Wow, I feel like I’m being neglectful here. It’s been, almost a day and a half since I posted. My poor blog, I promise not to leave you for this long, again. Mhmm.
Brandon will *hopefully* be getting his very own computer (no, he doesn’t have his own…pathetic, I know). Pending everything works out, he will be a proud owner of a Mac. Who ever thought, Brandon with a Toyota and a Mac. Hahaha. Makes me laugh. That evil creepy kind of laugh.
Tomorrow we will be taking Erik skiing at lab (I’m sure there will be pictures and video to go along with – we are those crazy annoying video camera type parents). Then off to my Aunt’s to get Erik’s hair cut, then out to dinner for Suzie’s (my 3rd sister) birthday dinner.
Then, you know, I really, like pretty desperately, need to work on my homework. Life needs to stop getting in the way. It’s getting tiring.
Tags: Family, Mac, Website
Posted in Patti by Patti 2 weeks, 5 days ago at 11:20 pm. 1 comment
Well, today hasn’t been the best of days. My cousin Suzie (my 3rd sister) is in the hospital. We are pretty sure it’s her gallbladder. She’s in excruciating pain. I feel horrible for her.
I’m supposed to be watching Gran Torino (that’s the name…I think?) right now. So I must actually pay attention. Since, you know, it does cost money to rent these movies.
Eh, whatever, money is stupid.
Tags: Family, Sickly
Posted in Patti by Patti 1 month, 1 week ago at 10:37 pm. Add a comment
I have really sucked with updating. Gotta say Brandon isn’t helping though!
So I’m in Florida, finally. We left the house a little before 6 in the evening on Tuesday, and I didn’t arrive in Florida until almost 2:30 on Wednesday afternoon. How insane is that. Our flight left over an hour late on Tuesday, so I missed our connection flight. Which stranded us in D.C. overnight, and when we got to D.C. we had to wait in line at the United Customer Service for about two hours at 11 o’clock at night. Sounds rough for me, but for a 3 year old, it was hell. We luckily got put up in a hotel, and got about 5 hours of sleep. Then our flight was supposed to leave at 8:40, but we were stuck sitting on the plane waiting for them to fix it for about 4 hours. I’m not kidding. We were just sitting in the plane. Poor Erik…we didn’t get to eat or anything. Erik didn’t eat for almost two days. I felt horrible.
We are here now though, and everything is good. Erik and I haven’t left the house since we got here now. Haha.
Caitlyn is happy, though.
Tags: Crazy, Family, Stress, Travel
I am totally and utterly in need of a lot of chocolate. Don’t ask me why.
We had a great Thanksgiving (s). When we don’t blog for a few days that generally means we are enjoying ourselves and keeping busy. Or we are arguing non stop and hate the world and don’t want to talk to anyone. Okay, well that has never happened, but I imagine if that does happen, that will be the case.
Erik decided he doesn’t like turkey dinner. Not the first time, or the second time, and not even the third. What a butt. All three were amazingly good, he missed out on a lot. He ate some fruit. And some bread. And, that’s it. What a loser kid. Heh. He got to go watch Aunt Ashley and Matt play soccer tonight, which I heard though the grape vine he liked a lot. I hear it was a good arena to show off his new shoes, which if I were him, I would do the exact same thing.
So I impressively…get this…didn’t take pictures this year. I purposely left my camera at home. I think I’m driving everyone nuts with the 900 pictures I have of them and their kids (or just Suzie’s kids…since they’re the only “kids”). Or I am driving me nuts. I have over 7000 pictures in iPhoto. A bit much, we say? Yes, we definitely say. Alas, Christmas is coming soon. I’m sure I’ll make up for it.
Off to do so much more homework. I didn’t have a lot, and now I have WAYTOOMUCH. Hate it.
Tags: Family, Fun, Holidays, School, Stress
Happy day-before Thanksgiving!
This year the three of us will be heartily enjoying three different Thanksgivings. Tomorrow we will be at Brandon’s mother’s house. Friday we will be here, trying to get our stomachs ready for the weekend. Saturday we will be with my Aunt and Uncle, and Sunday we will be at Brandon’s dad. Yay for lots of family.
Christmas shouldn’t be as…filling. My lovely cousin Suzie doesn’t have to work so we will be having dinner on Christmas Day, and that should be it. I’m excited for it all, anyway.
It does help that I don’t have class!
