Paoletti Family: October 2014

Monday, October 27, 2014

Photo Shoot 2014

I love taking pictures of the kids in the fall. Such fun colors to match with amazing smiles.

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Sunday, October 26, 2014

Go Royals

Isabella decided to make some Royals cupcakes to get us in the spirit for game 4 of the world series

11.26.14

Halloween at Grandma & Papa's house

Trick or treating Grandma & Papa

Ava & Isabella playing in the leaves

Ava in the leaf fort

The kids played a long time on the giant pile of gravel

Isabella made cupcakes for the celebration

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Saturday, October 25, 2014

Batman Training

Dominic has always been pretty strong for his age, but who would have thought he could do a one handed push up at age 6! He is training to be Batman.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Dinner with the SPO Missionaries

We were blessed to have the St. Paul's Outreach Missionaries over for dinner. They were gracious enough to play some Apples to Apples with our family too. 10.22.14

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Shaving cream art prints

I have been wanting to do this with the kids for months. We finally had a free afternoon to do some fun art. They made some beautiful pictures.

Sunday, October 19, 2014

We have been going to the pumpkin patch in Atchison for years. We normally meet up with cousins and make a day of it. This year our dear friends the Sienkiewicz family and my parents were there to share in the fun as well.

Grandma & Papa

Mary, Isabella, Josie, Lucy

My dear friend Cathe

My cousin, Laura and her cute kids Cole & Josie

The Sienkiewicz family

Family photo

Emma & Isabella

Dominic & James

Picking out pumpkins

Cousins

Lucy loves kitties

Saturday, October 18, 2014

The BW play

We were able to go and see the play that James, Emma and Anna were in: Dorothy in Wonderland. The kids all did a great job. Cousins Josie and Cole came to see the play too. It was another cousin reunion :)

Toto, Dorothy & the King of hearts.

Anna, Emma, & James

Why do I Blog?

There have been some questions as to why in the world I would want to waste my time blogging. To those questions here is my response: First off....let's face it I am not a blogger. Blogging requires thought, opinions, issues and I just don't have time to type about those kinds of things when I could be posting pictures of my incredibly funny kids. Besides who wants to hear my opinions anyway? Probably no one and frankly I don't blame them. So the real reason why I blog...I know you are thinking I am going to say "for you" but to be really honest that isn't it either. I mean, I am happy that people can log on and keep up to date with what is going on in our life and see the kids grow up. But the real reason I blog is for my kids. This is their online scrapbook. I would consider myself to be a pretty creative and crafty person. I aspire to scrapbook but I just don't have the time or the space to do it. So instead I try to capture their childhood in pictures and words: the funny things they say and crazy things that they do. Someday they will get online and read about what they were like and know why we are so crazy about them. The best part is that I don't have to deal with glue or archival paper and the internet scrapbook can last forever.

What we are up to now:

Dominic is a big 6 year old now. He continues to be filled with joy and enthusiam everyday. He still loves super heros and celebrated his birthday with a Justice League birthday cake. He adores our two cats, Stella & Krypto. Every free minute he spends "loving" on them. I am amazed at what the cats will tolerate. He is really enjoying his first year of Kindergarten and is becoming a good reader. He gets to take art classes and piano and is doing great in both. When he isn't playing with cats he is building with Legos or playing super heros.
Christina continues to work one night a week teaching and is now homeschooling a 3rd grader and a kindergartener. She is also is teaching kindergarten phonics and 2nd & 3rd grade book club at the homeschool co-op. Her life is pretty scheduled with children's activities, class planning and all the fun that comes with taking care of a family. This year the whole family started taking piano lessons. Who would have thought she would start learning piano at her age! Also this year they started teaching Natural Family Planning as a couple for the church. Bringing God's plan for love and marriage to those who will embrace it. In September she got to go for 3 days to Colorado to visit her friend Gina. It was an amazing weekend of relaxation and fun adventure. She is hoping it will be an annual event.
Michael's continues to work hard to support our family fun. He is now a Creative Director at his company Salva O'Renick and is enjoying the challeges that come with his new role. This year he was the 8 & under coach for the Metro Lazers track team and really enjoyed working with the kids. In his free time he love to play superheros with Dominic and draw with Isabella. He has also enjoyed teaching NFP for the church and is so grateful for the graces that have come from teaching.
Isabella is growing into quite the little lady. She turned 8 over the summer and continues to be a voracious reader. She is currently loving the Classic Starts series and American Girl Mysteries. Her favorite 3rd grade subjects are history and spelling. She was in a constant battle with long division but there seems to be somewhat of a truce lately between the two. She continues to love her art class and is really enjoying our new family music lessons. She has an amazing ear for music and a natural talent for playing. She loves all her book clubs that she is currently in...there are 3! In her free time she loves to be creating something, playing with her dolls or reading.
Family: this year has been a wonderful year of joy in our family. We got to take a few vacations. In June we had a few days in St. Louis and in August we got to have 5 days in a cabin in Southern Missouri.

Monday, October 27, 2014

Happy Fall 2014

Photo Shoot 2014

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Go Royals

Halloween at Grandma & Papa's house

Saturday, October 25, 2014

Batman Training

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Dinner with the SPO Missionaries

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Shaving cream art prints

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Pumpkin Patch 2014

Saturday, October 18, 2014

The BW play

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