This weekend was one of those gorgeous weekends, gogeous weather...gorgeous everything....You would think after all our events I would be too tired to be blogging so late at night (its 1:12am right now) but for some reason.....prob the Easter candy I have been eating that I need to throw aways....I'm wired!!!! ahhh!!! So Friday night we met our dear friends Becca and Andy Lay at Slice of Roma for Pizza....its so sweet to see our little Caroline and there AJ play together...they had a ball roaming around the restaurant! Caroline kept calling him JJ and kissing him on the lips....boy I may have to nip this one in the bud one day! It was such a nice night that after all the pizza I consumed we headed off to Baskin Robbins where the babies delighted in some yummy cream.....then home...bath and bed for the little angel....and mom and dad too......
Saturday morning we headed off to my parents neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt. Last year Caroline was only like 10 months not walking and totally didnt get it...this year was another story...I showed her how to score and egg and welll.....in about 5 seconds she had it down...15 eggs later....she won the contest....pics to come!
Saturday afternoon I headed to Posh nails to have a mani and pedi...this place is great....very very nice for these parts and totally up my alley.....I was able to sit next to Rachel H...another preggers gal..who looks every bit like a rested beautiful woman......you would never know this chick will be having her 4th baby!! I am amazed by her! So we talked babies, and all sorts of fun stuff..it made my pedi even more fun! Then off to target to finishe filling Caroline's Ester basket and prepare for our play group hunt that Caroline and Wells Grisham are hosting this week.....Then it was off to the Hopewell Spring Fling.....Hopewell is J's alma mater....if you can have one for elementary....Caroline had a ball...loved the jumpy things, loved the ring toss..loved it all....it was fun to see her interact with big kids...I swear this kids is a 7 year old in a baby body. After that I had exactly one hour to prepare for a black tie engagement party at Janie and Allen Jones new MANSION and I mean MANSION for our dear friends Dr. Paul and Sheryl Bacon's daughter Laure and her man Chad. The party was so nice and Lauren and Chad are a steller couple...God has a very special plan for both of them. The house however...was INCREDIBLE.....I am from a BIG city with a ALOT of $$ and I have been in some very very very fine homes....but I HAVE NEVER seen what I saw last night...WOA!!!!!! 50,000 sq feet of pure elegance and total jaw dropping detail.....amazing...amazing...amazing....I cant even say anything else about it cause I am still processing it.....I have a great sense of direction and I was LOST in this house......
This morning we headed off to Chatty to go to Rock Point Community Church.....Andy Stanley is doing a series on "Playing God"it has captivated me and changed my life....it was a good one and the worship rocked! We decided to try a new brunch place with Caroline in tow. I had always heard about this little hippy chic place called Areatha Frankensteins on Treemont St in N Chatty....well the food was really good but the service was baaadddd......I think they just have a we will get it to when we want to and you will love it...which is true but not fun with a 22 month old that has things to see and people to meet.
I came home, prepared for a week of meetings for the Egg Hunt, the decorator for the new house, the drapery girl for the new house, did my Ester study homework and helped my friend Jess Stone with some wedding stuff. J took Caroline to the park..I met them there and we played very hard for another hour...grabbed some dinner and headed home for bath and bed. I need to be getting my rest.....but I just somehow feel very overwhelmed and blessed by my life today.......This is a boring blog about my day.....but for me.....in a few mins I get to go up and kiss my baby night night and listen to her breath and then crawl into bed with the most fantastic man I know and carry a new life that will be here soon....God is so incredibly faithful and Good....how can I ask for more? Love to all my fellow bloggers and readers.....remember is the small things that God gives us to remind us of His mercy and favor for our lives.....

Im not going to say anything about this pic except that I was not involved.....lol

Dad, Daniello and Marizio at our feast in East Harlem...check out my dads face...he is so serious about his food!

J and Salvatore and another guy who LOVE Jonathan....this picture is hysterical to me.....my husband is just a big guy no way around it...and I love every bit of it!

Dad, Alexandro and J at Il Corso at one of our many great meals....but Coros is always a fave for us!

Lisa Mac and I in the village at Magnolias choosing cupcakes....yummy

J kissing his baby boy....

Mom and Dad trying to choose from a FAB menu at Norma's at the La Meridian hotel for brunch...I highly rec it!!

Mom and Dad our second night in NYC at the King Cole Bar at the St Regis.....

New York In the Spring.............

