100% chance of showers

bridal (allison) and baby (mary) showers that is...i have one of each this weekend, so i guess it's only appropriate that if i have all these showers to attend, it's actually raining outside, right?!? wrong! i'm so done with this weather...bring on the sun!

tonight the d'angelo's will be attending iron mountains' (my company) picnic at the reading phillies pool pavilion! sounded good when i booked it months ago...2.5 hour ayce buffet, pool for the kidd-o's, b-ball, and fireworks...whoops...who ordered the rain?! anywho, i'll post more after the event tonight complete with a rain-soaked tony d in his phillies finest!

one fish, two fish, happy birthday to you fish!

happy birthday to our golden pet fin who will celebrate his 1st birthday this weekend...who would have thought that a goldfish won at may day last year would be around to celebrate it's first birthday and another may day...we're going to try to win him a girlfriend this year!

to celebrate fin's birthday, this evening he moved out of his cramped and dingy 1 gallon dorm room (my original fish tank i used all through college -- it was on it's last leg...i wouldn't have thought the fish would have outlasted the tank) and into his very large and spacious 2.5 gallon luxury apartment home! tony had fun helping me set the new tank up and talking to fin as i tried to scoop him in the net to transfer him to the new tank.

hopefully we'll introduce you to his new friend this weekend...daddy better warm up his ping pong tossing arm and aim...did he really think he'd get away without having to do it again this year?!

mother's day weekend

i had a great mother's day weekend. i was able to spend the weekend with john and tony and helped corinne celebrate her first mother's day as we were all together camping. we visited oak creek again (and will be back there again in 2 weeks) and broke in corinne and david's new camper! i hope all my mommy friends out there had a great mother's day as well!

during our weekend, oak creek hosted a noah's ark build-a-bear workshop. tony and harry each made a mojo monkey with a surfer dude costume complete with surfboard. it was fun spending time with the little man...the week's have been so busy! we got some great pictures of the stuffing of the monkeys!

shortly after arriving back at our campsite, my mom, nana and dad joined us for lunch to celebrate mother's day...it was a nice relaxing afternoon, hanging out by the fire, eating burgers and dogs and throwing back a couple of beers (or at least just the bottles as they were obviously empty)!

we topped the weekend off with a wagon ride around the campground and homemade waffles on sunday for mother's day breakfast and visiting with john's mom on sunday afternoon! more pictures of our fun weekend here.

flashback...sunday, may 4th - broad street run

john has put yet another race under his belt by completing the philadelphia blue cross broad street run 10-miler! a huge accomplishment for him and the longest he's run yet...the racing bug has definitely bit him and now's he's eager to train for a 1/2-marathon
(13.1 miles) himself!

with 22,000 runners battling each other for a spot on the subway, tony, aunt sue and i decided to forgo seeing john off at the start line and wished him well prior to heading out to the race that morning. while waiting for him at the finish line in the navy yard, we enjoyed a real nice event they have there with a petting zoo (the cleanest i've ever seen), moonbounces and other activities for the children to participate in while waiting for your favorite runner to return. tony made friends with some tiny goats and a calf (which i soooo wanted to take home with me -- yes, i still love cows and someday will live on a farm/land where i can have my very own)!

here's a video of john heading towards the finish line (he doesn't even look tired)!

john finished in 1:52 - nice strong finish!! it was a long day but not without much fun and excitement! you would have thought that tony was the one that finished the race for how he zonked out in the car on the ride home! for more pictures of the day, click here

congratulations john! we love you and are very proud of everything you've accomplished with your running so far and wish you continued success with your races in the future!

flashback...sunday, april 27th - lv 1/2 marathon

corinne completed her first half marathon on sunday 4/27...that's 13.1 miles for those that aren't familiar. she did a fabulous job and got a terrific time of 2:01!! awesome. we are all so proud of her and excited that we were able to be there to witness her accomplish this goal she set last august after having harrison. it was also very cute to see harry recognize his mommy as she ran past him up the hill into the stadium and towards the finish line!

she actually ran it faster than she thought she would and had to skip ahead a few songs on her ipod in order to be able to hear the "rocky" theme song as she ran towards the finish! click here to see some pictures of the little runner! great job neenee! you rock...err, i mean run!!

new venture

as many of you know, i've been diving into the world of custom shower favors. i've done them for my sister's showers and for several others that i've been a part of, but just this past week, completed some custom baby shower lollipops for my first paying customer! ok, so it was for a co-worker's sister's baby shower, but still...i got paid and got another job lined up (this one for a 50th wedding anniversary) because of someone seeing these! keep me in mind...i also make custom burp cloths and other baby care items. i will be working on a website too, but in the meantime, you can just email me at dcodydog@comcast.net .

a picture of the pops i did for my sister's baby shower is in the prior post about her shower from july 2007 - i will try to find some photos of them to post here later, but they were all on my old pc.

the theme of the baby's room was "rocket baby" (a spin on elton john's song "rocket man") and thus the inspiration for the theme of the baby shower and the lollipops

the large dark circle is mint flavored milk chocolate, while the blue star is vanilla flavored white chocolate
the labels were handmade by me as well

front of the hang tag...

back of tag...

typically i would put the mom-to-be's name and the date of the shower on the hang tag as well, but in this case i was asked to leave it off as the shower date was still up in the air.

flashback...friday, april 25th

ok - so i'm a delinquent blogger...there is so much that i have to update on, but just not enough hours in the days/weeks it seems. tonight will be real quick and i hope to update the rest tomorrow!
last friday evening was spent at the antique automobile club of america museum in hershey, pa. my company celebrated 5 years in business and also the launch of a new product.

it was wonderful when the day of the event actually arrived and i was able to see all my hard work and planning come to fruition. i planned every detail from finding and securing the location, hiring the caterer, organizing the limo bus and trivia game to be played on board during the drive from morgantown to hershey. designing and making the invitations and finding and making each of the centerpieces and place cards. for anyone that knows me, you'll know i'm not bragging about all i did to make the event happen, but i'm telling you all this because i love, love, love to do this type of thing!!! if i had all the money in the world and could just work for fun, bridal and baby shower and wedding planning, and design would be where you'd find me. in the meantime i just do it when i can.

the food was great, and everyone at work seemed to enjoy themselves and were still telling me so the end of this week, a week after the event. on the lower level of the museum were some old cars that we were actually able to sit in and take pictures...lo and behold, they actually had some period costumes/dressups we could "play" with as well, and luckily i had known about this ahead of time, so was able to get our in house photographer to bring his camera and supplies to snap photos of the couples/groups...what a success - even those employees who are hard to crack a smile out of got in on the fun. unfortunately our photographer is not finished touching up those photos, so i'll have to post them later. but for now, here are a few pictures from the evening.

the group gathered for dinner on the upper level rotunda

our table clockwise from bottom left: lance, john, me, marjori, bobby, esther and clarisa

the hershey kiss-mobile

i will post some more of the funny pictures once they are finished and i am able to get them from the photographer.