It’s not really snowing in Florida.  But this is the first post I’m writing from there and it’s about snow.  Go figure. The blizzard hit us with 15.1″ of snow last Saturday.

Somehow looking at the snow pictures from Florida just doesen’t seem as bad as it did in NY. Don’t hate me but it’s 72 degrees (at night) and I’m looking at the lights on A1A. Can’t wait for the morning so I can see blue sky and green palm trees and turquoise water.

Ok, so you hate me a little. But you know I really, really, REALLY needed this vacation. Saturday morning holds a massage and lunch overlooking the ocean. Ahhhh….

You just know there’s gonna be trouble looking at those expressions.

and there was. For Jack, anyway!

Love those sparkly eyes and rosy cheeks and nose.

Timmy was like Randy in A Christmas Story. He couldn’t put his arms down and he couldn’t get up when he fell over.

Totally nailed this shot of Patrick. Right before the giant snowball fell on his head.

After shoveling the driveway (it’s long and narrow and John can’t do it cause of his back surgeries) for 1.5hrs I helped the boys build a snowman. He came out pretty good I thought.

Really so glad to only be looking at snow pictures instead of living in it. Sorry.

Here’s a few from what our Christmas looks like around here.

Each of the boys have their own trees with their own ornaments that they have picked out or received as gifts over the years. It’s a great tradition!

The tree. Daytime and nighttime. Ahhh….

The infamous leg lamp (aka the hot glow of electric sex gleaming in the window. Or Frageelay- must be Italian).

I asked Santa for coordinated presents under the tree this year. He rocked it!

Jack woke up this morning at 8:30, Patrick at about 8:45 and we had to wake Timmy up at 9:15!! But the first thing he asked was “is it Christmas morning and there are presents??!” Can’t start a day badly like that!

Then the unwrapping commenced and there was happiness all around.

And the aftermath.

Gotta go clean up and ummm….pack! Being that we are leaving in 3 hrs I guess I should get on that, huh?

Merry Christmas, everyone!

As a birthday gift for his mom, John bought tickets for ALL of us (and I do mean all… Joe, Gail & baby James, Inez, Thomas, Brendan, Sean & Aidan, Mom & Dad, and us) to go see the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.  Since the ‘menfolk’ always go to baseball games together, he figured this would be something fun for his mom and everyone else too.

The only catch was that since there were 14 of us (the baby didn’t need his own ticket) the only show that was available for all of us to go to together was the 9am on a Saturday morning. So that meant getting up at 7am, on the road by 7:45am, and into the city by 8:20am. Which we did. For me, under duress cause that’s even earlier than I have to get up to get the boys to school! And I worked the night before, shooting a party til 11:30pm and not going to bed til around 2am.

But of course the show was worth it and the kids all had a great time! I think Grandma did too!

Love watching their eyes light up at the whole spectacular spectacleness of it all.

We also celebrated Aidan’s birthday and took a picture of all the boys together again back at grandma & grandpa’s house.

We are headed over there again tonight for Christmas Eve and then on the plane tomorrow afternoon to Florida. Can’t wait!!!

Guess I’m late on this post too. Do you think I’ll ever catch up??

We did all 8 nights with Grandma & Grandpa. Timmy’s become quite the chanukah expert from school.

Uncle Nelson came over and cooked the very traditional Chanukah spaghetti in meat sauce for dinner and got to take a turn lighting the candles.

Well, happy Chanukah anyway. Hope yours was good if you celebrate.