Calabresi Gang

Berry Picking

2010-05-25T11:29:00.001-07:00

There is Grandma and Grandpa Radde sitting in the back with the kids and playing with them. The kids really did enjoy the time they spent with them.
Here they are ready to go pick their berries. Liz kept telling us to hurry up and get going. She is so funny.
Stephen loved the berries. He had a great time. He loved eating them just as much as picking them.
Her she is trying to figure out which berry to pick and if she will get stuck by and prickers in there.
Liz and Grandma Radde picking berries together. Liz had said that her bucket was for the girls and Stephen's bucket was for the boys. She is so funny.
Liz dumping a handful of berries in her bucket. She had so much fun. She loved picking berries.
Stephen picking the berries. He had a good time doing it. He ate some along the way too.
These are the berries the kids picked. That is 16 pounds worth of berries. They had so much fun.
Stephen and Isabella spending some time together. They are so cute!

There's my pretty girl! She is so dang cute! She liked the out doors. She enjoyed the wind in her face.
They are so dang cute. They loved playing with those lady bugs.
The kids loved the lady bugs. They were climbing all over them. It was fun to watch them.
These two were fighting the whole time. It was so much fun to watch and the kids love it too.
The goat was chewing on the wire. It was so cute and funny. The kids loved the goats.

This was so cute. They had a baby donkey there. It was so cute. The kids loved it.

Zoo Trip

2010-05-24T08:53:00.000-07:00

Liz being friendly with the dear. She did a great job.
Mom feeding the dear. They tried to eat mom's purse. It was funny.
Liz feeding the dear again. They loved her and stayed close to her.
This goat was trying to eat Connie's pants. They tried to eat my purse, pants and shirt. It was funny.
Liz was have the greatest time at the petting zoo they had there. She loved the animals. They dear and goats and all the animals loved her.
There's my little man. We don't have many pictures of him because he was terrified of the animals. He would just through the food on the ground instead of feeding the animals from his hand. It was sad, but funny.
This is a buffalo and yuck! You drop the food in their mouths and boy do they have bad breath.
Liz feeding the Llama. She really enjoyed that. The Llama ran along the side of us the whole time.
This is was so funny. Liz turned around and there was a huge camels head above her. It was funny and she didn't cry or anything. She laughed.
Liz feeding Sally. Sally is Omar's girl. They were really friendly and calm with the kids.
That camels name was omar and he was big. Liz had fun feeding him. He was very friendly .
There is Grandma Surface and Isabella. What a cute picture!
This camels name is Sally. She is Omar's girl friend. As you can see, Liz has no problem feeding the animals at all.
This is a baby buffalo. Very shy, but very cute. The kids loved seeing a baby one.
This buffalo was nasty. The only way to deed them was hold your hand over their mouth while it was open and drop the food in their mouth. Their tongues were gross!

Funny Pics of Isabella

2010-05-19T15:25:00.001-07:00

Isabella is in her swing and she loves that swing. She will only take a nap in there these days instead of her bed.
Isabella and Grandma Surface sitting and watching something. She is such a cutie!
Bella and Mommy!
How cute is she!
These 4 pictures were taken right before bath time. Mom was playing around with her and she loved it.

Splash Pad in Leander Tx

2010-05-19T14:21:00.000-07:00

Isabella with her Grandma and Grandpa Radde. She actually enjoyed the fresh air and was very good. I know Connie will hate this picture because I got her with her hair blowing up from the wind!
Liz with one of her new friends.
What a cutie! He is just cute and was having the best time.
Liz is getting water dumped on her by the buckets. She used to hate those things in Tucson, but she had a good time getting dumped on and was so cute!
Here you can see her getting dumped on. It was so funny. She is so cute!
Liz loves the water. She was having the best time out there and was making friends as she always does
Stephen and Stanley have a good time together. Both were filling up their toys with water and pouring it out. It was really cute to watch.
Look at that smile! Isn't he just the cutest thing ever. Was a handsome little boy!

Stephen wasn't ready go get wet when we first got there. He set with us for a while and then got bored I guess, but he looks so cute standing there. He is growing so fast.

MY KIDS!

2010-04-30T04:28:00.000-07:00

Here is my little Isabella after having a bath. She loves bath time. She just talks to me and smiles the whole time. She gets really cranky when it gets close to bath time.
I love this picture because it shows how fat she is getting. She eats all the time. She more often than Stephen does these days.

These pics were taking at a park in Burnet and the kids had a great time. Stephen loved the fact that there was a fire station across the street. He loved it.

