woohoo!
we have a place! we have a date! 09.26.09!!!!!!!!
well a lot has been going on...
*kate turned 6 and we had a super fun time at her party. she got a guitar so she rocks out like hannah montana. i ran around with the kids most of the time. jim tortured his teenage cousins. good times.
*dylan turned 5. we went up to tim's place and there was a little family party. the kids (and 20 something year old kids!) went hiking in the woods and ended up in the back of an elementary school. we played touch football and dylan kicked everyone's butt. haha. he's a spunky little guy. we ate lots of food and tim made him what was supposed to be a hockey puck cake, which turned out to be purple. then dylan had a purple face after eating the cake. we got him a mini hockey game and a whoopie cushion. guess what his favorite present was....
*happy hour has been awesome. i love working with dana and she is so much fun in school and outside of school. we really get along and i feel a great friendship forming with her. i also love going out with my other co workers as they are tons of fun.
*two weekends ago was crazy fun. friday we had an awesome taco night with carolyn and andrew, which included lots of rice and beans, pumpkinhead, and me singing "la bamba" on guitar hero IV, among others. my parents came down saturday and we visited THE place! my dad even said it was a home run. it's perfect. even though we wanted to immediately put in a hold the date, we still went to visit a winery that i had found that does weddings. we did a wine tasting and it was yummy. the place itself was nice but too far away and again, the place we'd been to before was IT. after that we went out to round grill and ate a lot. then, i got devils tickets from the Y and we went to the game with my parents. devils won 6-1 but marty got hurt.... bad news for the devils. kate, mike and melissa were there, so they drove us home from the train station but we stopped to meet their new puppy on the way. maggie is a golden retriever/sharpei mix, and she's super cute. the next day i worked a gymnastics birthday party, and then we went to scott and jenn's to watch the giants v the cowboys. this was a lot of fun and again, i did the vocals on guitar hero IV. it's like a super awesome kareoke.
*tuesday we voted. obama won. all is good with the world, and i can have my last name back, for 10.5 months at least. i still get asked if i'm related to sarah palin.
*thursday i had off and didn't have my car so i did a bunch of stuff around the apt. friday jim took off and we sent out for wilkes-barre, pa. on the way, we almost ate at arby's (phew, dodged a bullet there!), went to hickory run state park, drove around in the woods looking for the boulder field hike, found the hike, it was forever, and we had to turn around before we even got to boulder field. we went into wilkes-barre, where there is nothing to do, got our tix, ate at chili's cause there were no cool places to eat.... the hockey game was brutal, caruso giving up 4 goals in the first 10 min. WB's team has a penguin mascot named tux, who was awesome. we also sat two rows in front of chris terreri, former devils goalie. jim had chris autograph some cards, and then on the way out chris said "take it easy, guys." awesome. we couldn't get any more autographs since the bus was loading below street level, so we headed back, stopping at a little brewpub in tannersville, pa. it was a cute log cabin -ish place. they had the best orange unfiltered belgian wheat, it was yummmm. we got a mix and match six pack and a pint glass.
*friday we got up early to get my car, then i went to the Y for another bunch of devs tix. then we went to get my brother at his new place, promptly causing us to get lost in the ghetto. we picked him up and went to my parents' house for a quick hello. then we were off to super duper weenie in fairfield, ct. jim and matt both ate two hotdogs, while i enjoyed my veggie burger that smelled like a pb&j sandwich. then we went to southport brewing company, where we met joanne and her bf, matt. we had a couple of pints then headed off to the game. matt (brother) and jim watched the game and joanne and i caught up. it was so good to see her.... we have been friends on and off since roughly the 3rd grade! we had such a good time talking about all the stupid stuff we've done over the years. the game itself was great, but the lowell devils lost in OT. we dropped joanne off and headed back to NJ... we didn't get back to the apt until midnight, so for the first time in 5 years, we missed andrew's halloween party. very sad, but it was such a good time in CT.
*sunday we slept in, jim was super tired from all the driving. we went food shopping then to his mom's place to rake leaves. kate and kristen were with the puppy in the backyard, so i played with them all afternoon while jim ended up "mowing" the leaves. i love those girls. then we went to baja fresh for dinner and melissa talked up all the wedding stuff and about kate being a flower girl (which she is so excited about). then we headed off to the train station for the third hockey game of the weekend. my parents were already in their seats when jim and i got there. the game was fun but the devils are seriously depleated because of injury, so they lost 2-1. it was great spending more time with my parents :)
so to put it in perspective.... we saw three hockey games, in three days, in three different states. awesome!
well a lot has been going on...
