Frosty Snowball Toss

These babies will be featured in Gianna's school "winter" party today.  It's basically a beanbag toss game, but you use crumbled up paper to resemble snowballs.  Then you pelt Frosty until you get a snowball into his gaping mouth or belly hole.

Fire Company Santa

Always love the surprise visits from fire company Santa

Snowman weather already

Ice Skating

Gianna is taking ice skating lessons this winter

Día de Muertos

Gianna is having her birthday party at Monster Mini Golf this year. It is an indoor, glow in the dark, monster themed mini golf course. She couldn't decide on any theme, so I went with Día de Muertos. Skully, the sugar skull cake topper, glows under black light. The cookies are for the kids to take home.

Halloween night 2013

Gianna is a bat, Bruno is a skeleton

Gianna posing with Dr. Skeleton. His eyes light up and he has a phosphorescent stick in his lab coat.

Carved a pumpkin

Boo at the Zoo

The kids survived the haunted barn.

Gabriel and Ryan were dressed to impress.

Gianna the bat with Jada.

Brite Nites

All real pumpkins, carved free-hand

RIP Chippy the Chipmunk

Under the Grapes

Gianna with Dahlias

Phonetic spelling

Dan the dad likes to watch "Prius of the cravenving" on TV, doesn't like choking...or cooking, is afraid of nofing, yo!  Watch out because he likes to tikol fite and eats mush melow ice cream.  He dreams of going on vacation in the magical land of Arudu.  

Deutscher Tag

Pflaumenkuchen, Mozart kuchen, und schwarzwälder kirschtorte

Pennsylvania Horticulture Society Fall Festival

First day of school

No school uniforms this year and now we are "walkers".

Slavko and Debbie visit

My dear Brazilian friend, Debbie is 6 months pregnant.  She is visiting from North Carolina with her husband, Slavko,  and sister, Laura.

Safari Gianna

Yes, I spent hard-earned money on this outfit.

Disney Pirate Dinner

Blue Lagoon

America's next country music star

Swim Show

Gianna seems so tall until I see her next to the Jolly Green Giants in her swim group.

Summer Sanders

Gianna won the gold in today's swim competition

Our New House

Vietnamese Friends

The kids are lined up by age, oldest to the left

Toothless

Cara, Gianna, and Matt

Matching bracelets

One tooth down

The other top tooth will soon be history too.

Emerald Lake

Spring Lake Beach

Keansburg Amusement Park