved” announcement to email to our family/friends. What are the etiquette rules on that?

And, my house? Looks like an episode of Hoarders. Seriously, it may be considered a fire hazard.

But, the school is taking over my life. My 2 classes right now are more time consuming than pretty much all of the ones from the last 2 semesters combined. And I don’t like it. It is summer. I want sunshine. (which I got this weekend, along with a flipping sunburn. I forgot just how much those hurt….) 

It will all be okay soon, I am sure.  I have a handle on the school work, for today. It is a lot, but it will all get done.  The unpacking will happen, eventually.  Once our upstairs is all the way painted some things can finally go on the walls and organization can take place.

I have been trying hard to make time for my happy, giggly, defiant daughter (more to come on the defiant part) and my helpful, handsome husband in between all of the things above. And time for you of course, my bestest internets.

Stay tuned Friday for a book giveaway! A kids book, actually, very fun. Very rock star like.

Wordless Wednesday

officially summer.