here are a few (ok, more than a few) photos from our time in sicily (i posted a few while we were there, too.) josh was a missionary for 2 years for our church in southern italy ten years ago, so it was extra special to get to see all the little towns and places where he lived. we spent a little time in gela, palma di montechiaro, ragusa and syracusa (my favorite!) southern italy had such a different vibe and feel compared to the north where we spent the second week of our trip. it was very laid back, and josh says not much had changed at all since he lived there ten years ago. i really loved it. the views were so beautiful. the food was delicious. the people were the sweetest. it is most certainly a very special place.
E and Samson are so cute!! Your trip looked like lots of fun :)
It's all so beautiful! The envy of it all is welling up inside! I loved following the trip on instagram as well! Such adorable pictures.
xoxo
Liesl
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And…now I am DYING to go to Italy.
Such wonderful photos!!
so beautiful! my husband and i are planning on living in italy sometime in the next few years, and we are so excited. italy is such a scenic country!
Looks like SO.MUCH.FUN!!! I would love to go to Italy with my husband one day :) It's one of my favorite places. Your pictures tell the perfect story and I love that. ♥Lindsay
I love the photo of Ms. E walking down the street like a little super model! Your family is so incredibly beautiful. You really are an inspiration, Naomi. Keep up the phenomenal work.
Whitney
masterpiecesandmesses.blogspot.com
BEAUTIFUL pictures!! Looks like you guys had a blast! I swear, little E looks just like she belongs there!
xx Ashleigh
http://www.ashflynn.blogspot.com
What a beautiful and blessed family!
P.s where are your boots from? ;)
ABSOLUTLY beautiful, what a great place to visit. Def on my bucket list!
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love love love them all. Especially when E is just walking around being a little adult.
Great pics! Italy is so beautiful and the food is magnifico!
this is too cute! Hope you guys had fun! Blessings!
The gelato AND sunglasses shot is a classic. She better love that photo when she's older because I know I wish I was that cool as a toddler!!
-kelsey @ Time Stand Still
What a fun trip! Love all your photos!
your pictures are amazing! looks like an incredible trip!
amazing photos… thanks for a walk in Rome!
one question to you: from where I can get such a hat like you have? its so cool! best regards to you and your sweet family ;*
So glad you got to take this trip with your family! You guys are so cute!
I know I'm supposed to be focusing on your awesome trip to Italy and how cool it is that you went back to your husband's mission area with your family (That should be on every LDS girl's bucket list) but I'm just having a hard time taking my eyes off of your cute girl in her sunglesses and pigtails! Oh my gosh. Dying.
aww your family is just TOO cute :)
Question for you, did you bring the kiddos car seats along as well? for taxi rides and then when you returned back home?
beautiful photos!! loved your boots!!!
This is so gorgeous. I love that you are exposing your family to all this love and culture as children. I spent every summer of my life as a child in Italy (I live in CA) and I think it made me a much better, and well rounded person.
Kate
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Love these photos so much! My grandfather is from Palermo Sicily and I've always wanted to visit. Thank you for sharing.
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beautiful photos! Love that peplum top. I still have anxiety thinking of bringing our toddler abroad.
@jackie, boots are from FRYE.
@i love… i wish, hat is from GILT, brand is hat attack.
@Jaclyn, we didn't take car seats. we just held the kids on our laps on the plane/ taxis. they are used to it because you don't need a car seat in taxis in nyc, either. it worked out great!
That pink peplum top is adorable. The sunglasses on E are tooooooo much to handle! What beautiful pics.
Charming! And E's clothes fit her so well. Ev is miss skinny minnie over here, and her pants are always sagging – even her skinnies :)
your kids are so sweeeet <3
when i'm older, and i get kids, i want those tooo haha
their smile is so cute:)
Beautiful images Naomi! I am chopping at the bit to hear about the food, tell me you had some cannolis!
how adorable are these photos!
It looks like such a wonderful trip! E is just adorable – love that shot of her walking towards you! x
Kate {Modette}
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your kids are adorable! such beautiful pics and I love your riding boots so nice! xx. gigi. food and beauty blogger @ http://www.gigikkitchen.blogspot.com
These pictures are fabulous! So glad you enjoyed your trip to Italy. Makes me want to go even more! xo Marisa
http://eternalsunshine-mrb.blogspot.com
Lovely! Thanks for sharing! I was lucky enough to once spend a summer traveling in Tuscany and Northern Italy, but I never made it to Sicily, and I've been wanting to go for years. Do you have any recommendations for where to stay/eat while there?
