into 2010

february - 2010

february brought about a huge snowstorm that beat up the east coast. i have to admit...we.loved.it! fall and especially winter is definitely our favorite time of the year. tony enjoyed really being able to play in the snow. he was a big help with shoveling the sidewalks and helping us help out our neighbors...that's of course when he wasn't playing with the few kids we have in the neighborhood.

tony was trying to walk up the front service walk before it was shoveled...didn't work too well!

look at all that snow on the front porch!


john did quite a bit of snow blowing out our neighbors driveways after the snow plow came through

march - 2010

in the beginning of march we welcomed a new nephew/cousin to the family. charles david brumbaugh was born on 3.9.10 to a huge sigh of relief from all families involved.

moments after making his appearance

first family photo

april - 2010

happy easter

may - 2010

in early may we were honored to be asked to sponsor charlie as his godparents during his baptism at church.

mid to late may was a bit of a sad time for us...

we had to sadly put our little basset hound molly to sleep. you may remember that in early 2009 (mid january and mid march to be exact) we had two surgeries performed on her to remove rocks (landscape and regular old rocks) from her intestines. she was in bad shape both times upon taking her to the vet but each time (and thousand of $ later) they were able to "fix her up". well, may was another story. from the minute we found out she had eaten the rocks (and saw her "get rid of them" on her own) she took a downhill turn very, very quickly. john immediately took her to the vet (after deciding that we just couldn't do this anymore and she wasn't going to [obviously] learn her lesson) and upon seeing her, the vet concurred that the surgery just wasn't going to work this time and it would be a waste of their time and our money and molly's already failing health. it's been 2 months and it still stings. we miss her terribly.

in late may we headed to nyc with the lutz's (sans kiddos) for the glee live tour! it was amazing and even so as jonathan groff (played jesse st. james on the show) sat right in front of me. it was a fun time and we had a great mini-vacation just the four of us.

july - 2010

well here we are. brought up to speed to the month we are currently in.

so far we've enjoyed...

- a fun-filled 4th with good friends

- a great showing of rent at the ephrata performing arts center with the good's

- a family picnic where our entire family was in one location at the same time (including our michigan relatives)

yet to come...

- a reading phillies game with some of john's co-workers

- my birthday

- a fun surprise

- our (what's now become) annual trip to deep creek lake in garrett county, md. here's a peek at where we're staying this year. i'll be updating from vacation with our crazy adventures like always.

stay tuned...