Tags: Family, Holidays
Posted in Patti by Patti 3 months, 2 weeks ago at 8:23 pm. Add a comment
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Tags: Family
What a wonderful birthday I had this year! It all started Tuesday when Patti dragged herself out of bed to bake cinnamon rolls for breakfast before I went to work. She also surprised me with a lunch pail that you could barely zipper closed that was filled with a nice thick sandwich and lots of snacks! After work, Erik and I got home to find that Patti had decorated the house and had ingredients to make manicotti ready to go for when she got home from school.
We enjoyed the wonderful meal and ice cream and Patti and Erik got me very nice LL Bean slippers and chocolates for me to enjoy at work. It was a wonderful day and very much unexpected!
Yesterday, we “finished” celebrating my birthday (as if Tuesday wasn’t 3 times more than I expected) by going to a Binghamton Senator’s hockey game and Texas Roadhouse for dinner. We realized that the Vestal Texas Roadhouse is half the size and half the quality of the Syracuse restaurant that we’ve grown to love. But, the food was still very good and we walked away stuffed.
The hockey game started off well with an early Senators goal, but soon the visiting team had gained a 4 goal lead to bring the score to 1-4. After that, the Senators seemed to be frustrated and had a greater interest in taking off their gloves and turning the ice rink into a boxing ring. Much the rest of the game was boring and we expected the Senators would loose. Late in the third period however, the Senators finally scored bringing the crowd to its feet. Then another, and another, and a fifth goal to tie the game with less than a minute to go! After 5 minutes of overtime and no goals, the game went into a best out of 5 shootout where the Sens lost 2 goals to 1 to bring the final score to 5-6. Even though the Sens lost, it was definitely the best game that Patti and I had been to yet and we had a blast!
So, my birthday this year was awesome and I couldn’t have asked for anything different. I had a wonderful time Tuesday with Patti and Erik, and had an amazing time with Patti on Saturday. It will definitely be a birthday to remember! Thank you Patti for everything you did! I certainly didn’t deserve half of what you did and I love you so much for it!
Tags: Family, Holidays, Love, Senators
We hope everyone had an awesome Halloween. We had a great one. We spent much of the morning moving Brandon’s dad with Ashley. Erik and I came home and took naps when we were done.
In the evening we had some more pulled pork and had Brandon’s mom, Ashley and Matt over. I tried to paint Erik’s nose black with the paint brush but he wasn’t so interested. So I ended up using my thumb, so it turned out pretty horrible. Oh well.
Then we went down to Homer to meet Brandon’s dad and Valerie. Erik wasn’t so interested in keeping his costume on or putting his Pooh hat on. Brandon’s mom finally talked him into it and we started trick or treating. He of course would only whisper trick or treat sometimes and every now and then say thank you.
After awhile he kept saying “next house,” and “next street.” He actually loved it and said he had fun. He was really sweet and still excited when we got home. He didn’t bug for too much candy. Well, not too much.
Tags: Family, Fun, Holidays, Love
Posted in Patti by Patti 4 months, 1 week ago at 10:10 am. Add a comment
A couple of weeks ago we trekked out on the coldest day of the season to pick out pumpkins at Anderson’s. Erik, of course, wanted the pumpkins at the absolute back of the pumpkin patch, on top of a hill forcing Patti and I to drag the pumpkins back down to the car. Tonight we finally carved the pumpkins into masterpieces (well, Patti did 95% of the carving, Erik and I were responsible for the mess making)
As you can see, Erik got quite involved this year and made a nice mess with the guts from the pumpkins. At first, he said it was gross and only wanted to scoop the guts out with “the shovel” until I shoved his hand deep into the pile of muck. After that, we made a “pumpkin pie” as Erik called it by squishing the goo between our fingers and patting it down flat.
These three photos are taken a year apart from the last. Erik on the right was less than one year old, the one in the middle one year and 8 months, and the picture to the left was taken tonight. Each of Erik’s three Halloween’s Patti has carved an Erik pumpkin and two of the three years we have pictures of Erik holding his pumpkin. (Unfortunately we don’t have one from last year for some reason-just of him when he was carving the pumpkin).
Tags: Family, Fun, Holidays, Love
Posted in Erik by Brandon 4 months, 1 week ago at 10:20 pm. Add a comment
Videos
Patti and I were going through the “digital clutter” that accumulates over time (especially when you keep changing computers/hard drives). While doing that, we found some forgotten videos taken from the camcorder or our cell phones that we want to share.
Most of the videos (actually, I think all) are of Erik and they’re all pretty cute!
Enjoy and let us know what you think!
Tags: Erik Dr., Erik Vocab, Family, Fun, Videos
Posted in Erik by Brandon 4 months, 2 weeks ago at 10:45 pm. 1 comment