Liz is getting so big and is not afraid to climb things. She is growing up too fast. What a cutie!

Pictures from the Hospital of Isabella Maria Calabresi

2010-03-25T10:54:00.000-07:00

Isabella Maria Calabresi born Feb 1, 2010 at 12:59pm. Weight 5lbs 1 oz and 18 inches long. Dark skin and dark hair and blue eyes. She so beautiful Enjoy the rest of the pictures.

Isn't she just the pretties little girl?! Mom bought her new clothes to wear home because the clothes we brought for her were to big. She was a lot smaller than we were expecting. I love the outfit.

I love this picture of her sleeping with a hat that a friend of ours made for Liz when she was born but she has never liked hats and still doesn't.

I love these 2 pictures of Isabella and I cuddling together. The top one she is smiling a little and she has the cutest smile. I love it.

Here is Isabella with Grandma Surface. She loves her Grandma and I love this picture of them together. It is a great picture of them together.

SNOW DAY!

2010-02-23T13:25:00.000-08:00

As you can see they were throwing snow at me and hitting the window. It was really cute to watch them play in the snow.

What a cute smile!

Ain't he just so cute!

They just loved the snow. They really hated to come in. But man their feet and hands were like ice and their pants and socks and shoes were all wet. But they really enjoyed it.

Isabella Maria Calabresi

2010-02-01T12:59:00.000-08:00

Well, she is here finally! Enjoy the pictures. She was born February 1, 2010 at 12:59pm. She weighed 5lbs 1oz and 18 inches long. She has dark wavy hair and blue eyes. She is beautiful!!! I was so excited to see her. I was able to see her in the OR but I was crying so much that she was really a blur. She is so tiny. But cute as can be.Liz couldn't wait to see Isabella. She had been asking so see her for a long time. She just loves her baby sister.
Well daddy was super excited to have her. She loves her daddy! Matthew loves to hold her. Isn't she cute!
Isn't she just so cute. I love this picture. She has the greatest smile and just so cute. We are truly blessed to get to have her as part of our family.

Climbing Silly Mountain

2009-11-12T10:21:00.001-08:00

Liz looks like she is going to sneeze, but they both look so cute with their backpacks and hats and Liz has the binoculars. The look so cute!
I am pretty sure that Stephen has bubbles on his hand and he wants it off. He doesn't like sticky stuff on his hands at all.
Nice views from Silly Mountain. Looks great!

This is Dick, Papa as the kids call him.
This is Connie, and the kids call her Grandma. From what I gather from them, the kids could have kept going, but they couldn't. Liz would have climbed to the top I do believe. She loves doing stuff like that.

Hair Cut

2009-11-11T08:25:00.000-08:00

This was taken right before they started cutting his hair. He had no idea what was going on. Poor kid!As you can see he was not happy at all. Connie said that he kept saying that he wanted to go home. Poor baby!Look how short it is! He is not a fan of having his hair cut. The last time we cut his hair you would have thought we were killing the kid.
The barber gave Stephen a baseball and he seemed to calm down a bit.He loves baseball, so that barber giving him that glove and ball was a good thing. He looks so cute!
What a handsome boy! He looks so cute with his shot hair.Now that is a great picture of the 2 of them. Look at how cute my babies are? What blue eyes they have!

Pictures of my babies!

2009-11-04T11:21:00.000-08:00

She looks so pretty. She is so cute and I love when she wears purple. She looks so beautiful.
Here hair looked do good after I had washed it the night before and put it is in brads. You can see the different highlights in her hair. She has gorgeous hair.Look at my little man. He has such a cute smile. I love his hair spiked up. What a cutie!Don't they look so cute?! They are so cute. Well, except Liz's surprise look on her face. But they still are very cute.

Trunk or Treat at the Bonanza Building

2009-11-02T09:48:00.001-08:00

Now don't the look so cute. Stephen loved being a fireman and loved the hat. Liz was just the cutest little Tinker Bell. I just loved how cute they both were. I love how they are cuddling here.
This is a friend of ours, Randy Swann and is little girl Jolee and Liz just loves that baby. But I thought Jolee looked so cute. She was adorable.

This is a family in one of the wards and they made a dragon costume for all their kids to fit in and it was so cool. Everyone loved it. Stephen was scared of it and so was Liz. It was a little scary up front, but a really cool idea.

