Football Nut

Ryan hits double digits

Woo Hoo Ryan turns 10 today!  Happy Birthday to my sweet, lovable and extremely tall 10 year old.  2008 was a great year for you and I know 2009 will be even better.                Some memories of this past year:

1.You were very into Pokemon in the beginning of the year, end of the year, Bakugan.

2.Your favorite sport by far is football, not only do you love to play it, you talk to me about it and watch Sports Center on a regular basis.

3.You LOVE to draw and are awesome at it.  You can draw anything that is put in front of you.

4.You love your 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Pontonio, you got straight A's on your report card and we were very proud of you.

5.You made your First Holy Communion in May.

6.You went to Puerto Rico, Giants training camp and for the first time the St. Joe's football camp and loved it.

7.For Halloween you were a scary Jester.

8.You have totally gotten into reading and read constantly, KEEP IT UP!!

9.For Christmas you got a PSP, finally.

10.You rushed into the endzone for your first TOUCHDOWN!  Go Senior Mitey Mites.

Well these are just a few things I can remember from the past year, here's to the next one.  I love you to pieces Ryan!!

Merry Christmas

The Christmas recap will be posted shortly.  John gave  me a new camera and I can't figure out how to download the pictures yet( I'm sure I know how but I can't find the wire that lets you download.)  Anyway, I'll leave you with a couple of pictures. This was the night before Christmas, waiting to go to sleep.  Annie, do you see my throat, I am very self conscious now that the doctor has pointed it out.  Does yours look like that?  I notice it in every picture now.  I guess I'll find out on Monday what the deal is.  Oh well.  The next one is at mom's.  Erin -Jack is almost as tall as you.    

Christmas in Connecticut

           Every year since we moved here, we go to Jones tree farm to cut down our tree.  Last Sunday it snowed.  When I think of chopping down a Christmas tree this is what I think of.  This is the first time it actually happened (for us anyway)  It was so awesome, we loved it.  We found the perfect tree about half way up the mountain.  It took John, Jack and Ryan about 15 minutes to cut it down.  The boys slid down the hill while John dragged the tree.  We paid $60 and went home to decorate. 

Happy Birthday Jack!

At 3:46 am Jack turned 12.    He came into our room at 6 and said he had been up since 4.  At 7, he  woke everyone up with his singing frog that sings "Hey shorty it's your birthday, we're gonna party like it's your birthday."  He was so excited. We were trying to figure out what's so great about turning 12, finally we realized he couldn't wait to open his presents.  He thinks this has been the best day.  We gave him a video game that he's been dying for for 2 years and a USC hat and sweatshirt, sorry Mannie.  It's all about football, he thinks he's going to play there one day.  Jack you're such a great kid and we totally love you to pieces!!!!    The rest of the day was sort of productive, I cleaned and John put up most of the lights outside.  We are so behind, I can't believe Christmas is in 12 days.  I haven't even gotten wreaths yet.  Anyway, we just got back from hibachi and now it's time for bed, just kidding, sort of.  I'm very tired and I have too much to do.   I will post our pictures of cutting down the Christmas tree tomorrow.  Have a good night!

    

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Thanksgiving week.....

This past week was awesome!  We started it off in Stamford for the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade, it is the second largest next to Macy's.  We go every year, sit in the same spot and have a great time.  This year however, WAS FREEZING.  It was probably 30 tops and with the wind, it was just so cold.  Ryan was crying after awhile- to be honest I don't blame him. We get to the parade almost 2 hours before it starts and then it lasts about 2 hours.  I learned a big lesson, I should have brought more blankets that are actually thick for warmth.  Oh well, next time I'll know.  Anyway, then on Tuesday the second grade at my school holds their own Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.  We each made 4 floats, my class' themes were outerspace, Peter Pan, China and Tom Turkey.  I loved every minute of it, it was so cute.  Their floats were awesome!! Then we were off on Wednesday, which I really hope they continue to give  us every year, it was great having 5 days off.  On Thursday we went to my parents house, (I'll post those pictures later- they're on my other cam.)  Friday we decorated for Christmas, had a fire and cleaned.  I put up my Christmas tree(with my million dollar ornaments- long story, maybe I'll tell another time) and all the pictures and knick knacks.  In 2 weeks(on Jack's bday) we'll get the real one. On Sat.-we tried to finish the leaves and we took our Christmas picture.  Yay, I'm so glad that is done.  I'm VERY behind, usually my pictures are going out in the mail the day after Thanksgiving.  Anyway, John was going to finish the driveway area today, but it snowed!!  We didn't even know it was going to.  So... I went to Freda's- did report cards,came home and watched the GIANTS win again!!!  I will post more pictures later, the computer isn't letting me.     

And Halloween....

One more from Halloween night.

Hooray for the weekend!

I couldn't wait for today.  This week was a little long, I just wanted to sleep in, however I still woke up at 5:30 and just layed there, I couldn't fall back.  Oh well.  Krista and I went to the Westport crafts fair and then up to Fairfield to shop at Old Navy and eat at Einstein bagels.  It was so nice to just hang out.  It's been hard since I went back to work.   I never see anyone anymore.  When I got home I took Ryan to basketball and now we're waiting for dinner to be ready.  My mom brought her crock pot for us to use, dinner is not something I like to eat or make.  Meanwhile it's John's favorite meal of the day.  Poor guy, thank God he likes to cook.  It is absolutely freezing today.  I hate it already.   Tomorrow we're going to the Stamford Thanksgiving day parade, it's like a mini Macy's Thanksgiving parade.  We love to go, I just hope it's not too cold.  Here's those extra pictures that were supposed to be with the last post.     

Finally a chance to breath.....

Hello, I thought I would finally update.  I haven't had a minute.  I started back to work teaching 2nd  grade, the boys had football and now we're starting basketball.  Anyway, here's a bunch of pictures of our fall fun.  We always get our pumkins at Stew Leonard's  3 HUGE pumpkins for $18.  You can't beat that. They also have a cute spooky hay ride that the kids love.  We also go to Barton Orchards each year with our friends the DeRienzo's and finally some Halloween pictures.    I will re post the rest of my pictures, they aren't coming out.  And these pictures are gigantic.  This makes me crazy.

Off to Shea for the last time

John, Jack and Ryan had quite the sports weekend.  They got up today to go to the Met game.  John gets awesome tickets from work.  They sit in a box right behind 3rd base.  A new stadium is being built so this is the last time for them at Shea.  And it was eventful, Jack got a foul ball, he was so psyched.  1- beacuse he finally got a ball and 2 because it was hit off of David Wright his fav. Met player.  I'm very excited to see the new stadium, it looks beautiful and classy(see the picture with the Cardinals players, the new stadium is in the background)  I LOVE the brick.   Anyway, they stayed till the end of the game, the Mets won 9-1 just as it was starting to rain.  In the meantime, Football starts in 4 days-woo hoo!!!!