Monday Survey

1. What is your occupation right now? project engineer
2. What color are your socks right now? black
3. What are you listening to right now? silence at work.
4.What was the last thing that you ate? cheese stick
5. Can you drive a stick shift? i can, but prefer automatic
6. Last person you spoke to on the phone? cath
8. How old are you today? 30.
9. What is your favorite sport to watch on TV? red sox baseball or college basketball.
10. What is your favorite drink? diet cherry pepsi
11. Have you ever dyed your hair? tons of times
12. Favorite food? mashed potatoes
13. Last movie you watched? license to wed, pretty dumb
14. Favorite day of the year? halloween or st pattys day, its a tie
15. How do you vent anger? cry
16. What was your favorite toy as a child? barbies
17. What is your favorite season? fall
18. Cherries or Blueberries? blueberries \
22. When was the last time you cried? yesterday, watching a deer with 1 or 2 broken legs trying to run away from a police who i assume was going to put it out of its misery...it was awful.
23. What is on the floor of your closet? shoes.
25. What did you do last night? watched a movie, gave all the puppies a bath, gave audrey a bath, unpacked.
26. What are you most afraid of? living to be OLD
27. Plain, cheese, or spicy Hamburg? cheese...
28. Favorite dog breed? poms of course
29. Favorite day of the week? friday
30. How many states have you lived in? 3, NY, SC and PA
31. Diamonds or pearls? diamonds
32. What is your favorite flower? roses

Survivor Update #8

strike one for becky... i think its funny that kenny think he is like the rat of the group because of the way he is playing. I think he is the rat because he actually looks like one!!! there are way too many people I dont like on this season and only a few that I do...


Becky: Sugar & Charlie
Carrie: GC & Crystal
Cathy: Jacque & Corinne
Emily: Paloma & Matty
Hope: Bob & Marcus
Luanne: Randy & Kenny
Mike: Dan & Gillian
Nicole: Michelle & Ace
Ryan: Kelly & Susie

baby girl

i just thought this was the cutest picture so i posted it :)

Survivor Update #7

oh i cant wait to see the other tribes reaction to marcus getting voted out. i wonder if the merge will happen next episode...

Becky: Sugar & Charlie
Carrie: GC & Crystal
Cathy: Jacque & Corinne
Emily: Paloma & Matty
Hope: Bob & Marcus
Luanne: Randy & Kenny
Mike: Dan & Gillian
Nicole: Michelle & Ace
Ryan: Kelly & Susie

its only tuesday...

for some reason this week has been really long already...and it just started.
halloween was fun- here is the puppy/baby picture from friday night. they all did so good- we walked them before the picture so that they would be calm- however we forgot that they will be panting- so the puppies dont look that cute in the pictures, they just look thirsty!

we only got 14 trick or treaters, i was very disappointed...

saturday we decided to drive up the delaware river to do some leaf peeping...we went to a couple of garage sales along the way, ate lunch in a cute little jersey town, and stopped at an apple festival. we got a nice bookshelf at a garage sale and a nice frame. We got stuck in some traffic along the way and we were behind a child molester van filled to the brim with what looked like trash to me. then after following the van for probably 10 minutes in stop and go traffic someone started moving around in the back of it. some mexican guy was in the van squished against the back door, looked like he had been sleeping then woke up. It was pretty creepy. i tried to take a picture but didnt get a good one.

Survivor Update #6

the first victims of survivor...i'm shocked that sugar believed kenny... i dont think that was their best move, Not sure how they plan to win challenges with a pinup model, computer game player, a supposed olympic athelete, and matty. Luckily for them it looked like the merge will happen next week. I'm not like corinne or randy...I would like to see them go next.

Becky: Sugar & Charlie
Carrie: GC & Crystal
Cathy: Jacque & Corinne
Emily: Paloma & Matty
Hope: Bob & Marcus
Luanne: Randy & Kenny
Mike: Dan & Gillian
Nicole: Michelle & Ace
Ryan: Kelly & Susie

9 WORDS/PHRASES WOMEN USE

I got this in a forward today...thought it was all too true

(1) Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

(2) Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.

(3) Nothing: This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with Nothing usually end in Fine.

(4) Go Ahead: This is a dare, not permission. Don't Do It!

(5) Loud Sigh: This is not actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to #3 for the meaning of Nothing.)

(6) That's Okay: This is one of the most dangerous statements a women can make to a man. That's okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

(7) Thanks: A woman is thanking you, so do not question or faint. Just say you're welcome. (This is true, unless she says 'Thanks a lot' - that is PURE sarcasm and she is not thanking you at all. DO NOT say 'you're welcome' ... that will bring on a 'Whatever').

(8) Whatever: Is a women's way of saying 'up yours'!

(9) Don't worry about it, I got it: Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking 'What's wrong?' For the woman's response refer to #3

getting ready for halloween

we are finally getting ready for halloween, no costume party for us this year...i'm sad, especially seeing all the fun halloween pictures everyone has been posting. i'm excited to actually hand out candy this year. we closed on our house last year on halloween- but the neighborhood didnt really know we lived here so we only got a few trick or treaters, this year i am expecting alot more. we carved our pumpkin tonight and audrey has her devil costume all set. I went to buy the native american baby costume and they were all sold out, everywhere i looked. i'll post some pics of all the dogs and audrey on halloween. Audreys daycare is doing a parade too- so i will atleast get to go to that.

it snowed in PA today...we got about 1-2 inches this morning but by 5 most of it had melted away. i couldnt believe it though- it was so nice! i realized by living here how much i love and miss snow.

Survivor Update #5

oh that fang tribe is a pretty sad bunch... i hope they merge or something soon...

Becky: Jessica & Charlie
Carrie: Danny & Crystal
Cathy: Jacque & Corinne
Emily: Paloma & Matty
Hope: Bob & Marcus
Luanne: Randy & Ken
Mike: Dan & Gillian
Nicole: Michelle & Ace
Ryan: Kelly & Susie

Survivor Update #4

glad to see him go...

Becky: Jessica & Charlie
Carrie: Danny & Crystal
Cathy: Jacque & Corinne
Emily: Paloma & Matty
Hope: Bob & Marcus
Luanne: Randy & Ken
Mike: Dan & Gillian
Nicole: Michelle & Ace
Ryan: Kelly & Susie

Halloween

i'm taking a vote...what should audrey be for halloween? i bought her a little onesie outfit, simple, red with a tail and horns and it says 'my lil devil' on it- however i'm thinking i want something else.

she could be a hot pepper like this:














or a native american girl:














what do you think?

this is for her daycare parade and for giving out candy from our house...she isnt actually trick or treating this year...

Survivor Update #3

Dumb people as usual on survivor...do you think they edit all that to make the viewers mad? I mean kelly did nothing in the challenge, kenny did even less and they vote off the person who actually did something in the challenge...