Wow!!!
These looks exactly like my pics of Italy :)
Valentina
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your littles are just getting bigger and cuter every day!!
what a fun trip.
Gorgeous!
funny I think I met your husband and other missionaries 10 years ago in Naples! Is that possible? As him if he remembers a tourist setting fire to his clothes accidentally (on a candle) in the catacombs?
ti amo italia!
where is that stinkin' cute pink peplum top from?
i'm loving the bowties!! i can't get enough of them! kudos to josh for rocking them so well ;)
Your family kills me with how stylish and cute you all are! Looks like SO much fun. I went to Italy last year and now I'm dying to go back.
Also, your shirt is to die for! Where did you get it!?
Beautiful photos! You definitely did have an amazing time for two weeks :)
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Where did you get your pink shirt?! I LOVE it! Yall look awesome, as usual…what sweet kids! My cousin's husband is from Sicily…amazing place!
looks like an amazing trip! i wanted to be called to italy on my mission just for the food :) i ended up serving in guatemala where the food is to die for!
oh jus looking at your photographs makes me miss Italia so much.. i was in southern italy over the summer visiting family and just absolutely love it xo
Gina | pebbz notebook
Jealous!!! Your pictures are all beautiful and your family is just beyond adorable!
So beautiful! My extended family are from Sicily, I would love to visit some day!
Awesome blog! what camera and lens do you use for traveling?
Awesome blog! what camera and lens do you use for traveling?
where did you get your hat?!
Bellissime queste foto!!!!! Isn't southern Italy great? Life is simple..I feel like when people go to Italy they always just visit the north. Anyway thanks for sharing these great shots! Bringing back memories of childhood.
we were in sicilia a few years ago and absolutely loved it. this brings back so many wonderful memories…
you have such a beautiful family!
I've never been to Southern Italy before, apart from Rome. I HAVE been to Malta though and it looks very similar!
I have never been to Italy or even Europe and would love to go! These photos are so inspiring, because I always feel that I'll have to go before I get married and have children, but you and Josh show it's possible to go with kids! Lovely photos!
i spent a weekend on the west coast of sicily and loved loved it. need to make it to syracusa!
You are the cutest little family EVER! And side note, I'm LOVING your pink peplum sweater, I'm kind of obsessed with peplum lately!
you all are too amazing! can i switch lives?
italy is one of my favorite places to be. right now I am nostalgically thinking of how I walked the streets, ate that food…mmmm…and heard the millions of car horns (constantly). haha.
your top is lovely!
cheers.
My husband served in the same mission from 2005-2007! He was also in Ragusa and Syracusa. His favorite was Cosenza. He doesn't follow blogs, but I'm sure he'll be happy to see this post.
We're saving our pennies and hoping we can go in the next couple of years!
I'm looking forward to your post about traveling abroad with little ones because we already have a 9 month old and we may just have another before we can make it over there. :)
Beautiful pics as usual!! This makes me long for Italia! My grandpa is from northern Italy, so any chance i get to go, i go to that magical place!
~ Bev
Okay, l Love your blog. I don't usually comment on blogs. But I love love love the hats that you wear. Where do you get them? I would love to know. Thank you so much!!! Ava
As usual, your pictures are gorgeous! You may have answered this before, but what camera do you use, and what lens?
Gosh, it really does look beautiful there. I can't wait to visit in the future. Also the picture of E striding purposefully with a determined look on her face makes me crack up! xo
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picture perfect family! your babies are growing so fast and are so beautiful!!!
i'm so jealous. i've wanted to go to italy all my life!
~niki <3
http://youngandimmortal.blogspot.com/
oh look at that cheese!
HE SPEAKS ITALIAN TOO? Just when I thought your husband couldn't be more perfect. :)
What a gorgeous place! I'm aching to go.
so beautiful – you and your family! you must post where you bought your shirt! i adore it!
Oh Italy, you are so on my bucket list!! I might have to make it must go to Southern Italy now! Looks beautiful!! Your little ones are too cute!!! =)
Ergo – Blog
my sister is serving in taranto right now! can't wait for her to take me back. and eleanor has got to be one of the cutest children on earth; that one with her in the sunglasses is a keeper!
