Friday, February 26, 2010

An Awesome Book – Part 2

More pictures of the wonderful book that came to us from Sicily is below…Enjoy them…We did…The following pictures will be of Laurianna from birth to her 1 year birthday…

1st month Look at those skinny legs but look at those proud parents…

2nd month Laurianna a little more grown up…Isn’t she a cute??  I do..

3rd month Baths and Dress up…What fun!

4th month Look at this little angel smiling and growing…Daddy is having fun with her..

5th month Growing a little bigger and making bigger smiles…Standing with help, oh my!  Who does Anna look like, Mommy or Daddy???

6th month Ah, baby cereal time…Time for a messy face from now on…

7th month 1/2 a cake…Oh, it’s being 6 months old…Something that isn’t done very often and rare to see..

8th month The next page is cuter and has more pictures but she is growing like a weed..8th month2 Oops, someone has her diaper…Teething toy, Daddy’s chin…Water baby, yay! 

9th month Let me out of here!!!  Fingers and toes and sleeping good...

9th month2

11th month The 10th month wouldn’t save so we skipped to the 11th month..Smiles and fun…and Anna’s cousins from Mommy’s side of the family..

12th month Finger foods that make a mess like spaghettios…Starting to walk around….Getting in to everything possible and within  reach..and Santa Claus time..xmas

back page Turning 1 yr. old on Jan. 20..The theme of the party “Carebear”, mainly Goodluck Carebear…Misti baked and iced the carebear cake and cupcakes and Laurianna went to town…More pictures to come on her 1st Birthday soon…

IMG_8073 The back cover..

IMG_8059 This is what the front of book looked like…Such a great joice of a picture for the beginning of the book..Great job Misti..

An Awesome Book – Part 1

Every so often one gets a present or presents that are okay, or just what they wanted, or what they didn’t want…But every so often one gets a present that they weren’t expecting at all…One of those presents was given to us from Chad & Misti Jorges’, our son-in-law and daughter..Christmas came and went and Misti kept saying I’m working hard on the present and that she wanted it to be just right…Well, she did a wonderful job and it is “Just Right”..We are proud to show off our book of Laurianna from birth to turning 1 year old…Please enjoy the pictures…

cover page Cover Page..

20 weeks Sonogram at 20 weeks..

anna born In the hospital with measurements and time of birth..

anna in chad's arms at birth This is a beautiful photo..

belly with both This is an awesome photo with both the new parents…The background highlights are great..

special day We’re PREGNANT!!  Yay!!

blessings A tiny new blessing and her name is Laurianna Sylvani Jorges’…Welcome to the family…

mom and anna photo This says it all!

dad anna This says it all too!

I am going to have to make 2 blogs about this wonderful book..To see more, see An Awesome Book – Part 2..

Fun at Sunset King with Brianna

partlycloudy The past few days have been wonderful…The weather has been perfect, up in the upper 50’s and 60’s…The sun has been shining with hardly any breeze…Breakfast has been eaten and it is time to go have some fun…icecream

Brianna has been wanting to go play miniature golf down by the clubhouse…It is a 9 hole miniature golf course and Brianna has fun just hitting the ball around…Once in a while she is lucky to get a hole in 2 but not very often…This is Hole #1…There are many times Mini Golf Time (4)when she picks up her ball and carries it around to the other side near the hole…

It is fun to go around the 9 holes and see just how she puts her ball through the tunnels and how she swings her club…I’ve tried to show her many times how to hold her club but I guess she has her own style…Here is the sweeping style…She has the push style too…

Mini Golf Time (35)

During our playing time and after we hit our ball when it is our Mini Golf Time (69)turn, Brianna will take over for each of us…On each golf course we put our golf ball down to hit it towards the hole and once we hit our own ball Brianna will pick it up and put it near the hole so she can put it in and yells “Yeah”…Now sometimes she will miss the hole and keep “sweeping” the ball so she gets her “hole in one”…It is so funny to watch but fun to watch too…We enjoy playing mini golf with her cause there isn’t much we have to do…*laugh*   Mini Golf Time (117)Here on the 9th hole, Poppy moved his ball around to the hole and guess who put it in the hole for him, YEP!  It was Brianna…

