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!!!