Jen & Steve's Engagement Party

On Sunday, we went to Steve's grandmom's house for a party to celebrate Jen and Steve's engagement. The house was amazing, definitely set-up for great entertaining! Kudos to Steve's grandpop, who I heard did most of the building, etc. I told Joseph he would totally be jealous if he saw it! And Steve's mom and grandmom made a lot of delicious food and a beautiful cake. The weather was great too! All around a great party! :-)

The Happy Couple - Congrats Jen and Steve!

The Bridal Party
(minus the flower girl - Katie - because she was grumpy and wouldn't get in the picture!)

Katie wouldn't go in the real pool (because she said it was too deep, wuss! LOL)
so Steve's Aunt Barb (I think) gave Katie this 'pool' and she loved it!

This was after she went 'under'

Twirlin' with Aunt Karen

Nothing to say about this one... I just like it!

Thanksgiving at TiTi's

Titi's World Famous Shrimp Cakes

(ok, well at least famous with our family and friends!)Yummy Chocolate Chip Cheesecake
(I don't know why I'm putting pics of food.
The pics just looked nice so I decided to include them!)

Jen and Steve
Katie helping Poppy read his birthday cards
Happy Birthday to Poppy!

Now it's Steve's turn...

Happy Birthday to Steve!

Enjoying a cupcake

Boardwalk

We went up to the boardwalk last night so the girls could go on some rides. By the time we got up there though, Katie was wiped out after her afternoon in the pool, so she didn't go on too many rides. Everyone was pretty tired after the long day so me, Katie, Mom-Mom, Pop, Chris, Jen, and Steve headed home but Karen and Maddie stayed up there after we all left and had some "Mommy and Me" time going on rides. I bet they had a lot of fun since they haven't had much time together since Maddie got home from camp. She starts school on Monday though so no more gallivanting around... time to hit the books! :-)

Dollin' up for the Boards

Trying to let herself out

(and the ride hadn't even started yet!)Spinderella (a.k.a Maddie)Katie was lovin' the motorcycles !Whoa, hold on tight!

Uncle Jack Memorial Fishing Trip

Every year we go on a fishing trip run by the Jim Junod club. The trip is in memory of my Uncle Jack who was a member before he passed away in 1998. My Uncle Joe still belongs to the group and so we venture out on this 8 hour fishing trip each year. The company is always good, but the weather and fishing are not always so great, lol. This year the weather was beautiful and the water was calm (not like last year when Chris begged to be attacked by a shark rather than have to stay on the boat, lol). The fishing was pretty good too. Lots of people were catching fish - someone caught a 5lb flounder! I caught 5 fish, Karen caught 16, and Jen caught 8. Not sure how many Kevin, Uncle Joe and Steve caught as they were down the line from me but they did have some catches too. Out of all of our catches though, only 2 were keepers - both caught by Karen. All I got to keep was a NASTY sunburn! It was only 7am when we left and I thought "oh, I'll put on sunblock in a little bit". Well, I got involved in fishing and totally forgot until it was already way too late! By Sunday, it didn't look so bad but on Sat night... Oh my goodness, I looked like a tomato!!! Two new "victims" (Jen and Steve) joined us this year and Jen had a great time but Steve joined the ranks of Joseph, Chris, Chrissy, and John. He was a trooper though and still fished and tried his best to fight off feeling sea sick. Hope they'll both join us again next year! :-)

Jen striking a pose

As our guys would say... Sea Hags! LOL

Hmmm... where's Mike? He chickened out on us!Jen and SteveKatie took this terrible picture of me but
I had to include it to show my "lobster look"