Halloween party at school

2009-10-29T08:30:00.000-07:00

They both were dressed up for the Halloween party at preschool. They were so excited about the party and they looked so cute. Liz was Tinker Bell and Stephen was a fireman. They are so cute.Don't they look so cute. I was just so excited to have them dress up and look so adorable. Liz loves having her picture taken and Stephen sees a camera and says "Chucke Cheese." What a cutie!

This is a whistle and man is it annoying. Stephen had one too of course. It was very noisy around here for a while.

Liz and Daddy

2009-10-26T15:00:00.000-07:00

Liz had begged us all day to carve the pumpkin. She had the best time. She really had a good time. I was so surprised that she was sticking her hands in there and getting all sticky. She was going through and picking out the seeds so that we could bake them and eat them later.

I mean look at her. She was going through it all and it have the best time ever. It was so cute and I really loved watching her do it. She was so happy to be doing it with her daddy!

Matthew asked how scary Liz wanted the pumpkin to look and she went for not so scary. So he would draw the dotted lines on the face and then let Liz trace. She loved it and she really felt like she had really done something to draw it's face. She just loved it and I loved watching her have a good time with her daddy!

Moving

2009-10-21T16:31:00.000-07:00

Well, we are moving to Texas for a while for those of you who haven't heard. I don't have any pictures of the house without our stuff in it yes. I will post some, but we are going to Texas to be with my mom while Matthew is at Basic. Yes, I said Basic. Matthew is joining the army. I am due Feb 5th and so we are going to go and stay with mom just in case he leaves early and I have the baby after he leaves. Plus I want my mom and sister to be there.

We will miss Tucson and all our friends here. But there is always email and the phone and facebook. We have really loved it here and loved having our children growing up here. Some day we may be back and we can visit our friends here.

God bless you call and we love you all very much. Keep in touch with us please.

Preschool Zoo Trip

2009-10-21T16:21:00.001-07:00

This was right after we got in the zoo. They both were looking at the map to see where we should go first. It was so cute!

Stephen loved running through the tunnel. He only hit is head a few times. He was so cute. That is Elden crawling on top.Now Elizabeth on the other hand. She loved this armadillo. She could stayed there the whole time. She even pet it a few times and loved it. I believe his name was Wetzel. She loved him.

The kids were really excited to see the giraffes. They loved them and there were a few peacocks there too. They loved the peacocks as well.Elden and Liz hanging out together as usual. They loved that Elephant. The next picture is of them on it. Don't they look so cute. They are adorable. What cuties!

2009-10-08T13:18:00.000-07:00

We moved some of Isabella's stuff in Liz's room for Family Home Evening. Liz was excited she couldn't wait to get it in there. She was so proud of what she had done.
Liz is really excited to have this done. It really means that Isabella is coming. She really helped me a lot. She can't wait for her to get here.
Liz was really excited to put the mobile up. She really loves to turn it on and hold it up to my tummy so that Isabella can hear it.Here is what we have put in her bed. Liz really loves that it is pink and has hearts and butterflies on it. Stephen thinks it is so cute. He tells me how cute it is. Don't want you any of you worry about the cords because those will be gone well before the baby gets here. They go to the tv and dvd player and those are going in Stephen's room. I will add more pictures later to show what else we have done for Isabella.

Mud Puddle Day!

2009-10-01T16:54:00.000-07:00

What a cute smile He loved playing in the mud. He was so cute. I was actually trying to get me a few times. They all had mud on them from head to toe and they had it in their ears.
My little poser. She had it in her ears and up her nose. It was so much fun for them. They were so dirty.

WHAT CUTIES! They are just so cute and they were having the greatest time. It just cracks me up that they enjoyed playing in the mud when every time their hands are dirty they need to have their hands washed.

It's A Girl!!!!!

2009-09-11T15:14:00.000-07:00

I know the picture is blurry, but you can see that she is looking at us. And yes I said she. She was looking at us the entire time. She was laying on her side the entire time.Here she was tired of looking at us and decided to turn then she started kicking and I didn't care. She kicks all the time. We are really excited.

2009-09-02T09:52:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of the baby! We are so excited. There is only 1 baby as you can see. We are thankful for that, but we are happy to be having another one and this maybe the last one. But the baby is healthy so far.

This is another picture of the baby. We have another appointment
on Sept 10th and we will find out what we are having. We are excited!

First Day of school!

2009-09-02T09:38:00.000-07:00

Liz was so excited about school. She was up early and ready to get dressed as soon as she got up and was ready to go. Both the kids were excited. The other little girl is Emma and she is one of the kids that I watch and she goes to preschool with them. They all were so excited to go!
I love how excited they were for school. Let's just hope it stays that way. Liz is going to be going 4 days a week starting the week Sept 14th. She will be going Monday through Thursday while Stephen and Emma go Tuesday and Thursday. She getting extra help seeing as how she starts school next year. They are so cute.

