School

Here are pics from the last few months of school!

Father's Day Celebration at school (celebrated on St. Joseph's Feast Day)

Love the excitement in this picture!!

That's our girl!

This pic is from the park, not school, but I thought I'd post it anyways!

Spring Break!

Easter Vacation is almost over, but here are some random pictures from our week!

The girls played a lot of dress-up! Kyleigh's outfit of choice was usually Snow White! Haley was revisiting some of her flower girl dresses from the Fall!

We also had time to do a few crafts. This one was making new crayons out of our old broken ones. To tell you the truth, they were kind of junk, but Haley thinks they're wonderful :)

Haley is obsessed with rainbows!

Kyleigh on the other hand is obsessed with shoes! We have a "no shoe" policy in our house, but she insists on wearing every shoe can can get her hands on! She especially likes tromping around the house in princess heels!

She also likes to wear all of Haley's shoes!

Snuggling

Kyleigh and Guiliana

Haley and Anthony

Yesterday, I took the girls to the zoo since Paul was out of town for the weekend. Unfortunately, after a week of beautiful weather, it was freezing on Saturday!

They held hands most of the time we were there!

Ready for the train ride!

Train and Boardwalk

My brother and his family are in town this week for the Easer break. Yesterday we went to Roaring Camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains to ride the train, and then headed to the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz for lunch and some beach time. It was a beautiful day!

Sorry...I only use a camera phone when Paul is not with us so the pics aren't great! :(

Kyleigh found this tree stump to sit on and could have stayed there all day!

She was fascinated by the train and didn't mind how loud it was! She wanted to chase it!

Nick, Cathy, Dominick, Anthony, and Guiliana

"I'm wet!" We obviously didn't come prepared to play at the beach! Everyone was soaked when it was time to go home!

Haley and Titi had a great time jumping the waves and then running away!

Haley and Anthony weren't to thrilled once Kyleigh warmed up to the sand and wanted to make sandcastles with them!

Kyleigh literally grabbed the cone out of my hand when I went to give her a bite!

Happy Easter

Good Friday...A Child's Perspective

Yesterday Haley said to me, "Mommy, do you know what the mean soldiers did to Jesus? They poked Him and put him on the cross! That was not showing charity."

Yep...that basically sums up what we are remembering today!

FW: KTVU Wins Peabody Award

I just wanted to share some exiting news that happend yesterday at our tv station.  Please read the email below from my news director.

Paul


-----Original Message-----
Subject: KTVU Wins Peabody Award

To:       The KTVU News Team



Congratulations!   KTVU has won the prestigious Peabody Award for our coverage of the BART shooting and aftermath last year.    We are only one of five TV stations in the country to be selected.    This award is one of the highest national honors in journalism and it is a true "team" recognition.   All of you should be very proud.

KTVU submitted a comprehensive, 90-minute video entry along with extensive documentation showing our coverage and the lengths we went to dig up the facts, get access to court hearings and documents, and file California Public Records Act requests to obtain information.    The shooting of Oscar Grant by police officer Johannes Mehserle on the Fruitvale BART platform in the early morning hours of January 1, 2009 is a tragedy on many levels.  But, in the words of the judges, KTVU was awarded the Peabody for our "persistent digging afterwards that revealed serious, systematic problems in the Bay Area Rapid Transit police's tactics."

It is important to remember, after KTVU obtained the exclusive video of the actual shooting, we made the difficult journalistic decision to air the footage along with a warning to our viewers.    It was not a decision we made lightly.   We concluded that because there were so many questions being raised about the sequence and timing of events, along with discrepancies about actions taken by police and victim, we felt it was critically important to both sides and our viewers to air the video.   Ultimately, our role as journalists is to seek the truth.   KTVU is committed to aggressively following the case.

I applaud all the efforts of our newsroom for handling the many challenges of covering the story, protests and riots.   Everyone exhibited the highest levels of professionalism in dealing with the courts, the police, the public and the families of the people involved.   You were all part of passionate editorial discussions about the right way to cover this story.     There are literally more than one hundred KTVU news employees who have been involved in our coverage over the past 15 months, so I won't try to name and thank every one of you in this note.   But I want each and every one of you to know that I recognize and appreciate your efforts individually as part of the team effort. 

Great Job !!!    I am very proud of all of you.

Ed Chapuis

KTVU News Director

The Peabody Awards are given annually by the Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Georgia and are the oldest and longest running electronic journalism awards in the country.  First presented in 1941, they are considered to be one of the most prestigious in the journalism profession.   The award is named after George Foster Peabody (1852-1938) who was a highly successful investment banker who devoted much of his fortune to education and social enterprise.   While he never saw television and only rarely listened to radio, the visage of George Foster Peabody has become synonymous with excellence in electronic media.

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