*kate turned 6 and we had a super fun time at her party. she got a guitar so she rocks out like hannah montana. i ran around with the kids most of the time. jim tortured his teenage cousins. good times.
*dylan turned 5. we went up to tim's place and there was a little family party. the kids (and 20 something year old kids!) went hiking in the woods and ended up in the back of an elementary school. we played touch football and dylan kicked everyone's butt. haha. he's a spunky little guy. we ate lots of food and tim made him what was supposed to be a hockey puck cake, which turned out to be purple. then dylan had a purple face after eating the cake. we got him a mini hockey game and a whoopie cushion. guess what his favorite present was....
*happy hour has been awesome. i love working with dana and she is so much fun in school and outside of school. we really get along and i feel a great friendship forming with her. i also love going out with my other co workers as they are tons of fun.
*two weekends ago was crazy fun. friday we had an awesome taco night with carolyn and andrew, which included lots of rice and beans, pumpkinhead, and me singing "la bamba" on guitar hero IV, among others. my parents came down saturday and we visited THE place! my dad even said it was a home run. it's perfect. even though we wanted to immediately put in a hold the date, we still went to visit a winery that i had found that does weddings. we did a wine tasting and it was yummy. the place itself was nice but too far away and again, the place we'd been to before was IT. after that we went out to round grill and ate a lot. then, i got devils tickets from the Y and we went to the game with my parents. devils won 6-1 but marty got hurt.... bad news for the devils. kate, mike and melissa were there, so they drove us home from the train station but we stopped to meet their new puppy on the way. maggie is a golden retriever/sharpei mix, and she's super cute. the next day i worked a gymnastics birthday party, and then we went to scott and jenn's to watch the giants v the cowboys. this was a lot of fun and again, i did the vocals on guitar hero IV. it's like a super awesome kareoke.
*tuesday we voted. obama won. all is good with the world, and i can have my last name back, for 10.5 months at least. i still get asked if i'm related to sarah palin.
*thursday i had off and didn't have my car so i did a bunch of stuff around the apt. friday jim took off and we sent out for wilkes-barre, pa. on the way, we almost ate at arby's (phew, dodged a bullet there!), went to hickory run state park, drove around in the woods looking for the boulder field hike, found the hike, it was forever, and we had to turn around before we even got to boulder field. we went into wilkes-barre, where there is nothing to do, got our tix, ate at chili's cause there were no cool places to eat.... the hockey game was brutal, caruso giving up 4 goals in the first 10 min. WB's team has a penguin mascot named tux, who was awesome. we also sat two rows in front of chris terreri, former devils goalie. jim had chris autograph some cards, and then on the way out chris said "take it easy, guys." awesome. we couldn't get any more autographs since the bus was loading below street level, so we headed back, stopping at a little brewpub in tannersville, pa. it was a cute log cabin -ish place. they had the best orange unfiltered belgian wheat, it was yummmm. we got a mix and match six pack and a pint glass.
*friday we got up early to get my car, then i went to the Y for another bunch of devs tix. then we went to get my brother at his new place, promptly causing us to get lost in the ghetto. we picked him up and went to my parents' house for a quick hello. then we were off to super duper weenie in fairfield, ct. jim and matt both ate two hotdogs, while i enjoyed my veggie burger that smelled like a pb&j sandwich. then we went to southport brewing company, where we met joanne and her bf, matt. we had a couple of pints then headed off to the game. matt (brother) and jim watched the game and joanne and i caught up. it was so good to see her.... we have been friends on and off since roughly the 3rd grade! we had such a good time talking about all the stupid stuff we've done over the years. the game itself was great, but the lowell devils lost in OT. we dropped joanne off and headed back to NJ... we didn't get back to the apt until midnight, so for the first time in 5 years, we missed andrew's halloween party. very sad, but it was such a good time in CT.
*sunday we slept in, jim was super tired from all the driving. we went food shopping then to his mom's place to rake leaves. kate and kristen were with the puppy in the backyard, so i played with them all afternoon while jim ended up "mowing" the leaves. i love those girls. then we went to baja fresh for dinner and melissa talked up all the wedding stuff and about kate being a flower girl (which she is so excited about). then we headed off to the train station for the third hockey game of the weekend. my parents were already in their seats when jim and i got there. the game was fun but the devils are seriously depleated because of injury, so they lost 2-1. it was great spending more time with my parents :)
so to put it in perspective.... we saw three hockey games, in three days, in three different states. awesome!