And now she is so big and full of energy that I am lucky to catch her sitting still!

This is a rare photo of one of those moments – Peanut sitting for breakfast with Santa.  We had so much fun this year – family parties, cookie parties, and best of all quality time with those we love…

Christmas hugs for my Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop

Baking cookies with Uncle Jay

The finished product!

Smiles and laughter with the girls on Christmas Eve

And our boys (+ Peanut)

Oh my goodness – Could it be?  It’s a somewhat-good-photo of the three of us!

Fun presents – Aunt Kayla after she discovered her art table at the end of a very long ribbon!

The girls enjoyed their fingerstaches (from yours truly)

hehe

Plenty of monkeying around!

play doh with grandpa on Christmas morning

and paint!

aaah!  the aftermath!  (the sad part is that this was somewhat “cleaned up”)

We had Christmas dinner at Nanny’s!  Yum!

And we made wonderful memories!  We hope that you and your family enjoyed the beauty of this Christmas season!

Now that I have entered the smart phone world I can start sharing photos on the go. I have been posting these kinds of photos to facebook for a little while now but realize that there are some of you who only read the blog. Here is a photo of a photo from breakfast with Santa – Peanut didn’t want to get too close!

Peanut & Mr. Dimples wish you a Merry Christmas!

Many, many more to come!

We visited Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop up the mountains!

Hanging in Pop-Pop’s pool room

We celebrated Mr. Dimples’ first birthday!!

Party Fun!

Ready for cake!

We had a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Little-kid Cousin fun

And Big-kid cousin fun!!

Cheers!

Many many more holiday photos to come!

Household projects!

Playing with favorite things – anything that goes on the head falls into that category.

Sitting in the $3 yard sale chair  (woo hoo)

PUMPKINS!

She’s on a mission…

To find her pumpkin – and -

find the dirtiest spot in the ENTIRE field

Peanut’s been playing with friends

and her new playhouse!

We had a night out – Hubby was my “catch” for Rachael & Brad’s annual Halloween Party (we won best costume!)

We spent time with the ice cream Sundae family!

and that pitcher (what’s his face? – literally) and a BARD

Our own little pumpkin fairy came to wish us Happy Halloween!

and collect some spooky treats

and take a ride in a pink pirate ship!

We’ve been playing in leaves – can you see Hubby in there?

Hehe.  I am sure there will be plenty more fall fun ahead of us … Until next time… =)

Nice, Uncle Rich!

And then there was Shark Bait’s 3rd birthday party (Finding Nemo style)

Happy birthday Shark Bait (hoo ha ha)!  ~Finding Nemo lovers will appreciate this

And the month ended with a trip up north, to the fishy coastline of Maine, to visit the UNCLE JAYMAN (you know, the marine biologist)

Reunited (and it feels so good)!

Peanut singing in the morning to Uncle Jay…what fun we had!

And my own little water baby fishie….September had it all – family and friends and many, many wonderful memories.

Hubby & Peanut (blurry) blowing bubbles on the front step as the wind started to pick up

Hubby clearing part of the big branch that fell onto our yard

Peanut emerging from the house – sans pants – to check out Irene’s aftermath

and discovering our broken tree swing =/ …

all in all we could have made out far worse.  Many of our north jersey friends have had major flooding in their homes and some homes have even been condemned.  We found out two days after the hurricane that our home had a gas leak from a faulty hot water heater installation (installed the day before the hurricane).  Readings above 25 are considered a leak and ours read 2000.  Thankfully we had decided to stay at my mom’s when our power went out the day after the hurricane or we would have been lighting candles in our house.  If there was ever a moment to believe in divine intervention – that was it.

Bathing beauty at the lake

Swinging with her buddy

All smiles!

A smooch for a friend!

Just another day at the lake with her buddy!

A trip to Maryland to visit Batman Steve and Robin and the site of their future home!!

Peanut loved the pool!

Uncle Brad grillin’ (WATCH OUT!)

hehe

We had just as much fun as our Capitol Hillarious trip last year – thank you Steve and Robin for being such great hosts!

Peanut’s cutie cousin turned 3!!!!

Rainy day daddy piggy-backs!

Morning smiles!

Fingerpainting…

With her buddies!

Her buddies even showed her how to play pool…

…kind of

hehe

Waiting for the “ball shower”…

woo hoo!

Peanut and her friends sure did have a great summer.  (so did her mommy and daddy)  We can’t wait to see what autumn will bring!

A day at the lake with Peanut’s cousin!

The Jayman Returns!!  (and the first “official” BBQ at Peanut’s new house)

Peanut partyin’

Happy Birthday Moms!  (Jayman’s mom & my mom have the same birthday)

It was a great day!

Hangin’ with Aunt Kayla…

Where did the ball go?  Haha!

Having fun in the “grocery store” at Johnson’s Farm!

vroom vroom

hehe

Peanut & her friend on the hayride!

Pickin’ corn!

Aunt Kayla had fun in the playground too haha

A beautiful wedding for a beautiful couple – Congrats Ashley and Teo!

Just Beautiful Gorgeous!  ;)

Happy 17th Birthday Aunt Kayla!

Peanut & Grandpa

Aunt Kayla being silly (she really wanted to use that new pocket knife) haha!

Happy birthday!!!