i hope your day is full of love, family, colorful eggs, candy and fun. and most importantly, i hope you take a minute to remember the real meaning of easter.
happy easter.
with love, the villa family.
i hope your day is full of love, family, colorful eggs, candy and fun. and most importantly, i hope you take a minute to remember the real meaning of easter.
happy easter.
with love, the villa family.
this started as a flashback friday post. i hadn't done one in awhile and thought with easter coming up, i'd post some from l-bug's second easter. and then i came across these pictures. and i couldn't tear my eyes away.
i wanted to touch on a different subject. the love, the protection, the safeness. these two men are anchors in her life. they are a source of security and stability. they are always there for her. they will always be there for her.
poppa. he's my dad. but he's better know as poppa to his four grandkids. he may look big and tough. okay, he is big and tough. his beard may look scary. or like santa claus. i guess that depends on who's looking. but he is smitten with lia. and lia is smitten with him. he has all the patience in the world for her. he is caring, kind, loving. he spoils her. he loves her. he's her grandpa and he is everything i could ever ask him to be for her.
living in new york for the first year of her life, she didn't get to see her poppa as much. he works hard and his business doesn't always let him go away when he wants to. but the few times that my parents did make it up to new york, no matter how short the visits were, lia always made a connection with them. she always knew who grandma & poppa were. when we moved in with my parents early last year, the bond just grew. now she calls them mom & poppa but the same connection is there.
daddy. papi. my amazing husband. he's her biggest anchor. he's the one she spends almost every day with. when she was little, it was all about me. i'm mama. she spends 24/7 with me and a bond like that is special. there isn't anything in the world like that. but now that she's older, it's all about daddy some days. when he opens the front door after work, her eyes light up and she yells "daddy!". when i'm on the phone, she always asks if it's daddy. when she's mad at me, she runs and tells daddy. when she wants cereal, she asks for "daddy's cereal". and hearing her call him papi makes both of our hearts melt.
he plays with her. he bathes her. he gets up with her every weekend. he takes her on little errands or just out of the house to give me some time. he talks to her in spanish. he teaches her numbers and how to count. he spoils her. he loves her. he's her dad and he is everything i could ever ask him to be for her.
a mama's love may be one of a kind. but so is the love these two men have for lia.
i guess i am just beyond grateful that lia has this. that lia has them.
he plays with her. he bathes her. he gets up with her every weekend. he takes her on little errands or just out of the house to give me some time. he talks to her in spanish. he teaches her numbers and how to count. he spoils her. he loves her. he's her dad and he is everything i could ever ask him to be for her.
a mama's love may be one of a kind. but so is the love these two men have for lia.
i guess i am just beyond grateful that lia has this. that lia has them.
crafted easter bonnet // our newest library finds // helping mama make pizza dough // new bubbles // last weekend's easter egg hunt
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this was a good week. the hubby is done traveling for awhile. at least, we hope so. we had fun at story time this week. l-bug was a pro with the glue stick during craft time and we picked up some new books. spoon is a new favorite.
the rest of the week was spent soaking up this amazing weather we've been having, cleaning the house and trying to teach lia good manners.
and this weekend we'll be keeping our fingers crossed for beach weather so we can celebrate a certain amazing husband and have an awesome barbeque & egg hunt.
what are your bits of happiness this week?
what are your bits of happiness this week?
we all know picnik is closing down later this month. and it's a bummer because i loved their program. it was mostly free, easy and quick. perfect for edit-ers like me who have no idea what they are doing and are too scared to open up the photoshop software i have.
but i thought i'd let you guys know that there's a new guy in town. i don't take credit for this find. i discovered it through a tweet. i quickly found the site, popped a photo in it and started editing. SO easy, user-friendly and awesome. and for now, it's free.
the site is actually made by some rockin' picnik guys. i, for one, am totally estatic about it. it's called picmonkey. it's gonna be hard not to love this one so i hope it sticks around.
i took this photo last weekend at our neighborhood easter egg hunt. i just ran it through the auto-fix button and the burst effect. nothing earth-shattering but it brightens up a cute shot of my girl.
happy editing.
i'm not being paid for this. in fact, picmonkey has no idea who i am. i am just really excited about having a new editing program to work with.
happy editing.
i'm not being paid for this. in fact, picmonkey has no idea who i am. i am just really excited about having a new editing program to work with.
looking forward to...
celebrating my husband. his birthday is this weekend.
dying easter eggs, an egg hunt and teaching l-bug what easter is really about.
a playdate full of crafts & snacks.
a trip to the beach.
a really fun old navy party thanks to crowdtap. more to come on this later.
soaking up the last of the story times at the library before summer starts.
bubbles & picnics in the backyard with lia.
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what are you looking forward to in april?
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