Sadness...

This week I am realizing just how many people around me are extreamly racist. I find this...quality, to be very ugly and it upsets me to see people I love acting this way.

I come from an Irish town!!!

The town I grew up in is extreamly Irish. Since my sister-in-law is Irish (as in here dad and maternal grandmother are from Ireland) I went with her, my brother and the baby to our towns St. Patty's day parade on saturday. This is a huge event. There is a bigger turn out for this parade than the 4th of July. Not only that but most of the spectators are drinking beer the entire time. We had a great time.

Here is the happy Irish family


Aidan really had a blast looking at the different things and juts having fun in general.




By the end he was wiped out!

Long time, no see!

Wow, it's been a long time since I've posted. Here is the brief update.

-I'm working part time at OSB
-I'm commuting to Kutztown 2 days a week for class
-I love class!!!!!
-My nephew is huge and is adorable!
-My dad ruptured his Patella Tendon and has been in the hospital/rehab for the past 15 days.

Christmas 2007

I hope everyone had a great Christmas! Mine was a lot of fun and very different from any other Christmas I've had before. With both my siblings being married this Christmas this was the year of old family traditions coming to an end. There was no Christmas morning at my parents and my sister wasn't even home for Christmas since she had to work. My parents had their annual Christmas Eve party. Then the next morning my mom and dad and Dan, Anne and Aidan came to my house in the morning for breakfast and the opening of presents.

Later My mom and Dad and I got dinner (we ordered it so there was no cooking Christmas dinner, just picking up) and drove out to my sister and brother-in-laws house in Lancaster for Christmas dinner and then some more opening of Christmas presents with them. (Grammy would have been at both events but she was sick and stayed home in bed instead:o( )

The best part of Christmas was celebrating with the newest members of our family....Aidan. Although he seemed to have a different idea than everyone else of how to celebrate. He was awake at the beginning of the Christmas eve party but by the time the cameras came out he was sleeping.


Then he was awake while we were eating breakfast but by the time we were opening presents he was asleep again.
Here he is with his unopened gifts.


Here he is "enjoying" his new toy!

Annual White Elephant Party

Last friday my friend Allison had her annual white elephant Christmas party that I help her with each year. It was so much fun. This was the biggest turn out she's had and I think everyong really enjoyed themselves. This party involves a lot of different fun things.

There was some good times hanging out with friends.


There was some bonding.


There was some partaking of party beverages.


There was some music.


And there was some extreamly weird gift giving.


I had a blast!!!

The Poconos

2 weeks ago all of my friends and I drove to the Poconos for the weekend to suprise a friend of ours for his birthday. Although the weekend did not start off as planned it turned out to be a lot of fun. After an almost 3.5 hour delay we arrived and the weekend festivities began.

2 of the cars (one was following the other) had a miscommunication in directions and took some wrong turns. They drove down a hill and got stuck. Annie Eric and I then drove arounf for 2 hours (with rock salt and shovels in the trunk) trying to find them. After a quick call to 911 to find out where they auctually were (but of corse the police didn't come to help because they could not drive down that road or they would get stuck) we had directions and found them. We found the three girls who were freezing on the side of the road and then proceeded to hike the mile down the icey hilly road to where the cars were stuck. After about another hour (in which we made several crazy memories) the first car was up the hill. The girls left then and the boys stayed to get the other car out. After an interesting encounter with a security guard who was ready to kill them because he thought they were bear poachers on private property (who new) he nicely helped them get the second car unstuck. Finally at 12:30 we all arrived at the house, dried up, warmed up and began our fun weekend. Within a few hours (and after some beverages) the beginning of the weekend was not longer a horrible nightmare, but a huge adventure that will go down in infamy as one of the craziest things we've ever encountered.

After that we had a great time hanging out and celebrating with our friend Eric.

God bless Annie, she spent a large part of the day on saturday in the kitchen making an amazing homade pasta dinner!


Thank God for this as well!!!

Appology

I just wanted to appoligize for the crazy amoount of new posts. I've been meaning to post these things for some time now but this is the first time I've auctually had time to sit down and do it!