Christmas 2012

Chirstmas 2012 was spent in New York and Pennsylvania this year.

First, of course, we had to have our annual photo shoot and selected our favorites - they are at the end:



My PetsJubilee family on etsy are filled with wonderful people many of whom exchanged gifts, including our secret santa:



I would say the Christmas fesitivities started on Christmas Eve at work, because I took the dogs to work that day, all dressed in their Christmas sweaters and jingle bell collars.
I am sure Giupetto and Gianna had lots of fun. They visited the other offices, and they hung out on my chair and on my desk.
We brought in pizza for lunch in the conference room, and they made friends with my boss, who fed them some pizza, carefully blowing on each piece to make sure it was cool enough for the dogs to eat.




Christmas eve after work we went out to dinner with the family and then went back to John's son's house, where we exchanged gifts. Included in these following pictures is a blanket my DIL Joy had made for us with some great pictures, including pics of Giupetto and Gianna with thier kids. I just love it. I love all of my gifts.





I hope you have enjoyed my collection of Christmas photos.
Merry Christmas to everyone.
May the peace, love and joy of the season stay with you throughout 2013.

Gianna's 8th Birthday - Dec 16, 2012

Hi theres. My name is Gianna, and I just had my 8th birthday.

Moms bought me a really pretty dress from my grandma Pauline on etsy. Mom says we should give the link so any one who wants a dress likes mine can buy one (but not mine because I have that one) PaulinesFashions.etsy.com

 

 

 

 

It is my favorite color blue, and although I am not usually a frilly girly girl I love all the frills on this dress. It has white lacey stuff and blue sparkly stuff, Mom says called sequints, and even the stars are sparklies.

 

And I got a package in the mail of these treats that look like great big bones, but they are really italian cookies called Biscotti. There were 3 in the package and I got one and Giupetto got one but even though I finished mine and Giupetto was still slowly nibbles on his, Mom wouldn't give me the last one. We had to wait a whole day and then share it!!

 

Thank you Grandma Pauline, for making such a pretty dress, and thank you alls for watching my birthday video.

 

((Best viewed if you click on the screen to view in youtube fullscreen.))

 

 

 

Super Storm Sandy leaves it's mark on my town

 

These pics were taken 4 weeks after the storm.

 

This is the lobby of my building.

 

Entire first floor apartment - had to be gutted

 

 

Collected piles of debris line the streets, both sides.

 

 

 

 

Porta Potties are still set up on the streets.

 

Where there used to be cars parked on the street and in the meridian by the shops are now all these disaster recovery trailers and trucks.

 

 

This truck and that hose is attached to my building, still sucking out the moisture and mold after 4 weeks.

 

 

 

 

This sand used to be the street. The sand should be way back to where the board walk is. 

Again this is 4 weeks after the storm and they still have all this sand to relocate.

 

 

We saw cars that were covered up to the roof in sand and seaweed.

And we still saw lots of signs for where people could get free food and water.

 

I sure hope 4 weeks from now there is some significant improvement.

At least we now have power.

Thanksgiving 2012

We went to John's daughter Jennifer's home for Thanksgiving.
This is the wonderful house they moved into recently.
Just such a wonderful place to be. I love the house too.

We took the 2 dogs and stayed over. I think we all had a really great time.

In the past, their dog Lexie and my 2 dogs didn't get along that well, but everyone talked me into bringing them, and they were all right.
I think all 3 dogs have calmed down and everything went well.

Of course they all teased me the whole time about how terrible the dogs were getting along, as I was the only one worried. LOL

Some of the pics in the video were taken by the kids. They love cameras too.

At the end of the short video is a movie clip of Nicholas dancing - it is very cute.
Enjoy.

Halloween 2012

Some cute pictures and videos of our Halloween October 2012.

Mid October we went to our local Halloween parade.

There were some kids in really great costumes.

My favorite was the family that went as Shmores.
The little baby was in a wagon decorated in flmaes.
The baby was dressed as the marshmallow (toasting in the fire). Mom and Dad wore chocolate covered sweat suits carrying boards that looked like graham crackers.

There was seafood soup, with the 2 toddlers dressed as the seafood, inside a wagon decorated as the pot on the stove.

Lots of super heros and princesses and skeletons.

 Lots of babies as lobsters, all very cute.

 

My 2 "kids" went as The Captain of the Pittsburg Steelers, and the head cheerleader, and me and my husband went as the fans.

They were the hit of the parade.

This weekend, in preparing for Sandy, the big storm, I bought them some Halloween outfits to lighten the mood.

Enjoy.

 

 

Rock Hall Autumn Fair/ Festival

We had a wonderful time at the annual autumn festival.
The fair was a huge success, although quite exhausting.

We did have the dogs, Giupetto and Gianna with us for an hour or so on the second day, but I forgot to take pictures. They were dressed in the super hero costumes and they were a huge hit.

The weather was great, the crowds were great, and there was live music both days.

Fun for all.

10 year anniversary

Today is our 10 year anniversary. It is a beautiful day today, so hopefully we will get to spend some of it outside.
Traditionally - 10 year anniversary gift is tin or aluminum, and my husband got me this beautiful aluminum sculpture from Peru. It is called A Flower for My Love. And I just love it!
Silly man keeps coming in with a flower and assuming the same position as the sculpture. LOL

It also came beautifully wrapped and on the outside of the paper bow is what I believe to be a worry doll. It fit right on Gianna's neck as a pretty bow. LOL

 

I couldn't find anything I liked for him in aluminum or tin, but while on line shopping I saw this.

 

I insantly knew it was the right gift. He loves plants.

He put it all together and here is his little miniature garden with little mini gnome, 3 plants, little deck chair and pillow, stepping stones and garden gazing ball. :-)