Katie's Party #2

We helped Katie celebrate her birthday again at a party at her house. 

Katie's Giant Party

Okay so it wasn't a GIANT party, but it was at Giant! LOL  The kids really enjoyed celebrating Katie's birthday at the cooking school. 

New Years Brunch

Happy New Year!

As usual, we had brunch and Denise and Joseph's house. The girls had fun chalking and checking out all of the toys that Santa brought for Katie and Ryan. We also sang Happy Birthday (a little early) to Joseph. Too bad for James he was on the boat and missed it.

The girls were a little tired and cranky from being up so late last night. Some pretty nice meltdowns occured when it was time for us to go home. Luckily naps followed shortly thereafter!

Thankful

Happy Thanksgiving! So much to be thankful for today. Livi is recovering well from her surgery. She has hardly needed any pain medication at all. She refused to take the prescription pain medicine, in fact the one time we got it into her she threw it up. So we have been sticking to Tylenol and she hasn't needed much of that either! I really hope this is just what she needed!

We are also thankful for our family. Our family table is getting bigger every year.

This year was Sara's first thanksgiving.

And Ryan's first thanksgiving.

These three are old pros. I think we will be needing a bigger kiddie table next year.

The fam. (The dining room looks MUCH better this year! LOL )

The rest of the family.

Ryan's Christening

This Sunday was Ryan's Christening. It was a great day! We headed to his Mom-Mom's house afterward for a party. We had a lot of fun hanging out! Juli was loving having all those kids to play with! I didn't get a chance to take pics at the party, but here are some from the ceremony.

Getting dressed.

Me & my Godson

BFFs forever.


Juli and Maddie

Katie, Grandma, Livi & Juli

The main event. I wonder if Juli and Katie are now considered Godmothers too since they wormed their way up on the altar during the ceremony. Yes that is them peeking over the baptismal.

Joseph, Ryan, Katie & Denise

Densie, Sandy, Ryan, Chris & Joseph

Godparents

Maddie, Sandy & Ryan

The kids. Yes this is the best we could do.

Joseph, James and Marie

La La Livi and her Daddy

The whole clan

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Happy Birthday to Daddy, Uncle Joe and Kelly too!

Christmas Day

Presents under the tree!

Juli and her Tinkerbell movie.

Yellow!

Oooh, cars and trucks!

A Baby!!

Kisses for Grandma

Livi and Pop Pop.

The kiddie table, yes they are eating soup and pasta with chopsticks.

Say "Cheese" everyone!

Now this end of the table!

Merry Christmas, from our family to yours!

Shhhh Surprise Party!

After school we had a mini surprise birthday party for Juli since we were in Florida for her birthday. I think she was more surprised to see Nonna and Pop on the porch when she got home from school than anything. Aunt Jen, Uncle Frankie, Aunt Karen, Mom Mom, Grandma, Cici, Katie, and Uncle Joe came too.

She told me later that Nonna did a good job planning her surprise and bringing it all with her. Apparently I get all the work and none of the credit. LOL

These are the favors for the girls. They got glow sticks, glow stick bracelets, tattoos and Hannah Montana headsets with a fake little boom microphone. They thought they were hot stuff!