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back from NY

we got back last night about 6:30. it was quite an adventurous weekend. we never stopped going while we were there. and it was soooo hot. i'll post up the pictures separate. i think i took over 200, so i will have to trim them down. but i have the actual wedding pictures up. we went and saw the empire state building, the statue of liberty, WTC ground zero. we shopped at the street markets in soho. i got everything on my list. and it was all so cheap. the purse i got for $10 though was CHEAP, a piece of metal already loosened up and scratched me. i guess i got my $10 worth.


Wedding Pics


we also got the dogs their 'lion cut' and it is soooo cute. once i get them loaded i will post the picture.

once we got home though we had to get to work- the house goes on the market today and i had to do some painting last night. i think the basement is ready. now i have to live neatly until we sell. i will hate it.

NYC

we are leaving for NYC today after work- i am getting pretty excited...i have never seen (up close or been inside) the statue of liberty and we are going sunday morning. hopefully we wont miss the wedding although i think becky is hoping we do, so she can say 'i told you so'

we get to try out my new GPS too.

I finished harry potter tuesday night. it was SOOOO good- i liked the book but i was a little sad that they are all over now and i dont have another book to look forward to. it had a very good ending. and it tied most of the loose ends up. i think i need to reread them ALL now though and will understand it much better. i would but someone packed all my books and i think my national park passport. so now when i got to the statue of liberty i cant get it stamped. who could that be???

the book

tomorrow i should be getting the last harry potter book :( i'm sad its going to be over soon. and i cant believe all the people who are trying to ruin it on the internet. the woman on the radio station said when she gets it she is going to read the last pages to see what happens. i dont understand people like that. why would you want to ruin it?

so while becky and my mom are cleaning i will pretend to be in ireland and i will read my harry potter.. ha ha ha

its official!!

Ryan has accepted the new job!! so we are moving.

i'm pretty excited!! cath and becky are coming down this weekend to help 'declutter' the house to make it more marketable. we started this week already. its amazing how much 'stuff' i have.

i got a call today from a head hunter with a job prospect...so cross your fingers it works out. it seems like a good company to work for. and its in the direction we wanted to live.

we decided too to get the girls a lion cut for the first time ever, i will be sure to put pictures up. i hope they dont look too silly.

camping

we got back from camping yesterday morning.

camp pics **titles are up**

it was a good time, but i did not sleep well on the cots in the cabin. and we froze two nights pretty good. the weather was really great though, we had 4 good beach days and 1 rainy day. we got to see a mother bear on her second to last day on earth. the park rangers shot her out of a tree 30 feet high, it took 4 shots to get her down and then one more when she was on the ground. they had gotten 4 of her 5 cubs and are going to rehabilitate them before putting them back into the wild. she was a bad mom though- she was raising hoodlum bears that break into campers cabins and eat their coolers.

i also have some old pics from july 4th and around that time.

concert

well the concert this weekend was alot of fun. first we went to eat dinner an hour and a half before the concert thinking we had plenty of time. but we went to the hard rock cafe and there was an hour and a half wait. so we had to go to another resturant, cant remember the name. atleast it wasnt the food court in the mall. the concert was cool, first they sang the chasing cars song together, and then faith sang for about an hour. then they sang another few songs together and then tim sang for about an hour. then they ended it playing a few more songs together. it was pretty good.

saturday we drove home and did some work around the house- then we went to a BBQ. ryan was suppose to be the DD, but of course we decided to stay out and get a cab home. it was pretty fun- but i was exhausted sunday. we did alittle more work around the house. and some more tonight. the basement is looking so much better with the trim up.

baby

A new baby in the family...



so cute

wedding weekend

another wedding weekend is over. tht was the last one that either ryan or i was in, so that is good. i had a very good time. we went up friday morning and ryan golfed with all the boys. i was a little hesitant about hanging out with the bride and grooms family for the day since i only know the bride. but Jeffs sisters and mother are so welcoming. it reminded me of the browns :) i had a very good time with them- we went to lunch at pizzeria unos. jeffs sister has a one month old boy. he was such a good baby i thought. there are some pictures of him in the album. friday night we went to the rehearsal dinner in a park with dinosaur bbq food...it was very familiar. :) then we went out...maybe not a good idea for the groom, as he was alittle hung over saturday- as was i...surprise surprise. the wedding wasnt until 5:30 luckily.

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the wedding was alot of fun, no one wanted to dance though. ryan kept trying to get people out on the dance floor but most of his fraternity brothers wouldnt dance.

This weekend we are off to cleveland to see tim mcgraw and faith hill...fun fun

pics from june

Here are a boatload of pictures from memorial day until now. Lots of pictures of the squirrels that are attacking olean right now


pics

tired

oh i have been pretty tired since the big trip this weekend, and i think knowing we have another trip this weekend to rochester doesnt help.

luckily for luanne and becky i didnt have an night terrors this weekend. actually i dont think i slept long enough straight through to dream.

so i think we are going to be moving to philly. its not official yet but ryan is leaning towards that. whooo hooo. i will have to change the title of my blog to perceptions from philadelphia, ha ha ha

something is wrong with the camera so i cant post pictures yet, but i will soon.