IMG_8275 This is Hole #2 and you can see the follow through isn’t looking all that bad…Could some pros learn from Brianna????  LOL  I think I could…LOL 

IMG_8295 There is another kid who visits (resides) at Sunset King…His name is Austin and he is 9 years old…Austin was at Sunset King in Oct. 2007 – Mar. 2008 when we had Brianna for those 4 months and he played with her then…But now they are 2 years older and play a little better, or should I say he plays a little better with her…But they only have each other to keep company within a park full of adults…Austin and Brianna wanted to play mini golf so I went with them to keep an eye on both of them…Austin IMG_8307kind of takes off as he was going through the mini golf course and forgot to wait for her on each course…She would get so mad at him and tell him “she wasn’t going to be his best friend if he didn’t wait up for her”…I would have to tell him to wait for her cause they were suppose to be playing together…They had their moments but I think they both had fun…

Austin gave Brianna a ride on his skateboard down to the mini golf course…Brianna thought this was a cool way to travel and told me that she would see down at the mini golf…Austin was real careful and I told her to make sure she kept her feet up so she wouldn’t get hurt…IMG_8272

IMG_8320 Can you tell what kind of fun these 2 were having under the nose of our rv?  Yep, digging a big hole so they could build sandcastles and walls and turrets…Brianna had a bucket with shovel from a restaurant down on Okaloosa Island and I gave them a couple of plastic spoons and 3 oz. plastic cups…Later on I gave them some straws to use as flags flying from the turrets…I did hear from my neighbor that Austin did pick Brianna up and tried to place her in the hole to see how far down the hole she would fit…Brianna was having a blast…When they were all done, all the sand was put back in the hole that they dug from…IMG_8332

One of the other fun things we did was go to the little Fun at Playin' (99)playground that is between the clubhouse and the lake but is also fenced…It’s not much of a playground but it is enough for little ones to play around…It is like a wooden jungle gym..There is one slide and a small bridge to cross over from one side to the other and a fireman’s pole…There is a ramp to walk up to the bridge and slide area…As you can see, Brianna likes to slide down head first, feet first and on her side…She wanted to slide down on back but she never made it that far…Brianna couldn’t make up her mind to slide or to swing…

It has some swings for about 6 little ones to swing from…and they are low enough to the ground for the little ones to try and push themselves in to swinging…But on this day, Brianna wasFun at Playin' (73) trying to learn how to swing forward and back and using her legs to help her get some height in her swing but all she got was sand in her shoes…It don’t help that she wore open toe shoes with socks…LOL…Poppy was behind her swinging her and trying to teach her how to use her legs to keep on swinging…When she wanted to stop and start over, Fun at Playin' (43) Poppy would grab her swing and pull her back as far as she would let him…Then he would let her go and oh my, what fun she had…

The joy on her face was priceless…Fun at Playin' (58)

What a fantastic few days of sunny weather and warm temperatures for Austin and us to have fun…

playground fun (1) The joy on her face was awesome to see…Brianna wanted Poppy and me to take turns swinging her…You can just see Kings Lake in the background…

Fun at Playin' (1) This is part of the bridge that goes from the right side of the jungle gym to the left side where the sliding board is…

Another sliding picture of our Brianna…Fun at Playin' (106)

Brianna relaxing on the corner bench on the playground gym trying to get all the sand out of her toeless shoes…Fun at Playin' (8)

After playing, we went in to the clubhouse to get a soda and relax…Inside the clubhouse is a restaurant area which is also the game room area…Soda is what Bri wanted for being a good girl…So why not a good treat and it’s cheap…LOL

Around Kings Lake (1) One of the other things Brianna likes to do while she is at Sunset King is to go down by the lake and look for fish…We walk along the pier and see if we can find any minnows or even a fish…We did see a gullinule in the lake…but not up close…Lots of lilly pads in different colors were in the lake…Around Kings Lake (4)

Around Kings Lake (16)

Around Kings Lake (51)

Brianna decided to walk up several steps to one of the rental cabins during our walk back from the lake to the miniature golf course up by the clubhouse…I thought she was going to look in the door to see if anyone was home but instead she walked up the steps and then back down the steps…Only she knew why she did that…*smile*