The Haase Family: 9/1/09

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Playdough

It seems as if every day is busier than the last. It even seems as if we have to schedule days to just hang out and relax! Luckily, today was one of those days! Since we had no where to go or anything to do, I thought I would try to make some home-made playdough with the twins. I didn't care how messy they would get or the mess I would have to clean up later. We used a simple recipe (water, flour, salt and food coloring) and made green play dough. Layla loved it! She dug her hands in with me and had a great time making the play dough. Once Lily saw the green food coloing all over our hands, she wanted nothing to do with it. She just stared at us and asked me to get the "real" playdough" out. :) The girls played together with all the playdough for quite a while. It was a nice and fun afternoon with the girls! :)

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

San Francisco - 2nd trip this year!

Our friends Moone and Roman invited us to tag along on part of their trip to San Francisco!!!! How could we have turned down that invitation?! :) Another quick trip to our favorite city, but every minute was a party!

Saturday we spent the day/night at Union Square. We had some great, crazy people watching at a little bar right on Powell Street. It seems as though every time we go back to San Francisco, there are more "interesting" people walking around the city. Later, we met up at The View Bar/Lounge at the top of the Marriott Marquis hotel (where we got to stay!) and then headed out to dinner! Later, we went to The Boom Boom Room for some blues and then ended up at our favorite pub, Lefty O'douls!!! Freddy had a great time at Lefty's making some new friends (imagine that!). We all had fun singing around the piano and just laughing the night away!

Sunday was a great day together! We took the trolley down to the wharf and had a yummy lunch along with some great bloody mary's! We decided to take a sailboat ride - it was awesome! It turned out to be almost a private tour - we were the only ones on the boat except for one other guy. The Golden Gate Bridge was covered with fog that day, so the captain took us around the south side of San Francisco. We had never been to that side on the water so it was great to see different sites. And, the sailboat ride was all you can drink!!! How great is that?! We decided to have dinner in Little Italy that evening - it took FOREVER for us to find the restaurant I had made reservations at, but it was soooo worth it! The restaurant, Franchino, was a tiny, little family owned restaurant and it was absolutely delicious! We decided to stay in North Beach for the evening and found a little bar where we were able to sit outside and enjoy the great weather. Then, somehow, we ended up at my favorite pub again! :) We closed the pub and then finally headed back to the hotel.

It was definitely a quick trip, but soooo much fun. Again, thank you, Moone and Roman for inviting us! We hope you had a fun time with us showing you the city in 2 quick days! :) And a BIG thank you to everyone that helped with the kids!!! Jen, DJ, Marissa, Alex and Colleen - We couldn't have gone on this trip without all your help and love you all tons!

Liliana had a little accident.......

Well, I would have never guessed it, but Liliana is the first out of the three cousins to have a cast put on. I thought for sure it would have been Dominick!!! LOL! She had a little accident after the big Cardinals game on Sunday. Freddy took her to urgent care and they thought her wrist had been fractured. They put a splint on her and a little sling . . .she kept calling it her "purse for her arm." :) I had to follow up with the pediatric orthapedic doctor. We were really hoping that we were overreacting, but no such luck. Lily has a fractured elbow and has to have a cast on for a few weeks. The doctors were so impressed by how well behaved Lily was during the entire visit. Lily didn't make a peep and was so extremely cooperative. Now, if it had been Layla, we would have probably have needed to sedate her to put a cast on! Lily is still as active as ever and is adjusting very well to her new little cast. Layla is taking very good care of her sister and kisses her little cast throughout the day. Layla has been sleeping with Lily lately......so cute. :)

THE HAASE'S CHRISTMAS, 2009

Well, Christmas has come and gone . . .but what a fun time it was!!! Analisa got almost everything she asked for . . .webkinz, Imagine DS games, Sing it for the Wii. Funny thing is she seems to be having most fun with her new sketch pad and colored pencils! :) The twins still didn't quite understand what was going on, but it was so much fun watching them open their gifts. Their favorite gifts were their new baby dolls, a karaoke machine and musical instruments!!! We spent Christmas Eve at Paula's house and were able to enjoy Christmas morning with Paula, Jenny, DJ and Dominick. Dominick got so many cool cars! It was tons of fun hanging out with all the kids Christmas morning. Freddy and I had such a great Christmas with our family this year and look forward to many more memories.

Happy New Year!

Happy 2009!!! Our family is very excited for this new year. We hope to do a little more traveling with the kids, celebrate a few birthday's (Analisa will turn 11 in May and the twins will be 3 in June!!), Freddy and I will celebrate our 4th anniversary in November (hopefully in San Francisco again!!) continue working hard and enjoy our family and friends to the fullest. We will also welcome a new nephew in late April/early May! One more cousin that the girls get to play with!! We STILL need to potty train the twins and hopefully they will begin preschool in August. I know this year will be very, very, busy but it will also be a year full of adventures and good times. We celebrated the New Year with Johnny and Del and the kids . . .what a great time we had!!! Of course I "fell asleep" before midnight, but I was woken up in time to ring in the new year. Here are a few pics from our New Year celebration!! We hope to celebrate again next year with the Carnelia's!!