Lindsay & Brandon 6-22-08

Here are some pictures of Lindsay & Brandon's wedding that I was in this past weekend. We had a blast and the ceremony was beautiful!

Happy Father's Day!

This was Jamie's first Father's Day and we had a great time. Jamie went golfing in the morning and later in the day my folks came out and we celebrated together. Later Jamie and Ajax went up to Nana Jeanne's to watch the Celtics game and slept over. Overall it was a busy Father's Day but it turned out to also be a good one!

Happy Father's Day :o)

So what are the chances of getting the same exact card from different people on your first Father's Day?? Guess we all agreed that the guy in the picture resembled Jamie!

Jamie and I went to Portsmouth Abbey for the Wind Turbine Tour and Presentation on Tues. night and here are some pictures from it. It was a great place to visit and learn about wind power. Turns out this wind turbine will end up paying for itself in only 3 years!! I am so glad that Portsmouth has this here and that we were able to learn all about it. The above pictures are ones that I took during the tour. We were able to go right up to it and check it out.
And here is the picture that Jamie took during the tour....




Cousin Greg came through like a champ and babysat Ajax while we went on the tour. He did a great job but was pretty wiped out from the 2 hours we were gone. It was pretty fun to hear the stories from Greg when we got home.

It was a great evening to be able to check out the turbine and also have a night out with Jamie.

Ajax enjoying his new chair

These pictures say it all for me!

Happy 2 years!

Here are the Adirondack chairs that Jamie and I got as a gift for our second anniversary. They are super comfy and nice. We also got little Ajax a chair as well that he really loves. He is able to sit in it by himself with out toppling over and he likes to slide his foot off the side and touch the grass with his toes. He loves the outdoors so much that just sitting out there can keep him pretty entertained for awhile.

Almost 2 years!

Tomorrow is Jamie and my 2nd wedding anniversary! I can't believe that's its been 2 years already :o) We are planning on going out to dinner at Candleworks Restaurant , it looks like a great place and my parents gave us a gift certificate to use there.

The little man got his first tooth on Saturday this past weekend! It's sharp as could be and is just poking through his gums right now. The second front tooth is right there too. He's been more fussy but overall handling it pretty good. It's hard to get a good look in there though, every time you pull his lip down his tongue shoots out! He keeps thinking that food might magically appear that he might be getting. He is still smiling and laughing most the time which is great.

These Boots were made for Walking

It's starting to get nice out!! Hopefully it will decide to stay this way for some time. I found a great site to figure out the distance that you walked when you are out enjoying this wonderful weather. It is pretty easy to use and fun, I played around with different walking paths in my neighborhood to see how long they are. Check out www.mapmyrun.com

Ahh Mother's Day!

I must come clean, I've been laying on the importance level of this being my "First Mother's Day ever" how should I say, umm a little thick!! Guilty as charged on this one. But hey, whats good for the goose is good for the gander right?

For Mother's Day we went out to my parent's house and spent Sunday with them. Every once in awhile my mom's birthday falls on Mother's Day; which it did this year so there was even more to celebrate. My mom and I had a great day, she got gift cards and candles and I got a beautiful Mother/Child necklace from my parent's. Jamie and Ajax came through like champs, they got me horseback riding lessons!!! I'm so excited, I've never gone before and had really wanted to try it.

When I was pregnant it was just one more thing that I couldn't do because I was pregnant, this list was too constricting for me and drove me nuts. It was basically the fact that I now wasn't allowed but other people were that really burned my biscuits. Not only did I have to waddle around with a big old belly but I wasn't even allowed a freakin' hot dog?! You have to be kidding me! Though I resented all the restrictions I followed each and every one of them to the T though I was like a little kid dragging my feet through the entire thing :o) I must come clean again though, I did eat hot dogs..... My doctor said that it was fine and I just didn't have the will power to resist!

Being pregnant wasn't the funniest time ever but we got an amazing little baby boy out of it. For him I am so thankful for each and everyday. His love is the best gift of all. Ajax has made me a Mom; I hope I can live up to be as good a mom as he is a perfect son. I thank Jamie for being so gentle and loving with our little man, I thank Ajax for all his smiles that light up everyone in the room, and I thank my mom for showing me how to love unconditionally in a home full of laughter and love.

I realized all this and thought "And I'm the one who gets a gift today?" I have been given so much that I am truly appreciative of all ready. I felt a little bit sheepish. Looking back I am amazed at how far Jamie and I have come together.

