We've got puppies!

Early Sunday moring (at about 5:00am), after about 36 hours, 2 trips to the vet, 1 ultrasound and 1EKG to make sure everything was all right, Penny FINALLY decided to get these pups out into the world!! In one of the first ultrasounds, only 3 puppies could be seen, so it was a great surprise when she gave us SEVEN!!!!

Poor tired Penelope

They're just too cute!!!

This picture says it all! (what did I get myself into!!?)

Just look at how tiny the paws are!

On Saturday night my sister in law called us for some emergency babysitting! So we had our niece and nephew over for dinner along with some friends! They stayed up untill 11pm!!! WOW!

Gabe was so funny, we would tell him to smile and this is what he would do!

Enrico & sweer Carlotta (missing some teeth)

On Sunday, Cristiana invited us to lunch at her house

Gabe really loves Enrico and worships the ground he walks on! ahahah

This time we got him to smile !

Mommy Mormon Bloggers

As usual, I was making my rounds in the blogging world and found this interesting article linked from Marci's blog:

Why I can't stop reading Mormon housewife blogs:

I'm a young, feminist atheist who can't bake a cupcake. Why am I addicted to the shiny, happy lives of these women?

Thought I would re-post it for anyone else who like to read it. It is very interesting!

We call upon Silvio Berlusconi to resign immediately from his post

1. Resignation.

We call upon Silvio Berlusconi to resign immediately from his post as Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri. In no other democratic country would a Prime Minister, faced with such serious legal accusations, remain in office longer than a few hours. All Italian citizens, of whatever political persuasion, must realise that the image of their country is profoundly tainted if Berlusconi remains in office.

2. Attendance in court.

We call upon Silvio Berlusconi not to defend himself on television, using his substantial mediatic power to discredit the magistrates, but to present himself in court and seek to defend himself there, as would any normal citizen. Once in court, he can in any case hope to benefit from the services of the highest paid lawyers in the country. We sincerely hope, for his sake and that of the country, that he is able to demonstrate his innocence. If he and his supporters reply that the judges are irremediably biased against him, we would like to point out that on more than one occasion in the past he has been given the benefit of the doubt by the courts. In the Mondadori case, for example, the court judged in 2001 his position as Head of Government to be part of the ‘extenuating circumstances’ which in his case alone allowed the crime to be prescribed.

3. The role of the President of the Republic

In a situation in which two of the principal powers of the state – the magistracy and the executive – are on a head-on collision course of considerable danger for the future of the Republic, we call upon its President to observe closely the situation and to be prepared to intervene actively, naturally within the limits of the powers ascribed to his office by the Constitution.

4. The opposition parties

We call upon all the parties of the opposition to put aside their differences and to abandon any jockeying for position, uniting instead their voices in a single request of a single word: RESIGNATION.

5. Civil Society

We invite the many associations and the hundreds of thousands of members of civil society to do the same, pooling their resources and joining hands on a single line of action. We would particularly appeal to Catholic civil society to deplore the hesitations and silences of the Vatican on so important an issue of public ethics.

6. The friends of Italy in the world

We have written this appeal in English as well as Italian in order to reach all those abroad who are friends of Italian democracy. Do not despair of Italy! The country needs your solidarity and help.

Gustavo Zagrebelsky, Paul Ginsborg e Sandra Bonsanti per tutta Libertà e Giustizia

http://www.libertaegiustizia.it/2011/01/20/resignation-firma-lappello-di-leg/?ref=HREA-1

More on the Psycho-Midget:

Surreal: A Soap Opera Starring Berlusconi

Wiretaps of Berlusconi’s Teenage Friend Emerge

December Re-Cap

We spent Christmas Eve with Enrico's family at his Mother's house and this year I didn't get many pictures; for some reason Xmas came and went very quietly this year.....

Fortunately, these chipmunks were with us to make Christmas Eve a little more magical!

(Chiara, Carlotta, Gabe & Camilla)

Enrico got me this beautiful painting of the city of Cagliari. It's symbolic because when I was little and would come and spend the summers in Italy, I had one of those colorful cabanas you can see on the beach (called "casotti" p. cas-oh-tee) , a true symbol of the city until they were taken down in 1986. It was very sad for me to come back the summer of '87 and not find them there anymore... lots of good memories running around the beach with my friends, hiding and playing amongst the cabanas.

For New Year's my friend Stefy & I organized a a buffet dinner party at a local cafè called Dulcis

Stefy & I

Enrico & Friends

Friends

I also lost my Mother's 50th B-day party pictures..... I dunno where I put them in my computer... I am so mad at myself.