Becky: Jessica & Charlie
Carrie: Danny & Crystal
Cathy: Jacque & Corinne
Emily: Paloma & Matty
Hope: Bob & Marcus
Luanne: Randy & Ken
Mike: Dan & Gillian
Nicole: Michelle & Ace
Ryan: Kelly & Susie

Hatfield = animals

so most people know we used to live in west bumf*k, NY....lived out in the country where you would *think* animals aplenty.... well we moved to the North suburbs of philadelphia and I didnt think we would encounter the zoo. This weekend we had two sightings/adventures. Reminder that a few months ago we had some groundhog fiascos and we saw a fox once in the woods...well saturday late morning we saw 3 deer slowly meandering behind our fence...pretty cool to see- nothing crazy there. but we never even saw deer in our yard in portville. so i was impressed. sighting #1
sighting #2 - sunday morning audrey woke us up at 7 ish. i fed her and was hoping she would fall back asleep...she didnt so at about 8:15 ryan got up and took her downstairs. I went back to bed. about 2 minutes after ryan left i heard our lovely poms barking in the backyard- no shock there. well then i heard murphy bark and the poms were getting more and more crazy with their barking. so i knew something was wrong. my first thought was oh great they got a squirrel. so i go into the bathroom and open the window to see whats going on. they are barking at a tree just outside the fence. Then i see a black tail and thought it was a squirrel, only then do i see the huge raccoon body attached to the tail. it was crawling down the tree (6 inches from the fence) towards the dogs. I go screaming down the stairs for ryan to go out and get the dogs. luckily ryan got the dogs to come inside and the raccoon went running off into the woods. I hope it wasnt rabid or that it comes back. it was atleast twice the size of linus.
I would have expected any of this where we used to live but not at our new house.

Survivor Update #2

whooops forgot all about this...probably since i was mad one of mine got voted off :) i'm loving sugar- i'm so glad she found the idol. I dont think she should have told Ace though.


Becky: Jessica & Charlie
Carrie: Danny & Crystal
Cathy: Jacque & Corinne
Emily: Paloma & Matty
Hope: Bob & Marcus
Luanne: Randy & Ken
Mike: Dan & Gillian
Nicole: Michelle & Ace
Ryan: Kelly & Susie

ryans new tattoo

Happy Early Birthday to Ryan!!!
Ryan got a new tattoo today...here is a picture of the final product...and a video i took while he was getting it done.

Survivor Update #1

two people out in one night...i didnt know they were going to do a 2-hour special. its not looking good for nicole...unless that team keeps winning, which is very possible.

Becky: Jessica & Charlie
Carrie: Danny & Crystal
Cathy: Jacque & Corinne
Emily: Paloma & Matty
Hope: Bob & Marcus
Luanne: Randy & Ken
Mike: Dan & Gillian
Nicole: Michelle & Ace
Ryan: Kelly & Susie

SURVIVOR: GABON

okay nothing like waiting until the last minute! drew names last night and here they are:

Becky: Jessica & Charlie
Carrie: Danny & Crystal
Cathy: Jacque & Corinne
Emily: Paloma & Matty
Hope: Bob & Marcus
Luanne: Randy & Ken
Mike: Dan & Gillian
Nicole: Michelle & Ace
Ryan: Kelly & Susie

Good Luck Everyone!

weekend

I have lots of fun pics from the weekend. Saturday evening we took a walk and there was a hot air balloon flying over our house.
picturesque















and while shopping on sunday I found Native Gnomes! how perfect!















I also got my license plate on my car- I have been noticing ALOT of pennsylvanians have these tacky airbrush plates...thank god becky got me this so now I can fit in :)

New Haircut

I got a new haircut and highlights today- i'm loving it... Audrey Loves it too :)

ipod nano

I got a cute new lime green ipod nano today...its a belated birthday present. Happy Birthday to me :)

Apples and Football

This weekend we went up to syracuse for the SU-Penn State Football game at the Dome. Syracuse was crushed. but it was cool to go to the dome for a football game, i had never been before. Only basketball games. it was soooo hot that day and i had only brought my new Syracuse sweatshirt. i think i was the only person in the whole dome in kelly green :) There were tons of penn state fans too. we sat in front of the most annoying people in the world- they were wearing orange and are season ticket holders but the bitched and moaned about the SU team from the second it started. Every play they made some comment on how bad or dumb the coaches, players were. I'm surprised they didnt complain about Ottos running technique. I wanted to turn around and ask them why the bother coming every week if they are just going to complain the whole time. And the woman sounded just like rachel dratch from SNL. ugh. Syracuse was losing so bad that by half time 90% of the student section was gone and ~50% of the rest of the stadium was cleared by the end of the third quarter. we left shortly after that too. Dennis Quaid and 2 other actors from the new movie 'the express' did the coin toss and a little speech at half time. that was cool.

Saturday morning before the game we went apple picking too. we got lots of apples and raspberries. Made me feel green :)

Here are the pics from the weekend

Go Bills...or Eagles!

Audrey and Dad watching football.

Audrey was wearing her bills outfit- however we couldn't watch the bills game here, so she cheers for the eagles too. they both won yesterday - So she was happy.

we got alot done this weekend- we put up alot of our organization stuff in the garage. i'm hoping to get our college beer fridge into the garage so our kitchen doesn't look like a dorm room anymore. we went and bought a new table/bench for our kitchen. we have one wall that was pretty bare and non-functional so we went to ikea and got a very nice table with drawers. and it stores our recyclable stuff too.














we spent our saturday night putting it together. then we watched 'the greatest game ever played' it was a golf movie with shia labeouf. it was pretty good. we didn't get everything done i wanted to but we did okay.

weight watchers

so i bit the bullet and finally went back to weight watchers wednesday night...besides my pregnant time- this is the most i have ever weighed in my life. so after a year of not counting points i have started again. I'm hoping it wont be as hard to lose weight as i feel its going to be :)

and what does my loving husband (of 4 years now) do to help support my new embarkment of weight loss? he buys 3-1/2 gallons of ice cream...while i am at my first ww meeting no less. in his defense he did buy me some ww ice cream bars - only 2 points each. and one of the 1/2 gallons was no sugar added.

island beach state park

On saturday we trekked over to NJ to see the ocean. the day was perfect- sunny and warm but not too too hot. I forgot how much fun the ocean is to swim in. i rode the waves, they smashed me into the sand over and over, got lots of saltwater in my eyes, ears, and mouth. it was awesome! We took audrey into the ocean just a teeny bit- after that video stopped ryan was sitting on the edge of the water still holding her and a big wave came and splashed audrey- she really started screaming then. she was so good other than that though. she slept the whole car ride home. We are definately going to the shore more often.

Pictures

i love the ocean!

