Picking Pumpkins!

Daddy & Maggie with the balloon bee.

Jane & Elizabeth with the Smith girls

Our only family picture from the day... Maggie was clearly scared of something spooky!

Opening Day Bengals NFL 2009

John doing the fly-by on Opening day for the Bengals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfRu2nP8EK4

The band!!

The local high school band invited the toddlers to band practice!! Who knew it could be so much fun! Maggie had a flute and was marched around the track as part of the band. Maggie was so excited to listen to the drum solo!

Zip on!

For my birthday John was kind enough to humor me and go zipping through the trees!!! Getting ready to zip on!!

Mommy's Birthday!

Maggie helping mommy blow out the candles

Mickey mouse

Getting ready for Halloween!

Maggie turns 2!

Blowing out the candles with daddy. She understood the concept this year.

And another party... with an amazing cake! Thank you Aunt Sussus!

I am a little bit late on the pictures from Maggie's Second Birthday!

Family Day and our own airshow!

Family Day out at base. It was a beautiful day here, 75 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. After they flew by the Bengals they did a few passes by us. It was really cute to see Maggie dancing on the flight line. Daddy is the second from the left.

Sunflowers

The zoo!!

Hunting on the back of the alligator


Waiting for her prey...

All wet

A run in with the water feature at the mall!


Her outfit for the car ride home... Dadda's shirt!

Maggie & daddy

Visiting daddy at work

Water park

Break from the island... Playing with dadda at the pirate ship!

Kings island

First day back at school. We thought it would be the perfect day to go to the 'island'! There is no one here!! Maggie on la adventura de azul... Her favorite blue train ride!!

Last day at the beach

Back to ohio!!! Hard to leave after a perfect day at the beach with auntie gianna and the jacksons!

This one is for daddy

Breakfast at gayles this morning. The best egg, bacon and cheese sandwich! Last day in Cali.

Papa & mousie

-- Post From My iPhone

Maggie and Bert

-- Post From My iPhone

Dutch Boy's wedding or Bust...

We are now preparing for Dutch's wedding... hanging by the pool and drinking mojitos... Hard work for some of us! Arizona in August is not tooo hot!

Panattoni Family Tradition... McCall's Party!

Busy week of cars and fun in Pebble! The girls off to the jet center party... with the Bode's and Jackson's. A family tradition!

And of course, we had to pick up our favorite couple on the way, the Bucks.

Birthday Boy!

Dad turned 82 this year!

Maggie washing up

Andrew's Annual Art Auction!

A little preview of the happenings at the 13th Annual Andrew's Art Auction this past weekend. More info about Heritage Hill Foundation at www.heritagehill.org

A very happy Italian couple...

And my very handsome husband taking it all in.

Little slice of heaven: Portofino

Last stop in Italy before the wedding: Portofino and the coast.

John surveying the fleet from our post. The big boats were not there yet.

Cheese in Parma

The goal of our trip to Italy was to see nothing of tourist interest and to eat like Kings. We did. First few nights we stayed at a Parmesean Cheese Farm (the farm has cows, they use the milk to make the cheese in the barn next door). It was really interesting to see how they made it and to taste the unbelievable product. I wish that I could cook like our wonderful hostess Simona. Amazing home made pastries in the morning.

To our delight... there was only one business in our village... the gelato store. We were in the town for two nights and we went there three times. We considered delaying our departure time so that we could hit the store one more time...

Home sweet home

We are back from our trip to Italy! John & I spent 10 days eating and eating and eating and then we went to an amazing wedding in Lake Como. Our lovely friend Lindsay married Mr. Chatwin in the most beautiful spot in the world (according to me).

Maggie did not miss us nearly as much as we missed her. It was a bit sad really. We were missing her more and more as the week went on. I knew that she was in good hands with Baba & Uncle Johnny, but I still wanted to hug and kiss her!

We are in the midst of a really busy time here... Art Auction this weekend then off to California next week. Once we arrive in California, we are going to relax with a girls beach week with Erin & Amelia and then the festivities of Concours with Gianna Marie. Want to join us?