Last week of preschool

2009-05-14T15:29:00.000-07:00

Liz had been begging me to put the pool up all weekend. I finally got it put up Monday and the kids love the pool. I love watching them splash around. They have the greatest time in there. Look at her cute face. She loves swimming and being in the water. She has a nice tan already.

Stephen has the cutest smile. The only way to get him to look at the camera is to say "Stephen say Chuck e Cheese" and he will look every time. I love it. He loves the pool just as much as Liz does and he has a nice tan as well. It makes me sick.

Here Liz is blowing bubbles. She loves bubbles. She had the greatest time. She is really going to miss preschool. She always looked forward to preschool.

Here Liz is blowing bubbles with her friend Emma. She loves Emma. They have the greatest time together. They both started preschool at the same time. They both have grown up so much.

Here Liz is posing for me. She loves the camera and the camera loves her. She is so beautiful!!

This is a picture of the kids in Liz preschool class. We are missing Elden though, but Liz loves everyone in her class. She loves it there. She loves Bonnie, her teacher. From Left to right it is Emma, Elizabeth, Nathan, Jasmine, Noah. What a great picture.

My kids the cutest kids ever!

2009-04-29T10:39:00.000-07:00

Stephen has the cutest face. He almost looks like a alien. He looks so funny. I love how funny his eyes look.

Liz looks just as funny as Stephen does. Her nose looks like it is smashed down. Her eyes almost look cross eyed. I love these pictures. They looks so cute.

Here he is wearing a new outfit that I got him. He was so excited to wear it. He looks so good in blue. It brings the blue out in his eyes. Liz look so cute. She looks so grown up. I can't believe how cute she is.I got a new hair cut. I had to get it cut. It was past my shoulder blades and I can't stand to have my hair that long. I love it now though. I blow dry it and curl it and it is so cute and light and easy. Everyone at church on Sunday told me that they loved it. It felt so good to have it cut and especially now since it is getting warmer.These are the cutest kids in the world. Liz loved the new dress. She wanted to wear it all day. Stephen has the cutest smile ever. Liz almost always makes a dorky smile when we take her picture. But they are so adorable. I love it.

I love this one. They look so cute together. I love them all so much. I can hardly ever get her to make a cute smile. Stephen looks like he is mad, but I still love this one. Matthew is actually making a real smile as well. They are so cute and I love them so much.

2009-04-20T10:35:00.000-07:00

This weekend we went to a place call Freestone Park. It was a nice place for kids to play. They had a train ride, carousel ride, a ferris wheel, and they had park for the kids to play at. Stephen just looked so cute standing there by that sign. He had a pretty good time. They didn't like the carousel, but we did happen to get Stephen to ride the train and he loved it. It went by the lake and the waterfalls that they had there. He loved all the waterfalls and the ducks. There were birthday party's and reunions going on there. It was fun. I really enjoyed the little park. Liz only rode the carousel and that was it. For some reason she didn't want to ride anything else. But Stephen had a great time. He was laughing his head off at some of the ducks in the water.

In this picture is the head of a turtle in the water. We tried so hard to get a closer shot. I hope you can see it. It would bring it's head in and out of the water. It was so cute. The kids were screaming at it. It was so funny. I loved it. It was really cute to watch it.
In this one the kids were playing at the park. They were having so much fun with all the slides and swings. Stephen was really enjoying himself. He was all over the place. He was running playing and have so much fun.

Liz loved going do the slides. She kept saying how much fun she was having on the slides. But she hated the trains and carousel. We couldn't get her to ride anything. But she loved the slides and the ducks and the water.
As you can see the loved the big rocks that they can jump off of. They loved it. Even though they didn't like the rides so much, they loved everything else. They had a good time with the water and watching the ducks. It was fun to watch them. Stephen has no fear when it comes to heights. Me on the other hand, I hate it. He worries me so.Here is the picture that Matthew took of all the Ducks, big and small all trying to get on the same rock. It was so cute to watch them. I know the kids loved it. The ducks didn't even fly away when Stephen was screaming with excitement.

It was a good day. I just loved watching the kids explore and have fun. The kids seem to really enjoy it. They both fell alseep about 15 minutes before we got home. But oh well, they were pooped from all the fun they had.

