Back in Italy

So the vacation is over and back to Italia. The flights were good and uneventful. The kids slept most of the NY to Italy flight, and what more could you ask for? We flew into Pisa, which I highly recomend and then luckily took a travel bus to Florence rather than the train with all our luggage and crap. We settled in a little and then took a 2 hour nap and just hung out. Cloe, Brody and Abbey and I ended up with a stomach flu. I was hoping it wasn't the type that was going around UT that people were catching from the swimming pools and lasted days. We went to bed around midnight and we all finally woke up at 1:30 PM!!! I slept great and did not want to get up. And we all felt better that afternoon, considering we slept 12 hours, it must have been a 24 hour bug! Cloe and brody start school on Monday and I'm a nervous wreck about how they will do, but there's only one way to find out. And next week Ryan's parents are coming to visit so that will make life easier on Brody. He is a tender hearted little guy and keeps crying because he misses his grandma's. Which doesn't help me much either.

Since I was slacking big time the last couple weeks, here's the rest of our vacation in UT in a nutshell. No more of this blogging diet stuff, it's time for a real diet though! We ate out as much as possible and I now love Costa Vida!! And gained at least 5 lbs but won't tell you what I gained at the most ;) The kids LOVED being with family and friends and for those of you that I wanted to hang out with but never did, I'm sorry. I didn't want the trip to fly by so I kept unbusy so I could relax and enjoy. Hopefully we'll be back soon.
This is my sister Corine's baby shower and I'm posting it because my mom and I spent a lot of time puting it together and so it is blog worthy. I thougth it was pretty cute myself.




The Tree House Museum in Ogden, so worth the drive and I highly recomend this place!!





Luckily we were there for Makayla B-day party. Her mom is an event planner and always throws THE best parties. The theme was cowgirl/cowboy and it was at Thanksgiving point. The kids LOVED it and Abbey said her favorite part of Utah was riding the horse. Well done Michelle!

Cloe practicing her roping

Good thing G'pa just bought them new cowboy boots!

Cloe and Makayla

Ole Wild Bill in jail


Each kid got food to feed the animals, Brody used all of ours and loved his hand being tickled

the food was so perfect with the theme. Instead of plates we ate off of pie tins, and the cups were boots.

YEE_HAW!!!

Brody the cowboy riding his horse

the cake!!! so cute, just shows all the detail Michelle puts into it!!

with the birthday girl