March 21, 2011...Birthday Boy

March 20, 2011...Celebrate!

Today we had an FDNY themed firefighter party for Nate's 5th birthday at the F-H-M fire department.  The guys (Nate's "firefighter friends") surprised us (all!) with a presentation to Nathaniel wherein he received a Citation of Community Support for his donation of many fire alarms and Carbon Monoxide detectors to the firehall.  In lieu of presents, we asked that people bring one to donate to the fire department to distribute to people in the community who don't have one and we got a lot of support!  They told a very nice story about how they came to know Nate and what a great and inspirational kid he is.  *Sigh*  So proud of my Bug.  And what a great gesture from a great bunch of people!!  Nate's photo will even be in the paper!  I'll keep you posted on that!

January 17, 2011...Happy Birthday, Tiff!

To celebrate Tiffany's birthday, we headed downtown by train to see the sights and do some shopping.  We made it back to Long Island just in time to make reservations at The Melting Pot - only the most fabulous fondue restaurant ever!  What a great day!  Happy Birthday, Tiff!

January 7, 2011...Happy Birthday!

Today was Daddy's birthday - he was supposed to be working but wasn't feeling hot so we got to spend the night with him which is a little silver lining to his dark cloud.  Since we weren't expecting him home to celebrate, we had already done his present earlier in the day and had no cake for candles or celebrating.  We just couldn't have that though, so after dinner I whipped up a batch of peanut butter chocolate chip cookies just so we'd have SOMETHING to stick a candle in.  Nate helped by picking the candles and putting them in the cookies for me.  He insisted that Daddy have two candles and even got to help him blow them out.

**(Every day since Nate's been asking to give Daddy more candles to blow out but he only gets one chance just like everybody else!)

September 27, 2009

My baby boy turned one today.

I can't believe a year has gone by SO FAST!

Here are some photos from his fabulous cake fun!

Thanks to my friend, Shelby for making such a BEAUTIFUL cake

for Alex to squish up for the festivities!

September 16, 2009

Tomorrow is my brother's birthday and since he's half a world away serving our country, I wanted to do something special to show him we were thinking of him on his special day. So, I made up a sign that said "Happy Birthday, Uncle Noah" and asked Nate if he wanted to color it for him. He happily obliged. Once beautifully decorated, I took a photo of the boys holding the sign and emailed it to my brother for his birthday. It was almost bedtime before we got to take the photo so it didn't turn out perfect, but Nate was very cooperative so I did the best I could!

September 6, 2009

My niece, Kensington's 1st birthday party - She REALLY enjoyed her cake!

July 8, 2009

Today is my father's birthday.  In honor of the greatest man I've ever known...here's a flashback photo of my father with a not-quite 2-month-old Alex: