Thursday, October 31, 2013

Weekend wrap up

This past weekend, like every other weekend in October, Ryan worked.  Luckily it was just Saturday, but it's alot of work!  He's been working 11-16 hour days Monday-Saturday and sometimes on Sunday too.  I feel so bad for him, I would literally fall over, but he's just like a freaking machine.  His alarm goes off at 4:15 and he's out of the door by 5am!  Like WHOA!  My alarm goes off at 5:30 and every morning I look over to see if he's still there, of course he never is.  I don't know how he hasn't hit snooze or just slept through it with all the long hours.  He's such a hard, dedicated worker, I'm so proud of him!  He's also now a foreman!!!! GO BABE!!!!!  We're so proud of you and can't wait to celebrate when all this OT is over and hours are back to normal. 
So, not only is it hard for him, but damn, I feel like a working, single parent.  It's exhausting and I have so much more respect now for those of you who do everything on a daily basis.  You realize how lucky you are when stuff like this happens. 
SO, back to the weekend update.  Friday night, Mary, Joe and Mags came over for some pizza and wine.  Ry was working but actually got home around 6:30ish!!!  So he got to hang too. 
Saturday morning we woke up.  Mya brushed her hair and said, "Mommy, I look so pretty, take a picture of me to send to daddy."  It was the cutest thing.  She misses her daddy too.
Breakfast time and we got creative.
Off to soccer Saturday's.  This was the last 'practice' the games are the next 2 weekends.  So this past Saturday they did little 1 on 1 games to practice some more.  Mya met a new friend, Ivy.  They were so good together and got along so well.
A little video.
After soccer we went to the park with our neighbor, Maddie and her sister, Sky and mom.  We were there for a while.  Mags even met us there.  The girls play SO good together it's great having them live right next door.
We got home and the girls played house.  Ash was obviously the baby.  LOL!
That night we had Maddie, Sky, Jenny and Aaron over for a play date.  Plus we love the parents too.  Ry got moonshine from work too.  Some guy makes it and he bought a mason jar of it.  It was quite tasty, the guys drank that while us girls drank wine.  A little too much wine, but it was so much fun.  The girls play SO SO well together.  There was not one tear, not one fight, just lots of laughter and talking.  LOVE that!  Mya was so tired by 10pm (we totally lost track of time) that she literally laid on the ground and passed out!  She NEVER NEVER NEVER does this!
The next morning I had registered to be on Regan's team for the Alzheimer's walk.  Her mom has Alzheimer's and we lost Granny to it this past year.  So it's something that's very close to my heart.  I didn't expect Ry to come, cause I thought he'd want to sleep in.   But he jumped out of bed at like 8am and got ready to come.  He said he didn't want to miss the only day he has with us.  God how did I get so damn lucky? 
Anyway, Regs had a whole team of people there supporting her mama with her.  Her 2 other good friends, Becky and Colleen, who both have little girls too.  So they all got along so well. 
Ring around a Rosie...
Ash joined in.
Walk time....love you Granny and Mrs Ludeke.
So so lucky.
After we hit the playground.  Ash was hysterical wearing Ryan's shades.
Loves the swings.
Mya and G coming down the slide together.
Mya was doing the monkey bars SO SO SO good.  Like no joke went across almost the entire thing, unassisted.  Chicks got muscles!

Then when she was in between sets (lol) she'd help the other girlies.
Muscles Bea
Last swings before going home.
We had such a nice morning with you Regs.  Love you girl.  xoxo

Cioci's in town!!!!

Cioci was in town 2 weekends ago.  She just so happened to be in town for the Jets vs Patriots game!  SCORE!  We invited her and Babci over, as well as the rest of the crew, Michael, Laura, Mama and Jon, for some apps and the game.  I didn't get a ton of pics (BOO) cause I was too busy watching the JETS beat the Pats!!!!!  We need the whole crew to come down next year for this game.  We missed you Steven (even though we were talking smack to eachtoher the entire game on texts), Krysia and Pierce.
Uncle Michael and Laura got there a little early.  Uncle Michael got some Ash snuggles.
Twins 
Cioci read some books to the girls.
After the game we walked while the girls rode their bikes to the tennis courts.  LOVE THIS PIC!
Walking back.
Love this little Jets fan.
YAY!!!
SO SO SWEET!
And you KNOW I had to post this pic Cioci.  SORRY!!! GO JETS!!!!!!!!!
She wouldn't even put her arms in.  But I did catch a smile being in a winning teams jersey.  xoxoxoxo
And the winning moment!!!!

Norz farm family trip

Another weekend, another trip to the pumpkin patch.  This time we went with Mimi, Poppy and the Cust crew.  SO MUCH FUN!  And we literally finished just in time, cause it had just started to drizzle. 
We met up at Norz Farm in Hillsborough to do a little bit of everything.  Pony rides, corn maze, hay ride, farm and of course, pickin pumpkins.
While we waited for the rest of the crew, the girls were loving this!
Then I tried to get a good pumpkin pic.
They're here!!!!!  Time for some shots of the girls!
Soso, 3.5 years old and just over 3'.
Mya, 4.5 years old, about 3.5".
Ash, 2.5 years old, just at 3'.
Mya jumped in, LOVE!
Ava, 7 years old, close to 4.5' it looks like! OMG she's totally gonna be taller then me.
cutie 
These 2 are a silly pair.
Cousin love
LOL!
Time for the pony rides, Ash was up first.
Next up was Ava.
....then Soso...
Last up was the bean.
The 2 cuties being silly again. 
Into the corn maze we go...
Ash was SUPER cute with Poppy.  She just wanted to hold his hand. *MELT*
Which way should we go???
LOL!
At another intersection, figuring out which way to go again.
Jack scared the crap out of the girls, LOL!
After a good 30-40 minutes, we broke out cause we really couldn't find our way out!  LOL!
Time for the hayride.  More Poppy snuggles.
The guys.
I wish Mya's face could be photoshopped onto mine so it was the cousins. 
Yup, another one.
Mya the horse! 
 LOL, Jack!
LOL!  Mya was taking this pic with Mimi's camera too.
My little piggy.
Future farmer?  She was loving the animals.  Literally walked right up to the cows while everyone else was just holding their noses.  LOL!
Last stop was the pumpkin patch to pick out more pumpkins.
SO MUCH FUN!  Thank you so much Mimi and Poppy.  Can't wait to do it again next year.  Love you all so much.  Hopefully Ry can join in next year.