Kate & Allie

Setauket Fire Department Installation Dinner

This year my Brother-in-law Bob is the chief of Setauket FD. The chief is allowed to invited guests to the dinner. So this year he invited Katie and Allie. Of course his daughters were there too and my other neices and nephews... it was a blast to have everyone there. It was held this year at the Hyatt in Hauppauge. It was a really nice place- we got there early and swam in the pool and stay the night.. .we made a nice weekend out of it. The dinner was the first weekend in March... so again I have apologize for the late posting.

me and Sarah Hubbard

I didn't take too many pics of the ceremony... after so many years they all start looking the same. You can see lots of pics on the website- www.setauketfd.com Below is a pic of Richard (one of the commissioners) swearing Bobby in as Chief of Department! Bob actually requested the Rich swear him in... I believe its traditionally the Chairman of the Board that swears in the chief. It was an honor for Rich to do this for Bob. Its not such a great pic- sorry.

Katie and Taylor.

Emily, Jessica, Taylor, Katie and Allie.

Anthony and Meryl... Anthony is the new 3rd assistant Chief.. congrats!

Allison with Pop-Pop. Congratulations to my father in law for recently becoming 5A1-30 in the Port Jefferson Fire Department!

Kate, Aunt Pam and Emily!

Cindy and Ryan!!

Gretchen dancing it up with Katie.

Gretch and Nancy

oh boy... ryan

and then Gretchen!!!!lol

Janice and Dave! awwww how cute :)

Cindy and Sarah... much love to the Hubbards!

Random pics from back in February.....

For the 100th day of school, Allison had to create a project. We made a celebration cake out of 100 cottonballs. She was very proud of her project!!

During the winter break, Katie's Brownie troop got together at Emma S. Clark Library for some fun. They played games and made lanyards, etc.

I organized a tour of the firehouse for Allisons's Daisy Troop. The girls had fun... below you can see there demonstration of Stop, Drop and Roll!

Bunches of Thanks to firefighter Scott and firefighter Dave!

Catching up.... (pics from February!)

My friend Jill's son turned 8 in February.... he had an awesome Ice Skating party at the rink in Port Jefferson Village. It was the first time the girls had ever been on skates... Kathryn did pretty good, I guess with her experience with rollerblades.

Allison needed more help... so she pushed around a cone for balance.

Dennis is a ice hockey player and is awesome on skates, he was so great with the kids and helped Allison out a bit too.

Happy 8th Birthday Kathryn Gretchen!

I cannot believe my little girl is 8.....She is getting so grown-up. Its so bittersweet. Happy Birthday Katie and I hope all your birthday wishes come true.

Navigator 2008!

I realized that the first pictures I actually took were when my friend and I took a train over to Washington DC for the afternoon. It was amazing... the first pic below is Union Station!

This is Union Station from the outside. The buildings are beautiful.

The Capitol building.

We went to the Smithsonian... In the art museum hung this original paining by Leonardo Da Vinci. It was beautiful- of course all the detail is lost in photographs.

This is on the floor near the WWII monument.

It is unbelievably moving.

A view of the Lincoln memorial from across the reflecting pool.

If you look the other way you see the WWII memorial and the Washington Monument.

The detail on the buildings was incredible.....

In the Lincoln Memorial... on one wall they have the Gettysburg address... and on the opposite wall they have his 2nd inaugural address.

view of the Washington Monument from the Lincoln Memorial.

The Vietnam Wall.... to moving for words.

we walked by the white house, we were not that close, my camera just has good zoom!

I love all the quotes and sayings on the buildings. We also went and saw the Archives. the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and the Bill of Rights.... the pics didn't come out so good since you are not allowed to use a flash.

CCM friends... Steve, me, Christy and Sheila

We all had signed up for a boat cruise that took us into the Chesapeake Bay.

You can tell these were a little later on the in the night... LOL

Steve and Ken!

Sheila, Kristy, Ken, Me and Steve!

This was the Beautiful view from my room! It was amazing... this photo does not do it justice!

More CCM friends... Dave and his wife Krista, Kitty and Jimmy, Tricia, Aaron, SHeila, Christy, Steve.

Gretchen and Nancy came down to Baltimore for a little vacation.. .it was great to see them there. We had a blast - they joined me and my CCM friends at a piano bar in town... good times!