Life's Little Blessings

Today Eva and my mother-in-law made my husband's favorite type of cookies, chocolate chip cookies.  I posted some of the pictures I took of them making them because Eva was so proud of herself because she mixed the entired batter herself. 

This morning I went to this thing called a Ultreya.  I used to go to them pretty regularly after I had made my Cursillo Weekend back in November 2006.  Durning the past several years I stopped due to because I was working and I spent the weekends with my family or I was just questioning my faith because of the situations I was finding myself in.  I decided to go with my mother-in-law and our friend Aida.  I am so glad that I did, it has openned my eyes and my heart again.  We went to mass before hand and then went to the Ultreya after mass.  At the Ultreya, they have someone do a witness talk and someone else does a response to the witness talk and there is usually a clerical response.  There wasn't one this time.  After the talks we go into groups of 3-4 people and group.  The grouping is where you would normally meet once a week and you talk about a close moment with Christ, study, and how you are spreading his word through evangalation....

              Tt is for...... Tree, turtle, Tommy, Timothy, tan, tie, teal, turquoise, and etc. Eva says to me today, " Hey, Mom this is how you make a T."  When I looked at her she was standing with her legs together and her arms out straight from her sides....it was pretty funny.  She can make her letter Tt very well and below are some her projects that she made for the letter Tt.                                             Family Tree                                      Tissue Paper T

Today Melanie is offically "1" year old.  She talking more and is very good at crawling.  She is gaining more and more confidence with walking.  She walks along the funiture and when holding onto others hands but almost there independently.  My sister took over to our aunt Char's house to celebrate her birthday with them.  Melanie's birthday party is on Sunday. Below are the few pictures that my sister sent of the birthday celebration at Aunt Char's.  

Tonight Jim, his mom, Eva, Maggie and I all went to go see a family friend of ours band.  They are 3 older men that sing oldies.  It was a wonderful time and it was so nice to get out and have a great time and alos have the girls with me too.  Maggie and Eva had so much fun once they warmed up to the music and the crowd.  The band did 2 sets and inbetween the sets their was a lot of food; hotdogs, hamburgers, beans, chips, beans, and etc.  You name it was probably there.  My mother-in-law had a great time as well.  She was drinking beer and a couple times were getting down on the dance floor (driveway).  I am putting only a few of my favorite pictures below but if you would like to see the rest from the night just visit the link below.

I decided to take the girls on a picnic and then let them play at the park for awhile before it was time for nap/rest time.  They both really enjoyed the surprise and the change of scenery.  Here are a few pictures of them having fun. Then on the way home from the park Eva wanted to go through the forest preserve that is right by the park.  It is so beautiful in there and I am so looking forward to all the colors of fall to start showing up in there.  Then both girls decided that they wanted to take pictures in the forest as they call it.  I was able to get some really great shot of them.

Here a few of the many pictures that we got for Melanie's 1 yr Pictures.