Kristen's Baby Shower

On Saturday we ventured to Highland Heights for Kristen's (my cousin) baby shower. It was a green and brown monkey themed shower. The food was great, the favors were tasty and she received many wonderful gifts for the baby. She is due in June and we can't wait to meet him. Here are some images from the shower.

 

Danny got the baby a personalized onesie that says "I love my Uncle Danny"

Standing tall

Madelyn is breaking new ground these days!
She is skipping the whole crawling milestone and moving right to standing and soon walking. She can almost pull herself up on her own and she can stand while holding something pretty darn good!

March for Babies

The March of Dimes walk was this past Sunday. The weather forecast was calling for major rain so we told all our supporters to stay home and we were going to leave the kids home due to the weather.
Well, it turned out to be a great morning. Jamie and I went downtown to turn in our money and check things out.
I managed to raise $430 for the March of Dimes with all of your help!!!!!!!!! (That includes the raffle tickets sold)
Thank you to everyone who donated. Jamie and I will be helping the cause again next year with a bigger and better campaign! (And better planning for the day of the walk)

Nice weather we're having!

We had a fun night at the park this week as the weather became nicer. Madelyn loves the swings. She was iffy with the slide though (I told Michael she would be!).

Then on Thursday her and I took a trip to the zoo since it was 80 degrees out. Got some exercise and saw some of the animals. She loved the monkey's. She laughed at them and was watching them swing and play. More fun trips to be had.

"Mom....it's hot out"

"Ahh....a nice cracker to end the day"

Too-th Fun

Miss Madelyn has popped out her first tooth as of last week. She now looks like a little jack-o-latern. It's hard to get a picture of it, so that will have to wait.

We are gearing up for Spring with lots of yard work, house cleaning and planning of fun outings. No big updates from the weekend. So here are a few pictures from the one nice day last week! We are hoping for some pictures on Thursday when it's 70 degrees.

Gavin had just gotten a bath so he was extra fluffy and collarless. But they both enjoyed sitting in the grass with the breeze!

Fun with Fondant

(Lots of posts from the past week! I've been slacking!)

This past Saturday some of us girls had a little fun with cake decorating. We had Ernie from Just Cakes come and teach us how to work with fondant.
He brought us each a little cake, a hunk of white fondant to cover the cake, then some extras to decorate.
He taught us about making fondant, working with it, storing it, etc. Then gave us some pointers on how to work with it. We each had a lot of fun and learned a thing or two about the basics of working with cakes and fondant.
To see his work you to his blog: Just Cakes
He posted a little note about our party too!

We all started with a mini 2 layer Almond cake covered in buttercream. Then a hunk of white mashmallow fondant.

Then we all rolled out the fondant, covered then smoothed it around the top and edges.

There was colored fondant to roll out and cut into shapes for decoration.

Ava and Madelyn got their toenails painted while we were busy working!

I got a shot of all the cakes except Celine's....sorry! Not sure how I missed that one.......

Now we have the beginning skills to do small projects! Thanks for a fun afternoon!

Hoppy Easter!

We had a fun and busy Easter this weekend. Madelyn sure was spoiled by all of the "Easter Bunnies" that brought her baskets! Holy cow! We first went to my side of the family (Mom's side) then ventured to Mike's side of the family for more food and fun.

She made a new friend

Connor liked her as well. (He liked her toys more though)

 

"Mom....get the camera out of my face"

 

"Take that mom"

Ava was quite the ham!

Jeff, Pacino and Jaclyn resting after a busy holiday. Pacino looks sleepy...too much ham!

Videos

Due to this blog site not allowing videos to be uploaded (or at least that I can figure out)..... we have added another site to showcase photos and videos.

Click on the link below to view the Kocmit family Album. If you need a password it is: Kocmit

Kocmit Family Album

Some pretty funny ones of Madelyn on there.
Happy Monday!!!

Spring Fun

A few new pictures to post. For some reason the video link was taken out of the blog! And I have some real good ones! I'll search on how to get them back!

We've been having a lot of fun with Miss Madelyn since she has become more vocal and entertaining.

Madelyn and Ava playing nicely!

 Playing with her Fly Boat as Gavin plays with his toy as well.

The nice weather has arrived! Madelyn put on the shades and took a nice stroll around the neighborhood! So stylish!

Ours friends Pete and Toni welcomed a new baby girl into the world last week. We popped over there to share some dinner and see the new baby. 

Welcome Lena Nicole Mannarino!

Such a nice head of hair, but so tiny! (she is around 6lbs 5oz)

Madelyn was excited to see the new baby, as were Michael and I. Congrats!!!!!