Speedy Travelers

About the monthly blogging bit... I lied. I can't believe we are already in the third week of July! And what's sad is that Bunicu's month long visit with us has already come and gone! It was a great visit, for us and for him and we're looking forward to having him back with us again, hopefully, this winter. My Romanian, and the girls', got better throughout the month. Now we just need to convince him to come stay a year and we should all be fluent! haha!

What was even more special than Bunicu's visit was that we all got to celebrate 4 special family days together: Manu's birthday, Bella's birthday, Father's Day, and Bunicu's 60th birthday!!! With those events and Manu traveling 2 weeks for work it was quite a busy and fun time and I am sooo glad that the girls got to spend this time with their Bunicu! For Giulianna, the first time!

A few other firsts from the months: Bella got a pet corn snake she named Moses. I am happy to say that almost a month later he's alive and doing well! We also got to eat the first veggies from our garden! Not sure if it's all in our head, but they tasted delicious!!!

Oh and I almost forgot, Giulianna is sleeping in a big girl bed! Actually it's still her crib, I just took the front rail off after a successful night in the toddler bed at grandma and papa's. You can't see it real well, but at the very end there's a little video of how I found her the first night at home! lol! She was sound alseep, we never heard a peep out of her...pretty cute!

Daddy turns 35!

Bella & Moses

Giving Bunicu his Father's Day gift...

A hand painted picture from Bella

Sweet!

Gianna's "Cheese" face

Licking candles from Bunicu's cake(wearing the dresses he brought)

Pumping water the old fashioned way

at Cross Roads Village

Craft time at the one room school house

She was so proud getting to pick her own salad!

so proud that she ate it too! :)