Lovely pictures! How fun that you got to see some of the places were Josh served. I can't wait to take my husband to Romania where I served, and he can't wait to take me to Ukraine! Also, I love your pink sweater. Can't wait for more pictures.
I'm adoring your pink peplum sweater! And your trip to Italy…
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amazing pictures. italy is beautiful. and little miss e walking the streets of sicily is most certainly the cutest thing ever.
italy, i need to pay you a visit pretty soon. good thing you are not that far from here.
love this!
love, rach.
http://www.so–hi.blogspot.com
naomi, amazing photos!! we're hoping to get to europe soon with our little ones….this makes me excited.
These photographs are beautiful! Looks like you had a great time.
I love your sweater! Where did you get it?
looks amazing! i've only been to Roma and would love to explore some of the other towns/cities. glad you guys had a fun safe trip and hope the jet lag is getting a bit easier…
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Oh i love the photos! E is so sassy in these pictures haha!
That one picture of E…the cutest little nugget walking down the street with such purpose! haha Too cute. Glad y'all had a fun and safe trip.
These pictures just make my Italy fever go higher. I want to go there so badly, the place looks magical.
These photos are wonderful!!
And Eleanor is too cute in these jeans! :)
Adorable pictures!
looks like you've had an amazing time! x
So want to go back to Italy! Oh, and love men who rock a bow tie!
Where are your boots from (in pic #1)?
Little Eleanor and Sampson just melt my heart!!
My brother served his mission in Sciliy and Palermo and loved it! Looks so beautiful, I never went.
Beautiful pictures! How special for Josh to be able to take his wife and beautiful children to where he served.
naomi, i feel like i'm constantly leaving comments on your blog that say, "that photo of you & e is my favorite to date!" aaaand you've outdone yourself again, because that one at the very top is as cute as they come. how blessed you are to have that little one as your sweet baby girl. : ) she's all yours & you can always see it on her happy face.
p.s. your peplum top is killin' me. i have to know where you found it!
Love the photos!
this is giving me a serious case of wanderlust!!
My grandfather immigrated to America from Gela, Sicilia! I am so very, very jealous. And that prosciutto looks delicious! :]
Beautiful photos! Looks like an incredible trip. I especially love the photos of you and your daughter – you two are so precious!
Thanks for reminding me that I need to go to Italy like yesterday!
Dreamy photos.
Looks like you all had such a wonderful time! You have some really cute framable photos in there!
Italy is so pretty! My Blog
Such lovely pictures! What an amazing part of the world. Your family is so beautiful!
Cutest kids! E is so stylish in her shades. I'm loving that scooter- it's the perfect shade of mint : )
Please post where you got the pink peplum top from!!!!! Love it!
So beautiful! Looks like you guys had a wonderful time! I love eleanor in those sunglasses, already a fashion icon! I love it!
Theresa
http://bomamma.blogspot.com
E is a future fashion blogger in the making!
xo the egg out west.
naomi,
I have to ask you where you got your blue (maybe black) and white waffle looking long sleeve shirt? you are wearing it in one of your pictures on your trip :)
I am obsessed with it!
thanks love!
aliharman.2@gmail.com
Qué lindas fotos! Me encantaría conocer Italia.
Dios bendiga a tu familia, es maravillosa
Saludos desde Chile
thanks guys! the pink shirt is from REISS.
xo
Great photos – i'm loving all of the details of your trip. i'm so happy y'all had a great time
love this post! such great photos and i am dying over your cute pink peplum shirt! mind sharing where you found it?!
Such great photos
You are great, guys!!! Italy through your lens is increadibly beautiful!
Looks just fab! :-)
couldn't say anything more. your blog is awesome. love thod pics and your family!
xo, I
http://elleestivana.blogspot.com/
What a gorgeus family! you must had a marvellous time! next time, we are waiting next by….in Greece:)
Beautiful beautiful pictures at my favorite place on earth!! What is that gorgeous pink lipstick you're wearing? It looks so good on you!
Eleanor looks SO cool licking her gelato spoon. A heartbreaker in the making..
Maria xx
http://www.cheekypinktulip.blogspot.com
Love Eleanor's jeans! where did u get it from? :) all of you seemed to have a great time together. Beautiful photos.
