Celebrating Baby Rice

On Saturday afternoon we celebrated our dear friends, Jenna & Steve Rice, who are expecting their first baby in a few weeks.

 Camden & Emma are ready for some fun

 The guests of honor have arrived!

 Special little pumpkin straws for the Mama-to-be

 Gabriella and Sherri

 Chris and Ron playing the "Guess the flavor of baby food" game

 Chris and I enjoying some baby time with Gabriella and Noah

Steve and Jenna with their snazzy Mom and Dad glasses

 Gabriella and Emma love playing together

 

 Baby Family Feud - Jenna & Steve are ready to play!

 Lots of laughs and some tough competition between the guys and gals

We ladies were victorious!

Sherri, Jenna, Madison, Berri, Me, and Amanda sporting our pirate prizes

 Silly Emma

 Bottle chugging and diapering relay race

 Steve was NOT impressed

 Chris is still pretty speedy putting on a diaper

Chris and Ron are the winners of the relay

 

 Present time :)

 

Jenna and the hostess with the mostess, Sherri 

Happy Halloween 2015

Happy Halloween! Camden and Emma found this cute BIG BABY at Spooktacular on Friday night. Chris' costume was a huge hit.  The man in charge of the event should be easy to find in a crowd and Big Baby did the job! Congrats on an amazing event, MWR!

Maddie, Emma, Carmen, and Camden

 

Emma getting some candy from our friend, Amber

 Camden collecting some loot

 A windy Halloween morning on the soccer field

 Saturday night was trick-or-treating on base.  We went to Casa Rice to pass out candy.  

Watch out for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

Ron, Sherri, Jenna, and Chris

 Master Splinter (Steve) and April (me) rounded out the gang

 

Camden, Jordyn, Emma, and Maddalena had a great time trick-or-treating

 1/2 of the sensational sixth grade teaching team :)

Zombie Run & Fan Halen Concert

Halloween is in the air!  Saturday night we participated in our first Zombie Run (my participation was cheering and snapping pictures) at Carney Park.

Camden and Steve made it past the first batch of zombies

 Here comes Emma!

 The obstacles are no problem for Camden

 I finally got a picture of Chris (he caught me off guard while I was too busy chatting the first time)

 Go Emma!

 

 Camden had an unpleasant encounter with a scary clown on lap #2.  Luckily, Steve was right behind him and brought him back to Chris.

Emma and her friends had a strong finish at the end of lap #1!

 After the run, we got to rock out to Fan Halen.  They were an AWESOME Van Halen cover band and we had a great time! :)

San Gimignano Sunday

The sun came out on Sunday morning and we enjoyed a wonderful day in San Gimignano (a place on my "Tuscany Bucket List")

Breakfast time!

Family picture at the villa

L-O-V-E!

If you looked up "friends" in the dictionary, this picture would say it all :)

 

Oh no! Mr. Steve is going to throw Camden in the pool!

Cuddle Bug Gabriella with Ron & Sherri

 

 Camden Lee

Emma Louise

Emma & Mel at the well in the main Piazza in San Gimignano

Wine tasting!

Thanks for translating, Madds :)

 Buying boxes of wine? No problem when you have a stroller to haul it all!

The whole gang :)

 

 Smooches in the piazza

Siena Saturday

Tuscany is one of the gems of Italy...
 Tuscany in the fall is even better!
Columbus Day Weekend was the perfect excuse to rent a villa with great friends and explore.

Omelet-palooza for breakfast Saturday morning-
Hanging out with Ron in the kitchen

Emma, Sherri, Chris, Turtle Steve, Me, and Mel parading down the street in Siena

 

 Steve and Chris found some friends

Siena Cathedral

Happy baby!

Gabriella and Emma hanging out at our lunch stop on Piazza del Campo

Camden people watching over the piazza

 

 Tour of the beautiful cathedral

Mel and Jenna

with a blurry Steve photobomb

 A little rain doesn't stop our fun!