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.

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!

Got Milk?

Today Katie and I baked lots of Christmas cookies. I'm so sick of looking at cookies! LOL
Actually, Katie didn't really help with the baking, she just played Play-Doh while I was busy baking, which was a BIG help! Then afterwards when the cookies were on the table cooling, she kept sneaking cookies for "taste tests". :-)

I'm in charge of the chip cookies, Mom-Mom does the roll cookies, Mom does the press cookies and some others, and this year Karen is doing the peanut butter blossoms (my fav!) and walnut balls (Joseph's fav!). If I don't see another chocolate chip for a while, I won't mind!

Maddie's Home!!!

We went to pick up Maddie from camp this morning and don't ya know the bus was late! Last year we wound up being the ones who were late... go figure...

Here's Katie keeping busy while we waited for Maddie's bus to get here:

Picking acorns
Got one for Maddie!
Walking with her "cane", like "Two Mom-Mom do"
The bus finally arrives...
I don't know who was more excited!
The Happy Camper