more dreams

well the last two night have had terrible nightmares...the kind where i freak out and try to wake Ryan to save me...but he doesn't wake up..well last night he did but the first night he just rolled over. he can sleep through alot. My first nightmare was that like 1 foot men were around our bad poking me with daggers...and last nights nightmare was a huge metal rusty crane was trying to hit us. for that one at least i got off the bed out of the way and woke Ryan up. i wonder what they all mean. any suggestions? (besides I'm crazy)


philly was very cool, we know nothing yet so i am not sure if we are moving yet. but i will be sure to update. this weekend i am off to syracuse then boston for hopes wedding....should be a good time

philly

ryan and i are in philly. checking out the area...hopefully we will move here soon. i like it alot and i am hoping that ryan will decide he likes it too. we actually are about 45 minutes north of philadelphia, so its not IN the city but its close. it was so hot today, so humid.

we watched knocked up tonight- it was frickin hilarious! definately recommend it to everyone. and just a warning its not for children.

tomorrow we are going to see the king tut exhibit in phila then we are heading home to our pups. i bet they are missing us terrible. apparently their aunt S is up flashing our neighbors though.

Portville 26 Allegany-Limestone 0

well this weekend was quite eventful.

First off ryan played in the alumni football game and they won 26-0. it was pretty sad showing on the A-L team. Ryan sent some kid off in an ambulance with a dislocated hip. I've warned him that his karma is bad right now. then we went to the always eventful post game party. we proceed to drink all the losing teams beer and then we went to a bar. we sang karoke- it was too fun because the whole bar was sing sweet caroline, and i yelled into the microphone - go red sox!! and those idiots got mad at me...little did they know they were singing the red sox song. ha ha ha

we ended up going to some guys house in the woods (way more in the woods than my house) and stayed there until 4:30! i was drinking the best wine ever too. we got a ride home with bird and went through the woods to get back to our house. it was an insane evening/morning.

needless to say i felt wonderful sunday morning. then ryan made me go to Darrins daughters 1st birthday party. i actually did have fun. but i would have loved to sleep in my bed all day long.

i didnt have to babysit last week...too bad.

wedding pics

here are the wedding pics


the weekend went off without too many problems...we all had some good laughs. luckily we caught lots of things on the video camera... i am so tired though. thank god we had today off too to recuperate. Cath, dad and becky left yesterday afternoon and after that we just sat on the couch until we went to bed. it was so nice to see all the family again. hopefully it wont take so many years in between for it to happen again.

this week ryan is preparing for the football game and i might be babysitting for our neighbors all week. should be interesting...

finally friday...finally friday

wells its not really friday but its the friday of my work week. i have tomorrow off. so exciting. its so freakin hot here today though. i hate heat.

i broke my bug tuesday night- right after i got the dumb car to idle while sitting in my driveway i took it for a drive. and i didnt bring my cellphone or anything. we i got probably 1-2 miles from my house and it just wouldnt accelerate anymore. so i pulled over and then it wouldnt start. i had to walk home. then later ryan took me back and we dragged it home. not fun.

i have to get home tonight and vaccuum again, i never thought a lab would shed more than the poms, but he does.

i was sad blake didnt win american idol. i liked him

Crazy weekend

Well I got my bug back Friday after work. It was so exciting the thought of having it back and I imagined it running like a gem. Not the case though. I picked it up and pulled out into traffic and it stalled. Then an ambulance was coming so I had to pull over again and it doesn’t idle. It just stalls. I made it home after stopping at Sprague's for some fish fry. We went to birds new house for a bon fire, picked junior up on the way. Drunk junior I should say. He sat in the back of the bug complaining of carbon monoxide poisoning, clunking noises, and that the bug made his truck feel like a Cadillac. (mind you the bug is 20 years older than his truck). It was quite humorous. Birds house is very cute.

Saturday I slaved around the house cleaning and cleaning. Let me tell you I hate cleaning. Then we went to the bottle return place to take back the bottles/cans from the bachelor party. Mental note: don’t wait over a month to return bottles. They were all moldy and disgusting. Then we went to a benefit in Olean for a kid Ryan graduated with who was in a horrific car accident. Then to a going away party for one of ryans friends who is going to Afghanistan next week.  Oh while at the benefit ryans parents were dancing…well his dad was kind of whipping his mom around and it was to music…but he flung her around and she fell, landed on her wrist and broke it! I have the whole thing on video too…

Sunday I had to work, then I was back to cleaning…while ryan golfed. So not fair.

ryan sweeps reality tv gambling

the results are in-

emily - boo & lisi
becky - alex & jessica
cathy - stacy & sylvia
mike - mookie & yau-man
ryan - earl & liliana
carrie - cassandra & edgardo
nicole - anthony & michelle
sarah - erica & rocky
luanne - dreamz & papa smurf

bonus player - rita

since there was no second place person ryan will just get all the money- sound ok?

here are the pics from the weekend

mid-survivor update

well i am out...sucks...but good according to becky. I wont update the final winner until tomorrow. i finally paid out the last survivor winner, hopefully it wont take as long for this winner.


emily - boo & lisi
becky - alex & jessica
cathy - stacy & sylvia
mike - mookie & yau-man
ryan - earl & liliana
carrie - cassandra & edgardo
nicole - anthony & michelle
sarah - erica & rocky
luanne - dreamz & papa smurf

bonus player - rita


Cath left today- we got so much done this weekend, all the wedding favors done, planted all the plants- then overnight some of them died. Danced at the PC...went to breakfast at spragues... i had to cover all the plants tonight because its going to be in the twenties overnight.

back to the show........