Wonderful Summer

This summer so far has been wonderful. We have been able to spend time with family and friends and do fun things around the area. I know that I have been MIA for a little while - that is summer for you. But I hope to get back into the swing of things with the blog soon. For now, here are some pictures from our activities throughout the summer.

Dog days of summer!

Mom's Surprise 60th Birthday Tea

4th of July Party Snack - blueberries, watermelon, cheeries, raspberries and cheese

Tommy & Brandon's party

Lunch date with Miss Molly

One of the many new recipes we tried

Zoo day with Molly and Christine

I got LASIK!

2015-2016 planning time!

My favorite racer

Emma's 1st birthday party

The Simm Family

Lindsay's Wedding!

Bills preseason

Christopher took 2nd place in his category at a 5k!

Papa's 95th birthday

My Birthday

I had such as fabulous birthday! It is tough getting older and especially this birthday as this is my last birthday in my 20's. Yikes - where did the time go??? Christopher and the boys spoiled me when I woke up and gave me their presents. I received two gorgeous Pandora Disney charms for my bracelet AND a gold Alex & Ani DVC bangle!

Then I met my mom for pizza at Romeo & Juliets. It was so great to see her on my birthday. I do owe it to her for bringing me into this world. Without her - there would be no birthday.

When I got back to my desk at work, I had this plaque and leather notepad on my desk. I had been recognized for contributing to Praxair's safety program!!! I was totally surprised and added to my wonderful day.

Also related to work, that morning I had to move offices! So I got to spend the morning sorting and organizing my new office. Yep - I have TWO windows! I am loving the natural light very much.

Then Christopher spoiled me some more and make reservations for my favorite restaurant - Left Bank. Dinner was absolutely perfect and delicious. Christopher ordered the steak and lobster (and shared both) and I ordered the Pork Tenderloin in the Grand Mariner sauce. My mouth is watering as I am typing this!

We then celebrated with both of my parents on Friday night. We went to Schnitzel's for dinner (also fabulous and highly recommend) and then went back to the house for some homemade dessert.

We then celebrated with the Musialowski's at Chef's for some spaghetti parmesan. And I finished my WHOLE parm that night. No leftovers for the birthday girl. We had a wonderful time laughing and catching up at dinner.

Also one of my best friends, Christine, took me out to lunch this past week too! I am one lucky lady! It is always so much fun catching up with each other. 

Rockin' my new kick ass heels at work today :) Huge thanks to all of my family and friends for wishing me a happy birthday. You all sure know how to make a girl feel special!

Playing Catch up

This week I am playing catch up on the blog! Let's see....

On Saturday, March 14th Christine and I had our date night! We went to Providence Social for dinner and then saw Megan Hilty perform at the BPO! Dinner was delicious! It was restaurant week in Buffalo and their menu was awesome. We upgraded, so for $30.15 total (not a piece), we got two cocktails and three small plates. We splurged and got dessert too. All of which was scrumptious. I will definitely be taking Christopher back. We did not even bother to look at the regular menu because the restaurant week one looked amazing.

The BPO performance was great too. Megan Hilty was awesome and funny. We were debating on the drive home who we liked better - Idina Menzel, Matthew Morrison or Megan Hilty and we couldn't really decide!

Then on Sunday we got together at Steve and Sheryl's house for breakfast. It was great to meet little Malcolm and see all of our favorite little girls! It has been so fun watching them grow so quickly this first year. They all have such cute little personalities.

It was a busy week for us with board meetings, committee meetings, etc. But we did a great job managing our schedules so our favorite little pups were never in their kennels for more than 5 hours.

One of Christopher's friends from the CHS Alumni Board asked us to join him at his table for GAMBIT. Soooo we ended up going to GAMBIT this year after all! Since Christopher's parents were not going to be in town and none of our friends were going, we decided to just make a donation and skip out on the formal event. But...we made our donation AND we still got to attend.

We also walked away with a lot of fun auction items!!! See all the pictures below. We are definitely a sucker for auctions. Good thing we left before the live auction items were done because we would have spent more money!

Coming up for us, we are starting to get ready for phase II of our renovation, Disney is in less than 50 days - yippie, and April is our big birthday month and Easter. So needless to say, a lot will be going on! More to come!

Fun Weekend

This past weekend was so much fun! Friday night I got to visit with the Umstead twins for a little bit. They are such cuties and recently celebrated their 1st birthday! After visiting with them, I got to see one of my other favorite cuties Molly! And BONUS - girls night with Christine. It was so great catching up and watching some chick flicks. Looking forward to our next date.

Then on Saturday Christopher and I drove out to Rochester to visit with the Simm family and finally meet little Emma. We had so much fun too. We celebrated Christmas and Jack's 2nd birthday. He was super excited to play with his new tool bench.

Dennis and Anna are also doing well. It was great to catch up with them too. We are so blessed to have great friends in our life!

Middle of January Already?

I can't believe it is the middle of January ALREADY!!! Work for me has been super busy with year-end, PwC audit, export metrics and my SOX testing due - all at once.

Christopher is enjoying his new job at Nativity Miguel School and has started a "bow tie Friday" trend. I got together with one of my close friends and found out she is EXPECTING!!! Baby Urban coming July 1st! I can't wait to be an aunt again!

Christopher's brother Chet gave us his Bandits tickets while he and the family were out of town - Thanks Chet! We had a wonderful time and got to see the Bandits start their season with a win.

Little Jameson had his neuter performed. He is doing fine and was back to his normal self in...two hours. Seriously. He is resilient and was playing, eating and bugging Marv within a few hours of being home.

The rest of the month is busy and exciting for us too. We have our friends wedding "reception" party to attend. They were married the same weekend as Dave & Abby, but in Jamaica, so their family is throwing them a little party here. We have networking events, board meetings. I am looking forward to a date night with Christine!!! Woo hooo! And we are squeezing in a visit with the Simm Family in Rochester. Looking forward to meeting baby Emma!