Livin la Vida Leone: 2009

Perinatal Awareness for Successful Outcomes

Perinatal Awareness for Successful Outcomes

My new work website!!!

Bella's turn with the camera

Bella loves the camera and thanks to digital media- we can let her take plenty. This shot was pretty artsy of her lil pink toes.

Here's a pic of two of her favorite people...

Backyards are the best in the summertime!

Here's Elias with our new kitty Coco Rainbow- don't say we aren't original! This is Elias' cat, and they have quite similar personalities!

Bella went for about 6 weeks where she would ONLY wear bathing suits, all day long, even to school. If all the bathing suits were dirty, she'd accept a leotard. Thank goodness it was summer!

The kids love to take pictures and I must say, they're getting pretty good. This is Elias' shot of Bella and me.

Swimming at the Lown Pond with friends

These are our friends the Schnabels- Celeste with baby Kate (not our baby Kate)

Trevor- who is a few months older than Elias and who Elias adores...

Eliza, who's about 6 weeks older than Bella.

The boys having boy-like adventures.

Andres' first group of confirmands

Andres had his first group of confirmands at his church Cristo Rey. Here is one of them, with him and the bishop.

At the church dinner afterwards, someone (to be left nameless) decided to finish off the homemade ice cream when he thought Mama wasn't looking!

We had all our PASOs staff (all 5 of us including past-staff members too!) and families over for a cookout. We ate ceviche and pork loin, and had some laughs. Here's Thamara with her son Anthony and Margarita and her husband Gustavo.

Here's Myriam, Margarita, Ana's sister Mariela and Ana (my rockin' social work intern)

Fun at the Powers' house

Kevin and Meredith have made this cool fire pit in their backyard, so we had dinner with a fire in the background, then hung out and warmed our toes. The idea was to warm our bellies with pina coladas, but Kev made them so weak, only he got flushed (lightweight!)

Elias' shades and Bella's haircut

You will notice in the first picture that Bella's hair is halfway down her back, but by Pic #3, it's shoulder-length. The day the short-hair pix were taken, I walked in Talia's room to find Talia and Bella with scissors, and clumps of blond hair on the floor! She had cut a 2-inch section of her hair and said, "Mama, now my hair's short like you!" Well-I suppose she's right now. We took her to get it evened out and she's had a short bob ever since. Papa almost freaked out, but when he saw how cute it was, chilled out.