Audrey...not so much

Backyard Baseball

Well last night we had some visitors from NJ and CO come over. Promptly after dinner Luca started asking everyone to play baseball with him. He had gotten a foam bat and ball to play with this week in NJ. Its so much nicer than the wiffle ball type kits I remember always playing with. The bat looked like a real wooden bat- but it was dense foam. very nice- i think everyone was impressed with it except murphy- who was struck by it accidentally :) Anyways it was fun night running around the backyard with Luca...and only 1 person stepped in poo.

the best line of the night was when luca told cath 'you can bat, cause thats the only thing you are good at'















Luca's celebratory dance after a homerun

Chicken BBQ

Hunts and Bakers - 2008

We took a trip to portville this weekend so that Audrey could meet all her family...or well vice versa I guess- because she probably wont remember this weekend. but anyways it was fun. Ryan and his dad did their famous chicken. all the family came over, lots of friends and their kids too. We gorged on chicken...sooo yummmy. Audrey was a popular hot potato- and we got lots of pictures with her.

sunday we got up early and ryan, his dad and I went and practiced shooting soda cans with ryans gun. my shot is not so good- but my thoughts are if someone was in my house to get me and i went to shoot them they would be bigger than a soda can so I would be alright. right???

i drove home yesterday- b/c ryan is working in NY until wednesday. met up with cath and mike at a reststop. we didnt get home until after 8pm last night...long trip :)

camping highlights

well we spent last week at Chenango Valley State Park, here is a recap

Highlights
swimming at a lake- its like nothing else
Caths 99 year old BF at the beach
cabins with running water and toliets
Celebrating Dads 60th b-day together with strawberry shortcake
MR day at the beach
campfires and smores

Lowlights
Getting a cold...Audrey too
Audrey getting sunburnt
Daddy long leg spiders EVERYWHERE
sleeping in bunkbeds
rain

Overall it was a nice relaxing trip- the weather could have been more like philly- hot/humid/no rain....but i still got to swim and mananged a sunburn so i cant complain.

sunday besides loading pics (**warning: lots of pics of the babies...as usual this will be a blanket warning for all my future picture albums...i cant help it**) and videos i didnt do anything

camping video

working...

It was back to work for me this week...not fun. but the good side is i have next week off. we are heading up to binghamton to camp (in cabins) with the fam (minus becky) who has used all her vacation already... she'll come down for a night though.
ryans parents are down visiting and watching audrey for the week.

its been hard to get back to work- hard to concentrate on things for more than 10 minutes at a time. and the lack of sleep is getting to me- i had not functioned before 10 am in a long time- or worn socks. i had to drink a whole cup of coffee the first day and a soda...i had the caffine jitters. its getting easier though. i think i just need to adjust to less sleep.

This past weekend we went to my work picnic- it was alot of fun. ryan got to meet some of the people i work with. we got a family portrait taken, food, airbrush face painting, swimming, door prizes- (well i didnt win anything) but they were giving away xbox systems, laptops, nintendo DS, $100 gift cards...it was crazy. and we got to play bingo :) the best line was when we were leaving (*note: where i work is about 75% indian, dot not the feather) ryan said "i feel like we are in India"

birthday

my birthday weekend was alot of fun. sarah and junior came to visit with teagan. I took lots and lots of pictures- if you have a few hours here they are **warning: there are alot of just the babies**

this one is my favorite- it looks like teagan is trying to punch audrey















i got a facial and pedicure for my birthday present - which i went on saturday to get. the facial was pretty cool- i had never done one before. i learned i have alot of congestion in my pores. And need to use lotion every day. they used this cool powder sunscreen on me too- i want to find some of that to buy.

twins

I think they look like twins

dream

I had a dream last night about my blog...that i was told i have to update it...i take dreams pretty serious so i'm updating...

my birthday is coming up next week- Sarah and Jr are coming to visit for the weekend- should be a good time - they havent been since new years i dont think. it will be cool to see audrey and teagan together...not that audrey does much but cry and sleep but anyways...

i have no idea what i want for my birthday...(except i know i dont want a new computer monitor) any ideas?

July 4th weekend

Our guests just left from the holiday weekend...it will be an adjustment now not having a helping hand with the baby- she requires some 'hold me time' to fall asleep that having extra people really helps with, so you can do anything. And of course all the other work grammy did was very helpful. Her and Ryan were responsible for the garden and cleaning of the house. We actually didn't leave the house very much- but i had a very good time-

Here are some pics from the weekend:


baby girl in her first bathing suit


Her hand is sooo teeny




SPARKLERS!!!

Garden

lots of hard work was done on the garden this weekend...

Baby

Audrey was born June 18, 2008 at 4:02pm, she weighed 8 lbs 1 oz and was 20 3/4" long.














I think she looks just like her dad..this is a picture of him when he was a baby.














Labor was not fun as to be expected but its all over now and we have a healthy little baby girl. we got home from the hospital friday afternoon and things havent been too bad. Ryan had researched how to introduce the baby to the pups and so far so good. the only pup interested in linus - Hopefully it wont be long until she is not obsessed with her.

Settling in now to long nights...

Here are some pics

big baby

well there has been 24 hrs of no new groundhog stories...thank god. I took linus to the vet and it cost $100 to have her looked at, shaved and the wound cleaned, and some anitbotics. All in all 15 minutes of the vets time. they picked the right business. this morning she wasnt acting normal, she didnt even want a biscuit when i offered her one- i'm hoping by tonight when i get home she will be back to normal.

i had an ultrasound this morning and the baby is estimated at 8lb 13 ounces. i'm hoping that they are way off. especially since i have atleast a week to go. i'm putting money on june 27th to deliver. Ryans guess is June 22nd.

dogs vs groundhog round 2

well if sundays attack/killing wasnt enough excitement for the dumb groundhogs then yesterdays better have been.

i got home from work and let the dogs out- i checked the right side of the yard (where the previous attack happened) before letting them out and it was clear. i watched the poms run about looking for the goundhogs and then saw them both sprint over to murphy on the left side of the lawn. The big fat mother groundhog was in the fence! and murphy was surrounding it- then all 3 of them were. I was TERRIFIED that one of my dogs was going to get very hurt. i was screaming at the top of my lungs at them. i didnt know what else i could do. well screaming did nothing- the dogs all ignored me. i panicked (surprise, surprise) i was running into the house and back out screaming for them to stop and let the thing go- the groundhog was screeching and the whole gang of them were moving toward the house. i was honestly thinking it might try to run into the house to escape the pack of dogs. i threw our lawn chair out toward them to try to break it up. nothing. meanwhile i think i was screaming the whole time. the pack was moving a little to right of the yard - where the ground can escape - if it makes it alive. well in my last ditch effort i throw our other chair at them and it separates murphy and linnie from patty and the groundhog. enough space that the groundhog gets a few feet away and darts toward the fence. patty runs along barking at it like an idiot. the groundhog escapes- not sure with what damage.
then i ran inside and lost it. hysterically call ryan who probably thought something had happened to the baby or something.
well linus has some battle wounds- a cut on her muzzle and fang marks on her side. i bet she was the only one who actually bit the groundhog though. we called the vet after some research on the internet knowing full well they would just want us to come in so they can take $. i think linus will be fine. we cleaned the wounds with peroxide and bag balm and she didnt even wince. but i am taking her today to get a rabies booster shot and have her wounds checked out. this wont be cheap.

