Merry Christmas everyone

We had a wonderful day, I wanted to share some pictures !! Getting ready to go to Aunt Liz's:

I have to put on my coat and STOP playing with the kitchen??

The night before... after we put the table/chairs (from Gramma and Grampa) and the kitchen together:

OOOOOOOH! Discovering the kitchen!

I can sit at the table like a big girl:

OOh I can put things in the kitchen doors:

Playing with the play food from Aunt Diana/Lucas/Faith & Uncle EltoN:

Potato chip :)

Hi "Daise" playing in the fun too:

Elmo books:

Snapshot of some gifts:

Opening Princess Castle from Gramma Sue/Grampa Ron:

Mike & Gabrielle opening a suprise gift from me :)

I got an MP-3 from my parents, whooo!

Taking a break - we still have presents un-opened :)

Uncle Matt came to visit and we opened a nice present from him, notice how "Daise" is helping?

This was the suprise present from me - a Lionel Train set!

Mike set it up on the table last night - lots of fun!!!

YAY, do it again!

We hope you all had a lovely day with your family and loved ones!!! Merry Christmas!

Mike, Cindy & Gabrielle

Happy birthday Kimberly

Kimberly turned 17 last Weds, HAPPY birthday kiddo! I found some pictures from 2001 which was the year I met Kimberly. We were decorating the Christmas tree (before we re-did the dining room):

Being silly!

This is the chocolate house we made that year for Thanksgiving - Kimberly told me she didn't remember making it, when I was looking for pic's I found it:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIMBERLY!!!

We all hope you had a wonderful birthday, love you!~

Visit with Gramma & Grampa

We went to NY last week to see my parents, it was such a fun and relaxing week. Mike was in CA for work so it was a great week to go visit. I took a lot of pictures!

This is my smiling baby doll... after the puking incident! She got carsick about an hour after we left and I was pulled over on rte. 380 cleaning out the puke and changing her in the back of the car (we were at the side of a truck weigh station with more room on the side of the road). After a quick nap, she was in good spirits. Socks and shoes were on the floor ;)

I got this cute dress for her at Peebles, a shop we went to check out - I had never been.

Taking a little tiny rest (ha ha!).


We celebrated Gramma's birthday on Weds. (which was actually Kimberly's 17th birthday!)

Everyone eating CAKE! YUM!

This is Gramma's cake:

Someone loved cake and M&M's:

Aunt Diana letting Gabrielle dig in her purse. She had ALOT of stuff in there - even a toy truck.

I love this picture of Faith & Lucas, they are peeking and watching the ice skaters on the little rink, it's a fun Christmas decoration all the kids like:

Even Snickers had alot of fun:

And got to wear the crown ;)

On Friday, we woke up to see THIS:
(see the blue playhouse? love it!)

SO pretty?! Until we drove in it. EEK! It was wild - the sun was trying to come thru and then it just did and the roads were dry, the storm was behind us.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN we are leaving Gramma and Grampa's???

We had a really nice trip and always love spending time with everyone. Next visit will probably be Hilton Head - YAY!

Congrats to Jess and Justin!

Jess and Justin are expecting... a baby girl :) how fun!!! The due date is April 15th (who will forget that? tax day!).

We are so happy for you both, congrats!

First snow pictures

Just wanted to share some pictures from this past weekend's snow storm. It still looks so pretty outside!

Congrats to Jennifer and Domenick

Jennifer and Domenick got married on Saturday - we had a great time at the wedding/reception! and brunch on Sunday. Mike & I got to spend the night away, my parents came to babysit. That in itself was a nice treat to have some time to reconnect... with him commuting to NH, it's been very hard on all of us. We miss each other and I have been in such a funk lately because of it. Thank goodness for the mom's club and the support of my friends to keep me sane and active!! Also, Natalya is coming in to babysit a few days a week has been a wonderful experience - thank you :)

Anyway, enough about us - this post is a congrats to Jennifer & Domenick :)
Here is a link to the photographer's blog with lots of wonderful pictures:
http://alisonconklin.com/blog.cfm

Happy birthdays...

To Peter, I did wish you one in person at the wedding... happy belated!

To Kira, happy birthday!

And tomorrow... for Emily and Kathy - HAPPY birthdays!!!

Some family news!

CONGRATS to Eric and Nicky who got married last weekend, Sept 19th! We enjoyed the reception and we hope you are enjoying Greece and have a great start to your married life.


Congrats to Jess and Justin - they are expecting!! How exciting! Jess' due date is April 15th. We found out the wonderful news at the wedding.


Only a few more weeks til Jennifer's wedding. If anyone has photos to share of showers, wedding, etc. please send them to me!

Visit with Gramma & Grampa

We were lucky to get a visit with Gramma & Grampa last week! I've been having a hard time with Mike gone Sunday - Friday night; it really STINKS! So my parents came down to see us. It was fun - we went to the Promenade shops to shop, very pricey?! But we found a few things ;)

Here's some pictures from the visit:

Grampa reading lots of stories!
We went to the local park for a little bit one night:

Here's a couple of other pictures - check out the big girl reading a book in her chair! that lasted exactly as long as it took to take the picture :)

Pulling up to stand!

Gabrielle has mastered a new trick, pulling up to stand (ok for cheerios!). YAY! good job baby doll!

It's been forever since I blogged. I just haven't felt like it?! We have some things going on at home and I think that's why... just been really busy offline :) I'll try to make up for it later this week!

Here's some new pictures too while I'm here!