Wedding Planning

No, I'm not getting married again, although all this wedding planning brings back some awesome memories and sure makes me want to do it again!

My best friend is engaged to be married next April and since she's such a planner, she spends pretty much every day planning all the details and getting everything ready for her big day...

Of course, I enjoy visiting venues, looking at chairs and catering menus probably as much as she does and today was a full on wedding planning day...

We visited a few venues in Miami as well as the church...

The top choices are two buildings in Miami, one in Coral Gables and one in Coconut Grove...she'll make a decision within the next few days and so we can move on to other wedding details...

I can't wait for the big day!!!

Here are some pictures of the venues we visited...

Fav Picture Thursday...

To begin this new blog category, I will post one of my absolute favorite pictures...

This is one of my dad and I on my wedding day...

It was taken the moment that was "giving me away" to my husband, right at the altar...wow!

This picture brings back some awesome memories of that day.. This was one of the happiest moments of my life...it was so emotional... I get tears just looking at it...(too bad it has a date stamp, I think that's so tacky!)

New blogger fun!

So, I normally do "Wordless Monday" and for a while I did "Memory Thursday", which I stopped because I realized most pictures I posted were Olivia's and I got a little bored of always posting the same...

In trying to come up with a new category, I decided I will now do "Fav Picture Thursday", where I will post ONE picture every Thursday out of my favorite pictures of all times...

There won't be a specific theme for these pictures, it will just be A picture every Thursday...

Hopefully this will be fun and I will be able to share some of my favorite pics!

"Fav Picture Thursday" will begin tomorrow!

Dress up Wednesday...

During the summer, every Wednesday is "dress up day" at Olivia's school and today wasn't the exception...

Today's theme was "When I grow up I want to be..."..

I thought it was it's pretty funny because I don't think a 3 year old even understands the concept of growing up and wanting to be something/someone...

Oh well, a few days ago I asked Olivia "what do you want to be when you're older?".. to what she replied "I'm already older, I'm the big sister"... so I said "what about when you're much older?".. and she said "I'm already much older!"... so I said, "what about when you're much much older?"... and she continued to say "I'm already much much older!"...

Of course, this went on for a few minutes and she finally said "I want to be a dancer"... a decision which made things easier for me.. I dressed her up with a tutu and a dancer's body suit.. it was cute..

She left for school all excited this morning and said to me "I'm a dancer, I'll teach my friends how to dance".. she's adorable! (sorry about the blurry cell phone picture)

Gone... again!

Today has been a sad day! But don't fret! Nothing bad happened to me (thank God!).. I'm just sad because my parents are leaving tomorrow morning...again!

As some of you may recall, my parents moved to Alabama almost a year ago due to work reasons... they were here all summer and I easily got used to having them around again... I love to spend time with my lovely parents and the thought of them leaving again, makes me SO SAD!

Granted, we don't always get along, but it's such a great feeling to know that they're only a "5-minute car ride" away... to know that I can run to them if I need to.. I guess I took it for granted when we lived in the same town! :(

Well, not anymore.. now they'll be hundreds of miles away and that's reason enough for me to cry today... and again tomorrow.. and the day after... right?

Hope this empty feeling goes away... because it sucks!

I'll miss you papi and mami! Love you both so much!

3 years old... the magic number?

So, ever since Olivia turned 3 I've noticed that her age is some kind of magic number! Am I alone in thinking this?

All of a sudden I've noticed that all cool toys say "Ages 3+", happy meal toys are for kids "3 and older", most restaurants start charging for kid's meals at 3 years old, clothes size changes at 3 years old and most importantly she starts paying for an entrance to Disney World at 3 years old as well...

I went to an indoor playground the other day and the price for 3+ kids was almost double that of a kid younger than 3...isn't that insane?

So, when did my baby grow so much?? Why did this happen so fast? Is 3 years old really a magic age?

Has anyone else noticed this?

Trip to Washington, DC

We spent a few days in Washington, DC, visiting our wonderful friends "The Baumanns" and meeting up with some of my other friends from WTE.

Like always, it was wonderful to walk around DC, which happens to be one of my favorite US cities... the weather was so beautiful and the scenery was just perfect...also, it was great to take Gaby to our nation's capital for the first time... she loved it too!

The girls had a blast playing at Donna's house with the rest of the kids and we had a wonderful time spending time with our wonderful friends... it's always great to see them!

The trip was a total success!

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