First Official Haircut

Yes it was at home but done by a professional hair stylist, and honorary grandma Kathi! She did very well and enjoyed the attention her head was given. Funny thing her hair stayed off her eyes for only about a month....so I had to do another trimming job before the wedding!

My Birthday

This was the first after many years that we were together with my family of origin for my birthday...I have missed countless of theirs...but I guess that's a different story. The week of my birthday we were going to be staying in Anaheim because of the Connection '09 moreover, the day of my bday our passes were blocked. I did not want my family to buy tickets as well as Stephen for one day when we could have more fun later. So instead we went to Goofy's Kitchen which is an outside Disneyland character dining experience. I have to say that I really enjoyed having this experience with my family and the food was quite good as well :o)

Family's first Few days

GZ was taken immediately by the awesomeness and variety of her auntie's multiple jewelry!! I have many pictures so I'll post some as we go along.



























We had a nice lunch with our worship pastor and his family (well part of it). An amazing family indeed, of coarse you can tell a few things by looking from afar :o) but when you meet someone in such a casual environment and have a talk about anything then one can see the simplicity and kindness first hand. Praise God!! They are amazing :o) It was an added treat that my family was there and got to meet them also!




Yes they arrived on two different planes!!!! Because Vasilia Luz was going to get here later and leave earlier...but all that changed and so she stayed for two months!!!!

Disneyland for Papa's Birthday

Dancing with Papa watching High School Musical Performance :o) She is a fan already!
So I know there are sideways but I don't want to download them on the computer...taking them straight from the camera and I don't know how to rotate them from there. This was waiting for finding Nemo...a really long line this year...again...

Mother's Day

That's a favorite and since I'm writing after the wedding I now know that Dan likes it a lot to since it was in their wedding video :o) So cute
GZ really enjoyed playing in the grass that day...I believe one of her first experiences. How amazingly she was grown up compared to last year's celebration!!! Quite remarkable...I was thinking that today...looking at how tall she's gotten compared to how little she was when she was born!
After church we had an early Mother's Day dinner as well as celebrated everyone the has their birthday in May-Dad, Dan, Me...I think that who all that was there that day even though we have a few more bdays in the family that are in May
At church after the service

Family

Yes its been 3 months since I updated on the happenings of our family!!! We I have a great excuse though...our family-dad, mom, and sister- were visiting from Greece. They got here May 23, my parents left June 20 and my sister well almost a week ago...WOW! While they were here we went first to the Foursquare Convention for a week, then Charles and Kathi came to visit for a few days, we spent a weekend in the Palm Dessert with Stephen's parents as well, went to Disneyland for a couple of days, we had tea at the Huntington gardens, Magic Mountain, Dodger's game and in between all these fun things there was shopping for us for them for others...overall fun.
While the family was here Gabriela Zoe started to talk, saying more than just mama and dada/baba, papou, giagia, thia which she already was saying. She started mimicing new words all the time and she also learned how to properly, as well as improperly, use the word NO. Sometimes she means it, sometimes she says it to be funny and some other times...she just wants to say it for no good reason.
Moreoever, she started telling us when she was about to go poop or pee by saying 'kaka' I think I missed my 'ideal' window of opportunity but now I am hoping we can start moving forward with potty training. Yes I know some people think I'm insane for starting her so early...not even 17 months yet...but she showed signs of readiness when she was 15 months! Besides people have since told me that in older times as well as other countries potty training took place earlier than the 2-3 years of age that most parents start here-supposedly influence by propaganda made from diaper companies wanting to keep children in diapers longer....more $ for them. Anyhow so here we are in the middle of that as I'm writing this...not to say that it does not require some patience indeed.
Well that was what I had to say of the last few months...the rest will be pictures :o)