Vacation Getaway!

It's been a few weeks since returning from our fabulous and very warm vacation to Naples, FL. We spent the week with my in-laws and were living life! The first day of our vacation was a bit of a travel nightmare. I forgot my luggage in the car at the Philadelphia airport (not going to explain the details of that) AND forgot my camera bag and Carver's coat in the overhead compartment on the plane! Luckily and thankfully I received ALL items a few days later! Whew!
It was hard to edit down to a few photos to post on the blog, so here are a lot of my most favorites...

Swinging at the community center playground...

Having the time of his life cruising in his 'moving seatzee'!


We took a drive to the Shell Factory, and it was like walking into a David Lynch film. This place sold EVERYTHING and anything! They displayed various stuffed animals under fluorescent lighting...

Who needs to travel to the middle east to ride a camel? Not William and Bailey!!


Ben and Will play a game of air hockey..

You could purchase an unlimited amount of yapping toy doggies...

I can't believe I had the opportunity to obtain Angelina Jolie's driver's license!

Ok, back at home now... dying Easter eggs.

Carver and I take our first dip at the beach club's pool.

Kyle and Carver at the Naples Zoo..

Carver with what Kyle calls his 'hard eyes'..

I have the habit of photographing people I don't know when I'm out and about in public places. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to capture this sweet moment between a mother and her daughter, however, I think the mother was giving me her 'hard eyes'!

During one of Carver's afternoon naps, Kyle and I lived it up in the sun..and shade.

I wish we had more photos of all of us together, in ONE photo! It seems it's always me with Carver or Kyle with Carver, but I loved this little shoot we did nonetheless.

Love, love, love this photo of Carver with his El Woo in the pool!

Here's two fun shots to end the blog, from L-R: Bailey, El Woo, Carver, William, Brad and Ben, in the hot tub.

Looking forward to hopefully doing it again next March!

Heart Melters

Carver and I finally made it over to visit Auntie Lauren and her baby love on Friday. He's almost 5 weeks old already, and this is the first time I've really had the chance to spend time with Lauren since she was in the hospital. Carver and I had be in perfect health before heading over, it's been quite the nasty winter season in the Kielinski household.
Lauren looked fabulous and Dalton was as sweet as could be! He loves his mommy and loves being in his sling. I was able to grab a few photos of Lauren and Dalton, while my 11 month old Carver baby was crawling all over and getting into everything, at one point he was playing with Brian's dirty smelly sneakers!
My good friend Laura also stopped by Lauren's with her 4 month old baby girl, Brooke. This was the first time I had seen Brooke and she is just the cutest baby ever! She has the biggest cheeks and when she smiles it melts your heart. It would be so nice if I lived closer to my friends, and we could see each other much more. I guess I should be happy that I don't live in another state or country though, then we really wouldn't see much of each other!
It was fun to hang out and kibbitz about motherhood, share advice and support each other. I love you guys!

Here is the very handsome, baby Dalton..

Dalton wouldn't take his darling eyes off mommy..

Carver meets Dalton for the first time and went straight for his feet!

Baby wearing is the best :)

Introducing beautiful baby Brooke at 3 1/2 months old...

I can't get enough of her cheeks!

Carver can't believe this little angel right in front of him! Love at first sight..

Playdate Wednesdays

It has been a while since Carver and I made it out to Jen & Ian's for 'Playdate Wednesday'. I brought my camera along this time, and had a blast photographing the little ones (and the moms too)! It's hard to believe that we have known most of the moms and babes since Carver was 3 weeks old!! We're quickly approaching everyone's first birthdays, a few already had theirs! I can't thank Jen enough for opening her home to all of us! And to Ian who shares ALL his toys with everyone!
Here are a few of my favorites..
Carver and Jack.

This is cutie pie Baby Alex - 7 months old... on his way home, I remember meeting Alex when he was a week old!

Miss Emma - 10 months old

Miss Alex - 15 months old

Miss Alex excited with her bag of snacks..

Alex shows off her walking and snack bag grabbing abilities..

Miss Megan - 10 1/2 months old

Mama Sarah and Baby Charlie - almost 8 months old

Mama Susan and Baby Thomas - 6 1/2 months old

Mama Mary and Baby Jack - 15 months old, getting ready to leave..

Mama April and Miss Emma on their way home..

Mama Tippi and Miss Alex

Playdate hostess with the mostess Jen and baby Ian - 15 months old

Mama Michelle and Baby Josh eating lunch..

Mama Melissa and Miss Megan heading home..

We'll miss you next Wednesday while we're in Florida!

Partay! Pizza Partay!

Joe's a big talker when it comes to his homemade pizza, and for good reason because it's extraordinarily delicious!
We got our first taste yesterday and Carver and I even had some more today for lunch (thanks for the doggy bag Joe)! Joy and Don were there as well, and we met Joe's new squeeze, Gwenn, for the first time too. Gwenn was so sweet and even gave me great advice about making sure to carpet below Carver's crib and put a gate at his bedroom door, for when he starts climbing and/ or falling out of his crib. I never thought of that!
We were all definitely having a great time! Not soon after we arrived, Joy's pouring her second glass of wine into her 'invisible' wine glass...

And Joe and Gwenn are making me blush!

I loved Joe's custom wine glasses.

Joy was a sweetheart and grabbed some photos of me, Kyle and Carver.

Carver loved the pizza! And he was so funny eating it like he was licking off a plate!

Action shot of Joe tossing on the pepperoni, I should have photoshopped some pepperoni in the air!

The sausage was my favorite and I usually can't stand sausage pizza.

I quickly ran over to see what Tina was laughing so hard about and it was Carver climbing over her!

Huge brownie points on the pizza party! Thanks again Joe and Gwenn!