Wedding Day

Our main reason for going to NY was to go to my cousins wedding. She was the most beautiful bride I have ever seen. She just glowed! And the wedding was spectacular! It was so her. She is a fashion designer and she designed all the dresses...each one totally different and gorgeous. Her husband looked at her with such love in his eyes. I was so happy we could be there for it.









My cousin, Kate was looking pretty hot. Oh, and the bridesmaid dresses were all black but like I said before each one totally unique. My favorite thing about them is they all had hot pink shoes on that matched the bouquets of hot pink peonies. I LOVE peonies!
























My mom, dad, hubby and my boys.
















My mom and I heading into the reception at the Bourne Mansion. What a BEAUTIFUL place. My two favorite things were:

1. The cocktail hour was in two beautiful rooms that had all pictures of the the bride and groom from the time they were babies up all over the mantles like it was their home.

2. They had a photo booth during the reception. You could pop in and do funny little pictures and they you got a copy and you left one for the bride and groom in an album with a note.

Zach and Noah turn 8!

The next day was Noah and Zach's birthday. My sweet Godmother threw them a birthday party and we got to see lots of relatives we haven't seen in a long time. She cooked unbelievable amounts of food- bbq chicken, Italian sausage, hot dogs, homemade mac and cheese, zucchini pie, rice, grilled veggies....and a Friendly's ice cream cake for dessert. YUM!

This picture of my mom and dad totally cracks me up!









The big bunch of us.
















Blowing out their candles (with their cousin who is turning 8 next week)
















My cousin's college friends came by and started this funny drinking game. Dave joined right in!

We're back!

We are back from a fantastic trip to NY! We're trying to get back in to the swimg of things (lots of laundry and cleaning and unpacking). It was such a good trip that when we were landing Zach started crying. I thought his ears were bothering him but he was just so sad that the vacation was over.

We flew in to NY and my aunt and Godmother, Joni picked up all up. She was so sweet to let us stay at her house for part of the trip. I was expecting hot weather but it was raining. While we were sleeping we woke up to the biggest electrical storm ever! Constant booming thunder and our whole room lighting up from the lightning. Wild!

The next day we woke up and hopped right on a train with my cousin, Lisa and hit the city. The boys were thrilled to get NY pizza (the first of about 8 meals of pizza). We then rode the subway like natives and went to the Natural History Museum, Hayden Planatarium, Shake Shack, Central Park. We walked all over the city and ended up taking bikes to the most amazing dinner. We didn't head back to Long Island until midnight. Thank goodness the boys are such good travelers and as it turns out total city boys.






We had the coolest conductor on the train. He used his punch to make things for my boys. Check out the cool frog!























With the elephants at the Natural History Museum























It is so fun to be ridden around the city on the bikes. We had to take two of them. Not the best picture because we were moving. So much fun though!!

A Star is Born

Joey had a show tonight for the end of 4th grade. Joey had a solo in the Jersey Boys medley. I was talking to my friend last night (the one who chorographs and directs all the shows) and she said she would never have imagined him singing like this when he was in kindergarden. I am pretty stunned too. His voice is really beautiful and he has such guts to get out there in front of everyone and sing his heart out. I'm so proud of him. There are so many reasons why....I just love him so much.

Crazy Days

Last Friday was Crazy Day. Is it wrong that I absolutely LOVE Zach with purple spiky hair? He would make a super cute Punk. I love the spikes on Noah too. I thought this was another example of just how different they are. Zach woke up so excited. He put his shirt on backwards, his pants on backwards, his socks upside down and wanted me to spike his hair and spray half black and half purple. Noah dressed nicely (Mr. Gap). He didn't want to dress crazy or put any color in his hair. "Spikey is crazy enough".








Joey was totally into to it. Can you tell?























This weekend was so nice. Saturday morning Noah and I hit the Farmer's Market to get fresh fruit and veggies. We had so much fun just being together. He was so cute. We stopped at my mom's and Goldie jumped in the van. I said, "Let's bring him home for awhile". Noah just sat there with the biggest grin on his face, petting him. Then he told me it was the best day ever!
On Sunday we went to a pool party for the end of Religious Education. I made this cute house and banner from Reflections for the boys teacher. It was so nice to spend the day with wonderful families.




















I'm so looking forward to summer. Only a few more days!!!

Oh Happy Day!

#1 happiness....I got a new camera! So very happy!

#2 happiness...I love this new vacation line from Me and My Big Ideas. I got it at Michaels. I made frames for all the teachers for the big luncheon today. I got a big stack of paper and then used my stash of letter stickers and embellishments.

#3 happiness...I went to put clothes away in Noah and Zach's room and saw that they have packed for our upcoming vacation. I think they've got it covered ;)

Finally...Reflections pics

Finally...some pictures from Reflections! We had a post Reflections crop on Saturday and Star gave me a cd full of her wonderful pictures. Thank you Star!!! I'm so happy to have pictures! And really good ones too!


Here is the registration desk. It was a tough job sitting at that beautiful spot checking people in, but somebody had to do it ;)


















Here are our beautiful tags. Aren't they cute? Karen designed them and Stephanie put them together for us. Isn't it good to have friends?


















I am so thankful for Reflections for a number of reasons. It was so much fun working with Karen and now I have a wonderful friend. I look forward to years of good times to come!


















Look at these cuties! Isn't this a great picture? Star and Susan are always a treat to see. They are always smiling!