Mima's Wedding

I know, I know, Mima's wedding was on October 1st and I'm JUST posting it now, but better late than never!
Here are some pictures from her day...

Family Picture!

The happy couple!

 There was even a rainbow outside after the ceremony!

 Cheers!

 VERY funny story!  After the salad course they brought out these little raspberry sorbets to cleanse our palattes.  They were so yummy.  Alexander liked them so much he had two!  Well, come to find out, these weren't raspberry like we thought.  They were cabernet! 

 What a beautiful couple...isn't Mima's makeup just fabulous?  Hint, hint!

Mima and Don have been going dancing since they met so they tore up the dance floor all night!

Me and my beautiful Great-Grandma Guggino!

2 Updates

Update #1: WE HAVE POWER!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAY!  After 7 days of no power, we got a call from our very excited neighbor late Friday night saying, "WE HAVE LIGHTS!"  This was amazing because they had just extended their estimate saying Sunday by noon we'd have power.  So, praise God, we are home!  A giGANtic thank you to Barry and Natalie for hosting our family for the entire week!  I will be doing another post soon with all of the funny things that happened.  A little sneak peek: I almost killed my mother-in-law!  (No really...I almost actually killed her!) 

Update #2:  I got the report back from Alexander's diagnostic pediatrician out in Boston and they do NOT think he has autism!  They are leaning more towards ADHD from what I can gather from the report.  So, even though ADHD presents many challange, we are a little relieved to hear that.  In saying that, they are continuing to watch him over the next few months.  We have another appointment in December.  Thank you for your prayers!

More tricks than treats for our halloween!

Most of you know or have probably heard, MA has been declared a state of emergency by Obama with this last snow storm. We got 12+ inches of wet, heavy snow that stuck to all of the leaves that were still on the trees.  That resulted in downed trees, limbs, power and communication lines and basically a complete mess.  We have been without power since Saturday at 5pm.  More than 80% of Springfield is without power...3 million total between MA and CT.  By the Grace of God, Brad's mom never lost power.  We have been here since Sunday morning.  They are forecasting that we will have power back by Friday at noon.  Cross your fingers!  All schools have been canceled through the week and they actually CANCELED HALLOWEEN!!!  The local mall has this thing called "Mall-O-Ween" each year so we decided to go there to do some trick-or-treating along with 3000+ other people!  It was nuts, but I think we made a good decision.  Alexander had fun and we ran into some friends from church!  Their 3 year old son who is friends with Alexander dressed up as a conductor!  Alexander was Thomas the train!!!  Their costumes were completely unplanned as was our meeting.  Here are some pics of the storm and of our Mall-O-Ween experience.  Oh, to top it all off, Alexander now has a stomach bug and was throwing up and having diarrhea all night and today.  Thank you in advance for all of your prayers!

hugs...

Tree in our front yard.  Usually the branches are about 7 feet off the ground! 

 

 You can see how much snow we got. 

 Barry and Natalie's neighbor's tree that is now in their yard!

Alexander tucking into some waffles and reading over the "Cars" DVD case!

 Alexander and his friend Ben at Mall-O-Ween!  Do I spy an envious look from the conductor???

 My little Thomas the Train!  I'm glad he got to wear his costume.  I spent SO long on it! 

Of course he got tired of wearing it so Barry decided to put it on!  Alexander thought Djadiew made a great Thomas!

 Maybe next Halloween will have more treats than tricks!