We headed down south this week for a vacation with Grams and had a wonderful time.  After a 10 hour drive from La Serena, we arrived in Salto del Laja. Penelope did wonderful in the car and really enjoyed having Grams in back with her.  The waterfalls were amazing!  Our rooms overlooked the waterfall and we were able to sleep to the sound of the falls all night.  Stay tuned for our next adventure!

Arrived on Saturday evening for a week visit.  Penny was so excited to see them and has been playing with them ever since.  On Saturday evening we celebrated Adam’s birthday, on Sunday we threw Karin a baby shower, Monday we spent the day together around the house, today (Tuesday) we’re going to Great Grandma’s for the day, Wed we head to Fairfield and on Thursday head up to Maine for the holiday weekend.  Obviously, many more updates to come!

(Yummy manicotti)

(Penny feeding Aunt Karin and Uncle Adam manicotti)

(Pretty Penny in her party dress, ready for the shower)

(all the pretty ladies at the shower, unfortunately I was pretty busy and wasn’t able to get many pictures, but the shower was awesome!)

(Karin cutting the cake.  It was a noah’s ark them shower, so I made the cake in said shape.  We also made animal cut out cookies)

are now on my picasa page.

On Friday, Mommy went off to Boston, so PJ and I drove down to Fairfield to visit Cara, Joel, and little William.  It was so nice being able to hang out with them again!  We got to try some of Joel’s homebrew (fantastic), and play out in the yard while Joel (with some help from Penny) worked on his hanging hops garden.  Penny had a great time and really likes to hang out with William.  So much fun!

THIS WEEK ONLY!

Penelope is guest-starring at our friend’s, Alan and Janet, blog — The Essence of Ella and Nathaniel .

Must be sweeps month in PA.  Anyways, should keep you busy until I can get through some of my photos.  I did finally post my Japan pics (and the best are now rolling out daily at tinyphotons)!