Congratulations Jen and Rob...

One of the girls I work with got married yesterday. It turned out to be a beautiful day, and we had a great time. Below is a pic of Bob and his wife, Commissioner Andrade and Richard. Me and Cindy!
Cindy, Diane, Me, Jenn, Barbara and Bob!

The beautiful Bride and Groom :)
Jenn with Louie and Ruth.... they won the bouquet for the longest married couple at the wedding... 54 years!!!!

Isaac visits...

One of my fathers dearest friends came all the way from New Zealand to have an "adventure" with my dad. Isaac met up with me dad and they took a trip to Niagra Falls and then followed that up with a white water rafting trip in VA. We were fortunate that they were able to make their way to LI to see us. Here are my dad, Isaac and the girls waiting for the bus...
My dad and his grandson :)

This is Dougie and Christopher!

Grandpa feeding his little baby!

happy 10th birthday Emily Janine Hoey

10 years ago (on Sept 25th, 1998) I watch this beautiful girl come into the world.... (I was in the delivery room!) I am so proud of the kind and incredibly funny person she has become. I was honored to have her be my namesake and my goddaughter :) Happy Birthday! We love you Em!

check out this blog...

http://www.politicsunwrapped.blogspot.com/

A good friend of mine writes it... and I personally think its fabulous.

the first day...

Last Wednesday was the first day of school... Allison is now in 1st grade and Katie is in 3rd. I cannot believe how fast the time has gone :( My neighbor Sara and I decided to throw a party at the bus stop again for the first day. We got bagels and Sara made a "cake" out of fruit. We met there about 20 minutes early and enjoyed breakfast together.
The sun was pretty bright...
and hot, so Rich and the girls stood in the shade.

Here they are getting off the bus on the first day.
Megan, Allison, Brook, Lauren, Katie and Brett.
This picture is from my mom's camera... I thought it was a pretty nice picture of our house :)

The day BEFORE the first day... we spent some time at Jill's. The Lepore's just got a Beagle puppy! He is sooooo cute!!! here is doing what puppies do...

My mom!

Allison enjoying swimming in Jill's pool...

Jill and her new baby :)


Allie.

My nephew's cute little teeth!!
Katie, Natalie and Shannon
Uncle Dougie was a big hit after he took turns throwing the kids into the deep end.

museum of natural history...

Jill and I originally planned on the taking the kids to the Museum in September, but when plans to spend time at Hunter fell through we decided to do it sooner. We went on a Thursday and took the train, it was quite the trek in. Below is Natalie covered in powder sugar from her munchin! Waiting for the train...
Grandma Vegas joined us, and was such a good sport!

Jill and Christopher...
Like I said earlier it was quite the trek in and it took us much longer than expected (almost 4 hours!) We took the train (which included a bus ride to the Kings Park station) and then tried the subway, except we went the wrong way and ended up back in Queens :( We finally made it back in to Manhattan and then took a cab to the museum- it was very hot in the cab... the pic below is from the cab ride- the children were not happy.

The Museum! Finally!!!

T-REX...

I realized there are NEVER pics of me.... so I included this dark one of me and Jill. Believe it or not, this was the only picture from the entire day that I was in :( I am always behind the camera!

The tree... I soooo remembered this from when I was a kid :)
After the museum we took the bus down to the restaurant. Here are the kids waiting for the bus.

richie and jess are getting married...

On August 23rd, we went to an Engagement party for my nephew Richie and his fiance Jessica. It was a great party held at the Port Jefferson Firehouse. Nancy displayed pictures of them on each table. They are high school sweethearts, and this picture was from Jessica's prom 5 years ago!!
Pat and Jen
Rich's cousin Fred and his wife Jennifer...

Richie and Jess...
Allison was sitting at the bar waiting for her cup of ice...