New hair

I got my hair highlighted again yesterday...i now have blonde and red streaks in my hair...i love it.

Cute Audrey Pictures

Audrey has been making this new face and I was trying to capture it this morning...i'm not sure if I completely got it, but I thought they were still cute.

You know you are living in 2009 when...

1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.

6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.

7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.

8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

9. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.

10. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
: )

new couch

we went shopping this weekend for a new couch. we gave becky back her futon and figured we should buy a new couch for the living room. we got a sofa bed. Here is a picture of it. we have since covered it with some sheets so that murphy and the poms wont get it all gross. we may rearrange the room, but for now it works.

I also had to order the last two books in the twilight series and needed to buy a few more dollars worth of books to get the free shipping. so i remembered there were kids books about "Emily Brown" that i HAD to get. its actually a pretty good book. ryan was making fun of me for getting it. but i think he is just jealous that no books are written about him.

loving the cold weather!

the ground has FINALLY frozen in PA. And i am loving it!! people at work are complaining and complaining...almost as much as those syracuse people are :) ha ha ha. I'm telling you you'd miss it if you didnt get it.

i've been very busy at work lately...havent had any time to blog...plus not too much is happening. I've upped my gym visits to 3x a week. I've been sore 5 of the last 9 days :( but its good i guess. this saturday i am starting weight watchers...again... they have commericials showing a new program. hopefully it can get me motivated again. I have to lose some weight before mexico.
















Audrey is growing like crazy...talking...scooting on the floor...sitting up on her own...drinking juice...found her tongue...her first word is officially da da da...then ba ba ba...i'm still trying her to get her M but nothing yet. she has started to push away from me too- i'm afriad her cuddling days are almost over. she wants to get down and see the dog hair :)

Audreys new lobster shoes

a while

wow i havent posted in a while... well i was on a New york state tour for the past 10 days...i'm finally home and i slept like a baby for 11 hours last night :) i brought my rain cd and cd player along with me, but it didnt seem to help my sleeping. i guess its your own bed that makes all the difference. i just finished unpacking all our christmas presents. i feel awful because christmas morning was such a blur to me know i cant remember who got me/audrey what. but i love everything! i cant believe all a 6 month old could possibly get. people from my work, ryans work, all the family, and friends got her stuff. she has way too much now :) luckily some of it is for when she is older though. she absolutly loved her curious george doll she got and is so cute everytime she sees it she grabs and like hugs him with a little squeal. she found her voice on the trip too. she usually would talk and sing and 'tell stories' only in the morning. now it seems all the time and she definately is saying words, like 'dadadadada' and 'bababababa' i dont think she knows what they mean but i think officially her first word is 'dada'. i'm still working on mama.
New years was fun...besides a debate i got into with bird on affirmative action it went smoothly...no puking...only a slight hangover, which is probably due to all the drinking i did last week- it built my tolerance back up. i think my news years resolution to be to cut down on the sauce.
today i unpacked and made a bunch of baby food for audrey, tomorrow i am going to tackle the christmas decorations. i'm glad we came back with a few days to spare. i needed it.

Sentiment of the day

Crazy hail storm

Last night when I got home I pulled into the driveway and saw 3 of the garage windows busted out. My immediate thought was we must have gotten some hail that broke the windows...strange it was only on one door- then I saw ryan in the garage- i jump out of the car in the pouring icey rain, and ask him what happened?!?!. And he proceeds to tell me he was backing up into the driveway...and hit the garage door!

here is a pic... just lovely...

Happy Half Birthday Audrey!

Today Audrey is 6 months old!!!

Survivor: Gabon Finale

Hope wins!!! Good thing you havent paid yet- i will just send you the winnings, minus yours! Every year I get mad at the finale...every year... sugar just blew it at the jury just like amanda did TWICE. its so annoying. She answered questions like "i dont even care if I am here...I'm not even saying give me the money." Bob almost lost his too, some of his answers i was like 'what?'- I think sugar should have told susie, matty, and bob to just vote her out in the last tribal council instead of making matty and bob do the fire challenge. Atleast Matty would have put up a fight at the jury. Oh i just dont get it. and to think, if susie had just answered yes to corrine she would have a million dollars right now.


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

Santa

tonight is the survivor finale!! I'll be updating tomorrow so if anyone doesnt watch it- don't check my blog.

