what a fun night we had in new york city!! not only did we enjoy a fun-tastic limo ride (thanks to uncle jim for the limo in celebration of aunt cathy's birthday) to/from the city, show and dinner at rue 57, but we saw a fun show that had us laughing and got to see live and in (rather) close person, the real housewives of new jersey!
the girls were guest starring for 4 nights in the show being co-produced by housewife, dina manzo, herself. nice production in a small, personal venue. so much fun. caroline manzo and her daughter lauren stole the show and i was actually quite impressed with their acting skills. jacqueline lauretis, caroline's sister-in-law was just funny and i didn't realize she had as much of a sense of humor as she did. theresa was, well, theresa and her part actually allowed her to read her lines, word.for.word out of a book...which was obviously very much needed! jacqueline's daughter ashley...she was a wet noodle and the show could have done entirely without her.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
my big gay italian wedding
Monday, August 30, 2010
the abc's of tony's 1st day of kindergarten
His Incredibly Joyful Kindergarten teacher.
Learning to Make New Open-minded choices
Perfecting his writing and asking Questions when Reading
Smiling at his Teacher and Understanding new Vocabulary Words
while eXplaining his Youthful Zest for life!!Wednesday, August 25, 2010
baby talk...
we had a dr. appointment on friday 8/20. john, anthony and i were led into the u/s room. right away we saw 2 hands...2 feet...2 kidneys...bladder...everything is looking good so far...
oh wait.
what's that??
oh boy! it's a boy!
meet vincent "vinnie" robert d'angelo
i have been honest when asked all along...i would have loved a baby girl knowing i have an amazing little boy at home and that this is most likely our last (last with treatments anyway - it's all up to Him now if we're meant to have another). but after everything we went through to get to the point of even being pregnant this time. after losing our little one last year just weeks after the excrutiating loss my sister had, we honestly couldn't be more thrilled to have a healthy baby boy!
Friday, August 13, 2010
to infinity...and beyond!
my sweet and spunky nephew harry b turned 3 on 8/9 and the family celebrated with a party at corinne and dave's house! good times, good food and lots of fun for the kiddo's!
if you didn't pick it up from the title, harry is just a tiny bit obsessed with toy story 3 after seeing it as his first movie earlier this summer! so of course, the decision was made for a toy story birthday party!
harry got the complete buzz lightyear and woody costumes...such a decision to make before halloween, but he'll certainly enjoy wearing both between now and then!!
here is a link to the rest of the photos from his special day!
deep creek 2010 - recap
the weather didn't cooperate with us nearly like it did for last year's trip (kinda overcast), but it still made for fun times. i personally was only out on the boat 3 times (didn't settle well with my stomach, weather aside). but everyone had a great time tubing, and the guys went fishing pretty much every morning. a couple of catches, but they released everything back into the lake.
here are just a few, very few, of my favorite pictures from our trip
mama and tony enjoying an evening boat ride
cheesing big with daddy's hat on!
checking their fishing lines
tony did plenty of sleeping on the boat too...not a single boat ride was taken where he didn't fall asleep for at last 1/2 hour...one day was almost 2 hours!
tony was a fish! he showed off a bunch of his swimming skills he's learned from swim class and was doing a great job with or without his floaties!
tony tubing (with daddy hanging on from the back of the tube).
Friday, July 30, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
into 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
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
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...
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