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the fitz family
My second time photographing this great little (but growing quickly) family. Last time there was only their little boy and mom & dad, this time there were two brand new additions.
And my ongoing love of this guy and his curls continues…
The whole new family! How cute are those babies?
We tried pulling out the pacifiers for this one to not so good results (read: screaming babies) so instead of ditching the shot, we kept those babies calm and unscreaming. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
Ran outside for a few last ones when the babies were DONE. He such a good smiler! So good to see you all and to meet the twins!
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…and the rest of Timmy’s birthday vegetable
It’s a family tradition to have a candle in every meal of the day on your birthday.
In the Carvel on the night of his party:
At breakfast in his Cheerios on his actual birthday:
Picked him up for lunch for a date and he had Subway. With a candle.
And his dinner request was sushi. The waitresses were pretty confused when I asked for a lighter for the candle for the dinner. They thought it should go in dessert. Wrong. Nothing says happy 7th birthday like a yellowtail roll with a candle in it.
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the start of Timmy’s birthday vegetable
Timmy celebrated his 7th birthday this week, and we kicked it off with a BounceU party in Oceanside on Saturday morning. (for those of you new to the blog, it’s called a birthday vegetable because when Timmy was little he couldn’t say birthday festival. All the boys birthday’s have always been a week long event, hence the festival/vegetable).
The three amigos.
Crazyboys.
They broke out the gladiator ring and Jayson and Jack went head to head. It did not end well for Jack.
Timmy and Jack N. best of friends and fierce competitors.
Patrick vs. Brendan (Patrick in Giants jersey, Brendan in Patriots. Kinda went the same way the superbowl did.) And twin vs. twin on the right. Jack kept getting knocked down so after the 2nd time he decided that everytime he fell he’d just take Patrick down with him. 
Inseperable. They were no more than a foot apart the whole party.
Checkin out the loot.
BounceU puts on a great party. Timmy had a great time with all his friends (we went boys only this year). And somehow I didn’t get a single picture of TimTom (Timmy and his cousin Tommy) together even though they were at the party together, they came over the house after the party and we all went out to dinner together. Sometimes I’m just off my game. Back tomorrow with more of the birthday vegetable.
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robin & her littles
Came by last week for a visit. It was the kids’ first time at our house and after a bit of settling in, they seemed to like it here just fine. Especially after the boys all came home from school and they were fully entertained!
I cannot believe Robin has 3 under 3 years old. Eoin will be 3 in a few months and is doing so wonderfully. He truly is the miracle baby. Evelyn & Elizabeth are now 6 months old and growing so fast. And teething a bunch too. But very happy babies and pretty identical!!
Elizabeth (I think).
Evelyn. 
The best shot I could manage of all 3. 
Robin and her total day to day chaos. 
Twins and twins. I always KNEW Robin would have twins. 
And Eoin. Laughing at the big boys. 
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our trip to Michigan
I have one Goddaughter, and she’s most likely the only one I’ll ever have. (in NY they don’t let Jews be the godparents). Katie was celebrating her First communion a few weeks ago and we all flew up to help her celebrate. Plus, I’ve been waiting more than 6 years to watch Connor play hockey and was so excited to see him and Spencer play a game each!
The big boys couldn’t have been more excited to see their best friend. I love that he’s still their best friend even after living in separate states for about 8 or so years now. They were nearly psychotic on the plane and driving to Connors from the airport- they couldn’t wait another second to get there. Jack & Patrick stayed at the Ziparo’s all weekend, while John, Timmy and I crashed at a hotel down the street.
Of course it was snowing when we landed on Friday night and it continued to snow on the drive from the airport. That’s Michigan in January for ya. Crappy iphone shot from the plane upon landing. Snow on the window. On a plane. Um, no.
A quick disclaimer- only brought the little camera so the photos aren’t the greatest ever, but they’re the best I could do.
The Ziparo’s had a packed weekend planned for us which was awesome. Grandma Mary, Maureen and I took Katie to dance (ballet and jazz) Saturday morning. Omg, so cute!!
I liked that her shorts matched my scarf. The place where Katie had dance was totally awesome. A huge facility with a full gym, a ton of studios for dance of all kinds, karate studios, a huge gymnastics center, a bunch of tennis courts, an olympic sized pool (with a bubble over it so that it’s an outdoor pool in the summer),a full ice arena, a little snack bar/food court area, and probably some other stuff that I didn’t get to see. It would be so cool to have something like that here but we totally don’t have the space for anything like that.A local photographer’s office/studio we passed on the way home. What a great house!
Then Saturday afternoon Connor had a game. The first of the playoffs. They put that sign there especially for me since I was SO excited to see Connor play. 
The boys were all pretty psyched too!
Connor’s on the far left (#13). The boys were disappointed that he didn’t acknowledge them at all during warm ups so we had to explain that he was in game mode and that if the Coach saw him doing that he’d be in HUGE trouble. We mostly hung out by the ice for the game- colder, but better for photos and viewing.
Connor scored the first goal of the game! And then scored 2 more. 
Grandpa Tom, Grandma Mary and Timmy look on. 
Ya think Jack was a little happy to be there?!
Connors team won something like 14-0. They stopped updating the score after a little while. 
Apparently the team all has to show up in their white dress shirts (w team logo on it), ties and khakis to every game. While it looks nice and all to me it seemed pretty ridiculous since they’re wearing it for like 20 minutes in total and it just makes more laundry. Wow, the stench coming out of that locker room was pretty much unbearable. It was so great to finally see Connor play- we all had a great time! He played so well- the level at which these teams play was amazing. I wasn’t expecting the game to be as good and the players to be so great on the ice- but they were!! Seriously knocked my socks off.
Then after Connors game it was a quick dinner with most of the troops at Wendy’s (Uncle Peter and Spencer had to leave early to get to his game/warm ups) and onto Spencer’s game. Where Spencer scored a zillion goals. Holy crap, that kid was awesome!!
Spencer does this little ‘row boat’ celebration after his first goal and I’m so bummed I missed getting a picture of it. 
Then bright and early on Sunday morning, it was Katie’s communion. She looked so pretty and was perfect during the mass. 
Went back to the Ziparo’s for a little brunch and then it was back to the airport for the trip home. There were tears (as always) but we had such a great time with our Michigan family! Katie, Maureen and I are trying to plan a date for next Christmas at the Nutcracker in NYC.
And the highlight of the trip home? I think I might need a pair for me even though they are mens. They are so hideous, they’re cute!! And after looking these up online, they cost between $300-400! 
Thanks for a great, fun filled trip!! Hope to see you guys soon!! (just someplace a little warmer would be good).