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Bella's 2nd birthday

We had an awesome day at SeaWorld (pics to come soon) and the day ended with a mini cake for Bella to enjoy on her actual birthday. Shauna aka Nane brought her the mini cake for her to enjoy- which she did. She enjoyed her cake so much today that she told Kristen:"Mommy, cake delicious! Love you."

Cannot wait for tomorrow to see how she likes the birthday cake I am attempting to make for her. Should be fun.

The Dad's Life

I posted this on my Biggieville.com site but thought others might appreciate it as well. Enjoy! I wouldn't want any other life; The Dad's Life!

Bella at the Park

Bella Vacuuming

Bella has started to enjoy helping Mommy around the house with laundry and vacuuming. Here she is on a Saturday morning helping vacuum.

Bella making pizza

Bella has become such a little cook! She loves sitting on the counter and help us stir, prep, or in the case roll pizza dough! She is at such a fun age and we are loving every second of it!

Bella's Shout Outs!

Ronald McDonald photo shoot.

RMH Slide Show from Cassie Meitzler on Vimeo.

We did a photo shoot for Ronald McDonald House a few weeks ago. Here is a video montage of all the families. We are in the video. Enjoy.

Anthony's 1st tattoo in memory of Gabi.

Check out the process:



2010 will mark the 4th birthday and anniversary for the loss of Gabi. I have wanted a tattoo in her name since she passed. After much research and thought. I decided on a tattoo that had meaning behind it and something I would want to have forever.

I came up with the idea of a pocket watch with the time 12:07 with wings and a halo. That is all I wanted. As you can see I got so much more.

I did much research looking for the right artist and luck should have it I met a guy, Michael, standing in line at the Johnny Cupcakes tour and his friend Ryan's had this awesome rooted tattoo (it is a tree and going down to the roots) and it was awesome. He told me the guy was in Orlando and he had done both of his tattoos. Through him I got introduced to Enrique Zayas at Chrome Lotus Tattoo.

Here is the rationale behind what I wanted for a tattoo:

12:07:
12:07pm was the time that Gabi was born and it was also the time I looked forward to. Every time the clock read 12:07pm it meant I had another day with Gabi. We had 12 awesome days with her. Hence the clock on the tattoo reads 12:07.

The numbers on the watch:
I looked and looked for the font of the numbers and it hit me that my dad had given me a pocketwatch that had been passed down to me on my wedding day. His pocket watch has numbers 1-12 but for the tattoo I could only do 12, 3, 6, and 9.

The G:
The G is Gabi's 1st initial.

The Wings, Halo and Pocket watch:
In my initial thoughts I had it being just a G with wings or something and I also did not want a tattoo that was just her name. So I went with the wings and halo and the watch since it has a few meanings- an angel in heaven and also that time flew bye and it wasn't enough time to be with Gabi.

The Sunshine:

The amazing part about this is that I never told Enrique that on Gabi's headstone we have: "Our Grace from God. You will always be our Sunshine." Since Kristen would always sing to Gabi- You are my Sunshine. When I saw his initial sketch, having only told him about the watch, halp and wings and saw the Sun and the Sunshine. I was blown away and asked myself how did he know.

Did it hurt? Check out the video of me and my initial reaction to it. Now I will not lie and say it was pleasant. After the outlining and his shading I was fine. It was when he started coloring that I was in some pain.

Click here to see Enrique's website.

I get to wear pants for the next 2 weeks but it will be well worth it is fully healed and the true colors come out. I know some don't like tattoos and others do. I've wanted one and glad that this was my 1st tattoo

Grilled Pizza

Date Night!

So Kristen and I like to have date nights as often as possible. It is nice to have some alone time. We decided to try out a Taco Truck we had heard about on the radio (104.1- Jim Phillips and Angel for SBK both rant and rave about it). Well it is awesome and authentic. It is near Magic Suds Car Wash on Aloma Ave. The owners are very nice and the food was excellent.



After our Mexican truck feast we decided to go watch Iron Man 2. We saw the first one the week before to get Kristen motivated to see the 2nd one and it worked. We both liked it. Good times. Look forward to our next one!

Bella singing Happy Birthday

Bella singing w/Mommy

Webcam w/Papa

Bella loves her Jupiter

Bella doing Piggies

Cupcake Sliders

just finished making Cupcake Sliders (their mini cupcakes cheeseburger style) on 12seconds.tv

Cutting the muffin tops off of what will be the buns

Just took the "burgers" off the grill (oven)

Through the power of some colored icing

Cupcake Sliders

Once again through the power of Twitter I saw a twitpic of these cupcakes and knew I had to try and make it. They are a little time consuming but are easy to make. It helped that I found a site that had step by step how to do it. (If your curious or want to make them click HERE)

I enjoy making my own creations but this was too good to pass up.

Bella and the ice cream cone

So sad today, Bella had dropped her 1st ice cream cone @IKEAOrlando on 12seconds.tv

Bella had her 1st ice cream cone. She walked a good distance with the cone. But poor little girl had her 1st cream cone dropped and went bye bye.

Happy Birthday Kristen!

Wishing my wife an awesome Birthday today!! on 12seconds.tv

Yatzeee!