Birthday Fun!

On Tuesday my hubby turned 33 and I decided to get some cupcakes from www.georgetowncupcakes.com I also planned a special dinner of filet mignon, baked potato and broccoli.

So the night before I decided I was going to make a mini banner that said Happy Birthday! I was a bit nervous since I have never attempted one before. But all went smoothly since I have a Circut and I was able to cut all the shapes out in no time! I loved the way it turned out and I can't wait to use it again!

Here are few pictures! Please excuse the cupcake mess the FEDEX guy can walking up to my door with the package side ways so the icing shifted.




Thanks for taking a peek!

Blood work

So I have been feeling all out of whack the past few weeks and I have been frustrated with the stalled weight loss progress. So I decided to switch doctors and find out what is going on with me.

LOVE, LOVE the practice I switched to. It is where I take my dad and the all the staff is awesome! So I was sent for blood work to see is it was my blood sugar cause these problems(long family history of diabetes and I was diagnosed with Type 2 in late 2009). Well the results are in and it is my blood sugar. It was 140 fasting not good!!!!

So I am on meds and I am watching my sugar/carb intake and I found a great website with a message board! I am going to get this under control and I am going to get healthy!

Now where did I put my glucose meter???

Easter 2011

It has been a busy few months! I hope to catch up on the goings on but today I am going to focus on Easter!

Last Sunday we went to my cousins in PA for Palm Sunday brunch and egg hunt for the kids. I was great seeing my family and watch the next generation of cousins play! I forgot my camera so no pictures for that event. Then we were off to egg hunt number 2 of the day. It was a Fundraiser for Molly and her family. I was so awesome to see so many families come out and support Molly and her family! I think this is going to be an awesome event for years to come!

Saturday we colored Eggs and Ty had a blast! He got a kick out of some of the eggs having our names on them!

A few pictures of the egg dying.





Sunday was Easter! Ty was excited for the Bunny. I think he was thinking Christmas morning but I told him it was a very scaled down Christmas morning. SO up at 6am and downstairs we go and Ty was very happy the Lego's and Lighting McQueen beach chair. The we had an indoor egg hunt and he was pleased with the jelly beans and money that were in the eggs! He loved getting monies! He is saving for a Lego Space Shuttle!

Here are a few pictures from yesterday. They were taken with my cell phone so they are not great.





Thanks for taking a peak into our lives! I am hoping to update more!

Tyler turned 5

My little man turned 5 on Jan 23rd. I can't believe he is 5 already! I really don't know how that happened. It feels like yesterday he was born and now he is a few months away from going to Kindergarden.

Here is his hospital picture.



He has always been so bright eyed and ready to go!

Here is a picture from his 5 Birthday party.



He wanted a Bowling Birthday party. So we spent 2 hours at the bowling alley with friends and family and it was a blast. Ty said it was the best Birthday EVER!

LOVED hearing him saying that! Love him so much!

Pretty Paper

I decieded a few weeks ago I since I have been using my scrapbooking stash a lot that I needed some new paper so I order the Echo Park Valentine's line and I have been having so much fun with it!

So far I have created 3 layouts and a card!









It felt great to create with some new goodies!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Trish

Valentine's Day Flowers

My hubby is not a flower giving kind of person so I decided to make myself a pretty arrangement.

I used some Fancy Pants chipboard flower and Basic Grey paper I found in my stash. On a side note I am challenging myself to use my stash before I buy new scrappy goodies. The only things I had to buy was the flower pot and a foam half circle to hold the flowers.

I then traced and cut out stems and flower from the Basic Grey paper. I also hand cut some paper for decorating the flower pot. I then used my Xyron sticker to turn the paper in stickers and covered the chipboard.

Here is the finished project!

8 years ago

8 years ago today we lost a awesome women....My mom!

I still can't believe it has be 8 years. It feels like yesterday she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and a host of other medical problems. She was diagnosed for less then a month and didn't even make it to her first treatment when she passed away.

Although I am sad that she is not here with us or gets to share in her grandson or see how James and I have been blossomed into 2 pretty awesome people if I do say so myself ;). I decided to share a few Fran facts and pictures!

She always had to have big fish dinner on Christmas and she believed she was the best Italian cook ever!

She loved stuffing spinach ravioli's(real good) on New Years Eve(the only time she drank well maybe the second time sometimes the Fuzzy Nuvals got her at the block parties) after a bottle or two or 3 of champagne and at some point break the leaf in the dinning room table and then have my dad throw her in a cold shower to sober her up.

She always sat in the first pew at church on Sunday but halfway down the block on the walk home she was cursing like a trucker and blaming James and I.

Oh and anyone who knew her would tell you she was a Oldies music nut and the only channel aloud in the car was 101.1 the New York oldies station or any other one she could find if we were out of range or we had to endure her tape collection.

She was loved by so many and we were truly touched at her memorial mass back in Brooklyn at the packed house that was there and by all that drove to Delaware to her funeral.





We love you mom! Thanks for being out angel in heaven!