Love when this happens....

Especially when they are wearing their cousin Eddie hats!

Back at it.. (and need some ideas)

So I have started working out and eating good(most of the time) since January. It's amazing how much better I feel.
I would love to hear ideas about any healthy recipes, snacks or products you use. I found these amazing low carb wraps at Costco that are whole wheat and they are huge and only 80 calories. I use them for sandwich wraps and to make little pizzas on, so good. I need your secret weapons.
So give me your best! Please :-)

Last one...

You know like the next one I have will be:


At least I have a whole year until I have to worry about that.

New York New York!

Barry in Times Square
Inside Trinity Church (the church in National Treasure)
Wall Street
Lady Liberty!
Me on the Staten Island Ferry with The Lady in the background.
Barry at Staten Island with Manhattan in the background.
Columbus Circle

The Manhattan Temple, it is a regular building, not temple looking at all.
Barry freezing in Central Park.


We had a great time in New York. We ended up taking way more video and not as many pictures. But here are a few that we have.

Some of my favorite moments were:

*Me driving our rental car through Chinatown and downtown Brooklyn, wasn't expecting that (Thanks Mr. GPS, haven't you heard of Freeways?)

*Driving around my old neighborhood in Short Hills!

*Eating at Dunkin Donuts every morning, we had good intentions of eating somewhere better but always ended up there.

*KNICKS vs NEW JERSEY game! (of course our battery died so no pics)

*Having 60 degree weather the first 2 days and freezing 30-40's the next 2 days.

*Me taking us in the wrong direction more than once, oops, I have lost my skills.

*Paying $3 for a bottle of soda that should really only cost $1

*Eating 80 cent HUGE cream pastrys at a Chinatown bakery.

*CHINATOWN- enough said

*Getting Philly Cheesesteaks from Staten Island and eating them on the ferry ride back.

*The Subways and trains back to New Jersey.

*Rockefeller tree all lit up and all of the holiday decorations in the city.

*Seeing Ground Zero and the work they have done on it.

*The laser show on the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal.

*Getting Indian food from a street cart, yum!

*Relaxing in the hotel hot tub every night after a long day.

too many more, mostly it was nice to spend one on one time with Barry (who said he would go again next year so we will see!)

Make Up Artist

If anyone is looking for a make up artist I know a good one. Here is a sample of his work. He is also learning how to do tattoos. Warning- You may end up looking like Hitler or the Joker, but if that's your style, he is just the man for you!

Halloween!

We had a fun Halloween. I was sad because Alex was sick on Friday and couldn't go to the family party. He had a low grade fever. I thought for sure he would be sick for Halloween but he has been fine! Grandma and Papa came over and we had Maple Garden (mmmm) and went trick or treating. The boys had a great time.

8 years ago

It was 8 long years ago today that I left to move to New Jersey. I had packed up most of my belongings a week earlier and sent it to my new home. A home with two darling little girls (funny I ended up having sons) and two awesome parents. As I stepped on the plane I was full of excitement, not sad at all. My mom was scared since 9/11 had just hit and I was living only about 20 miles from NYC. The father, who worked in NYC, was evacuating the city with thousands of others after the first tower was hit and witnessed the second tower get hit. He was a tall tough guy who never got emotional, however he couldn't talk about it (of course!) without getting choked up. Anyways back to the fun part, it was one of the best years of my life, I met great friends, had fabulous weekends in NYC and loved my girls. Oh the stories I could tell (including one very late night, having our subway derail and catch fire, Seriously) Memories!