and i bet the baby crawled into my ribs and will never want to come out now into our crazy madhouse.

karma gets even dogs...

heat makes dogs kill

there are always stories about people going crazy and killing during hot hot days- like it makes people crazy or something- i think (hope) the same is true for pomeranians. Yesterday we had a crime committed in our backyard. This weekend it was 95+ on saturday and close to 100 on sunday. Saturday while I was in the kitchen I noticed the big fat mother groundhog in our fence. i opened the window and yelled at it to get out. it did listen to me and left the fenced in yard. Well sunday afternoon about 1pm Murhpy and Linus were sitting by the back door (shade was pulled) so i let them out thinking they hadnt been out in a while. for some odd reason i watched them as they ran out the door to the corner of the yard right where the groundhog had left our yard the day before. As I was saying to ryan isnt it weird they run right over there i see a little baby groundhog running for its life to the fence and jumps through it. then i see linnie dart to the right and out of my sight. i see 2 more baby groundhogs running from the yard to the fence. both of them make it out. then i look over to see linnie and there is something brown in her mouth! i started screaming at ryan- oh she got one! she got one! ryan ran outside and had to pry her away from the poor dead groundhog. he disciplined her pretty good- hopefully it helps. i doubt it though. luckily the big mom wasnt in the yard too or linnie would have had her hands full. i bet murphy would have gotten involved if that happened. Murphy was just watching her in disbelief i think.

what is wrong with my dog?!!?

Classes

With the upcoming birth of our baby Ryan and I have been preparing by taking some classes that the hospital offers. It was when my niece was born that I realized soon I was going to have a newborn to take care of only I knew absolutely NOTHING about babies. so i looked into the classes that were offered and signed up for all of them that applied to us.

so far we have completed the CPR and first aid for infants- that class was good except that i think they really try to scare you and basically call 911 if anything happens was the message we got. We did learn how to do CPR though. Hopefully nothing we learned in that class we ever have to use.

we then took a 4 week childbirth class. There were 8 other couples in that. we toured the birthing center at the hospital, learned all about whats going to happen, they showed lots of videos on birthing that i chose not to watch, learned about breathing for pain control, pain meds, c-sections, shaking baby syndrome- NOTE to all - shaking a baby violently can do serious damage to their brain and could kill them. Soooo basically I learned WAY too much and now i am terrified. that class made it all too real. Ryan has taken on the 'coach' role and he is very serious about it - its kinda cute.

Last night i went to a breastfeeding class- which I thought was actually very informative and didnt totally gross me out.

We have one last class on newborn care to take next weekend and then she can come- we will be educated :)

like new Garage

Before
After
Before
After

unfinished projects

well we didnt finish the garage this weekend, we ran into a few snafus... Saturday morning ryan started bright and early while i slept in. about 10 am it was time for me to help steer the bug out of the garage. so the garage was pretty much empty by 11am. Thats when the painting was to start- but that was the first problem- we tried to use the spray painter ryan got for christmas- after a trip to lowe's we still couldnt get the sprayer to work- so we gave up with that and ryan started to paint with a roller. Painting wasnt finished until about 6pm. Ryan then started building his bench and got alittle done and then gave up for the day.
sunday it took all day for the bench to be built, so by sunday night we had very little done. but we were invited to a party of one of ryans coworkers so we went to that. The coworker of ryans is vietnamese but lived in cambodia most of his life. when we got there i had a corona handed to me..if only :) and then after that a steady stream of cambodian food- i ate some curry soup - the broth was very good, a little spicy but yummy. when i noticed ryan pulling things out of his mouth and putting them on his plate i decided to stick to the broth. turns out it was chicken in the soup- bones and all. and the chicken had been killed that morning at the asian grocery store nearby. too much information and freshness for me. i was "full" soon after that came out. ryan thought it was cool- he had some chicken wings after that- he said they were very good. i wouldnt know.
ryan proceeded to drink alot- so monday morning he was alittle slow getting back to work.












monday we organized as much as we could and then went to a nearby lake to take the dogs for a walk and have a picnic. the park was beyond packed though with lots of dogs - so it wasn't that relaxing...

organize

its so strange not to have a survivor update to post.. but it never fails i have a house project to report on. this weekend we are going to tackle the garage. the plan is to remove everything- paint the walls and ceiling and then unpack and organize it all back in. and all this in 2 days. we want to have monday to relax but we could always finish monday. and i am not suppose to lift heavy things- so ryan is going to be very tired by monday.

i'll be sure to post the before/after pics.

Tonight we are going to see Iron Man... after getting such rave reviews from becky i want to see it...and i have always loved RD jr too. i havent been to a movie since last year i bet. with netflix i just put them on my queue when they start advertising them in the theaters and before you know it they have been released and delivered in the mail. so much thriftier :)

Hello Kitty will rule the world!!!

proof she is on her way....

NYC

This weekend ryans parents came down to visit and go to a NY Yankees game...since the stadium is closing this year...so we paid 4X's the face value of a ticket and took 3 trains/subways to get up to the game- walked a million and 2 steps to our seats. we literally were the very last row of the stadium. the nice part about it was you could stretch your legs into the steps...but i held on the my seat the whole time- it was quite high and scary...and i only went to the bathroom once- thank god it was a quick game. i was not treking up and down those steps more than once. The game actually was alot of fun- there were no drunks that could spill beer on us either- it was literally impossible. the guy sitting in front of us had come all the way from alaska for the game. note to anyone going to yankee stadium- they dont let you bring in backpacks- we had to check our backpacks at a bar across from the stadium and put anything we wanted into a plastic bag...at the phillies stadium i could have brought rolling luggage if i wanted...
The yankees didnt win but it was an exciting game- lots of runs. i was so exhausted by the end of the day though- we did alot of walking around after the game too. i think i'm still sore.

we took the subway to the WTC and got the best view of ground zero- the subway runs/ran right into the bottom of the building. it made me realize that people were probably in there when the buildings collapsed though. scary.

here are the pics from the game

we also pretty much finished the nursery- a few more shelves and pictures to go up but 90% done...here some pics if you want to see them too.

SOLD!!

We finally only own 1 house!!! so exciting!!! our house sold today... thank god- i was starting to panic about it...thinking it would never sell. we didnt make any money on it and we put alot of money/work into it- but oh well. atleast its no longer our problem.

RIP Portville house

road trip # 84,700

This weekend was another road trip- this time we went to portville for my baby shower. It was alot of fun. I got soooo much cute stuff. I havent really gotten to really look at anything yet though- we didnt really have a lot of room to bring stuff back and ryans parents are coming down this weekend for a yankees baseball game so they are bringing our presents. so it will be like the shower all over again this weekend. :) Sunday morning we made breakfast for the mothers on mothers day. it was yummy.

here are beckys pics from the shower. luckily she got a new camera and didnt forget to bring it to the shower because I did.

