I miss my sister too!!!

As you all know my sister visited Adelaide just recently and now she has gone back to her lovely family and the very snowy and cold Chicago winter...and we miss her heaps. We nick-named her the Baby Whisperer as she helped tremendously with our transition into parenthood. After all she does have 5 children in her home at the moment! So here are some photos of our time together and we all look forward to next Christmas when we will be together in Chicago!!!

A little tribute to Jocie's time in Oz...I hope she finds a couple of these photos a little embarrassing! Hey, I haven't changed that much, I'm still Amy, the bratty big sister.

Welcome to Oz Jocie!!! As you can see I was a little too excited to hold the camera still!

Freshly off the plane holding Francesco for the first time.. a bit smelly from over 30 hours of travel! jj




Hi Aunty!!!




Dipping her toes in the sea

Wirra Wirra Winery, Mclaren Vale, South Australia

Pete and Jocie will enjoy some yummy wine she brought home from this fantastic winery only 40 minutes from our house!

Hanging out in the vines

Yummy Baptism Chocolate Mud Cake and Church Block wine. What more could you ask for???

Cleland National Park, Adelaide, South Australia

feeding the roos

Botanic Gardens, Adelaide, South Australia

Long and wonderful day in the city and Botanic Gardens

She did a lot of this!

Central Market

Sleeping again!

Lovely 'summer' weather

Francesco's Baptism

Baptism day..before the fire!

The Godparents
Jocie and Marco(Damian's brother)

At Francesco's baptism, Marco suggested to Jocie to stand by the stain glass window for a photo (she was holding Francesco) and her dress caught fire from the tea lights in the window!!! Marco dramatically and urgently put out the fire with his hands as it made a foot long slit up her (MY) dress. Both have burns to prove it, Marco more than Jocie! I was on the other side of the church and looked over at them as Marco was slapping her and I thought he was getting a little too silly in church! Rosetta witnessed the whole episode and said the fire went up her dress very quickly. Jocie remained calm and held onto our lovely boy ;o)
Thank you Jocie


post fire

Snoozin again with Francesco

Marco, Jocie and David (Markie's partner) Jocie is showing off her kiddos on her blog