I KNOW IT'S FOOTBALL SEASON WHEN......

I don't eat dinner til 8:30pm at night.

Road Trip to Boston

Well here we go on our family vacation to Boston. Mind you we made no reservations for a hotel. I worked the weekend and checked out a couple hotel addresses and wrote them down "just in case". We made good time-4 hours and got into the city about three o'clock. Now to look for a hotel. If you've ever been to Boston, the main highway is in the tunnel. So we kept passing the city cause we were always underground. Tensions got quiet high in the car. So I pulled out my trustee hotel addresses and we ended up miles away from downtown Boston but an available room with a pool. It ended up being a dumpy hotel. The toilet clogged up in the morning and when I went to call the front desk the phone kept hanging up. The positive was the restaraunt next door had great cod cakes. So we packed up and drove into the city and parked the car. To tour the city you can walk the freedom trail or trolley around and stop where ever you want within its route, which are most of the historical sites. We went to Paul Revere's house and passed the old north church and then to the USS Constitution. Andrew's favorite stop was the Garden where the Boston Celtics play as well as the Bruins. We took a tour inside and they also have a museum as well. The later part of the day we were by the public gardens and park. Stopped in a couple of hotels to see if they had an available room, yeah for $379/night. The day wasn' t looking good at all for a place to stay in the city. We went back to Quincy Market and walked around. Had a drink at " Cheers" walked some more and thank God we found a hotel two blocks from the Market -The Hilton .
Slightly cheaper and a whole much cleaner, nicer then the Ramada. The next day we went to the Aquarium and then went whale watching. That was cool. We saw 7 sperm whales all together. The trip took four hours. We ended up staying another night to relax and had a fun dinner at the market called Dicks Last Resort. You have to be rude. The waitresses are. They make hats and write funny things on them and surprise you as they put it on your head. There's a picture of James and Andrew eating Peanut Butter Pie at the restaraunt.

SWEAT, RAIN AND MORE SWEAT

Well I know that I haven't blogged in a while. Life as usual always seems to zip by, usually because we're working and/or I'm working the weekend. So me and Joe had a three day weekend. We thought long and hard on what we could do. There are so many projects that need to get done in the house. Believe it or not we still have painting to do from the build, but have no desire to ever pick up another paint brush again. The weather here has been almost like Seattle. It rains almost every day, sometimes really hard with strong winds. We took the kids to Par Hills High School on the 4th for fireworks. First they started earlier than

usual and it started pouring 5 minutes into them. Oh!! lets get back to our project.
As you can see by the pictures we put down a little paver patio so that we can enjoy the fire pit. The log bench Joey made when one of the trees fell. Jeoy did most of the heavy labor, but the boys did help with getting the pavers and I did some weeding on the slope. A couple of hours into the work it started pouring rain. The kids thought that was fun because we just kept working . Come the end of the day our clothes and shoeswere wet and muddy

Montana Gathering

Well, I cant say how long it took me to figure out how to get these pictures on the blog, but I finally did it. This week was crazy to say the least. Getting back in the swing of daily life is always difficult after being away. The boys are in full gear with lacrosse and James is getting ready for his school play that is on May 16th and 17th. Today Joey is riding in the five borough NYC race with his buddies . After being the mom while I was away, he sure needs this. I sure miss you all already. Hard not having family close by but hopefully one day we'll change that.

Andrews Story

March 13th,2008
Accident


James's friend Kyle was on the trampoline with me. I have a basketball hoop hooked up to the trampoline so we can play basketball on it. Its so much fun. Anyways, we were double bouncing me and he double bounced me so high my knees skidded the top of the rim and hit the backboard. If that hoop wasn't there I could have flew of the trampoline and broke,fracture or sprained something. Even worse I could have gotten paralyzed and even DIED! My mom freaked out. Luckily she didn't see it. All my dad could say is " He was up there".



Dont try this at home please im begging you.PLEASE.Especially you Aunt Peggy, I know your ways. :)

The unexpected drop in

Look who visited my house. Adeena was in Pennsylvania for business and spent the night before going back home. The boys were really excited to have somebody on my side of the family come and see us. She looks good. Too bad she couldn't stay longer, but it was nice to have her for a visit. The boys started Lacrosse (lax) this past week. back to a busy schedule of practice 4 nights a week.

The Black Cloud

All of us (except me) has had a health issue this past week. Oops, I take that back. Me too!!!I went for my second but really third mammogram. My first one was ridiculous. I'll just bypass that story. My girlfriend says we'll go together. she worries about me. So on our way to a staff mtg (read my first blog) last month, Monique and I go out to dinner have a cosmo(liqours me up) and go have my mammo before the staff mtg. All went well. Usually I keep my mouth shut, but the cosmo loosened me up. I said my peace and hopefully our chief heard our concerns. So Than Andrew came down with strept throat last Thurs. Ok Not so bad, right? Friday Joey starts complaining of a tooth ache and Sat he goes to the dentist ????root canal maybe watch and if any pain go to the ENDODONTIST, Monday he is in pain so he calls, can't see him until Thurs. Patience as I always tell my children. Tuesday "MY DAY OFF' I go to the hospital for "additional views" which means my mamogram was incomplete, so I spend two hours having my boobs squished some more and handled and ultrasounded, come the end all is well and I get to repeat this again next year. So looking foreward to it. I get ready for work early Wed. morning and I get greeted by James shivering and shaking with a fever. He's been home the past two days. Today Joey went to the Endodontist and had a root canal. He feels numb but better, James is back to school tomorrow and Andrew is almost finished with his antibiotic. For me, my upper half is sore but they are back to there bouncy selves. Oh and by the way though it is February, our temperature has been in the 50's-60's and raining, hence "Black Cloud"