Last night we got home about 7 and had to quickly plant a bunch of rose plants and other plants. We finished just in time to start watching survivor. needless to say i am very tired today at work.

Final Survivor: Fans vs Favorties Update

Well Hope should have won IF Amanda didnt choke every time she got infront of the jury- oh it was so frustrating to watch her answer questions. it was flashback to survivor china. only this time she actually had a good case and SHOULD have won. I wanted amanda or cirie to win- i didnt want parvarti to win. i dont think she was a mastermind at all. it was a bizzaro jury though. what was up with natalies question? i think she was hitting on parvarti.


Anna - James & Mary
Becky - Ami & Chet
Carrie - Jonathan & Kathleen
Dad - Parvarti & Erik
Emily - Johnny Fairplay & Joel
Hope - Amanda & Tracy
Luanne - Ozzy & Jason
Mom - Eliza & Alexis
Nicole - Yau-man & Natalie
Ryan - Cirie & Mikey B

Survivor Update #13

OMG!! I felt so bad for Erik!! it was too hard to watch when i thought he might give the necklace to Natalie...and then he did! he is so innocent and so not bitter- in his after video he wasnt even mad. i just cant get over him. I loved James reaction too- I really think Cirie should win- was it her idea for this? I couldnt remember. Anyways that was one of the best episodes...


Anna - James & Mary
Becky - Ami & Chet
Carrie - Jonathan & Kathleen
Dad - Parvarti & Erik
Emily - Johnny Fairplay & Joel
Hope - Amanda & Tracy
Luanne - Ozzy & Jason
Mom - Eliza & Alexis
Nicole - Yau-man & Natalie
Ryan - Cirie & Mikey B

Happy Birthday To Murphy!!

today is murphys 2nd birthday. I will add pictures of his birthday party tonight - but thought it would be reminiscent to put last years picture of him being tortured with a party hat...i think i have a nice hello kitty party hat for this year. i made him a special dog biscuit too.

Survivor Update #12

Two more people out...this is a record. i was sad to see James have to leave. He really is a geninuine person who you just wanted to win the money. And finally the idol has been played- that was exciting not knowing if she found- i didnt think she had the way she was playing it up so bad. Next week will be interesting- the previews were good- Oh now that we are down to the end- Nicole and Anna still need to pay. Also you can check out this link to see the videos of the people who already got voted off. Becky highly recommends them.


Anna - James & Mary
Becky - Ami & Chet
Carrie - Jonathan & Kathleen
Dad - Parvarti & Erik
Emily - Johnny Fairplay & Joel
Hope - Amanda & Tracy
Luanne - Ozzy & Jason
Mom - Eliza & Alexis
Nicole - Yau-man & Natalie
Ryan - Cirie & Mikey B

housework

finally got the "we have alot to do to our house before the baby is born" bug into ryan. This week he has been painting our bedroom- it looks so nice- i love the color its making it look very classy. he is doing one wall a night though so pictures wont be up until next week. tonight we have yard work to do instead of painting and then cath and mike are coming to visit so it will be 3/4 done when they see it. i can start decorating the walls he has finished. this weekend while ryan and mike are golfing, cath and i will be slaving in the garden. hopefully not in the rain too. it will be nice to have the outside of the house looking complete. We only have one more room to paint after the bedroom and then the spare bathroom to update and we should be ok. Besides actually finishing unpacking our stuff. i only have 51 more days till this baby is born- its crazy how fast it has gone.

Cleveland

Well this weekend was one of ryans friends wedding in cleveland. we drove to cleveland saturday morning (left at 4am!) got there in time to walk the dogs and get ready for the wedding and go. (oh dog owners- FYI red roof inn is pet friendly.) the ride actually wasnt too bad- i was expecting to be uncomfortable for the whole 7 hours but i didnt pretty good- i was actually able to sleep alittle too. ryan drove 5 of the 7 so that helped too. the wedding was a catholic ceremony and lasted a little over an hour. then we had 3 hours before the reception so we went back to the hotel walked the dogs again and i took a little nap. Then we went to the wedding which was at the brides family business- they own a catering service and a banquet center- so it was very nice. i think someone said 400 people were there. the dinner was good- but the cookies and cake were the best! by 10:30ish i was ready to go- my feet were hurting and everyone was pretty drunk so there was lots of dancing- i managed to get ryan to go home about midnight. but even then the party was still going strong. i wonder what time it ended- i bet the sun was up. because they own the place there was no time limit...

the next morning wasnt so pleasant...we got up about 9am and were on the road by 10- we had to make an unexpected stop for ryan...too much beer :) luckily him and his friends never got into the shots or liquor.

oh ryan also says next time we move its going to be to ohio- we stopped at a cvs to get some bandaids for my new shoes and he wanted to get some beer- well in ohio they sell beer, wine, liquor and champange in drug stores! he was so excited...

here are the pics from the wedding

Survivor Update #11

Survivor Update will be delayed because princess becky hasnt seen it yet...


**UPDATE**

I couldnt believe what a baby Ozzy was being about getting voted off...he should be kind of embarressed now i think. Half way through the episode i was liking Natalie- but by the end of the episode i was thinking shes a little too cocky and a little coockoo - talking about taking Jasons jugular and flossing with it.

Anna - James & Mary
Becky - Ami & Chet
Carrie - Jonathan & Kathleen
Dad - Parvarti & Erik
Emily - Johnny Fairplay & Joel
Hope - Amanda & Tracy
Luanne - Ozzy & Jason
Mom - Eliza & Alexis
Nicole - Yau-man & Natalie
Ryan - Cirie & Mikey B

Phillies-Mets

Saturday we went to the Phillies-Mets game. We went down extra early so that we could walk around the stadium and watch the warm ups and batting practice. it was cool- it reminded me of when I was little and we would go to the syracuse chiefs games and get autographs from the baseball players. One home run from batting practice came within 100 feet of me and that was enough- scared the crap out of me. I saw where our seats for the red sox game will be- very good seats. I want to go early to that game too because then atleast i will know the players that are warming up. I dont know any mets or phillies players. It was a beautiful day too- 80 degrees and sunny.

The downside to the day was our section. We got up to our seats and it was pretty much empty- and it was 5 minutes before the game started. It soon started to fill up with Mets fans. And not just mets fans- but mets fans who had taken a bus to philly and apparently started drinking the second they got on the bus. 'obnoxious drunk new yorkers' was used about these people numerous times throughout the game. About the 3rd inning the first fight broke out. And two people were escorted out of the game. I think every inning after that the police and security were up in our section. i had some beer spilled on me...a drunk guy almost fell on me as he was passing by my seat, a drunk man was in the womens bathroom- claiming it was a 'uni-sex' bathroom. The attendants from our section were pretty rude to everyone because of the crowd i think. i had to show my ticket everytime i left and came back. People were warned that no 'cursing' was allowed- and one drunk kid behind me was told to sit down and watch the game or he would be kicked out. so the kid sat down right behind me and complained for about 30 minutes on how he couldnt stand up. How he was going to talk to that attendants manager. meanwhile this kid was slurring every word out of his mouth and when the phillies scored yelled 'its only 1 point'... so as a manager i would definately listen to what unfair treatment this kid was getting.

