Happy Halloween

Today is Halloween and we're having visitors every 5 minutes *lol*... we're ready with a big bucket of candies. Apparently there are always around 200 kids coming around here in our neighborhood!!!

Look at this house? Zoe and I were at a Halloween Party this afternoon but left before dinner time so we could eat at home and enjoy 'trick or treat' with Daddy.
Our little pumpkin and mommy:
She knows the camera:
Zoe is teething again so she bites on stuff and loves her ice cold bite-rings:

She's just a quirly girl

This is Zoe not wanting to take her nap!!!

This is how I found her sleeping *lol*... she cracks me up!

Funny Day

Yeah, we have some fun times. Here another shot of our little sweet pea :)... yesterday I bought her a halloween costume :)... you'll see hers in a couple of days:

Goofing around:

Really??? Her look is so funny! He still fits in her little jacket which is 0-3 months!!! It's just the cutest jacket but so 'fancy' stuff is not very 'practical' for babies ;)...
We went shopping and as we came out (we parked right next to the cart garage) two carts where sitting right next to my car and one even touched my car! Man, was I furious! Look at this cute baby girl :)...

Halloween Mom's Group

Today we dressed up our little ones at our mom's group meeting... look at our little Lobster: Grant (Geri made the costume herself):

Ella is a 'ladybug' and Jill had another costume that I could borrow for Zoe, a 'sweet pea'
:)
And Kaitlyn came as a Candy (sorry, I forgot what kind of candy... I know I've never eaten it because I didn't know it). Our little munchkins, aren't they cute???and here a video of Zoe being all excited about the dog. She loves cats and dogs, this is how she is when she sees them *lol*

and last but not least a picture of Zoe with Aunt Patty at the 50th Anniversary so you can see how she was dressed :)...

pics from Steph's Wedding

Got some pics today from Steph's wedding:

Us four :)... Sandra, Steph, I and Sandra:
Steph with her bridesmaides:
The married couple Steph and Marty:
The wedding party:

Frank and I were dancing a lot... so much fun :)

The Wedding Cake, I tried to get Frank's piece but he wouldn't give it to me *lol*
We had a great time.

50th Anniversary of Aunt Nita (Frank's Mom's sister) and Uncle Melvin

We just came back from our trip to Baltimore which was GREAT. We just talked about it, every time we go to Baltimore... we have so much fun and enjoy our stay sooo much.

FR we went out to a gig of Frank's cousins (grandma watched Zoe) we were home at 230AM *lol*... that was awesome. Try to find us in the crowd :)... Matt took a picture standing on the drum chair!

SAT night was the 50th anniversary party of Aunt Nita and Uncle Melvin and we took a picture before we left so you can see the hot couple:

My sister in law Patty :)... i love her, we had lots of fun
And Ray and Patty:
On Sunday Frank's cousin Michele invited the family over to watch the Raven's game (football). It was so great hanging out with everybody... Zoe had fun as well... here she's checking out her great cousin: Coen
Patty bought Zoe her first Raven T-Shirt:
little Coen was sleeping through the whole game (he's 2.5 months old and such a Cutie):
Daddy hanging out with Zoe, checking out the dog 'Chrissy':
Aunt Nita and great cousin Brandon (Aunt Nita's grandson)
Michele and Zoe (Nita's daughter)
The two aunties with their 'niece' and 'nephew' :)
Michele, Brandon, Coen, Patty and Zoe:
... and finally us three (Zoe loves is to grab our noses, ears, glasses... etc.)
Zoe did so great. She was just having a blast, playing around...

The trip to Baltimore and back home was just great, she did soooo well. Boah man... we have such a great baby girl!!! So, time to relax and put the feet up :). Baby is in bed and I'll go soon as well, I have to catch up on some sleep from the weekend ;)

Night out

Yesterday Frank and I had our first couples' night out alone since Zoe is with us. It was so great, I was soooo excited... you can't imagine ;). Had everything planned out that we leave as soon as I brought Zoe to bed and it turned out perfect. However Zoe got up unexpected again at 1030PM and she was 'surprised' that Grandma checked on her and cried a little bit but Grandma played with her and hold her until she fell back asleep again and when we came home, Ms. Zoe was playing around enjoying the company of Grandma but was also ecstatic to see her Mommy :). It was perfect :).

And Frank and I had a great time last night. There were three bands playing. The first one was ok (Frank's cousin Mike played the guitar), the second one played awesome but wasn't really our 'style' and the third one (the one we came for) was so awesome man! Frank's cousin Matt was playing the drums and his band hasn't played together in 10 yrs because Matt moved to L.A. so it was a reunion gig. Fun Fun Fun, here some pics:

My brother in law: Jay and sister in Law (from the other brother): Patty
My hubby and I :)
Us girls :)... Patty, Michele (Frank's cousin), me and Anna (Matt's girlfriend, she and Matt just had a baby boy 'Coen' who we'll meet tonight for the first time). Oh and Matt in the back ;)... Jay couldn't help it and gave Michele some rabbit ears:
Jimmy (Michele's husband) and Ray (Frank's brother and Patty's husband)
Matt playing the drums (he's Michele's and Mike's brother by the way)
Getting confused??? Frank has a huge family *lol*... and tonight is the 50th anniversary of his aunt Nita & Melvin (parents of Mike, Michele and Matt). They were baby sitting baby Coen yesterday ;)...

