Special Girls! Special Dresses!

Without a lot of cooperation from the subjects Emilie and I managed to shoot some good pictures of my Grandaughters. These were my best shots.

First Christmas and sixth Christmas

 

Beautiful

Sisters forever

 

Sweet Baby Kisses!

 

 

Abigail Rose Tomaro's First Christmas!

Holiday Bokeh

Bokeh is a photography term that refers to intentional blur in parts of a photograph.
 SO I INTENTIONALLY BLURRED!

The beginning..........

 

 

Full Blur equals Bokeh!

 

I am so proud of me!

Pintrest taught me how to do it!

 

A Mouse in the House!

Have I told you about my mouse in the house? He ALWAYS arrives on December first. He is a distant cousin to The Elf on the Shelf. He moves around my house at night after he reports the naughty and nice to the North Pole. Each morning I get up and look to see what mischief there might be!

SNOW day!

A delightful day with Samantha and Abigail.

 

 

 

 

A VERY GOOD DAY!

Visiting Pennsylvania

 

To Babysit Kellen and Kamryn, while Tim and Robyn drove to Virginia to Tim's Company Christmas Party. They left Saturday around 1pm and came home Sunday around 3:30pm. (had a one car slide into a big curb event in Robyn's car around 12:30pm just as they were leaving for home. Probably bent the rim or drive shaft.)

 

 

I am always prepared with crafts, games and cooking treats! Kellen is getting ready to put together Foam christmas ornaments with Kamryn and I.

 

Then out to dinner at the local pizzeria. Only glitch, Had to drive Tim's car out of his garage (it had the kids car seats in it), drive to pizza place and then get car back into his garage so the door could close and so I did not scratch the car or run over any bikes. I have not driven a car into or out of a garage in 30 years! (I did just fine).

Robyn of course had her house decorated for Christmas. It looked wonderful.

Cresent Moon was cool too!

Baked cookies, spent the night, The Elf ate a cookie, We had cookies for breakfast, It snowed and Grandma drove home on the treacherous roads. I got home around 5:15pm, Sunday night,

 

Trick or Treat

Trick or Treat, Trick or Treat

Here comes Abigail down the street,

Trick or Treat, Trick or Treat,

She's all dressed up for Halloween!

 

Super Girl and Wonder Woman

 

Trick or Treat, Trick or Treat,

Here comes Samantha down the street,

Trick or Treat, Trick or Treat,

She's all dressed up for Halloween!

 

Zombie Cheerleader

Samantha, Grandma, Abigail, and GP

 

 

 Two Prize Winners!

 

 

 

Sunday Dinner

We all met at my house for family pictures at 10am. Tim and his family came from Easton, Pa., Emilie's family from South Bound Brook, NJ and Caroline (Diego has his soccer game every Sunday) from Middlesex,NJ. We mostly congregated around the boathouse, sitting on stairs, sitting on railings, sitting on benches. Of course there was the usual family drama...whining, uncooperative, and unsmiling....and that was just the adults. You should have seen the children! (Just kidding adults - laugh or cry? right?) But basically they all did it for me! They know how much I love all of them and  the pictures. It will be great if one turns out good enough for our Christmas card. Did I mention that despite not feeling well, despite it was her only day off, despite no sleep because of a teething baby, Emilie calmly took numerous pictures of all of us. She had coordinated the event a week or two ago with Robyn and then Caro, Db, and I.

But the title is Sunday dinner. Caroline invited Doug and I to their house for Sunday dinner after everyone departed from the family photo and pizza session. I had just enough time in between to sneak in a nap and then around 4:30pm we arrived at Caroline and Diego's. Then the real fun started.
Caro wanted pictures of Diego and her with their house (I am thinking to commemorate their first year in the house). I only snapped 111 pictures of them in about 45 minutes. Getting them to relax and have fun was at times, challenging. But if you take enough pictures eventually you get enough good ones to choose from.

Dinner was delicious and the company even better! Love them both!