Pics of the day

all in all i've decided that sporting events in philly are going to be filled with drunks...

first blister of the summer

well since we have had 2 days now of 80 degree weather i officially consider it summer. yesterday i walked the poochies and got my first blister. another sign of summer. i would think by now my feet were tough enough to not get blisters but it never fails every summer i get terrible blisters. My flowers are all blooming too and we mowed the lawn already.

i think the weather down here is really different from western NY and CNY for that matter. i hope i like it. I'm not a fan of the heat heat. I actually really like winter and snow... i hate rain and unbearable heat.

This weekend we are staying at home...whoo hooo. tomorrow we are headed to philly for the Phillies-Mets baseball game. Should be a fun time. We are going early too so we can watch warm up and things like that. And we also just bought tickets for a yankees game in May. Its a mad rush to go to yankee stadium b/c its the last year. i personally have no desire to go but ryan and his parents want to. i figure since he has been to countless red sox games i shouldnt put up too much of a stink. but i am not that excited about it. the only cool part is that we are going to take a train from NJ to the city so that will be fun.

Survivor Update #10

Well they got ozzy....i didnt think they did the way they showed the vote results. i liked how they showed ozzy right before tribal council saying how jason was 'outwitted and outplayed and thats the game' and then he was! ha ha ha. i wonder if he will be so mad still by the time jury comes around. i think that cirie should win- she is the mastermind.


Anna - James & Mary
Becky - Ami & Chet
Carrie - Jonathan & Kathleen
Dad - Parvarti & Erik
Emily - Johnny Fairplay & Joel
Hope - Amanda & Tracy
Luanne - Ozzy & Jason
Mom - Eliza & Alexis
Nicole - Yau-man & Natalie
Ryan - Cirie & Mikey B

long hours in the rav

Well this weekend i spent 14.5 hours in the car. Friday night we went to portville. good murphy story that night. ryans mom made us a quilt and was showing it to me on the bed. murphy had jumped up on the bed and was sniffing all over the quilt. i said to him "murphy this is for the baby" and he immediately lifted his leg and peed on the new baby quilt! thats what he thinks about her apparently. I was so shocked i could barely even yell at him. I screamed in disgust because he practically peed on my hand and he jumped off the bed and ran out of the room.

saturday i went up to buffalo for a shower and bachelorette party for my friend, and some shopping in between to kill time. It was a good time. i wont be able to make the wedding so i am glad i got to go to this.

sunday we went to see the baby- got a few pics of her, i took most of them on ryans camera so i dont have them. i took a video of her in her swing for auntie B. hopefully i can figure out how to post it. its very exciting...

here are the pics from the weekend.

Survivor Update #9

How great is the name of the new tribe?? Dabu...and erik getting a kick out of himself for making it up and noone else questioning it. I decided this episode I dont like Parvarti...is it only me who doesnt remember eliza trying to vote her off before?

Anna - James & Mary
Becky - Ami & Chet
Carrie - Jonathan & Kathleen
Dad - Parvarti & Erik
Emily - Johnny Fairplay & Joel
Hope - Amanda & Tracy
Luanne - Ozzy & Jason
Mom - Eliza & Alexis
Nicole - Yau-man & Natalie
Ryan - Cirie & Mikey B

baby shower

This past weekend we headed up to f-ville for my baby shower. It was so much fun- we
played lots of fun games. i have been waiting to play the diaper game where you put melted candy bars in a diaper and you have to figure out what kind of candy bar it is ever since i saw it on girls next door. it was as fun as i thought it would be! And i got to see so many people i havent seen in forever. we got the cutest hello kitty stuff too. things i didnt even know they made. ryan was thrilled. the best though when i was showing ryan and junior a hello kitty stuffed animal that lights up and has a song- and junior states matter of factly- "thats going to scare the shit out of her" :)

Pics of the weekend

We drove home yesterday and unpacked presents and rearranged the nursery a bit. its all coming together...

oh we watched pans labyrinth last night too. that was really good, strangely gruesome at times but good- however i had no idea it was all in subtitles. ryan loves when i pick movies.

Survivor Update #8

Well becky is out now...alittle surprised they voted ami instead of erik- but i think they have a better chance with winning challenges with erik over ami- even though they go into the merge next week. I must say i have never seen such honesty in tribal councils before this season. its kind of weird. i laughed so hard at the preview for next week with eliza telling jason that his 'immunity idol' is JUST A STICK. and it was classic when james was opening the beer bottles with his teeth...and ryan said he used to do that in college with his frat brothers. oh how his mother would be so happy to know she spent her savings on his braces and he bit off beer bottles with his teeth afterwards.

Anna - James & Mary
Becky - Ami & Chet
Carrie - Jonathan & Kathleen
Dad - Parvarti & Erik
Emily - Johnny Fairplay & Joel
Hope - Amanda & Tracy
Luanne - Ozzy & Jason
Mom - Eliza & Alexis
Nicole - Yau-man & Natalie
Ryan - Cirie & Mikey B

The bathroom is done!!!

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after

Haircuts

Here are the girls this morning:













Here are the girls this afternoon:

no survivor update

no survivor this week!!! i'm shocked...i wonder if because so many people have quit or had to leave that dont have enough episodes now. so they took a week off. oh well i watched basketball last night anyways. i just love march madness even though my team didnt make it this year. its always fun to do the brackets. alot of my teams are out already though. i think i only have 2 of the final 4 left. I think ryan wins every year out of him and i. next year...

this will be a nice quiet weekend, our last one until mid may. we have trips planned for most weekends of april and beginning of may. we are going to go see stop-loss tomorrow night i think. other than that just finishing up. we have to paint one more thing in the bathroom and then you can see pictures of it. its soooo nice now.

i forgot what a 'normal' vet visit is like. I have been going to a vet in portville for the last 2-3 years where you dont need a 'wellness' visit to get the annual shots. its like a lunch line to get shots on certain nights. just go in with 1-3 of your dogs and he gives them the shots they need, barely even noticing the dog- and poof you are done. cost is very low like $40 maybe. well we took linus to the vet last night to get all her shots and they want a poop sample, bloodwork for heartworms (which we should have been doing but anyways), her shots, and a checkup. $160!!! and we have 2 more dogs to take... i'm going to have take a loan out for our pet care.

work/rest weekend

we were suppose to tackle alot of our house projects this weekend- mainly the bathroom and the basement, maybe the garage if we got to it. but ryan came down with a terrible cold thursday so we rested alot too. i was actually more motivated than him which is very unusual. but the abthroom just needs a coat of paint and it is done. I cant wait to have a toliet paper holder again. the basement was half organized. i think i unpacked 15 boxes though. so i feel pretty accomplished.
i'll post pics of the bathroom once its done but here is the basement - the part i organized atleast.















the weather has been beautiful here- today is sunny and i dare say warm. the mud in the backyard is almost dry too.

