Okay.. so the first thing I have to say is that Emily and I bring the camera with us EVERY time we go to a family thingy... yet despite this we manage to NEVER bring it out of its pocket in the diaper bag - somehow. Luckily the Newf's were well equiped with camera's this past weekend as we flocked to Nanuet NY like lox returning to the nesting grounds.
This is a big family that I have married myself into - or at least it is on the Holidays... we were MANY ... Jim, Lisa and their "spawn" Mathew & Olivia - who are both gorgeous and incredibly sweet, Me & Em and our lil caviar, D-Gina (Dan & Gina) and their tadpole Farah, Grandma-Grandma Anne mother to Nancy & Chuck, Chuck and Shirley were there from Ithaca - with Ariel and her two trouts - Elijah and Isabella (Photos of Carrie, Chuck and the guppies Ryley and the twins were passed around and best wishes to them in Seattle --- very very cute babies!!!), Anne's sister Janet came with her grown kids (I am running out of fishy metaphors...) Mark and Suzie, Claire & Herb were there along with Liz, Jaime & Neal & Jake & Molly.
Oh and we brought Mabel as well cause its important to have an 85 lb dog running around when you have a house full of family, kids and food!!
Baby Riley came through like a champ - he slept well on both the ride down and the ride back. We left Boston Friday night at 7:30 & got to Nanuet around 11:30 - D-Gina beat us there by a few minutes cause they don't have to stop and breastfeed along the way. We all slept okay - then went to services Sat am ... we spent more time in the hall letting all the kids say hi than we spent in services but that was fine - we heard the drash then headed back to the house. Folks arrived between 1 & 3 and we ate, and ate and ate... I think I had 5 kinds of desert. It was so cool to see all the kids get to play together. Mathew and Elijah are practically the same age and got along great - Farah adores Olivia and follows her around, Jake got to be the biggest guy of the crew and herd them around. Isabella was playing with the cool presents that Gma Gma Anne had gotten her & Riley napped a lot.
Sunday we stayed at the house while Phancy took Farah to services, Em slept and I had coffee and played with Monito. Then JLisa came back over & Chuck & Shirley came back & em & I packed ... (sad) then everyone got home from services and we had lunch then said goodbye and drove back. The boy rode home good & we got back in time for Em to sleep a little bit before her FIRST shift on Nights (now throught October).
The only downside was when it was time for us to go to sleep last night Little Mister didn't think so... He had a MAJOR Meltdown starting around 9:30 on & off and was still SCREAMING at 12:30 am until I finally turned on the bathroom sink and let him look at the water running for 15 minutes (thanks Phil).
Now Em is sleeping, Boy is napping & I am getting some lunch & computer time.... Have a sweet New Year everyone. tikki te-vu
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