Paging Dr McDreamy

McDreamy needs to do something about his dirty face, but man this kid cracks me up! he always steals Barry's stethoscope, and puts it around his neck like a pro. He doesn't usually wear the white coat, but it was a special day.

Baby brother thinks his big brother's a wee bit crazy :)


Excited for a family weekend. I can't believe it's already mid January! I think 2011 is going to go by SUPER fast!

Merry Christmas!

Ok so it's been less than a week, so I can still post Christmas-y pictures, right? Too bad. Suffer through.


Gabriel was waiting for daddy to come home from school. I love how festive it looks, and the snow on our window.


Julian's waiting for daddy now. In the pajamas I made him. (by pajamas I mean clothes that he wears for 30 seconds before exclaiming that he's "SWEATY" and stripping down to his skivvies)



This? This is a musical treat. Julian playing trumpet. (Just be glad you're not here!)


Julian at his Christmas program


Gabe at the Christmas program



(he was verrrrry entertained...riiight)



Singing!




KISSING


This blurry picture is the direct result of a certain almost 2 year olds grubby fingers. And this also shows how much we love Santa in our house

(Please note Julian throwing a fit, and Gabe running fast.)

Julian took this shot. It's our cookies for Santa

The loot from Santa


Our Tree

The Palizzis are CRAZY!

So if you've ever questioned my sanity, good job.

We put up our Christmas tree this weekend. In November. Those of you that know me, know that I'm not the biggest fan of Christmas, in November, or any month that doesn't start with D. OK I do partake of the occasional Christmas in July sale.

For months, Julian's been wanting to put up our Christmas tree. Months. We kept telling him, after Halloween maybe. After Halloween. In November. Then it was Halloween. And November. And I ran out of reasons to put it off. So Friday night, after Barry came home, we put up our tree! It's just a cheap artificial to us, but to Julian? The greatest thing EVER.

I think this is the first year that he really, truly understands everything about Christmas. The tree, sitting on Santa's lap, writing a letter to the big jolly fellow, stockings, or as he calls them, socks, decorating our tree, watching Christmas movies, he loooooves Frosty and watches both movies all year long. We're working on the spiritual aspect. I'm very excited to put up my Nativity scene for the first time this year. It's really special to me. It reminds me of Kristy.

Gabriel is completely amazed by our tree. He comes down the stairs in the morning and says, "Wowwwwww." It's adorable, and sweet, and he's excited for Christmas this year. Baby has no idea what is coming his way!

Yesterday, we decorated our tree. By we, I mean Julian. I tried doing it reasonably, you know, actually spacing out the balls, but Julian had other plans. He's decorating still this morning. Which is fine with me. After all, Christmas is about making things magical for him. It's my duty as his mother to make this magical, wonderful, and memorable. If he wants the tree in early November, it's my job to make it happen. If he wants a pony...ha just kidding. The closest thing to a pony my kids are EVER getting, is one of those stuffed ones at Costco.

Yesterday we also had the opportunity to hang out with some awesome people! Katrina is a photographer, and a member of SOS. It's been a year almost since we had family pictures taken by my BFF Stacy Jacobsen. A year, can you believe it? I know I can't. Well, Katrina and I did a little trade. She took some pictures of us, and I (and Barry) of her.

Here are the ones we LOVE that she took!





I actually love this one most of all. Mostly because Gabriel is the only normal looking one. He looks like he's thinking, crazy family. We SMILE in pictures. Cheeeeese.


Then, you know when you're married and you have kids, and then suddenly there are absolutely NO pictures of you and your husband or wife, by yourselves? Yeah, we fixed that yesterday!









Barry took this one of me and Gabe, and I just love it


Seriously. How did I get to live in such a beautiful, picturesque area?


Here are just some other cute pictures of the boys I took.



Seriously the closest thing to LOOKING I could get. 3 is a tough age














If you've seen Yo Gabba Gabba, you know they do a section called "FUNNY FACE" here's Gabe's rendition

We're on a break...

...Me & Hulu that is.

Let me give you a little history. I used to LOVE Buffy the Vampire Slayer. LOVE. (My dork is showing, I know this) I also used to LOVE Angel from Buffy. So, I'm sure you can guess how excited I was when I found out the first season of Angel was on Hulu. Our love affair was glorious, wonderful, and completely perfect...until they took off all but the first 5 episodes. :( Now I'm waiting on Netflix to send me the next disc of Angel Season one. Oh Hulu, you have broken my heart.

In other news, we went to the World Food Festival on Saturday with some folks from SOS. It was really fun, and we had some yummy eggrolls. Not so much fun was the barely above freezing temperatures, plus my two whiny children. Ok, I take that back, Gabe didn't whine. He slept pretty much the whole time. Julian? Whine City and he's the mayor. Julian was mostly excited about the Asian food market we met up in front of. He got some M&Ms minis. Yep. That's what he chose at the Asian food market.

We also went to Smash and got Barry an early birthday present, and my dad's Christmas present! SO excited. Seriously, check out their site. The most clever and fun Tshirts ever!

All in all it was a fun day. I'm still in denial that it's Tuesday already. I spent the majority of yesterday engrossed in a book. Not one from my list. One that my friend Jenn has written and is now editing. I can't wait for it to come out. I will share when it does!

Here are some pictures from this weekend.

1. Julian and Gabriel both looking at the camera. They were about to go outside and play. For those that think Gabe is huge, I'll have you know he's wearing his 18 month snow pants for year #2.


2. Julian now thinks it's Christmas time. And is curious as to when we'll put up our tree. We keep explaining that it's still fall time, and we have to have Halloween before we can even think about putting up our tree.


3. When the whining started. Notice he didn't have his coat on. Bad mommy moment.


4. How Gabriel spent our time at the Food Festival. Seriously, he didn't eat anything! I know, I was shocked too.


5. See how Julian's much happier, wearing his JACKET? Yeah filed that little snippit away for the next snowy day.

Cute & Clever

One of my favorite shirts is from this store

Outfit My Baby

Seriously, I get so many compliments on it!

From February2009

They're affordable and CUTE!

ZOMG HE IS SO CUTE!

We're about to leave for Julian's first preschool program. I had to share this video first! I'm dead from the cute!