Survivor Update #7

Surprisingly survivor was on wednesday night...making today feel more and more like a friday. poor carrie- both her people are gone not from tribal council but by their own accord or injuries. i'm glad they voted tracy and not ozzy. i wonder if ami and tracy could have pulled off the blindside ozzy. this might have been their only chance... i dont see erik actually voting for him though. other than that it was a pretty boring episode. they didnt even show the two who were on exile island.


Anna - James & Mary
Becky - Ami & Chet
Carrie - Jonathan & Kathleen
Dad - Parvarti & Erik
Emily - Johnny Fairplay & Joel
Hope - Amanda & Tracy
Luanne - Ozzy & Jason
Mom - Eliza & Alexis
Nicole - Yau-man & Natalie
Ryan - Cirie & Mikey B

American Idol

Is anyone watching american idol this season?

i find that david archuleta is creepy and annoying...does anyone else? i dont understand why the judges LOVE him. i cant even watch the tv when he sings anymore because of that annoying thing he does when he licks his lip every 2 seconds. i told ryan last night that if he makes it to the top 10 i wouldnt go see the tour.

oooh...he is awful.

just had to see if anyone else feels the same way...ryan doesnt get it

short week

I have a short week this week- friday off. i dont think i have had good friday off before. not too much planned except for some house projects to be completed. ryans parents are coming to help too. and for easter. Atleast our guest rooms in the house havent been wasted :) when we bought the house i was thinking that it was way too big (well i still do) and that we were going to have all this room and no one would actually come visit us. but last weekend we had a bunch of people stay for st pattys day, two weeks before that my friends came to visit and now this weekend too.

here are the pics from last weekend.

St Pattys Day was fun. It sucked pretty bad not being able to have a beer though...or 15 of them like i usually do :) i guess i should look at the bright side of not having a hangover the next day. i was hoping someone would have a hangover so i could laugh at them...but i think i am the only one who gets the terrible terrible hangover.

Survivor Update #6

Finally got rid of him...I was very glad to see Chet go. what a wuss-bag though. I wish they had shown us him telling his team not to vote for Ozzy but to vote him off instead. I also liked how Jonathan had already won the million dollars in his head- but because of his injury he wouldnt be able to finish the game. hello does he know there are still 13 people in the game?? its not like he was down to the final 4 and had to leave the game. i almost thought he was going to stay in even though he could die. Its funny that James is stuck with all the girls.


Anna - James & Mary
Becky - Ami & Chet
Carrie - Jonathan & Kathleen
Dad - Parvarti & Erik
Emily - Johnny Fairplay & Joel
Hope - Amanda & Tracy
Luanne - Ozzy & Jason
Mom - Eliza & Alexis
Nicole - Yau-man & Natalie
Ryan - Cirie & Mikey B

another trip

well i am in tennessee again this week. i'm hoping this will be the last time before the baby is born. no issues getting to tn, and hopefully there will be no natural disasters either. i slept the whole flight- i'm afraid i might have been snoring :) but oh well. i have been snoring alot lately. i think its a pregnancy thing. atleast ryan hopes so....
















here are some pictures from the weekend we went to the st patricks day parade and we got alot of rain saturday.

Survivor Update #5

This might be a record that after only 5 episodes someone is out....actually i think carrie once might have had the first and second person voted out. but it still sucks. i was torn too- because i can not stand Joel or Chet so I wanted either one of them to go- more so chet since i had Joel but oh well. i like how a few people wrote down "truck" instead of Joel. Chet is so unbelievably useless. He can talk to chickens though. And the fans camp was such a joke- it was funny how impressed they were with the favorites- like it takes going out on survivor one time to know not to put your fire pit in the oceans tide. helllloooooo....

Anna - James & Mary
Becky - Ami & Chet
Carrie - Jonathan & Kathleen
Dad - Parvarti & Erik
Emily - Johnny Fairplay & Joel
Hope - Amanda & Tracy
Luanne - Ozzy & Jason
Mom - Eliza & Alexis
Nicole - Yau-man & Natalie
Ryan - Cirie & Mikey B

tiramusi

this weekend some of my college friends that use to live in the Philadelphia area came to visit...it proved to be very knowledgeable for us, they showed us a new cool town we need to go to and they showed us the much needed shortcut into the city to avoid the always trafficy highway. we went to dinner at maggianos and had family style. it was soooo yummy. ryan had never been and was thoroughly impressed. i think we came home with over 10 boxes of food. granted some boxes had 2 raviolis in it, but still. i even had some tiramusi left over. so i left the house with the intentions of going to dinner and coming home. well my friends were going into philly to meet up with some of their old friends at a bar. and ryan couldn't say no to that, even though before we left for dinner he was saying how he could just sit on the couch the rest of the day... so we went to a bar and we got there pretty early- since both me and my friends wife are in 'non-drinking' conditions, we got to slurp down water with lemon- very fun :) the bar was nice but a few hours after we got there i started to get uncomfortable because i was dressed in my running sneakers, jeans, and a long sleeve t-shirt and this bar was turning into quite the trendy place. i dont think besides me anyone was wearing less than 3" heels and leaning more toward the hooker scale than the pregnant lady scale. i felt so out of place every time i had to go to the bathroom. luckily my friends had stayed up until 3 am the night before and were tired too and wanted to go home so we didnt stay too late. but on our way out i saw that the bar had put up ropes and people were waiting to get into this bar- they must have been aghast when they saw me come out and they were waiting in the freezing cold to get in! ha ha ha

Survivor Update #4

Did anyone else feel bad for the fans team? they were absolutly killed this week in both challenges. i wonder if thats why they are going to mix the teams up or if it was planned all along. I really think ozzy has gills too-- either they dont show him come up for air or he just doesnt... i'm so glad he got the idol- because he definately has a target on his back.


Anna - James & Mary
Becky - Ami & Chet
Carrie - Jonathan & Kathleen
Dad - Parvarti & Erik
Emily - Johnny Fairplay & Joel
Hope - Amanda & Tracy
Luanne - Ozzy & Jason
Mom - Eliza & Alexis
Nicole - Yau-man & Natalie
Ryan - Cirie & Mikey B

301st post

Wow- my last post was my 300th post! thats crazy. i wonder what % of those posts are survivor results :)

this weekend we went to portville to see the new baby- here are LOTS of pics of her and the trip, but mostly teagan.

