First Day of Third Grade

This cutie is now a third grader! Here she is on the

first morning of school...

'Twas the Night Before School

We started a new tradition, a Back to School Breakfast, but at dinner! 

I leave for school before Kiera is awake, so we came up with a fun 

way to have breakfast together. 

We continued our tradition of giving Kiera a grade level book to read

on the night before back to school (I'm hopeful that there's a book out

there with eighth grade or 11th grade in the title!). 

She wanted curly hair for her first day of third grade, so in 

went the pink sponge rollers!

An easy (and sugary!) breakfast for the first day

Best Friends: The Next Generation

So excited to sneak in a visit with Meredith and her family!

We hadn't seen each other for about seven years, and I'd never

met her precious boys...so when she called to say she was in 

town, we jumped at the chance to see her, even if it was a school 

night and their hotel was an hour away. Like they say with old friendships, 

we picked up right wherewe left off! Our kids had fun playing together...

making S'mores, running down a big hill, and being silly. 

We vowed to make ourtime between visits much shorter! 

Teacher Meet and Greet - Third Grade

It's back to school time again! Our girl is a THIRD 

GRADER. Her teacher is Mrs. Barrett. Kiera says

she is very nice and she never raises her voice (though 

it's only been two days of school!). The theme for

St. Raphael this year is J.O.Y. which stands for Jesus,

Others, Yourself. In other exciting news...I am the 

room mom for Room 3! 

This picture may look like Kiera is "too cool for school," 

while in fact, she loves school! 

Birthday Pose Recreated!

Grandpa has been buying our birthday cassata cakes from Baraona's Bakery in 

Maple Heights forever! For some odd reason, the first picture below is

permanently on the list of computer pictures, rather than the usual current 12

months of pictures... which gave us the idea to recreate the picture!

We'll have do it again in another five or ten years! 

July 2011

July 2016

Emily's Bridal Shower

When your dear little sister gets married, 

you throw her an epic "Kate Spade-esque" shower!

Matron of Honor and Flower Girl before the shower

 

We had a "brunch and bubbly" shower at One Red Door in Hudson

Our friend Jesse manages the restaurant and he helped to make

the day extra special!

Funny story about the balloons...I asked Kiera and Grandpa to have

the balloons filled for me (I ordered them off Etsy and had them filled

at a party store). Of course, I said, "Be careful...don't let them blow

away!" Wouldn't you know, the "O" slipped out of the knot and 

floated high in the sky. Grandpa Said Kiera started crying. They were 

able to get another "O" from the store, but if you look closely, the gold

color is slightly off!

The tables were decorated with  mason jars dipped in gold glitter filled

with flowers from Heinens and Zinnias from our yard. Each bouquet had

a little paper flag stating "Brunch and Bubbly Cheers to the Future 

Mrs. Shaprio" and matching scrapbook paper confetti.

Each grown up guest went home with a bottle of champagne and

each kid guest went home with a Raspberry New York Seltzer water.

Both adorned with two of my favorite things ever...tulle and paper straws!

We were able to create a custom menu for guests to choose their own meal. 

I chose the Cobb Salad, my fave!

Mimosa Bar!

Mini Dessert Bar!

Mrs. Shapiro to be enjoying her bubbly

Neighbors

Flashing my biggest smile showing how happy I am at 

how everything came together! Couldn't have done it without

the fam's help!

Irene, our hairdresser growing up, sat with us at the "main table" and

some people thought she was Paul's mom, lol! 

Cousins

Aunts and cousins from Kalida

Newport Drive Neighbors

Mormile Girls

One more Mormile and Miss Cathy, Emily (and the Mormile girls) 

childhood piano teacher

Kiera and Brooke

Family

All the heart eyes for all the girl cousins... 

Love these girls and their mamas too!

Our first time meeting little V

Mimi picked out an amazing corsage for Em

Present time!

Ween and Bean

Paul, Papa and the out of town husbands came at 

the end of the shower