my hero

This a picture take of Richard at a fire Setauket FD had in early January. I think this is an awesome picture. I just love him :) (thanks Dad for sharing) The picture below is of another fire Setauket FD had in mid January....
Thank goodness it was an abandoned house. There was no interior operations on this one. When you see the photos, it is just a reminder of how dangerous fire is, an how dangerous firefighting can be. So... a big thank you to all my firefighting heros.... especially Richard, Dougie, Dad, Bobby, Pop, Freddy.

Our dress adventure...

Katie with her godmother, Aunt Gretchen walking into Burlington Coat Factory. Sifting through the racks. There were tons of dresses there.
This one was OK... we didn't buy anything there, and the dress she got is sooo sooo much prettier than this one.
We tried this headpiece... I don't think she liked it as much as I did. We didn't buy it.
out to dinner at the end of the night. :)

random pictures

I just figured I would post some random pics.... here are Meg and Hannah with Katie and Allie this our adorable pooch.... Murphy
Grandma Vegas
smooches from Allie

Happy 6th Birthday Allison!!

My goodness time does fly. I cannot believe that my baby, my little one is now 6 years old, in kindergarten, has a loose tooth and can ride a two-wheeler. wow.

We have a dress...

This past weekend we went shopping for a communion dress for Katie. Gretchen, Katie, my mom, and I headed out for a day of shopping. We hit JcPenney, Sears, Burlington Coat Factory, Davids Bridals and Macys (which had nothing). After about 20 or more dresses on Saturday we called it a day with no luck. We had a nice dinner at California Pizza Kitchen and went home with a very tired Katie in tow. Sunday we were running some errands for Allisons birthday after church and drove past a place in Lake Grove called Little Dickens. We figured we would stop and check it out. They had quite a selection...but were also a bit pricey. Some dresses were over $300.00! After trying on a few dresses. Katie fell in love with one of them. I called Gretchen and she quickly came over and we bought it. Yay! She is super excited. I have some photos from our adventure. I will post them when I get a chance.

Kate's first concert

Right before Christmas I received a phone call from one of Katie's friends in her class. Megan had received tickets to the Aly & AJ concert as a gift from her parents, and she wanted Katie to go with her. Rich and I talked about it and finally asked Katie if she wanted to go... she said no- if neither one of us would be there. I talked to Megan's mom and told her that it wasn't going to work out. Megan's mom then invited me to go along (Megan really wanted Katie to share this with her). The concert was on 12/29/07 at Westbury (I had never been there before) and it was interesting. Both Kathryn and myself had never heard of Aly & AJ... but now we know they are connected to Disney. Below is a photo of Menudo... the "new" Menudo. They were the open group for Aly & AJ.

Here is Megan and Katie playing rock, paper and scissors...
Below is Aly (on the keyboard) and AJ on the mic. I have since googled them and found out more. They are twin sisters.

Katie SCREAMING something in Megans ear... it was the only way to communicate during the concert! LOL
Each girl got a CD that they were selling the lobby. Thanks so much Megan and Cathy for a great night!!

Merry Christmas 2007

Here are the girlies in front of the tree with the gifts around them... .they actually waited for me to take the picture before we dug into the opening of the gifts.
It was an American Girl christmas... lots and lots of doll stuff.
Below is the American Girl Feel Better Kit that Allison requested and received from Santa. It is really really cute. It included crutches, casts, ace bandage, finger spint and a ice pack and for the doll!! funny.Allison was super excited this year. She as really into opening her gifts. Below she is opening GrandmaVegas's gifts (also American Girl). She was hoping to get the bakery set....and when she opened it you can see her excitement.
Julie Albright quickly started baking cupcakes for her friends.and when she was done baking it was time to brush her hair! Below Katie was in heaven as Grandma Vegas let her feed Christopher his bottle.

After opening our gifts on Christmas morning we took a ride over to see Rich's mom. We exchanged gifts with her and hung around for a little while.




Merry 1st Christmas Christopher!

Uncle Dougie surprised Aunt Erica with this beautiful wedding eternity band for Christmas. Erica finally has a wedding band of her own. When they were married in January, she wore her grandmothers band. But now... she has her own. This picture doesn't do it justice.



I was surprised this year with a fantastic gift from Richard. He bought me a Canon Rebel digital SLR. He knew I wanted one, but I seriously never expected to get it. :) Rich has been playing with his ipod since Santa brought that for him on christmas. I feel so lucky this year to have had my family around. Having Doug, Erica, my Mom and Baby Christopher around all week was so much fun!!! I am truly blessed.