Fun at the Aiosa'a

Our last day of our NJ vacation was spent with the Aiosa family and lots of our friends!  The Aiosa's graciously hosted a get together night so that we could see lots of our NJ friends before we headed back to NC.  It was so wonderful to see so many of our friends come out to visit.  We felt and do feel so blessed to have such great friends.  The pics you see are of the kids playing in the Aiosa's backyard right before we got back in the car to head home.

Dec. 27th with Garner Grandparents

Our next day Grandpa & Grandma Sharon came up from Toms River to visit us at Aunt Kori's house!  Anna & Grandpa got to build her first Frosty the snowman together, it was a very sweet thing to watch!  Grandpa worked very hard with the little bit of snow that was left on the ground by this point.  

Dec. 26th surprise visit!

Our second day in NJ we made a surprise visit to Aunt Michelle and Uncle Maurizio's new house!  With a little help from Auntie Lola and Uncle Will who were visiting from NC also!  It was an incredible surprise and a wonderful visit.  We also got to see cousins Amy & Diego and Great Aunt Lisa while we spent the day at the Gadaleta's!  It was awesome!

Christmas Morning

For anyone who may not know, we had a last minute change of plans for Christmas.  Aunt Kori's flight to NC was cancelled on Christmas eve afternoon, and so we quickly changed gears, packed up the car and headed to NJ!  We arrived at Aunt Kori's at 5:30 am, and since the little ones had slept in the car they were awake and ready to open presents!  It was wonderful!

Bathtime Play

This Blog is entitled bathtime fun, but let me tell you it should probably be entitled "winter pool time"  since this bath was taken mid afternoon, and there was nothing calming about it, and no cleaning went on except for mommy having to clean up the water disaster in the bathroom when they were done.  Above you see Gabe and Anna having swimming races around the tub, and below you see Gabe winning the who can make the biggest slash game that he and Anna also like to play!

Cups are an absolute neccesity for bathtime at the Garner household.  They serve many purposes such as hair rinsers, bathroom flooders, mommy soakers, and as pictured above chew toys! 

Leaf Play

Anna was trying so hard to take a nice picture with her brother, but he did not want to be interrupted while he was working on raking the leaves.  1 square foot down only ten more acres to go!

Anna was enjoying playing in the leaves with her baby.  She is a very good mommy in training.

As you can see, pinning this kid down for a picture is a challenge, but I finally got him!  He thought it was a really fun game:)

Gabe's 1st Piano Lesson!

It was a beautiful moment for mommy to watch Bob and Gabriel playing the piano together.  Gabe loves music and especially the piano and guitar.  He is very patient and self-controlled, and I think especially enjoyed the best piano teacher in the world, his DADDY!

Are those not just the most handsome pair of faces you have ever seen?!