The Graduate

Look at his smile! We were all grinning ear to ear. He did it! December 10th, Michael graduated from The University of Cincinnati again, this time with a Masters of Science. For the past two years Michael has juggled school yet again, a full time job, a church calling, full time tech support for family members, being a wonderful father and awesome husband. I am allowed to say all this because he would never boast of that to anyone! I am so proud of him :)

I headed to commencement with all of the kids (yes three kids under the age of 4 for a two hour graduation ceremony, we really love him). A big thank you to both of my parents who came to support Michael and help me with the kids! The girls were so excited to cheer him on. They were anxiously waiting for him to walk across the stage!



There he is on the jumbotron...



Daddy and his girls





His biggest fans! Way to go Michael!

Jacob's Blessing Day

On November 6th we decided to have Jacob blessed. He looked very handsome in his little blessing outfit. Here are a few pictures from his special day!

Halloween Happenings

We started the Halloween festivities with pumpkin carving at Nana & Papas house.






Halloween night, all the kiddos dressed and ready to go. I am wondering if there will be a Halloween in the next few years that one of the girls decides they want to be something other than a princess. Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that we already have the dress-ups and it's definitely cheaper, but I have a few other ideas for costumes in the future!



Our little cheeky monkey



The girls waited on the front porch for the first hour of trick or treating. Michael had class that night and it let out right when trick or treating started. I was trying to explain to the girls that I couldn't take them around with the baby and pass out candy at the house at the same time. They were good sports. Especially when Michael got stuck in traffic and didn't get home for an extra hour! They were fine with it as long as I let them keep eating candy out of our basket.



Finally getting to go fill their princess buckets.

Good Old Burger Farm

As is tradition, we headed to Burger Farm right before Halloween this year. It was a beautiful day but a little cold, but that didn't stop us from bundling up Jacob so he could join, in our family tradition! We started with the fun hayride to the pumpkin patch.
Here are Papa and the girls:


Gracie and Cakes being big girls


One big happy family



Gattuso girls and the cousins



Picking out pumpkins



Mommy and Jakester



Izzy in the scary maze



Best Buddies...at least at this moment :)

My Sweet Baby Boy

Once again life has been crazy and now we are left just trying to catch up. We are loving our newest addition. He is definitely Mommy's little boy! Here are some pictures over the past 2 months. He is now a chunky 12 lbs 10oz and I love every inch of him :)















Were you noticing a common theme? He sure likes to sleep!



Daddy is sure having fun dressing up his little boy too...