The drive up was horrible- we hit a snow storm in scranton and had to drive about 35mph for a hour- we saw lots of cars in the ditches, and alot of them turned around in the road. i wonder how fast they were driving to manage that.... once we hit the NYS border though the road were a million times better. they actually plow and salt i guess. we made it though...just took longer.

We went and saw the baby- last wednesday when the baby was born i had said to ryan "oh we have to wait 4 more months until we get to see our baby..." and after this trip I think I am going to need those 4 months to prepare... So much to learn. luckily sarah and jr are keeping a little "tip" list for us. and they will be able to answer alot of questions since it will be so new to them. Plus it seems that EVERYONE has advice to give the new parents...so i dont think we will be lacking in that :) And i think i will take every baby class they offer at the hospital.

Survivor Update #3

I was so upset they voted off Yau...its very funny though how much more open the favorites are this time about who they are voting off. and i think they should have named this veterns vs fans or something, because name 1 person who considers Jonathan or Eliza a "favorite"? I can not stand Jonathan. my favorite line so far has been cirie talking about amanda and ozzys ozzlets. :)

Anna - James & Mary
Becky - Ami & Chet
Carrie - Jonathan & Kathleen
Dad - Parvarti & Erik
Emily - Johnny Fairplay & Joel
Hope - Amanda & Tracy
Luanne - Ozzy & Jason
Mom - Eliza & Alexis
Nicole - Yau-man & Natalie
Ryan - Cirie & Mikey B

baby tigers and fondue

yesterday ryan and i went to a pet expo to see some baby tigers and look at pet stuff. i was alittle disappointed in the baby tigers. i was picturing a little play area with the tigers running around and maybe even we'd be able to pet them. instead it was a cage inside a roped off area with a dog cage inside. two fat men sitting beside them eating food or reading a paper. looking VERY uninterested in the adorable baby tigers.














we then went to the melting pot for dinner. it was very good- we got there 5 minutes after it opened and were told they were completly sold out for the night but we could eat in the bar if we wanted to. so since the bar was empty we decided that was fine. the food was good, very overpriced though. we paid $92 for the 2 of us for a dinner with no leftovers. we got the fiesta cheese appetizer, the main meal - 1 lobster tail, 4 pieces of filet minon, 4 shrimp, 4 ravioli, 4 pieces of chicken, pork and beef tenderloin. We also got salad and some veggies. the dessert was amazing- i took pictures of it all. but really they make a killing at the melting pot- you pay for the setting. cause if you think about it they dont have any cooks to pay, they give you raw food to cook yourself. i think if i went back i would go for just appetizers or dessert. The one perk was they forgot to add all the beer ryan drank so that saved us some money :).

Survivor update #2

i just realized that i have the incredible hulk as my only player left...i dont think i am going to win... he is pretty annoying i think. now that my 'fan' is the only person i have left i really want the 'favorites' to lose the immunity challenges. why is it they are only doing one challenge an episode??


Anna - James & Mary
Becky - Ami & Chet
Carrie - Jonathan & Kathleen
Dad - Parvarti & Erik
Emily - Johnny Fairplay & Joel
Hope - Amanda & Tracy
Luanne - Ozzy & Jason
Mom - Eliza & Alexis
Nicole - Yau-man & Natalie
Ryan - Cirie & Mikey B

winter warning

this weekend K&NO came to visit- we had a good time. we did a whirlwind tour of philadelphia on saturday and then went to the king of prussia mall. we went to the cheesesteak sub corner in south philly. and while i was trying to find a parking spot i accidently bumped a car. no damage was done but it was nerve wracking all the same. i dont think i could ever live in a city. we saw the liberty bell, the rocky steps, and betsy ross's house-which we didnt pay to tour but you can. We ate at the cheesecake factory...yummy. i got the keylime cheesecake and it was soooo goood. next time i am going to try the tiramisu cheesecake i think. We went to the sanrio store there- and when we were leaving a store manager ran out and stopped 2 girls who were leaving at turned them around and took them to security. i think they were sticky fingers.... i wanted to go into urban outfitters and see if they had the linus blanket for the baby...but we got to go eat before i could and i forgot to go after we ate. i'll have to look online to see if i can order it.

murphy did not get along well with katie (NO's pug) i dont know if its the breathing/grunting that she does all the time or what but without being provoked murphy would attacked her. it was very stressful. murphy hasnt done that since camping in rollins pond i think.

its so funny today there is a 'winter weather warning' because 1 inch of snow *might* fall.... atleast the ground is frozen right now...

Survivor update #1

thank god becky loves that Johnny FP and wanted to trade with me...
does anyone else think that JFP is the most bizarro person? what was that last night? the funniest part of the episode was when Yau-man pushed JFP into the boat inorder to get the immunity idol. that was the best.

Anna - James & Mary
Becky - Johnny Fairplay & Chet
Carrie - Jonathan & Kathleen
Dad - Parvarti & Erik
Emily - Ami & Joel
Hope - Amanda & Tracy
Luanne - Ozzy & Jason
Mom - Eliza & Alexis
Nicole - Yau-man & Natalie
Ryan - Cirie & Mikey B

wreckage hunt

well in my efforts last night to find some good damage like the ones i have been seeing on the news i only saw one area with some apparent damage. i did alot of double takes with houses that i thought could be but there was actually nothing wrong- it was their normal house/yard. the one area that did have damage was crazy because only one house in the middle of a bunch of them had damage. all of the sudden there was metal scraps and pieces of trash (i assume the house) strung out along the road- a car that had looked like it was droppped in the middle of a field after hitting a bunch of things. but just that one house was damaged. i also found out today that the town i was staying in was in the predicted path of the tornado- only i was sleeping when that happened so i didnt know. luckily the weather people were wrong...

back to the safety of PA today...

tornados

Well i am in tennessee again this week for work- and i had no flying adventerous (but i still need to fly home) but last night there were tornados that went by just to the north of where i am staying. I woke up size to golf ball hail hitting the roof at the hotel. scared me a bit- we never lost power or anything though so that was nice. But right to the north of me lost power, tornado came through destroying houses, killing people, and started a fire at a natural gas plant. People are saying it looks like a war zone. I'm going to try and find some wreckage after work. (is that awful?) i do feel bad for these people but i want to see some of it. i dont think i have ever seen the wreckage from a tornado.

Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites

We drew the names this morning...and you can tell that i didnt cheat by who i got...i'm not happy.


Anna - James & Mary
Becky - Ami & Chet
Carrie - Jonathan & Kathleen
Dad - Parvarti & Erik
Emily - Johnny Fairplay & Joel
Hope - Amanda & Tracy
Luanne - Ozzy & Jason
Mom - Eliza & Alexis
Nicole - Yau-man & Natalie
Ryan - Cirie & Mikey B

It's a Girl!

we found out yesterday at our ultrasound that we are having a girl....i'm so excited!! this means i can have all the hello kitty stuff i want... well ryan asked that i don't go overboard with hello kitty, that he is having anxiety over it... but we will see :)