Then I remembered the 2007 7th inning stretch....... ouch, Yea bring on the presents for that one!!!! You guys DO owe me big :o) Thanks so much for making it such a special day, and sorry I laid the pressure on so heavy!

Happy Mother's Day to all the great moms out there!! I hope that you all had a great one!

So that's a Crumpet!!

We had a great weekend visiting Jamie's parents. All of the ladies got together for tea at Crumpets Tearoom in North Andover. It was a great time being able to catch up with everyone and the food was terrific. The teapots came with their own cozy, something I have never seen before! We dressed up in some swanky hats that they had there to take some pictures. Looking good Ladies!!! Also if you were wondering those two flat things in the picture are crumpets :o)

What's in a name?

So the people have asked for an explanation on why we named the man child Ajax. The original Ajax is from the Trojan War. He was Achilles cousin that went to battle in one of the first incidents of the west battling the east. He was the tallest and strongest of all the Achaeans, second only to Achilles. The derivative of his name is 'eagle'. He was trained by the centaur, Chiron, along with Achilles. He commands his army wielding a huge shield made of seven ox-hides with a layer of bronze and a great hammer or war. He is not wounded in any of the battles described in the Iliad, sired by Homer and passed down in the oral tradition for five-hundred years before it was finally written down. Ajax became a central character towards the end of the war. Achilles was killed by the Trojans, but Ajax and Odysseus continued to battle and while Ajax fought off the enemy, Odysseus was able to save Achilles body and bring him back to the Greek camp. Seeing the valor of their countryman, many wanted Ajax to keep the armor which had been crafted on Olympus, but Odysseus swayed the majority with his wits and Odysseus indeed kept the armor. Ajax was pretty pissed off, but everyone had a greater foe to deal with, penetrating the Trojan walls. Crafty Odysseus had devised the scheme of the Trojan Horse. They constructed a giant horse as an offering and sign of peace to the Trojans, and they packed up their tents and sailed away back to Greece. But inside the Horse were a few brave Greeks in hiding, and the Greek army had only sailed up to the next harbor. The Trojans didn't know what to make of it, but in the end they thought the war was over, they brought the horse inside the walls and they began a giant celebration. Later that night after the city was drunk in false valor, the Greeks crawled out of the horse and opened the gates as the Greeks sailed back to the shore and charged into the city and laid down pretty much the biggest beating the world had ever seen. They killed all the men and enslaved the remaining women. The city was entirely destroyed, watering the vines of hate which has never been calmed between the Greeks and the people of the east. The gods did not enjoy watching the world they formed burnt with hate and misery. They punished the remaining greeks and trojans and they each endured many trials for the remainder of their days. We love the story of Ajax. He was a true hero who sacrificed his life to save the remains of his fallen brother in arms. We love how emotional he was and how hurt he was that Odysseus betrayed him. We want our little man to carry forth these virtues. A true hero, loyal to what is good and right, unafraid to stand up and defend those he loves. And yet only permitted happiness by the gods, who must be revered at all times.

Lucy's Hearth

Lucy's Hearth is a local woman's shelter that takes in homeless mom's and their kids. www.lucyshearth.org I got in contact with one of the ladies in charge at Lucy's Hearth here on Aquidneck Island about what sort of donations that they could use.

Here are some of the things that she said they could really use right away:

baby clothes sizes newborn - 2 years
diapers - any size
baby wipes
teenage girl clothes
woman's clothes - any size & could really use larger & plus sizes right now for some of the moms there
maternity clothes - any size as well

This is the time of year when everyone is cleaning out their closets so anyone who has clothes to donate let me know and I'll put it all together with my box of stuff for them. So anything that you could give would be appreciated and used immediately.

Kansas City Trip

We had a great time in KC! The boys loved meeting Ajax and having him sit on their lap to play with him. We went out to get classic KC BBQ which was delicious and we all went swimming at the pool at our hotel. I'll put up some pictures of all our adventures in a little bit but I wanted to get this video up first. It is so adorable and always makes me smile. It was so great visiting Justin and Bridget at their house. Thanks so much for having us!

It's not easy being Green

A buddy of mine is clicking around on the websites I had put up and was doing the opt out of junk mail that was on one of the links. He goes to fill it out and there is a word verification part that makes sure you are not a computer and this is what his was:

fuca Yw

What the heck is up with that!!

Well fuca Yw too buddy >:P

He didn't end up filling out the form, fuca that. Made me chuckle and I wanted to pass it on.

