Mattei Family

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Boys! Boys! Boys!

We found out that we are to be expecting another boy on February 9th! We are all very excited, although I am starting to feel a bit out numbered! After Alex saw his baby brother on the ultra sound he informed us that his name was to be "little bear". We told him we would vote on it later :D Anywho all has gone well epecially now that the throwing up has finally ceased and I am starting to feel like a human again. I feel him moving and kicking frequently now but he's not quite big enough for anyone else to feel, much to Dusty and Alex's shagrin.

Our new little one!

Monday, September 7, 2009

Summer Sumery

This summer flew by so fast I barely had to time to live it let alone blog it. We have so much fun playing with friends, discovering new places, and just being together as a family that we wanted to share just a few of our captured highlights from this summer.

Rock Climbing

1st Camping Trip

Montana

Monday, June 1, 2009

May Madness.....

May was so full of fun things I didn't have time to blog any of them, so I am going to show a few of my favorite pictures that highlight the different adventures we had.

Park Play

To begin, Dusty, Alex, and I went to Lone Peak Elementary to fly our sea horse kite and play on the play ground. Alex really liked running around trying to get the kite to fly but when he finally got it flying he would let go of the string as he threw his arms in the air and exclaimed "i did it!"

Swimming
We are all convinced that Alex was a fish in some other life. In his opinion swimming is better than food, sleep, and and most everything else. In this swimming trip he learned how to float on his back and kick with his legs thanks to his granna

Hiking
Anya, Alex, and I set out for a backyard adventure. Yes this trsil is conveniently located in Anya's back yard. The kids were troopers hiking for an hour and a half singing alobg the way. The songs went some thing like this, "we're hiking up the hill, we're hiking up the hill, hi ho the dairy oh we're hiking up the hill. I see a purple flower I see a purple flower, hi ho the dairy oh I see a purple flower" and so on and so forth inputting whatever they saw or felt at the time. We saw a lizard,many bees, and some playful butterflys that Anya was determined to catch.

We made it to the top at last, sweet success!

Sweet Friendship

May ended at Baskin Robins having icecream with friends. Haley and Bob came all the way from Cyprus to have icecream with us, ok well maybe not only to have icecream but it was good to see them none the less. We spent the evening with them as well as Lyndee and Drew and another one of Haley's neighbor friends (sorry I'm really bad with names) catching up, telling stories, and of course eating deliciouse icecream! The older we get the crazier life seems to be and the less we get to see eachother so I'm glad we were able to steal a moment to all be together!

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Best Friends!

Alex & Anya

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." -Aristotle

They do anything and everything together.

From sharing an Italian Gilato to...

...playing dress ups to...

....just being silly.

Many thanks to the Szwajkun family for being such good friends.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Eggs, Cookies, and Dyes...oh my!

We started our Easter celebration off on Friday by making and decorating sugar cookies as well as dying eggs for the Easter bunny to hide for us on Sunday. My sister Katie and I had fun helping the kids decorate and dye as well as do some of our own. Anya and Alex were thrilled to get to do something so messy, fun, and tasty. They were on a sugary cloud 9 all day!

CUTTING COOKIES!