Wedding Photos

As Promised here are the photos from the wedding.

Saturday's photos on the way!

Saturday was Lex and Josh's wedding!!!! For those of you that don't know, Lex is my roommate from college and Josh is a good friend from high school.
It was beautiful! Even though it had been raining for two days straight it stopped at about 2:00, the sun came out and they were able to do the ceremony outside! Everyone looked amazing (as you will soon see), the flowers were great and they had really cool mood lighting! Cocktail hour was an hour and a half with a raw bar and tons of great food. Being the picky eater that I am, I stuck with the cheese, crackers, bruchetta and pizza, but everyone else went nuts over all the seafood. The centerpieces were enormous and gorgeous and ballroom was huge! They had a very cute cupcake cake and a great band (with an elvis!) We got see some people from Monmouth that I hadn't seen in ages and lots of people from high school. While dinner was good, the hour of desserts was the best!!! Chris made himself a sundae but I headed straight to the strawberry and cream cake!! It was all way too good and I'll be very surprised if my pants fit tomorrow!

All and all a wonderful evening filled with love and lots of beautiful people!!!
Pictures coming very very soon!!

A special thanks to ....Glen for making me looking amazing, Kristy for playing dress up with me and most importantly Chris for not getting mad when I didn't introduce him to people whose names I forgot! It is because of you that i am here today... :o)

The Big 22!

Mouse came home from UCONN this weekend to spend her birthday in P-town. Even though she was quite ill we had a great time catching up, going out to eat and having a fantastic ice cream cake/pie thing! Thanks to the handy timer on the camera we finally got a good picture of the whole family!

Fall is here!

Last week we finally started getting some real fall weather! There was one particularly cool day, so i was a big baby and took out the space heater. Cooper (who LOVES the space heater) was very excited. He grabbed one of his favorite toys, got good and close to the heater, and took a nap! Too cute...

Alexa's Lingerie Party

Friday night was the surprise lingerie party for my friend Alexa. Her bridal party did an amazing job and Alexa was totally surprised. There was tons of food and drinks, crazy gifts and best of all a penis cake! I didn't even know they made cakes like that! The bridal party planned three days of bachelorette festivities starting with the surprise lingerie party Friday, a night in NY Saturday and a spa day on Sunday! Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it to Saturday or Sundays events but I’m sure the girls managed to have fun without me!

Here are some of the sexy ladies from Friday. An of course the cake...

Our House

I know some of you wanted to see pics of our place so here they are. These were taken about a month after we bought the place.

AFL Grand Final

Well it was a record breaking Grand Final. For those that dont know already, the Power who were being supported by Gary, myself, Kristy and Dani set a new record by being beaten by the largest margin in AFL history. Junior was happy though as he was supporting the Cats who obviously cheated and won (All the emotion can be seen in the following photos!)












A big thank you to Dani and Kristy for supporting the Power and wearing the right colors on the night, as seen here












Thanks also to Danielle who slept through the whole game. In her defense the game did start at about 12:30am and go till 4 in the morning! The girls may not have enjoyed the game but apparently the wine was good.

Opening Day

For those of you that don't know (and i think that would be most of you) i am the co-chair of Chester's Corner Store. CCS (as people in know refer to it) is a highly lucrative operation which specializes in pencil sharpeners, fuzzy pencil grips, multi-point pens, and other totally awesome school supplies. The store is staffed by the finest 5th graders NJ has to offer and caters to students aged 5 to 11. This is our second year in operation, and my co-chair (the fabulous Kristy) and i are pleased to announce that opening day went off with a bang! While sales where not at their highest, our new items were a big hit and word spread quickly through the halls! I am sure that tomorrow will bring record sales!

I am sorry to announce that we no longer take pre-orders, so if you are interested in purchasing some of our reasonably priced items and supporting the 5th grade, you are going to need to line up Wednesday and Thursday mornings like everyone else. And for those of you that were worried about our string of thefts last year, the new staff has been properly trained to identify, apprehend and prosecute said offenders (Sean did i use the right terms?)

