Thanksgiving!

We had a beautiful, yummy Thanksgiving this year and were so happy Mom & Dad M were here to celebrate with us! We started our morning off with delicious cinnamon rolls and parade watching. I cooked a yummy turkey with all the yummy trimmings including everyones favorite Mama Linda's sausage stuffing, AJ, Dylan and Grandma were in charge of our yummy dessert, AJ & Grandma set the table together and Alex carved the Turkey! I was so thankful that we were all together and that we had such a lovely day! Of course there was plenty of wine and plenty of football and plenty of running around playing like crazy! So nice to relax home all day with family! Oh and Santa Christmas came back Thanksgiving night - the kids were SO SO excited! Of course to start off the season right he bought them a few goodies! They are on the nice list, let's hope they stay that way!

School Pics!

I have the two most beautiful kids on the whole planet! And I am not bias AT ALL! :)

Beautfiul & Smart & Kind

She's the triple threat! She is beautiful, smart but most importantly kind! All her learning in Kindergarten is blowing our mind and she has brought home the oscar quite a few times for doing nice things and being a great friend to her classmates! To quote her teacher she has a "attitude of excellence"! Doing her homework each night is SO fun - seeing her sound out words, add, subtract, spell, practice fluency drills and practice site works is amazing. So proud of our little fashionista-sweetheart-smartypants!

VOTE!

Today we taught AJ all about the importance of voting! She was so excited to get to go with Daddy to cast his ballot for President of the United States. She was disappointed to learn in the morning Mitt Romney didn't win because she learned in school that he likes to ride horses and we all know AJ is obsessed with horses! LOL! PS - I early voted last week since Mimi was here to watch Dylan for me! Love that you can early vote in GA!

MY Dylan!

Dylan asked for a pic of him with his puppy he carries around everywhere! Isn't he edible? My little man melts my heart into pieces! Academically he's doing super in school, he's super verbal, knows his colors and shapes and he loves music class - he knows all the words to all the songs and loves to preform them for us! He is very outgoing and quick to pick up on things. Of course he's still a little rough and pushes and tackles his friend and has been fresh to his teachers at times, but he wouldn't be MY DYLAN if he didn't do these things! Love you to the moon and back D, even if you do cause some trouble at school! You will be a leader not a follower later on for sure! Daddy and I are proud of you and will continue to work on being a little bit more gentle and kind! :)

Mimi's Visit, Hurricane & Halloween!

We were so excited to have Mimi here from NJ for the past week! We got out shopping ON, took her to a awesome German restaurant near by, carved pumpkins, celebrated Halloween and most importantly had her here during Hurricane Sandy. Hurricane Sandy will go down in the record books for sure - so much devastation and so much loss. Our beloved Jersey Shore is GONE - the boardwalk literally is part of the ocean, weeks later we still can't get down to see what remains of the house we spent every summer out since I was born! What is important is that everyone I know & love are ok - almost every single family member was w/o power (including our VERY pregnant Noelle) for a long time and gas is still hard to come by but NJ is strong - they will rebuild and they will move on! Here is Alex & Mimi at the German restaurant and a few others -

Carving Pumpkins-

Halloween-

Jersey Shore in Ruins-

Pajama Day

I love that on Halloween instead of getting the kids all dressed for school we get to send them in PJ's! AJ was excited to wear her new Stomeez slippers, her new kitty cat pj's and bring her new Cuddleuppet!!!