8/2/08 Olivia H.'s birthday

Today I drove the girls dow to Kids Village -Kenilworth, NJ (in a bad thunderstorm mind you) to help Olivia H. celebrate her 4th birthday! Olivia and Amanda are classmates at HCA. Kids village is a new place that is a cross between a kids museum and a chucky cheese. It was really nice and clean--the pizza was yummy too. Everyone had a great time.

7/2008---Cousins visit

Cousins Freddy, Debbie and their son Will came to visit for the day from Millville, NJ (south jersey) and have a bbq. The Tennaro's hosted because Hoboken is just too small to host parties anymore. The kids really enjoyed playing frisbee with cousin Will and using sidewalk chalk with Debbie.

7/31/08--The "Rock"

It has been exactly 6 months since my Mom passed away. Time is flying by too fast. Every time I go visit my family I always stop by the cemetery and visit my Mom. Amanda would always ask, "Where is Meme's rock?" My dad finally ordered it and it was there for her six month anniversary in heaven. It has St. Francis on it--my Mom's favorite. My Mom is buried right next to her parents --short little story. A few years ago my Mom and I would go visit my grandfather (passed in 1988 day before I graduated from middle school) and my Nana passed away Sept. 13 2003--I didn't know it at the time but I was actually pregnant with Amanda. Anywhooo back to my story.....My Mom and I would visit the cemetery together and would go for walks together since it is right down the road from our house. My mom decorated her parents gravestone with these plastic tulips that I thought were so tacky--but she liked them. We disagreed on those tulips amongst other things because she and I had such different taste on certain things! Anyway--as a tribute to my mom I bought those tacky tulips and decorated her stone with them. Mom--I hope you like them! I miss you SO much!

7/31/08--Concert at Frank Sinatra Park

This evening we took the girls to the playground/park and Amanda's favorite big rock at Maxwell place and then walked down to Frank Sinatra park to attend the evenings concert (a latin band). Amanda just wanted to dance right in front of the band all night after throwing rocks into the Hudson river with the other kids.

7/27/08--7/30/08 Amanda away at Aunt Joanne's

Amanda stayed at my sister's house from Sun-Wed. It was the longest to date that she has been away from us. She was well behaved and had a great time. They swam each day, went to the school playground, baked brownies and cookies, Amanda played with her cousins: Alyssa, Ryan and Stephanie and their friends too: Jared, Antonia, Delaney, so she hardly missed us at all! Amanda enjoyed learning how to play the Wi!

7/30/08--Tent city

This even I invited Alice, Gigi, and Helen to come over and play while their parents went out to celebrate's Meg's birthday! The girls decided to set up tents all over our living room and then proceeded to empty almost ALL of the toys out of the bedroom and place them in the tents! They had fun--but not fun cleaning up the next day! But what is new--it is the story of my life.

7/30/08--Claire and Gwen's Pool!

Today we were invited to come play at Claire and Gwen's house. They had a sandbox, ride-on toys, slide/climby thing, and a pool!!!! The girls all were able to beat the heat in the pool. Then Abbey decided to add bubbles to the pool too--so they were all bubbly clean too! Sorry Brenda for leaving Gwen's room all messy with toys. All the girls had a blast playing. The fruit platter was so yummy--we hardly left any!! Thank you for having us over.