other recent happenings...

so mark has purchased a new toy and as you can see he has had NO PROBLEM breaking it in!!! and for all of you that might be wondering... YES IT HAS A STINKIN' CUP HOLDER!!!
max has also recently been busy making new friends. this little cutie tootie is logan or as max refers to him "wogan". logan is the little boy of an old friend, jen who has relocated to the west coast and happened to be visiting auntie patty and uncle keeney. needless to say these 2 did just fine together. max is still asking for him!!

and this is max on one of the visits to ri hospital to visit his great mem. this face kind of sums up all of our feelings about her entire stay. AUGHHHH!!!! i am happy to say she is currently at a rehab and doing much better.

this past weekend we took a day off from the ole' house project and went to a birthday party for mason and our nephew, evan. as you can see he is into spiderman at this point in time....

there's mason, waiting patiently...

here are our 2 nephews jeffrey and evan. getting to be too big.
this is sammy, meg and katie (mark's cousins kids)
and then there is "fingers aguiar" ( his auntie mis gave him that name) he hasn't come a cross a cake, i should say frosting, he has not liked yet!!

bek, this one is for you..... do i need to explain????? we missed you!!!get better soon!

the new house....

so here are a couple of before and after shots... this first couple pics of the gorgeous striped wallpaper is going to be our bedroom.... it is coming along- slow but sure!



this is the laundry room, very conveniently located off the kitchen, again notice the original gorgeous striped wallpaper....

and finally we have the lovely bathroom. its amazing what some chocolate brown paint can do!?!

we even put max to work.... actually every time we turn around he has a roller in his hand and looking for something paint.
this blue room is max's playroom:

as you can see we have been spending most of our free time at the house, trying to fix 'er up abit and make it feel like "our home". we are getting there, a couple of rooms have gotten a little bit of a face lift w/some fresh paint and a couple of rooms have been altered with some heavy hitting machinery, (bubba, dad, mark and mark being the machinery). walls have been knocked down and re-built as well as a ceiling or 2. we are hoping to get in ASAP, we will see, until then here is a look at some of the progress.

What's new this week

FINALLY.... we are officially home owners, very exciting! we were psyched it actually took place this time... here are a couple more shots of the new place-another pink bathroom-augh!!!!! we will be working on it for the next month and hopefully in by mid-may. we'll see?!

****another event this past week was the wedding of mark's friend brendan and his new wife, heather. they actually had a nice day in between all that rain and cold we have been having the last 2 weeks. mark was the best man and did a great job with his speech ( i am a bit bias though)

the bride looked beautiful, of course and b looked pretty dapper himself. fun was had by all, here are some pics...

obviously the bride and groom

mark and brendan, they clean up pretty well

ALL the boys, most of these guys have known each other since grammer school

this is chris and rob, proud mama of
the groom. she was ready to pop with joy ALL day. she looked gorgeous!

the rest of the shots are friends and family:

me and justin, my brother in law, mis and justin, my in-laws manny and janice. sorry mel and jeff, i didn't get any shots of you two!

Easter

Happy spring!!!!

so we celebrated another easter with max and i have to say this one was more fun with him. he definitely got the whole easter egg hunt idea this year on his own. the weather did not really cooperate with an outdoor hunt, so we had it in my sisters living room. he of course, did not realize the difference, which worked out well. he has also realized match box cars do not come from plastic easter eggs, which is what he thought at this time last year. i'm also throwing in couple of updated photos of mom & dad and bri & bub(milt)....
the easter bunny left behind his little feet, which max

thought was the greatest thing.

then off course the easter egg hunt w/ our little "golfer in training"

the kid did pretty well, he left with more money in his pocket than i had in mine.

Grandpa

In memory of David Tavares Sr (September 18, 1928- March 29, 2007)

This man was a husband, father, son, brother, uncle, grandfather, great-grandfather and many more things. He is my Grandpa and a wonderful man. We lost him to cancer this past week and he was laid to rest today. For any of you that may have been able to meet him, you know what a kind heart and soul he had for everything and everyone. I never heard him utter a negative word about another human being my entire life. He loved baseball, so it is very fitting that he was laid to rest today, the opening day of the 2007 Baseball Season. I recently found out that he liked Anne Murray. He enjoyed spending time making puzzles, which he devised quite a system for. He loved his family (every last member) and it was a big one- he has left behind his wife, my Grandma, 12 children, 33 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren and countless others that love him and will miss him dearly.