DAY 2

Things moved fast on Day 2 - I woke up this morning to this when I opened the front door:



I looked to the left:



then to the right:



let me give you the full view:



yes you must walk the plank to enter:



OK then by mid-day they had this done:



It's our gazebo!!! Do you see it - do ya do ya??!



this is looking toward the backyard:



it's that the making of a pool house....



here's looking at the mess from the backyard:



Remember when Gill told Nemo all drains lead to the ocean - well he's right! They do and this is our drain that connects all the drains in the house. The kids had a field day flushing the toilet before they made the repair and then watching the water come shooting out - hey don't judge! It kept them busy for an hour!



Day 3 starts tomo. They are very pleased with how things are going. No complications - well except for the busted sewer drain but he said that was no biggie. Oh and believe it or not it appears we don't have enough dirt to refill so then we will have to have dirt brought in. 2 of the 4 columns have been removed and it looks like the brick will come down in Day 3 and the cement trucks should be here by mid-week. I am handling the dirt that is coming into the house very well!

Day 1

The madness has begun and it's so exciting!!!! We waited for 4 years to do this and so I/we are so excited to see it all come to life.

OK here's the inside of the pod - Steve has never seen the inside. He did not put one thing in this and I am completely fine with that - I'll make him unpack



The before: (the after won't be till the summer)





So this is what we saw when we walked out the front door:



then we walked closer:



this is from the back - see those pipes on the right - that would be for the pool and god help me they don't get put back correctly:





took the kids to soccer and came home to this:



They will be back at the crack of dawn tomo apparently they need to build us a ramp to access the front door - yippee!!!!

KONY 2012

If you do anything today worth making a difference in this world - watch the video!

(remember to pause my music so that you can hear the video)

Bella Takes 1st place.....again!

This picture is perfect! Do you see why?!?! This was the picture the team took after SWEEPING this weekends tournament! They won all 4 games!

Meet the newest member of the NYPD!

OMG I can't believe I forgot to blog this! So my brother graduated from the New York Police Academy! I was/am so proud! I mean look he's my little brother and he's a pain in the ass at times but what little brothers aren't?? More importantly he is the only one out of the 3 of us that graduated from something! I didn't go to college (I know Steve you made the most effort to get me there) and I say I will get there someday but for now I will just be excited over this graduation. Graduation was held at Madison Square Garden and there was just over 1500 graduates

The graduation was amazing! It was over before I knew it but it was so nice!




I loved this - They are all clapping - the white gloves moving so fast was so funny:



This was the money shot! I was warned about it and prepared! I was so excited that I got it. At the end of the ceremony the new officers throw their gloves in the air - it's pretty cool!



Then at the very end canons filled with confetti goes off and it is a sight to be seen:



Anthony trying on his Uncle's bullet proof vest:



Now I get to speed and do other illegal things and get away with it right???

Very True!

If only people would get this! Not communicating gets you no where. It's very simple to me

A. you have a problem
B. work to fix the problem
C. if problem can't be fixed then..... WELL THAT'S JUST RIDICULOUS CAUSE THERE IS A SOLUTION FOR EVERYTHING

More importantly family is family and no matter what the issue is somehow it should be able to get worked out - with communication - of course!

and so it begins.....

The pod is here and our adventure of 2012 is to begin shortly. It's been a long time coming - 13 or so years. 5 kids and 3 houses later we are finally able to say this is the last house and we are finally making it exactly what we want. You could say in a way we are incorparating the last 2 houses into this one.....with some extra's :) We are bringing back the garage from the 1st one and our beloved porch from the 2nd. I'm most excited over the 2nd washer and dryer that we are adding upstairs. Seriously laundry for 7 is INSANE!!! The pod needs to hold the contents of our attic so I am gonna take advantage of the weekend and warm temps to pack it out. I want to spare Steve the hassle of doing it (ok really I want to spare myself of listening to Steve complain about how many christmas decorations one house needs) I'm not stupid :) You'll never know how much shit was ever up there babe...hehe!

I plan on documenting the whole process from start to finish. I'll throw in some birthday's and such here and there but since Steve is never home I don't want him to miss any of it.

Let's hope for a warm winter so come March I can be awoken by the sounds of hammers and saws - oh my!