Uncle Daniele to Visit

Not my best picture ever. This is me at 22 weeks (5 1/2 months). I'm huge already. I love this picture of Aaron. He loves playing on the stairs, and going down to try on every single pair of shoes that are down there.

Paolo's brother, Daniele, came to visit from Italy for a week. It was a busy week trying to see all of the sites. This is at temple square.

Aaron loved stealing whatever was uncle Daniele's and putting it on. This time it was his glasses. Most of the time it was his hat.

This is in front of Outback Steakhouse. We ate some very nice American steaks.

Right before bed, we always brush our teeth.

Aaron loves pretending to talk on the phone. Uncle Daniele brought him a toy one that talks in Italian for his Christmas present.

Mamma and Aaron at This is the Place State Park.

Bye uncle Daniele! We'll all miss you, especially Aaron!

It's a boy!

We just wanted to let you all know that we had the ultrasound yesterday, and it's a boy! I was convinced that it was a girl because I feel so much better this pregnancy, but I was wrong. We're really excited, and probably won't be able to agree on a name. Everything seems ok up till now.

Merry Christmas

I just wanted to say really quick how grateful I am for my Savior, Jesus Christ. He was the reason that we celebrate this season. I feel like all of the happiness and joy I have in life is because of Him, and I love Him with all my heart! I am grateful not only for what He did for me, but that He did it for all of us. Being a mother, I realize how much my children are going to need Jesus Christ in order to get through the troubles of life that await them. Christ can do things for them that I can't and I'm so very grateful for Him. I'm also grateful to belong to His church.


This was our family Christmas celebration where Grandma and Grandpa taught all the grandkids about Jesus. The pictures are of the kids playing out the birth of Jesus. Above is cousin Annicka dressed as Mary.

This is cousin Elyxzia as one of the angels.

Aaron was the Inn Keeper.

In nursery at church the really nice nursery leaders made aprons for all the kids with their hand prints on them. Paolo said Aaron looks like a waiter. I just thought he was adorable!

Christmas morning. It took Aaron a while to get the hang of opening Christmas presents. He got a toy telephone from mom and dad, and he loves to walk around talking on it!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of our friends!

18 months old

Aaron is 18 months, and I can see a big difference in him! He's just learned to say "no", and he says it all the time. No means no, it also means yes. It's also his favorite word when he doesn't know what else to say. Some of his favorite things now are: eating cereal, smiling at the camera and then looking at himself afterwards, ring-around-the rosies, his slide from grandma, old diaper boxes that he's turned into a mini slide, apples, taking his shoes and socks off in the car, and trying on our shoes.

It snowed really good two days ago (today too). So we pulled out our little sled and Aaron had a lot of fun being pulled around. Then we made a ramp with the snow and he had a lot of fun going down that until he fell in the snow and started crying.

Cheesy as ever!

Aaron's learned a few of his body parts, and one of the few that he gets right on a regular basis is pointing to where his head is. The only other thing he always gets right is pointing to where mom's baby is (in my stomach).

Trying on daddy's shoes. Thankfully his feet won't be that big for a while!

starting to climb

Aaron has figured out how to start climbing on things. He's figured out if he pushes his toy box on it's side, then he can climb on the empty TV stand, and then get to the computer. This is a video of him doing that while I was working on the computer.

#2 on the way

Aaron was in the middle of crying, but paused and smiled for the camera.

Mom and Aaron while visiting some of my old roommies from BYU. It was almost 10 years ago. Yikes!

Playing outside in the leaves.

We're happy to announce the arrival of Palmieri #2. I'm due May 22nd. We'll know at the beginning of January if it's a boy or girl. I personally think that it's a girl, and Paolo thinks it's a boy. We'll be happy either way.

halloween 2008

This was our first trick-or-treating outing with Aaron. We went to my sister, Maureen's, work and did it there, and then we went around our house that night. I think we went to 10 houses. Enough to take some fun pictures. The only thing he got to eat was a sucker. We recycled the rest and gave it to those that came to our house.

What a ham!

This was at Maureen's work. He got hold of a sucker and refused to let it go. He managed to get the wrapper off really quickly and he went to town! This was the end result.

Aaron with his cousins Annicka and Park.