Nathan and Doug finish the backyard

This weekend Nathan and Doug finished up the backyard. They put down the black material that keeps weeds/grass from growing up through the mulch, installed a border and put down 2 truck loads of much! I looks AWESOME!!! Here are some work-in-progress pics.

(neighbor and his dog checking out the backyard)

Here are the gardenias that they planted between the house and the deck. They look and smell GOOOOOOD!!!!

The hibiscus is so pretty! Mami told me this is the official plant of Puerto Rico (yellow hibiscus). We didn't know that when we bought it but are glad we got it!

Here is Jaquelyn working hard and looking cute in the embroidered onesie that Ileana Vanessa (Aidita's niece) got for her!

Linda came down to help with the girls and hang out. Here is Jaquelyn taking a snooze on Grandmother's chest (and Joe Dirt - Doug's dog - feeling left out :o)!

Linda decided to spend the night Saturday so that she could let Nathan and I sleep in on Sunday morning when Sofia woke up at 6 a.m.!! Here is Sofia helping Grandmother cook her breakfast.

Finally the yard is looking really great! We are indebted to Doug for a long time for all of his help - Nathan could NOT have done it without him!!!!!!!!!!

Molly turns 2

Our friends, Rob and Jody (who's wedding was were Nathan and I met!!) have a daughter a little bit older than Sofia. She turns 2 in May. We all packed up and went to her birthday party. Here are some cute pics.

Sofia drinking juice from a box - we don't let her drink juice at home, so she was running around taking EVERYONE's "jugo." I was chasing her around like a crazy woman because she was drinking after everyone. YUCK - I know that's how she gets sick most of the time - drinking after other kids. It's so hard to prevent, though!!!!

Here is Jaquelyn hanging out in their cool rocker. She liked it!

And here is Sofia sitting with all of the girls eating birthday cake! She's hanging in there with the bigger girls - she's hardcore tough girl!!!! Driving me crazy trying to keep her from hitting other kids. She seems to play better with older kids because she's not trying to be the "alpha dog" around them and doesn't push them as much!

And Jody just had her 3rd baby!!! It's a BOY! His name is Robert after his dad. Sooooo cute. So now we have 2 kids that are almost the same age. We'll have back-to-back birthday parties for a long time to come :o)

Jaquelyn looking cute after a bath

Sofia has an accident :o(

Sofia LOVES, LOVES, LOVES going into the pantry to dig for anything to eat or play with!!! She's in there 100 times per day! Today she decided to open the Ziploc bag that had the baking soda in it . . . then tear open the box of baking soda and spread it all over the floors!! And if that wasn't enough fun for Mami, she wasn't wearing a diaper because we are trying to potty train . . . so she peed on the pile of baking soda!!! GOOD TIMES being a SAHM :o) !!!!!

Gable cooks Thai dinner on Memorial Day!

Nathan's stepbrother, Gable, is an AMAZING cook!! His specialty is Thai cooking. It's really, really, really good!!!!!! He's cooked it for us several times. This time he really outdid himself. He made 5 different Thai dishes, plus white rice (curry/pineapple shrimp, Thai eggplant dish, basil/pork rice, broccoli with chicken dish, and something else)! It took him most of the day and you can't imagine how many ingredients he used. We were starving by the time we ate, but that's good because he cooked so much food we pigged out! Katy's friends Gitta and John and their son Christopher came over to join us for dinner. So did Uncle Andy and Doug. It was a great day!!! The only thing missing was Katy :o) But she'll be here in June.

WHEW!!! We did a lot this long weekend!!!

Jaquelyn's first Braves game - WE WON!!!

While Steve and Leanne were in town we all went to the Braves game - including Uncle Andy, Caroline, Doug, Mike, Nathan, the girls and I. The Braves won too! YAY! It was a lot of fun, but a little long for Sofia. She has too much energy to sit in the seats and watch a game for that length of time. Jaquelyn had no issues as she was in the Moby, as usual.

Here are some cool pictures from our seats!

Here is Sofia running the pretend bases - she was already starting to get tired!

These are some humongo Coca-Cola chairs!!!

Ileana's handy work

Here is Jaquelyn wearing one of the outfits that Ileana embroidered for her. Isn't Baby J so cute?!?!?!?!