So on a total whim...my fun, adorable, young acting....party me under the table parents offered to take Jonathan and I to NYC for a 5 day trip. We go to NYC a few times a year...a city I love to visit but could probably never live in.. I am amazed by the culuture, the food, the shopping and totally in awe of the price of realesate, the inconviant way to live with a baby and the pressures of having to be designer looking. No thank you I will eat my face off, shop my heart out soak up the culture and come home! Home to a place where I live in a gorgeous mansion compared to what I what I would live in there......stay a few lbs lighter than I would if I lived there ( I'm too much of a foodie and would have no restaint) and Im thrilled to bring home my 30 percent of Gucci shoes I bought at bergdorf and display them in my massive closet (compared to NYC) to wear in a town where most people dont know what Gucci is....I do...and thats all that matters.....But I LOVE A GOOD TRIP to the apple and we are blessed to go often and have some great friends there. This was an extra special trip....because it was a gift from mom and dad....we are financial clients of dad....she makes sure we are doing thingsright so one day we can travel more! But , Dad asked us to go just a few days before the trip. My in laws were chomping at the bit to take Caroline...so off we went! Chattanooga to Cinci to NYC!!! Arriving we were introduced to Victor our drive for the week....dad always travels this way...J and I...well no...we are too cheap....by hey it was fun to crawl into a long black yukon whenever we needed to go somewhere and not spend a penny on cabs. It was fun to pretend you are a rockstar. When we arrived at The St. Regis ( our most fave hotel in nyc....old school nyc glamour....) we were greeted by a staff who knows my father very well...then taken to the 7th floor where we always stay to see our good friend and never failing butler Nestor...a neat guy with a heart to serve and is chalk full of "star stories"..in fact Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne had stayed in our room the week before...which I found sort of gross....isnt he like the "king of darkness"...anyway....it was all better when i was greeted by gorgeous flowers my sweet husband had waiting for me in the room....he never misses thing....then off we went.....shopping, eating, shows, more eating, more shopping and fun with our city friends. Dinner in Queens one night with good Argentina people....dinner in a cool apartment with our fun Brazilian and Italian friends...it was pure joy....or as J kept saying "Im up to my eyeballs in culture...and I love it!" It was a perfect trip with mom and dad full of wonder and excitment....a very cool time in my life as I know I will be down for the count after this baby boy enters the world...cept we are already started planning what we will be doing when we go back in Dec!!! Who wants to go with us????

we are working on this.....but baby doll gets really upset when we have to leave a party....just like her mama!!

caroline at the kids table with Kensley and Jordyn...she loves hanging with the big girls!

The birthday Boy!!!

Admiring the big girls!!

Exploring Jordyns Room!! So much cool stuff!

Caroline with sweet baby Connor.....it was fun to see her interact with a little boy baby so I could see what it will look like here in a few months. Both of Kendal's boys are precious and I just really enjoyed getting to know each of their personalities. God has blessed me with such precious friends and their children.

Caroline and Mommy at the Park Cities Library for story time.....she loved it and actually sat still for it!

Sweet baby girl at the Dallas Aboretum for the tulips and daffodils~

Harris and Caroline all washed up and in there jammies before bed after a long day in Dallas!

Well its been a fun few weeks! Our little family is feeling the buzz of Spring and I am so excited about it! Its a fun season for us....new baby on the way, new house almost finished and just so much going on and we are enjoying every second of it! Im trying to fit in my "life with one child" events before there are two precious angels under my care. So, on a whim Caroline and I headed to Dallas for a week to hang out with some friends. I have this great friend named Kendal Jenne....she is a Dallas girl...as most of you know I am a Houston girl we never knew each other till we both married into Cleveland Men! So on those homesick days we have those I miss this and that about Texas....the mexican food, the shopping the nice weather in the winter.....you know just that stuff you called home for so long it will always be part of you. Her parents opened there home to Caroline and I and we had a ball. The Hargrave family live in the Park Cities which is known for its parks...there are tons of them and they are gorgeous! We went to one or two different ones a day...it was so nice....its amazing what sort of ammenities to get when you pay those huge big city taxes. We returned from Dallas just in time to attend Jackson Hall's 1st birthday! It was so sweet that kid is a doll....Caroline dressed up for the party and really wanted to do everything the big girls do...its really cute she prefers the older children. She was totally into playing in the bedroom with the big girls room with the door shut...it freaked me out a bit...but I probably need to get used to it.