Sewing and Beyond with Mary Anne Ciccotelli

Since I flew out to Utah on Valentine’s Day Tom decided to send me flowers after my arrival there.  Here are my little granddaughters enjoying the flowers. 

I had a great time with my Grandkids and kids.  Family is GREAT!!!!!!

If you were wondering if this Ciccotelli family celebrated Christmas – the answer is YES!!!!!.  In fact in a pretty big way this year.  Our almost three year old grandson was coming to New York on Christmas Day for his uncle’s wedding.  Little T’s daddy requested that Grandpa Train (what T calls his NY Grandpa) put the Brio Polar Express train set around the Christmas Tree.  Little did they know of the surprise that awaited them upon their arrival in New York.

The Utah Ciccotelli’s arrived Christmas night.  Needless to say – Grandpa was pretty excited to share his trains with T.

Here is T and his daddy watching the train.  They both were pretty excited.  I think one of them because of the train and the other because of watching his cute little son.

Grandpa Train and Grandma also hooked T up with his own remote controlled train set from Lionel.

T also liked playing with our wooden train set.  Did not bother him to mix and match.

I even found a train to put in the tree for my “Train Loving” man.  We had trains everywhere!

I was in Utah from Nov. 10-15.  It is GREAT being able to spend time with the little kiddies.  There was one problem – I missed seeing one of my little Grandson’s while in Utah, but he is coming to Grandma and Grandpa’s in December so I will get to see him then!

Autumn working on crafts.
The craft project Prairie choose while at JoAnn’s.
Zephry and his mommy!

Autmn in her new skirt from the fabric that she chose during our visit to JoAnn’s.
Autmn celebrated her 6th birthday while I was there. Here she is on her new bike.

 

Prairie on her “new” bike.  It sure is wonderful when the Big Sister gets a new bike and then the little sister gets a new bike.
Jennie with her pogies.
The last night I was there I stayed up kind of late making this outfit for Autumn and her doll. 

Last night, Tom brought out his Yankees seats to watch Game Six of the 2009 World Series.  When we first got married, he said that his Yankees seats were only to be used when the Yankees were playing in the World Series.   (This was revised to any World Series games because of the lack of use during the past several years).

Last night, the seats came out in their full glory – being used exactly how Tom’s original intent was – watching the Yankees in the World Series. 

This fan was very careful to hit the garbage can with his peanut shells since he is the one that usually cleans up the floor on garbage night (which happens to be Wednesdays).

Great field level view in original Yankees Stadium seats.  What more could a die-hard Yankees fan want?

For the Yankees to WIN, of course!  It was a great night –  #27 it is!!!!!!!

Sunday was Nana’s (Tom’s mother) 80th Birthday. She didn’t want anything big, so we decided that we would all have a picnic/barbecue at an area along the Jersey side of the Hudson River.

Nana and Peter (Peter’s birthday was also yesterday)

Lots of the family – lots to show for Nana’s 80 years.

Here are a couple of water views from the park we were at.

This is the George Washington Bridge.

Nana opening her Easy Does It “Hexabag”.

Tom and I had the assignment for something to put the candles on. I thought it would be fun to have 80 cupcakes. Since I didn’t think there was anyway we would eat that many large cupcakes, we made mini cupcakes. I had the letter candles left over from my b-day party so I found the NANA and put them into the cupcakes.

I also found these fun curly candles – but we only put a few – one for each decade +1.

Here is Nana blowing out her candles with a little help from Eric.
Thank you Nana for the wonderful life you have lived and the influence it has had on m life!