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.

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!!!

Halloween - October 31, 2007

This year was the first the Daddy was home for Halloween. We had a great time visiting all of the neighbors while Mom-Mom and Pop handed out candy at our house. Then we headed down to Aunt Sandy and Uncle James' house to see Juli and Livi in their costumes and to sing Happy Birthday to Grandma.

Our little pumpkin
(eating candy already and we hadn't even left the house yet)

Mom-Mom and Pumpkin

Heading out for trick-or-treating

By the time we got there, Livi was already out of her costume
because it was almost bed time

Juli Moo-Moo checking out her gifts from Grandma

The Cow, The Bunny, and The Pumpkin

Mom, can I take this thing off yet?
(and yes that is candy on her face!)

Introducing... Karen and Chris Davis!

Finally... Uncle Chris is REALLY Uncle Chris now! Karen and Chris got married last Saturday, October 6th! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Everyone looked wonderful, the weather was great, and we had tons of fun!

The wedding photographer's pictures are now online at http://kimberlynoel.smugmug.com/Weddings/396560. Grab a drink and a snack, it's gonna take a while! There's about 1000 pictures!!!

I'll add a few here but as a disclaimer I have to say that the copyright belongs to Kimberly Noel, the photographer, as you see on the pictures. (Sidenote: She was awesome! I highly recommend her for any event you might need a photographer for!)

Prettying up!

Beautiful Little Girl :-)

Beautiful Big Girl :-)

Hmm, I think I have to go talk to Aunt Karen...
"Aunt Karen, wait... are you SURE you want to do this?"Daddy's Girl

Denise and JosephSista, Sista
Family Style

The new Mr. and Mrs.
The gang's all here...
This picture is just too funny not to include it, lolHow in the world did Maddie get so grown up???He loved her first...Saint DavidSerenading KatieI love this guy! :-)And despite scary faces like this, he loves me too! lol

Hand in hand, let us grow old together...

Karen's Bachelorette Party

I haven't had a chance to add anything here for a while so hopefully over the next couple of days, I'll be able to get us up-to-date! On 9/29, Mom-Mom and Pop had a block party where we celebrated 9th Maddie's birthday:

Maddie blowing out her candles

The Birthday Party "Glee Club"

We also got Karen's Bachelorette Party started there

Jen D., Chrissy, Karen, Jen M., Sandi

Then we moved it over to Breen's for some karaoke and free shots! Once people knew it was Karen's Bachelorette Party, they kept sending over shots. Yeah for free drinks! :-)

Notice Jen M. trying to keep her head up. It was that kind of night! lol

The "Sisters" - Sandy and Karen

If I had a million dollars... (I'd get these girls some singing lessons!)

And just for the record, this is Chrissy NOT doing shots ever again! (She gave them up...)

Never touching those things again!

Just pouring for everyone elseJust taste testing for everyone else, lolDarn, I can't believe I just did that!