Today we went to the mall to take Audrey to get her picture with santa. We showed up 30 minutes before santa was even there- hoping for the line to be short. There were ALOT of people already lined up. It took us about 45 minutes to get through. I thought audrey was going to be crabby by the time we got up there...but of course she was smiling so good for the camera! Here is her picture, even the people in front of us made comments like 'oh she knew exactly what to do when she saw the camera' i guess i am to blame for that :)

Survivor Update #11

That was a good one! I was pretty happy about this episode...not just for the fact that Matty is still in the game, but i do not like kenny AT ALL...he is soooo creepy and weird and all his scenes he looks so uncomfortable that he makes you uncomfortable...and then crystal- she just seemed kind of dumb. I will be glad to see what Kenny does when he gets back to camp. I also feel bad for crystal to have to go to ponderosa with the 4 members of the jury...that wont be fun for her. i cant believe this is almost over...which reminds me that noone has paid yet... well actually Becky, Cath and Mike have paid. And I think nicole owes me for 3 past seasons as well....so everyone needs to pay up by sunday!


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

bailout

you can click on the picture to see it bigger

cookies cookies cookies

so many cookies got so made this weekend...
I cant even believe how many cookies that so few people could possibly make... it was alot of fun though! my stomach hurt from laughing so much. we played trivial pursuit again but there was no real winner. we split the old people with the young people to give everyone a fair shot. we even added an all play to game hoping to speed it, but it didnt seem to work.













Now I get to rest until christmas...unlike the rest of the family that is going to moving into new houses for the next two weeks! good luck to you all!

wheeeew

What Audrey would look like with black curly hair!

its been a crazy week...so much went on. becky came to visit on saturday. we went out to dinner at the blue dog pub. very good cheesesteaks. Then sunday we went and got her tires changed (very shady) then we went and watch 15 minutes of ryans flag football game. he scored a touchdown while we were there :) they ended up losing though. over for the winter.
nothing exciting monday, worked, yoga, TV...

Tuesday cath and mike came down- and i made some meatball soup.

Wednesday i had the day off!!! fun fun. we cooked and cleaned the house. and rick and yvonne arrived. we were suppose to go out to check out some local bars but we never made it. i dont think we stayed up past 11 at all this week, lame.

Thursday was thanksgiving - so yummy.

Friday we left our house at 3:49am and shopped until 9 am! i got 90% of my xmas shopping done- got amazing deals. it was the most successful black friday shopping i have ever experienced! it was great and i got into no fights. then we went out to a nice diner for breakfast, then becky left for NYC. we played trivial pursuit "the 80s" and ryan and I won by a landslide!!! i think its my favorite trivial pursuit, they have a care bear for one of the players. i love it.

saturday the boys went up to a park where ryan is going to hunt and the girls went to IKEA. we ended the night with some poker...that was alot of fun

here are the pics from the weekend

Survivor Update #9

This had to be the funniest show (tribal council) EVER. I was peeing my pants when crystal was YELLING her vote...I still chuckle when I think about it. and what they did to randy will go down in the books! tooo tooo funny! I was so glad to see randy go, and I'm sure he will be very interesting at the jury. How dumb was kenny? he had way over $500 and never even bought anything in the auction???

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

Cancun!!

so we just booked our vacation for mexico next year!!!! i'm sooooo excited! the only bad part is it will take up 5 of my 10 vacation days...well worth it though. All the frozen margaritas i could ask for...a swim up bar...the ocean. (i'm blocking the fact that iguanas live in mexico) hopefully I wont have to get an upclose experience with one.

trip to N&KO house

NKOTB - all nicole needs is a child starting with a B and she would have those initials... how cool.














we went to albany to visit new baby timmy- who was born just 5 days before audrey. He seems to be much farther along in the world though- eating 3 meals a day, using his exerciser, he has rolled over...audrey is still a little munchkin, she can kick though :) i liked this picture since it looks like she is trying to kicking timmy in the face. we had alot of fun- we went to the saratoga battlefield historic park and walked around. We saw lots of deer and they didnt even run from us. I also got 3 stamps for my national park passport book. sat night we stayed in and played parchessi, i havent played it in forever- keith and nicole are experts with strategies and everything and somehow i won twice. so that was fun of course.

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 :)

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