So I'll finally meet almost the rest of the gang (only one side though, the smaller side. Frank's dad has much more siblings). I'm sooo excited, again we're matching up, this time in purple/black :)... but not with our daughter, but that's ok since she's going to bed at 8PM anyways. Yesterday we were in bed at 3AM *lol*... woohoo... let's see how long the show goes tonight. My hair is done already, everybody is taking a nap here or is doing 'last minute' errands. I just have to get my make up done an will be good to go, maybe I should quickly get that out of the way before the bathroom will be occupied for hrs.

Patty came over today to spend some time with Zoe ;)
'Hello :)... I'm having FUN'

Hotel stop - half way

Today we've driven more than half the way to Baltimore. We decided to split the way to Baltimore into half so Zoe is not getting too sick of traveling *lol*. She did so great today again... man :)... here you can see her hang out in our hotel room, being happy to not be in the car seat anymore. She wanted to play longer but I put her to bed at 8PM ;)... as always... tomorrow she can play around a lot more since we should be at Frank's parents already around lunch/ a little after lunch. We have only 3.5 hrs to go tomorrow and will start right after breakfast :). Uiuiui... that's gonna be fun

One happy baby

Look at her keeping herself busy with all her toys... she moves around on her butt somehow because she's always in another location when I look at her again ;)... but she's having a lot of fun:Yesterday we finally went to the music class again (we missed two weeks because of vacation and sickness) and as soon as she spotted the first kid, she was thrilled. She was smiling big times throughout the whole class and everybody was very 'surprised' by such a happy baby ;). Zoe really missed it. After the class she was so exhausted that she took a nap on the way back home. Oh man, we have such a great baby... can't say it often enough... Can this smile get any bigger?

Steph's wedding

Hello, we're back home and such a happy family :). We had a great time at the wedding party after we recovered from the disappointment of missing the wedding ceremony due to a miscommunication :(. The church made them change the ceremony to an hr earlier but somehow the information didn't go through to us so we came 15 min earlier of the original time into the church and there we see them getting announced as 'husband and wife'. That was a big bummer and I was sooo sad :(...

It was a very nice weekend. On FR we arrived around dinner time at our hotel. Frank went out to dinner with his boss and Zoe and I had a very nice dinner with our friend Vicki. On Saturday we took it very easy, got up when Zoe requested us to *lol*... had a nice breakfast, relaxed and got ready... it was so much fun getting ready, dress us all up (incl. our little munchkin). We looked sooo good :)... all matched up in pink :)... at 2:30PM we left the hotel, went to the church to check out the parking spaces and where it is located... we saw the wedding car standing already in front of the church that is going to drive them away (but didn't think anything weird about it)... there were a few cars standing but LOTS of spaces left for us. I got more and more excited... it's getting close... so off we went trying to find a McDonalds to satisfy our little hunger and were back at the church at 3:30PM... since we didn't wanted to be too early we waited in the car for a couple of minutes and went into the church at 3:40PM...

What did we learn? Yeah, the next parties we'll attend, we'll double and triple check the date and time *lol*

We had a great time eating, dancing and chatting with friends. Zoe did awesome, we fed her before we went to the reception. While we had dinner, she was playing around with her toys and at 8PM I breast fed her in the 'coatroom' ;) and made her 'bed ready', put her back in the stroller, blanket over it so it's 'dark' for her and she went right to sleep and slept through the whole party until we left and put her into the car. She was amazing... she went to bed right before the dancing started so Frank and I had many opportunities to hit the dance floor :). We actually danced together for the very first time since we're together ;)... it was very special.

We're having such a wonderful life and are sooo happy with our little family :)... we're looking forward to our trip to Baltimore already a lot. Can't wait to see our family *YEAH*. Also Frank and I'll go out for the first time since Zoe is with us. His cousin is having a gig and my mom in law is watching Zoe so we can take off and have some couple time with Frank's brother + wife and best friend + wife. That's gonna be a blast... and again, this will be the first time the two of us are going to a concert together. Saturday is the 50th Anniversary Party of Frank's aunt and uncle and Sunday is a family football outing.

And here now some pics of our munchkin... I didn't take more pics than this one in the stroller... I'm hoping for Sandra to forward me some pics of the wedding electronically ;). Zoe was smiling all the time, she enjoyed the time with everybody a lot :)
Here the pics I took before (the test fitting)
And this will be the 'Anniversary' outfit for next weekend. We'll all wear something 'gold'... Zoe's dress has golden dots, Frank has a golden tie and I'll probably just go with golden jewelery and I'm still looking for something golden for the hairdo ;). It's so much fun dressing up the whole family :)
Unfortunately, now Frank is sick as well :(... Zoe is still very stuffed up even though she got rid of a LOT... she's stuffed up now for 2 weeks!!! Amazing what fits in this little body! I guess we have to go back to the doc tomorrow :(... our spirit is very good though :). We're just a very happy happy family :)

Our little pumkin

Look at her... you can't even put her in a spot anymore and take a picture, she's constantly moving, I have to get used to that man ;)... it's getting colder outside (10Degrees C) but the sun ist still shining purely and our trees changed into fall colors... the most beautiful picture ever (Yes, Ullu, I'm gonna take pics of course *g*).
We had a pre fitting yesterday into her little dresses for the wedding this WE and next WE the anniversary party... but I won't show them yet :)... I'll get to it when we've attended the events. I'm looking forward to the wedding a lot. It's actually our first fancy event together :). We tried to match us up (like couples do) and you won't believe how much running around for the dress, tie, make up... etc. we've done?! It's crazy how much time (and money) you can spent on that!!! Well... just have to get my work done and then we'll hit the road. Frank is off today so he's going to take care of Zoe while I work 4 hrs straight.