Gabriel's 1st haircut

Look how cute my nephew is:

awww...not a fan of the haircut!

Hallloween Night

We started the evening out with a Halloween block party. Our neighbor pulled out their grill and everyone brought food for some pre-Halloween fun!

Monkey-boy Gabriel

Dragon boy-Owen

Princess Sleeping "Violet"- thanks Nana for this costume from Disneyland!

The Dragon chasing the Princess

Violet with her friend Minnie "Lucy"

Dragon-boy was not down with having pictures taken

A little picnic dinner:) The weather was perfect! Not too warm or cold, just right for trick-or-treating!

Pop Pop with his little monkey

Mom Mom with her funny monkey

The whole little gang from our new hood:)

Trick-or-treating!

In front of our house:

Violet and Owen ran into "Jesse & Woody" and we ended up trick or treating with them the whole time! Owen was a huge fan and it was a dream come true to be treating with his all time hero-Woody! He would run after her yelling, "Woo Woo" if she got a little too far from him. It was so cute:)

Candy Coma

Halloween Parties

Halloween Party at the Osuri house:

the dad's actually carved these:)

bobbing for apples

Giovanni and Violet

Owen (oh so happy) and Judah

Violet's Preschool Party!

Dance Class

Violet in her Princess Ballerina class! Do you think they know their market?! Princesses and Ballerinas! Each week they danced and learned about a different Disney Princess.

Violet and her friend she made in class, Olivia.

Violet-The Photographer

Here are a few shots Violet took with our camera. I think she has some real talent:)

She really loves the window clings!

Visit from CA

What a fun time had by all when Papa and Nana came for a visit!

Visit to USNA:

Ice Cream Break downtown Annapolis

The Ladies having a little tea break:

Fire House

2nd Field trip with Violet's class was to the local Firehouse. I think I was more excited about this trip then she was:) Although she did ask them if girls could be a fireman and that she wanted to do that! Violet I discovered, has quite the flair for drama, not quite sure where she gets that from.... She volunteered for everything and was picked for most since she was sooo responsive to everything. My favorite was when they were teaching them to "stop-drop-roll" in case they ever catch on fire and they should never play with candles or to be careful around campfires cuz sometimes parents are watching as well as we should be. Violet raises her hand and informs the fireman that HER Mom walks away all the time and doesn't watch her around fire....I was shocked and then everyone is looking at me like I'm Mother of the Year! I tried to explain that we have battery operated candles, that's how "safe" we are at our house! Not sure if they bought it though:) Another favorite was when she told them I was her grandmother...What?! Her teacher informed me that she is always like this and loves to offer up information to make people laugh....GREAT!