Green on a Wednesday

Just plain funny: 100 Ways to try and go Green


Found a new site I like Ideal Bite

Ahh, the constant struggle of being green and worrying that being green is somehow turning things brown instead. We can all use a little common sense and take some small steps to move in the right direction.

The Green Life

I've been really interested in Green living and have wanted to learn as much about it as I can. Overall there seems to be a shift in society towards being more eco-friendly and hopefully it will become easier and more affordable to do what's right for the Earth. I've found some interesting websites and I'm going to start having links and ideas that we all can do to implement some of these ideas.

William Clinton Foundation
Energy Star Green Building
Energy Builder
EarthDay
NESEA
Green at Home

It seems like a great thing to help the environment and you end up saving money so I want to learn as much as I can about it all. It feels like there is general info all over the place but I'm going to try and pull it all together and make it simple. Some of the things I read seem to not really make sense, others seem way too extreme and some of it just seems like its not really going to help. If anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them!

Countdown to KC!

So the countdown is on for our big trip out to Kansas City to visit Jamie's brother's family. We are very excited and can't wait to see everyone, it should be so much fun. Hopefully we are all nice and healthy come time for us to fly out.

We are heading out April 5th out of Boston and we have a direct flight to KC. I'm nervous enough about having to fly with Ajax that there is no need at all to add a layover to make it that much tougher. So direct flight it is which will be great.

We have our flight all booked as well as the rental car we'll use when we get out there which will work out nice. We had been putting off finding a hotel because we weren't sure what we wanted to do for it but we recently made a decision and I made the reservations today! I am super excited about it because we will be staying at The Embassy in KC and they have great looking rooms AND check out the picture of their pool!!!!! Yea baby! We are going to have a blast and we can bring the boys over too so we can all play in the pool when we are there. This will be Ajax's first time meeting his KC cousins, first time on a plane and first time in a pool! A lot of first's happen when you have only been around for 5 months :o) Hopefully everything goes smoothly with the travel and we get to enjoy it all.

Time to kick Leukemia's butt

A friend of mine is running in the Cox Providence Rhode Race as part of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team In Training. They are raising funds to help stop leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma from taking more lives.
She is completing this marathon in honor of all individuals who are battling blood cancers and in memory of her father-in-law who lost his battle with myeloma in September of 2004.
Jamie and I have already donated to help her out, it was real easy to do from her website: http://www.active.com/donate/tntri/tntriKLau
Take a look at it and donate if you can, it's a great cause and honestly who the heck can run a marathon?! I know that I'm certainly going to support someone willing to run 26.2 miles to help fight leukemia. I'm giving her huge props!!

Do you think he has my ears?

For Easter this year we all went out to my parent's house and stayed over for the weekend. It was a fun time and we had some really good laughs. Here's a picture of my dad with Ajax. I think I see where he gets his looks from :o)

We are all still trying to fight off a cold that we've had for awhile now. Hopefully we'll get better soon because it's so difficult trying to take care of a baby while he is sick and you are sick.

I hope that everyone had a great Easter!!

PS, this picture was taken with my new camera :o)

Camera!!

So I finally found my camera and can't wait to pick it up. The place I had pre-ordered it at was being wicked retarded (shout out to my Boston peeps) so I canceled it and moved on to Circuit City where they had one red camera left at the Dartmouth store. I'm picking it up after work today so I can try and learn all the features before our trip to Kansas City. I'm so excited I can't wait to get it! So I should be able to throw up more clips of our cute little man sometime soon.

Hockey

So this weekend we had a great time going up to Maine. The hockey game was fun and we got to taunt the UMaine crowd when UML scored first! It was perfect, the entire place is stunned into silence from the UML goal. This is when we strike, Jamie and I stand up and start cheering, and not just cheering so that the people around us could hear. The entire arena got to experience our enthusiasm :) I was wearing my UML hockey jersey and screaming up a storm, Jamie has the loudest sports cheer/taunt voice ever and used it to it's full ability. We were in the last row of our section It was a Riverhawk trifecta.
The entire arena is staring at us and getting angry now, we ended up cheering a nice long time, we start getting yelled at and 'gestured' at but we just cheered louder. I love Jamie's ability to be so incredibly loud at these sporting events, I love him even more for liking the Riverhawks just because I like them.
UMaine ended up scoring and we got taunted, they scored again, we got taunted more, they scored a third time, we were taunted, they scored a fourth time on an empty net and the place erupted. So, UMaine won 4-1. Maybe next year.