Aussie Rules Grand Final

A big shout out to all my Port Power supporters (Australian Rules Football team) as they will be facing a tough challenge this week in the Grand Final against the Geelong Cats. If anyone is in the neighborhood and wants to drop by, we will be having a little Grand Final party. Game coverage starts at 11:20pm Friday evening and it should be a ripper of a game. There may be a little tension at the GF party though with Gary and myself supporting the Power and Junior supporting against the Power with a passion. I will post some photos of the night on the weekend.

Stay tuned for the results of the best game of the season.

Lauren, you guys are always welcome to come and work with us at camp, or ship the kid/s off when they are old enough.

Our First Summer at Harbor Hills

Several of you have asked how our first summer at the new camp was... so i'm going to give you all a little update!

Harbor Hills is a beautiful camp about 15 minutes from our house. It is a day camp unlike the last one which was a sleep away camp. They have campers aged 3-15 with a special Kiddie Village for the littlest ones and a teen tour program for the oldest one! The camp caters to North Jersey with beautiful landscaping, great activities, meals and transportation and a wonderful staff (that's us!). Chris has a very similar job to the one he had at the last camp by interviewing and hiring all staff and working on advertising. In addition to that however he is also in charge of the teen travel program (this is a huge job- he organizes activities, transportation and food for 90 kids every day!). Needless to say he had lots of very long nights leading up to camp but the camp season ran wonderfully and he left at 6am and was home most nights by 9pm! A huge change from the last camp were he rolled into the cabin at 2 a.m. Plus now no one radios us at all hours of the nights with different issues, we have a real bed, hot shower, don't have to eat camp food breakfast, lunch and dinner and we have weekends!!!! Needless to say, Chris enjoyed the summer and loves the new job!

As for me, this summer i was a division leader. I was in charge of 44 third grade girls and seven counselors. I had a great group of kids and my counselors were wonderful too. I really enjoyed being outside and not stuck in a program room all summer! i got a tan, actually made some friends (yes some people like me!) and went swimming! Can't wait to do it again next summer!!!

the website for the camp is listed to the right. there aren't a lot of pictures of the camp but you can still check it out!

Lex's Bridal Shower

Last weekend was Alexa's bridal shower. Lex was my roommate in college and i am super excited for her to get married in a little over a month. Plus, the guy she is marrying is one of my good friends from High School. We cant wait for the wedding and the only issue for us will be to work out who is driving that night! And, to convince Chris that i need another new dress for the wedding.

This is Kasey (groom's sister), Me and Lex Me as a toilet paper bride....i was nominated to do this!

Cooper's play date

Also wanted to share some pics of Coopers new friend Hudson. Hudson's mom and dad (Lex and Josh) came over for a "puppy play-date" as Dani calls it. They are good friends and spent 4 hours chasing each other around - not Lex and Josh, Cooper and Hudson that is. We brought out 4 tennis balls for them to play with and Cooper was not a gracious host as he proceeded to take all 4 and place them strategically around himself so he could keep them all for himself. He is just like his mother, and needs to work on sharing.

Hebrew School

I am trying to make up for not writing anything for a while, so i thought id let you know about Dani's new level of "Jewy". She is now teaching at Hebrew school on Sunday mornings and Tuesday nights. I am hoping that this will score us some points with the big man upstairs. She enjoys it, as it is a change of pace from teaching and she is really good at what she does, so i am sure the kids will benefit from her being there.

1st Real Post - hooray (Dani made me do it)

So that i am not just teasing Lauren by never updating i thought we should add a post. We went to Ocean City the week after camp, and although it rained most of the time we were able to relax on the beach for a while, which was a nice change of pace. Dani is not happy about some of these photos being published for anyone to see, but hey she doesnt know how to update/edit the blog yet, so i guess i can put up whatever i want.