Lancaster with Mom-Mom and Pop

Katie's school has been closed this week so she's been spending the week with Mom-Mom & Pop since Joseph isn't home and have work. Pop had off today so they decided to go on a little road trip to the Lancaster area.

First Stop... Sturgis Pretzel Factory

Next, off to the Kid's Museum for some face painting!

The masterpiece

Gone Fishin'!

Pop & Katie shopping for corn

Cashier Kate

Don't forget the milk!

Stepping in Daddy's shoes

Singing "Take Me Out To The Ballgame"

After enjoying her chocolate taffy! Look like she enjoyed it.

Happy Mother's Day!

Katie, Mommy, and Mom-Mom

I have plenty more pictures from our Mother's Day at Mom-Mom and Pop's house today but I'm too tired to post them tonight... I'll try to put them up tomorrow!

Happy Semi-Retirement, Mom-Mom!

I just realized that I never posted this... Mom-Mom took a buy-out after working for the Inquirer for almost 30 years! So for now she's in "semi-retirement", at least until the fall when she starts looking for another position. If you're looking for her this summer though, you'll be able to find her hanging out at the swim club, helping Janet run the snack bar and front gate. :-)

Congrats Mom!

Dye Job!

We have a tradition of going to Mom-Mom's house on the night before Easter to dye eggs. We always have a lot of fun and everyone gets into the egg decorating.

Katie dipping her egg

Maddie drawing on her 'sI think Joseph enjoyed dyeing the eggs more than the girls! :-)

Mom-Mom and Egg Head

Daddy, Aunt Karen, and Katie

Aunt Karen is excited about her egg and Katie is pretty serious about working on hers!An Ar-teest and his work
Finally, I got a turn!My Favorite Egg
(Aunt Karen and Katie made it)Ready for the Easter BunnyMine... ALL Mine!!!

Happy Birthday Mom-Mom, Two Mom-Mom, Aunt Norene and Aunt Karen (who was MIA)

We went over to Mom-Mom's house to celebrate a belated birthday for Mom-Mom, Aunt Karen and Two Mom-Mom's birthday tomorrow and Monday, and an early birthday for Aunt Norene. Karen wound up being sick though so no cake for her (thinking Soup Natzi there, lol).

The girls serving dinner

Enjoying some pizza

Cake for MEEEEEEEE???

Someone call the fire department!

Spanning the generations
Aunt Norene is the oldest in our family and Katie is the youngest.
Speaking of spanning generations, the dress Katie is wearing was my mom's! Me, Karen, Maddie and now Katie have all worn it and it's still in great condition. Aunt Norene bought it for my Mom 50-some years ago. I think she got her money's worth!

(We sung to Two Mom-Mom but Pop was behind the lens and didn't get a pic of that.)

Two Mom-Mom opening her card from Katie.
One of Two Mom-Mom's favorite gifts... Bailey's Irish Cream.
Katie nearly poking Mom-Mom's eye out with wrapping paperMom-Mom checking out her new iced tea maker
Something tells me Katie doesn't want the Momarazzi to take any more pictures. (By the way, she was in the closet because they were playing hide-n-seek.)

Snuggling
Katie's french braid from earlier in the day which gave her the "crinkly" hair tonight. I was surprised she sat to let me do it but she was really good and excited about her pretty braid.

Kelly's 5th Birthday

On Saturday night, we went to Kelly's 5th birthday party. Katie had a great time playing with Kelly, Liam, and Sammie and helping Kelly open all of her presents.

Waiting to sing

Making a wish!

Yummy chocolate pretzels!

Katie, Kelly, and Jenine opening gifts

Super cool!

Katie and Sammie hanging out with their Mom-MomsKatie doing a little light reading before we leave.

New Year's Day Brunch

Our annual ring-in-the-new-year event!

The Mottola Bunch

Chris, Karen, Chrissy, Two Mom-Mom, John

The Moms

Hairdresser Shop:
Katie curling Poppy's hair
(after she said his other hair fell out)

Uncle John straightening Katie's hair

Supermarket Time: Katie, Maddie and Aunt Chrissy playing "shopping"

The Cashier

Uncle Chris crashed... too much NYE partying?

I told Maddie to smile and this is what I got!
So I told her it was going on the blog just like that!!!

Uncle John jammin' Guitar Hero

His adoring fan, lol

Aunt Chrissy checking out the blog

Coffee Klatch

Oh, look... Maddie CAN smile!