Amazing photos, it looks like you had such an amazing time.
Lou
http://www.thekeypieces.co.uk
Absolutely lovely pictures! Your kid are cute! Love Italy!
Love the pictures! Love your babies!
Looks fabulous!
Italia e molto bella!
Lissa
nuditosbylp.blogspot.it
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Where are your boots in the first picture from? They are adorable!!
Eleanor in her sunglasses–so cute! italy looks gorgeous and a lot of fun :)
xo,
kristyn
Holy beautiful! I think my favorite picture is of miss big girl E strutting down the street with that smirk on her face! Too cute!
Your photos make me want to visit! Hoping to go to Italy for the first time next year.x
you guys look like such a nice family, having loads of fun times together. nice one.
glad you like the instagram magnets so much, they rock!
Love this post! All the beautiful food and smiles! Love it
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You all always look so put together. Its adorable.
LOVE the pic of E pointing and you can tell your husband is looking at whatever she's talking about. priceless!!!!!!
Gorgeous photos! Looks like it was a magical trip and what a great experience for your little kiddos!
Just watched your chat and I loved it! Both of u should collaborate and do it again. :)
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it seems so fitting for josh to be wearing bow ties in italy. where did he get those from? i could certainly see a bow tie or two in my husbands christmas stocking this year. please do tell!
The beauty of these pictures hurts and you know it lady !! I was expecting to see beautiful moments of you 4 and you didn't disappoint me :) I think I have asked you again, but it would be great to make a post about packing for 1/2 week long trips with 1/2 children and flights. You must have some valuable experience that would be helpful for everyone ;)
@Lisa | happy by… thanks! i am almost done writing my post on packing and traveling with littles. it was interesting… but we got everything into two carry ons and i still cant believe it!
@ali, i think the bow ties are from brooks brothers.
@dana, boots are from frye.
@marie, her jeans are from baby gap.
:)
@jessie ann, the pink shirt is from Reiss.
@lew, that's actually really nice of you to say because i am not wearing any lipstick. ha!
Beautiful pictures!
What style boot from Frye? Your style is so effortless chic!
Looks like you guys had lots of fun in Italy! Both of your kids are seriously adorable. It's so fun to watch them grow up! Hoping my future children are as cute as yours! :)
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You flew with the Donkey! Wow, I'm impressed :-) And the airline didn't mangle it?
Mr. Davis wore shirt and bowtie during vacation?? awesome.. :D
and yeah, E is definitely getting cooler everyday ;)
i love it. you guys are so cute.
You guys are one of the cutest families I have ever seen
I love your blog! I just discovered it while reading Joy's book Blog, Inc. and so happy to have had the chance to find it. I'm a lifestyle blogger as well. Great pictures and such a beautiful family. I went to Italy on a family vacation and Siena was by far my favorite (my dad is from there).Looking forward to more posts!
that first photograph is a magazine cover for sure! xx
You look so beautiful as usual. Glad Josh speaks Italian– when we visited Italy we wielded our already crappy Spanish on everyone. They laughed, but usually understood what we meant. :)
Could you do a post on packing for a trip? I'm always stuck on what/how much to pack……I'm a terrible over-packer and would love to know how much you brought!
lovely pictures! i wouldn't mind being there right now, instead of my freezing apartment!
xo, cheyenne
i love this! looks like your family had an amazing time
Such a beautiful place and family! I can't wait to go there someday
Eleanor looks like she's having a blast exploring Italy!
Your family never ceases to make me happy! You all are so beautiful. Thankful for a memorable trip!
yesss.. that's the food i miss since i 've been living in the north of italy…. almond sweets, mozzarella and prosciutto with milk bread and dried tomatoes…
E is gorgeous and so at her ease.
LOve these photos, can't wait to see rome and venice pics too.
Your blog is one of my favorite places to visit. Thank you so much for sharing the bits and pieces of your life.
Happy Thanksgiving to you, and your family. Best wishes! xo
These images are amazing. So much fun. I'm glad you took your babies. Wouldnt have been a vacation without them.
Beautiful photos! My husband served his mission there too- although it would have been a few years before yours was there. I'm hoping to go there with him someday soon!
Your pictures are always so beautiful !what kind of camera do you use? Your my inspiration of what I want my family to be like. Your kids are so adorable and it looks like you and your husband are really in love!
XO-marissa