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 :)