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I'm Back!

bari — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:58:01 +0000

I’d like to say that the reason I haven’t blogged in an entire month is because we’ve been so busy the last few weeks but that’s not really true. We’ve been SORT of busy/out of town/houseguests/etc but nothing too out of the ordinary for us.

I take millions of photos and say “oooh that’ll be good for my blog” then do nothing with it.

I’m going to try and catch up some this week and get back into the swing of things in time to disappear again over the holidays. Kidding!

I thought a nice way to ease back into it would be to share the pics I took of my friend Maddie a couple weeks ago.

Here are some of my faves. I hope they make the Christmas card!

please note: funky lighting on some photos is due to the fact that the photographer got impatient when the lighting designer was being too slow on the light pointing and wanted to get going already. also – photographer too lazy to do any touchups at this time.

A Very Important Day

bari — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:25:58 +0000

Today is my Nephew Lunden’s 4th Birthday.

He enjoys leisure time at the lake

A gourmet dining experience

Helping the less fortunate

An afternoon of riding

And shaking his tail feather

Happy Birthday Lundy! We love you and miss you! HUGS!!

On The Road: Montreal

bari — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:42:44 +0000

I am aware that my posting has been a bit lax since I went back to work at the office. I seriously don’t understand how people do it 5 days a week and then have a life on top of that. It is exhausting! All the talking to people all day, and the matching outfits to shoes, and the subway. It’s enough to make a girl want to get in bed at 8 every night.

So that’s what I’ve been doing. Pretty much eating dinner and getting right into bed. Matthew was here all week but worked until midnight so I didn’t really see him, and then he left for Maryland. I’m free to do whatever I want all the time and that happens to be catching up on Pushing Daisies and Top Model.

Wha? Is anyone surprised?

Last weekend we did actually leave the house and drove to Montreal for my niece Liliane’s first birthday.

As expected there was quite a bit of this:

There was a also a bunch of this:

of COURSE some of this:

All leading up to this:

ahhhh,

“The Return of the Homemade Skillet Pizza – Francophone Version. Pizza Takes Montreal”

If only they made a really huge circular cast iron pizza skillet thingy we would really be in business. The teeny skillet is a little scary, well…for some people.

It took about 9 hours to make a bunch of mini pizzas that we all split when it came out of the oven, so you’d get 2 bites every 15 minutes. Thankfully we had some wine chilling for Liliane’s party. (Sorry that you didn’t get any delicious rosé Theresa’s friends, we had to wait a long time between pizzas!) All we did all night was make teeny tiny pizzas, wait the 10 minutes for the oven to heat back up and then 2 minutes for them to cook, shove them down and repeat, repeat, repeat. Lucky for us we had the idea to make a salad to go with it. Oh the salad. THE SALAD as it is now known. We did not get pictures of THE SALAD because we were too busy enjoying the act of taking multiple bites in a row but it was so amazing I have made it 2x since we’ve been home. Oh, its just a salad you say? Well you are wrong, its THE SALAD!

Don’t worry, I took some pics when I made it last night.

You’ll just have to wait.

Peek-a-boo

bari — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:48:54 +0000

Peek-a-boo! I’m still here…just crazy busy.

We went to Montreal last weekend and had a blast celebrating my niece Liliane’s first birthday. More to come…

Oh The Cheeks

bari — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:20:55 +0000

This weekend Matthew and Adam went on their yearly pilgrimage to Great Adventure. When Christine asked if I’d take some photos of Maddie of course I jumped at the chance. It was a beautiful day so we took the opportunity to hang out in Prospect Park for the afternoon. Why can’t the weather be like this all the time?

Maddie is a really happy baby, constantly smiling and babbling. She’ll be 4 months old next week.

Here are some of my faves, raw and untouched but I wanted to get them up.

Far Away Nuggets

bari — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:37:18 +0000

My sister-in-law Jen always puts tons of pics of her kids on her blog and it makes me miss them soooo much! It also makes me sad because they are growing up so fast and I don’t even know the next time we will see them since we aren’t heading to Vancouver for Christmas this year (We only go every other Christmas and its a NYC holiday for us this time).

Whenever I get all sad about it I look through the thousands of pics that I have on my computer or scroll through old posts on Jen’s blog in the middle of the night.

Here are some faves from our summer trip out west this year.

Xavier

Klausine

Lunden

Georgia

Calleigh

*Update on my dad: He is still in the hospital but improving slightly each day. He still does not feel very well so continue to keep him in your thoughts and prayers please!

A Boy I Know

bari — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:54:01 +0000

This is my nephew Xavier:

He enjoys faux-rock climbing

pickles straight from the jar

trucks made out of legos

hitching a ride

and always dresses up for dinner

He’s super awesome and today is his 7th birthday. Happy Birthday buddy, save your Auntie Bari some cake!

My friend Maddie

bari — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:31:36 +0000

Another one of my mom’s requests last week (I know!) was to go visit Maddie, the adorable bundle o’ joy of good friends Adam and Christine. This is the first time in her 7 weeks that I saw her while she was awake-ish. I was pretty excited when we got there and I realized I’d be able to take a photo of her cute self.

This Maddie day 3:

And this is her now, slightly annoyed at me and lookin’ like her papa! (who often looks slightly annoyed at me anyway)

She has very delicious cheeks. NOM!

Nephews

bari — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:04:07 +0000

Sometimes poor Uncle Matthew feels like he is only good for one thing

but other times

Its nice to have nephews