Painting

2009-04-16T10:27:00.001-07:00

Yesterday, the kids were painting with Jose,who is from Headstart and they had a great time. Stephen as you can see what really enjoying the painting. His favorite color to paint with was red paint.He used the entire red bottle. It was fun to watch him paint.

Liz has a good time as well. She was creating all kinds of things. It was fun to watch her make things withe paint. She even put some her face. It was a cute picture. She kept telling me that she was having fun and that she wants to paint all the time. It was so much fun watching her paint all kinds of cute pictures.

Happy Easter

2009-04-12T19:06:00.000-07:00

Today was such a good day. Well except, Connie got sick and Liz doesn't fell well either. But it was a nice day. Matthew sang in the choir today and he did a great job. Matthew has a great voice and did such great job on the solo. I was crying it was so good.

Today Liz brought me a flower in from outside to thank me for dinner. I felt so loved and I was truly thankful for a child who understands what it means to be thankful for something. I loved it and yes I did cry.

We had a great day with Connie and Dick being here. I know that they had a good time and enjoyed this weekend. We played games all day on Saturday, well except for going to Liz's soccer meeting and for the ward party. It was fun though. On Saturday it was raining and there was a beautiful rainbow.
Stephen was really funny. He loves to walk around in his diaper and it just happened that he wanted to eat chips and watch the Backyardigians at the same time. These are some great pics of Stephen.

The kids were so excited when Connie and Dick got here that they just were all over Dick. He loved it as you will be able to tell.

I am grateful for my family and friends and thankful for my Savior Jesus Christ's sacrifice for me and for the atonement. I fell truly blessed every day for all the many people that I have in my life and for all the things that I have learned from them. I love them all.

What's new

2009-04-09T20:04:00.000-07:00

Well, it has been a long time since I was on here. I have been extremely busy, but I going to try and keep this updated. Well, we haven't really done anything cool except get a van last Sept and we love it. It has a DVD player and the kids love it so much and so do we. We love how quick the kids shut up when the movie comes on.

We bought Matthew a car with our Tax return and man am I glad. We needed it. I have places I need to go and it is hard to do anything with one car. So everything has worked out pretty good. The kids are doing great.

Liz is in preschool and she loves it. She goes with Emma, one of the kids that I watch and they have a great time. Liz is so smart. I love it and it makes me feel like a good parent knowing how smart she is. She loves Dora the Explorer and the Backyardigians. She goes around singing the songs all the time. I love that she is getting into learning and getting an imagination. She is great. She has also been doing t-ball She just finished the winter season and she did great.

Stephen is growing up so fast and talks all the time. He loves the movie Cars and his room is even painted with the colors of cars. He is so funny. I just love how he is getting is on personality and wanting to do everything on his own. This kid can eat. There hasn't been anything that we can find that he won't eat. When he eats like he hasn't eaten in a long time. It is so funny.

Well, as for me, I have been really sick lately and I have been going to the Dr a lot trying to figure out what is going on. I have had a lot of things going in my family, but we are doing ok.I am the Camp Director and also the sports director for the Young Women. I love these callings. I love the young women in our ward with all my heart.

Matthew still works for Intuit and he loves it, but I know that he would love to be doing something more with his life. He is almost done with school. He has been working so hard on graduating from school. Once he is done, I can go. Woohooo. Matthew is the Elders Quorum President in our ward. He is also in a band called Citizen Saint. They are great. I love listening to them play. He plays the bass and does a great job.

Out little family is doing great these days and we are surviving and trying to make sure that we do what we need to do.

Crazy Days

2008-09-29T14:42:00.000-07:00

Well, my life has been crazy for some time. I seem to be busy all the time. But I like being busy.

We are trying to buy a new car and man we just can't decide where we can get the best deals. We really want to get a van. Something that will hold us all and yet be comfortable and safe. So we are taking our time on this and we want to make sure that we do the right thing.

You see in December we are going to go to Texas to see my parents. My grandmother passed way in July and this is the first time that my mom will be having Christmas with out her. So she is having a hard time and honestly so am I. I always thought that my grandmother would be around. So I am having to deal with that too. Anyway, I want to spend time with family while I can. I want to spend as much time with them as possible.

We enrolled Liz in t-ball. She is really excited about it. She really wants to play. I really want her to play too. She will enjoy it a lot. I am also in the process of trying to find a preschool that isn't expensive, but is good. So I have a lot that I am trying to get done. But I love being busy and trying to get things done and make sure that our family has everything that we need to survive.

Well, that is it for today. I have to go and get more groceries that we didn't get on Saturday. So we will be having another busy day.