Our Trip to Tahoe

Fun at the Lake!


Massimo likes digging! Swimming fun...poor daddy gets splashed!


Massimo has a blast with sticks and nature in the front yard
Our 3 little monkeys


Visting the Agrella farm in Reno with Auntie Alicia & cousins Cody & Ashley...Uncle Kevin was hunting.

So we finally got away just at the end of summer! We took a trip to my parent's house in Incline Village for 5 days...it was an experience! It was definitely a trip, not a vacation (don't you get to sleep while on vacation?). The kids had a really fun time and it was beautiful weather and so nice where we were. Everything was really close and we were able to spend most of our time at a private community pool/beach which also had a park & picnic area...it was everything we needed all in one place! One of Massimo's favorite things was going swimming and playing with Cody's motorcycles (his cousin whom we visited while there). The twins loved playing in the sand and going to the park. Dante did better the 2nd time at the pool and got daddy really wet! Abi loved the pool, she just loves the water like her big brother. Massimo and I tried to catch crawdads but unfortunately we had no luck, but he got to see one that some girls had caught in a bucket...it was probably about 5"! We had to go a little further out to try and get them and it was a little too rocky for the both of us...and Massimo kept wanting to eat our bait (hotdog). So it was fun for him to go out on the rocks and look for crawdads and he kept asking me to go back for crawdads - maybe it was just enough of an experience for me to go out to the rocks with him...I am not sure how I would've liked actually catching one! On our last day (Saturday) we took a drive to Reno to visit their cousins Cody & Ashley. They had a really fun visit there and I don't think Massimo wanted to come home! Dante loved the animals so much...he gets so excited and screams at them and wants to play with them (dogs, cats, chickens - yes, they pretty much have a farm) while Abrianna is a little more hesitant and not too sure of them. Massimo likes them but definitely has a fear of them when close. He was too busy playing with all of Cody's cars, trucks & motorcycles. It was a really fun time and their 1st time up there to visit! We hope now we will be able to visit them more often! Being in Tahoe was so peaceful and quiet and I truly realized what sucks up my time at home...besides the kids...the computer! Even though I still did some email & surfing the net on Donavan's iphone but with not much to watch on tv and no computer...it was a nice relaxing time (at night).

Fun at Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose

Abrianna is having a blast! Dante likes splashing!
Massimo joins the fun!

Massimo climbs the bridge. Dante is small like a mushroom!

Abrianna talks to herself in the mirror!





Even though Massimo's Uncle Ryan is a firefighter and could
go on a fire truck anytime, he still had fun on this one!

This was supposed to be a weekend away for us, but with all the activities at the end of the week with the kids and Donavan having to go into work a few hours on Sunday, we decided to do a day activity instead so we chose the Children's Discovery Museum over the Aquarium of the Bay & Monterey Bay Aquarium....Massimo's been asking every day to go to the ocean and see fishies but we felt it might be too much with the babies and all. When the toddler area is up and running again at the Aqaurium of the Bay we'll head there for the ocean and fishies because I think everytime we go somewhere he thinks he's going to go to the ocean! Massimo didn't know what to do with himself, he was running from place to place and wanted to play with everything but also not miss the next thing! We started the twins out in the Water Ways...surprisingly Massimo wasn't that interested in the big kids area of this (well, not at first until he saw how much fun brother and sister were having). The twins had a blast in this area but we should've done this last because Abrianna was soaked head to toe (regardless of having the smock on)...she is just a spitting image of big brother when it comes to water when he was her age (and still loves it)...she just loves to splash and play and couldn't care less if she can't even see with water in her face! Dante did pretty good, too for being a little more hesitant about splashing water - a few times he wasn't too crazy about Abi splashing him but he still had a blast. I think he was just happy to be out of the stroller (hence why we chose this place over Aqaurium of the Bay as they don't have anywhere for kids to play-yet)...he DOES NOT like being in the stroller unless he's eating or moving briskly. By about lunch time (or close to it) the twins were losing their steam so we didn't make it upstairs but they had a lot of fun roaming in the Alice & Wonderland area, the circles and of course Massimo loved climbing into the fire truck and ambulance and Wells Fargo wagon (?). And mommy and daddy had a nice date night after a fun day with the kids!

Our favorite things Massimo recently said...

Today Massimo said a few things that tickled our fancy. When I picked him up from school the teacher told me they had burritos as Massimo is trying to tell me his version of the word which I couldn't quite make out. He finally says to me "mommy, I no eat my burrito, I no like beans". I said ok...he told me he ate his chi-chi (lunch meat in Italian) and his apple & cheese.
Then tonight before he went to bed and was on the potty daddy came in to see what was going on since we were in the chair rocking and the next thing he knows he's on the potty. He says to daddy "Daddy, go downstairs and vacuum, clean up all my mess!" Ok, so can you see we've got a bossy boy on our hands...watch out for Abrianna, we are going to be in a mess of trouble when that girl can put a sentence together and since she's got her daddy so wrapped around her finger!