Congratulations, Lauren & James!!!

Bonnie's Shout-Out on Law & Order

Here's an email we got from a Citysearch user:

Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:08:42 -0800
From: mike@earthprogram.com
Subject: Message from a CITYSEARCH
user: Bonnie's Just Mentioned on Law and Order
To: mnaber7609@aol.com
To: Bonnie's.Grill@vir1gdemp10.prod.cs
Infosite Market: BrooklynInfosite E-mail: mnaber7609@aol.com
Message: Hey, Just thought you'd like to know that Bonnie's Grill was mentioned in the opening scene of Law and Order tonight (11/12/08). Pretty cool. I guess the writers like your spot as much as I do!
Cheers, Mike

Happy Birthday Nancy Hall!

Miles and the Great Pumpkin

East meets West

Madge & Joe's West Coast trip was wonderful!!! Pete & Julie are excellent hosts! and live in a beautiful area. Cousin Alice and her husband Jim joined us for dinner one night, too. Our trip to Canada and then down the coast to San Francisco was gorgeous. Here are a few trip photos......

Stefan is here! (born 9/9/08)

Baby Tour 08!

We forgot Stefan already - poor kid was off to the side in his car seat - but everything else about this picture sums up how wonderful it was to see each other. :) Yay, Cuzzy Baby Tour 2008! As Anne says, Shooms and Shumas 4eva!!!

Nai Nai's Visit

Nai Nai's First Visit

Miles Pictures - Week Two

Happy Cousins!!!

Welcome Baby Miles!

Katrina and I were thrilled to meet Baby Miles this afternoon! Mom is glowing and recovering fabulously. Dad and Grandma looked pretty stoked, too. Welcome to the family, Miles!!! xoxo

Here are some pictures . . .

Sending some love from the Caribbean

Hi family! So much exciting news from everyone... sorry I missed the shower, but my mom said it was great! I hope everyone is doing well. I only get internet very briefly, but I thought I would post some pictures real quick and let you guys know what I'm up to. Contrary to popular belief (by my older female cousins) I do not have dreadlocks yet, but the summer is still young.
This is a shot of sunset from the Bitter End Yacht Club - clearly the kids favorite place. It's a five star resort and so they feel like celebrities when we dock on their beach. We do lots of water sports here though.
Here are the sails being raised on my first sail in the Caribbean.


This is when my bathroom flooded with salt water overnight and my captain and I woke up to this little predicament. I decided to go swimming to solve the problem.

Here is a toga staff meeting and...

Lastly - here's me teaching sailing on race day - I'm on the back left in the green rain jacket. 'Southern Accent' (my boat) won that day - better believe it


Ok so hope you enjoy and I'll try and do another posting after Program 2. All the best to everyone!
Love,
Anne

new cuzzies

The baby boys are getting to know each other early! Sarah's baby shower was a great time - and she was glowing for sure! Love, Kirsten

Staying cool...

Sarah's Denver Baby Shower

Hi! Here are pictures from the amazing baby shower in Denver... 7 1/2 months pregnant here.



















PS - my friend Kelly made! - from scratch! - the adorable jungle cake, and did all the decorations, etc.! My mom's backyard looked great - it was an amazing day!

Lancaster PA --- May 17

Anne graduated from Franklin & Marshall (AKA Frankie) and James received his Masters the week before! We are delighted!

Hank and Susan

Best Pulled Pork Sandwich in Time Out New York Magazine!

Hey All--

Mike and I are excited to let you all know that we were voted best Pulled Pork Sandwich in Time Out New York Magazine. (I tried to scan the article and post it but it came out too grainy to read.) The review appears at the bottom of page 24. The picture on the page is our sandwich!

:-)

Hooray!

xoxo
Amy

Brothers!

Anders will have a little brother soon! The first scan shows baby boy #2. The second set of pix shows Anders above baby boy #2 for the same 4D scan (20ish weeks). They look a lot alike to me so I thought it would be fun to show them to you together. We had the ultrasound yesterday and everything looked great. Love, Kirsten

music prodigy part 2

Anders played his first real guitar tonight. He's clearly going places.

And the contest winner is...

....SARAH! here's her winning schematic above. it may not really be to scale but I think the wading pool with floating lights really set this entry apart.

So looks like Sarah gets to choose Miles' middle name. Thanks for all the great suggestions though, and I'm honored that you guys would consider naming the baby after me! (you meant me, right Nancy?).

Katrina - i liked Christoffer a lot (maybe with the more traditional spelling) because if sarah gets her name hyphenated i'm going to call him "Chris Chris"

Nice Newbie

Contest Update

We've gotten some really great suggestions and some really great middle names! Here are pictures to help the rest of you visualize what we're working with.

Kitchen window/entry to back yard. About 3.5-4' above yard.




Outside:

Oldies but Goodies Part Deuce

Contest

I'm announcing the first-ever TrunkBigEars competition! The winner will get to pick Miles's middle name (with reasonable parental veto rights).

In our new apartment, Andrew and I have access to an all-cement backyard that's at least 20' x 20'. The backyard is about a 3.5-4 foot drop from our big kitchen window. The apartments above us have access via a fire escape but rarely use the space. The yard is surrounded on three sides by tall (>10') solid (not chain link) fences and on one side by our building. (I'll post a picture soon.)

Here is the contest:

1. Come up with a safe way for pregnant mom and mom & baby to easily get outside without simultaneously making the apartment incredibly easy to burgle.
2. Create a design for flowerbed gardens in the all-cement backyard. We want at least one for herbs and at least one for flowers.
3. Plan patio furniture, a grill, and seating for 20 (for the awesome backyard parties we'll be having this summer).
   
4. Suggest ways to accomplish the entire backyard scheme for less than $500.

Ok, good luck everyone. I can't wait to see the ideas! Miles needs a middle name, so think hard! Second place will get a really cool custom made t-shirt. Third prize will be VIP treatment at a backyard party once it's complete.

oldies but goodies...