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Mother's Day - 2016

By Jake Parrillo

Over the weekend, we gathered at Aunt Sharon's house and our 'own' house (Thanks, Marinis!) to celebrate the Moms that we love.  

I've posted photos from Mother's Day celebration here on the blog that was all the way back in 2011 when Eloise was not quite two years old.  Sadie wasn't quite in the world yet!  I also posted some photos in 2012 when SD was, indeed, in the world.  

There's also this post of Eloise's first-ever Mother's Day card.  

This year, we started the day with breakfast at our own house and some home-made gifts from the girls to Nat.  After a nice walk to-and-from Church, we went over to Aunt Sharon's house for brunch to celebrate with Noonie and the Coyles and Dyers as well as Grandma and Grandpa Marini and Aunt Lisa.  The Swiss Family Marinis were missed!  But...we *did* do something on Mother's Day for Sadie's Godmother Vic, so I'll post about that another day.

I posted about Natalie and Mother's Day over on my own blog, so if you want to see what I said to celebrate Nat, you can check it out here.  

Sharon put out a great spread and we were able to toast to all the moms.  

Here's me and Noonie:


Noonie and 3/4 of her kids.  We missed Vic!


All the ladies (but no SD?!?!):


Later in the day, we hosted the Moran clan at our place in Naperville.  I made pizza and we enjoyed the Marini backyard.  Charlie and Sasha flew in for the weekend.  Elmhurst is pretty convenient for the O'Hare departure on Sunday evening.

Here's Grammy with her four kids along with a sneak-in by Eloise:


Here's Grammy with her four grandkids.  Being goofballs. 




The kids and I are pretty luck to have a great mom in our family in Natalie and we're even more fortunate to be able to spend time with both Noonie and Grammy to celebrate them on Mother's Day.
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