Casqueiro Get-Together (#1)

During the month of March and early April, our family spent a lot of time in Salem. In fact, 6 or 7 weekends in a row we at least made an appearance at the Casqueiro house, and most of those we spent a night. It was a lot of driving, but totally worth it. I love spending time with family, and am so excited for the Casqueiros to be officially family later this year.

On March 25th, Andy and Danielle planned a Casqueiro pizza party during spring break, because we really haven't spent a lot of time together recently. A few weeks later we got together again, but that's another day and a whole new post I'm sure. Here's a few pictures from that weekend (I say few but I've been uploading them for 20 minutes so hunker down and get ready :) )

This is what I came downstairs to Saturday morning. It's so awesome to have family who is so anxious to play with Olivia that they will do it even in the early morning when I'd rather be sleeping!

Olivia loves her Casqueiro family, and I loved this picture of Mary playing some rendition of Peek-a-boo...

Tasha this one's for you...we stopped that potential habit in a hurry, but I did catch Olivia sucking her 3rd and 4th fingers just like her Aunt Tashie :)

This picture should have been taken at a better angle, but it's Olivia sitting up on the super high ledge at Gary and Mary's house...Thanks Alex!

Now comes all the pictures with different people at Jim and Kathy's that night...I apologize that some are sidewards (yes I know that's not a word...it's a Johnson word) but I'm just slightly lazy and will fix them when I get caught up with the posts...

Michelle...

Janet...

Janet and the boys... I love this picture!

This should have been at the end, but there was a huge beer pong tournament the next day, so some last minute practices took place during the evening (never having played beer pong I thought all the rules were very interesting!). I'll have to try someday with lemonade or water or something :)

After we had hung out for a little while, we sent Andy and Max to get just a few pizzas to get us through :)...I missed the next part, but Max had all his pockets full or parmesean cheese and red pepper packets.

Olivia with Uncle Jimmy - he had a funny animal noise that she absolutely loved. I want to say turkey, but some Casqueiro please correct me if I'm wrong! It didn't matter where she was looking, as soon as he started that noise she'd turn and start laughing :)

First "ride" on an animal! Thanks Toby for being so patient...

Danielle and Todd... it's been really fun to learn what Livy (we're trying out the nickname...what do you think?) likes and dislikes...in this case you can see 3 likes: 1: Danielle...need I say more? 2: Todd, and actually men in general. She's kind of a flirt most of the time, including (and the funniest situation) at the doctors :) 3. Beer bottles. This was her first experience with a beer bottle, and hearing Todd blow into it was fun, but in the next few weeks she learned a little more, and we'll go into that later!

Ali...

Later on in the evening, we were all hanging out playing and talking (if I remember right most of the men were in the other room with the big TV and the women were in here with the kids...) and we were able to get some cute cousin pictures.

We got Grandma Janet with all the kids earlier, and I just realized that we got Grandma Mary with all the kids here... :) just makes me smile because I love family (actually going through all these pictures is making me miss my own siblings and cousins...why can't you live closer so we can have pizza nights?)

Uncle Andy...

Oh! I almost forgot this mini photo shoot. Mini photo shoots happen at least once a week, but this one was especially cute. Niki made Olivia a super cute tutu and bow in our wedding colors, and she gave it to us at this party. It was too cute not to try it on, and once the outfit goes on, so do all the cameras, so we decided to have a little photo shoot.

This just might be my favorite "mommy and me" photo so far. I was just changing her diaper, but thanks Danielle (or whoever had my camera if it wasn't D) for taking this shot. I love her hands and feet up against me :)

After the diaper change, pictures didn't go so well. Someday O will hate me for including all the embarassing pictures, but I love them almost as much as the smiling ones, so here goes :) First up, possessed baby (Alex says it should be called "one too many")

Next, "It's a bird! It's a plane!"

And that concludes our photo shoot. Here's what my better half was doing to help me out during all this! :) (JK I love you babe)

I tried to take advantage of Alex's nap to have him put O to sleep (it was well past her bedtime at this point) but she only succeeded in putting her dad to sleep, then we found her just hanging out waiting for something fun to happen.

And that concludes Friday night! I have some editing to do of pics before I post about the next morning...so we'll see how many weeks go by before I get that done!