Who are the homeless people?

This picture made me laugh out loud...

Happy Birthday Dan!

I'm pretty sure it's today...(even more reason why Alana Marie should be in charge of this!) Anyway, hope it's a good one!

Happy Birthday Aunt Joyce!

Happy Birthday Maura!

Don't worry....I hear 33 is the new 23. :-)

Let it Snow!

Pittsburgh had it's first measureable snowfall last night and this morning! I was loving every minute of it when I saw the forecast last night.

Now, it was just a dusting and probably can't live up to what the rest of you saw up North and over in Bedford, but nonetheless it made me smile this morning. Yes, you heard me right....me....smiling in the MORNING. Believe me....it's quite a feat....I HATE mornings. Anyway, just wanted to spread my joy around. I say bring on the fleece blankets, hot chocolate, and toasty fires!! LOVE this time of year!!! So much so that I already brought down a box of Christmas decorations tonight. :-)

Happy Halloween!

Just wanted to share some pics of Cinderella Cadence and Tinkerbell Ava. We went trick-or-treating over at Lu Lu's house. Still the BEST neighborhood EVER to trick-or-treat in. We even ran into some of our old neighborhood friends and their kids....Matt Megahan and his kids and Bryony Noszka and her daughter. Good times.

Happy Belated Birthday Aunt Mary!

So, I'm a week late with these birthday wishes, but what can I say......it's not easy being the ONLY person who ever posts to this thing!!

The Dog Days are gone...

Don't know about everywhere else in the country but I think the end of summer has finally arrived here in the Burgh. We went from a high on Monday of 85 to a breezy/cool 62 degrees today. And tonight they are forecasting a low of 42! I'm loving it though...this is my kind of weather. I say bring on the snow baby!! Anyway, I just thought I post one more picture celebrating the end of summer. That and after I looked at this pic for the second time I thought Aslyn's placement of her piece of corn was pretty comical.

Happy 1st Birthday Ava!

Where did that year go???

From Beast.......to Sexy Beast

Sasquatch

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Happy Birthday Lish!

29....how sweet it is!

Cadence is warming up her chops getting ready for the American Idol tryouts. Step aside Carrie Underwood and Jordin Sparks....there's a new girl in town!! Here she is singing....Little red riding hood. You sure are looking good....you're everything that a big bad wolf could want.... owwwww!

Henry Honda

It is a sad day today.......Henry Honda....my 2000 Honda CR-V has finally had it.....he has been on life support for the last few days....and he finally blew a head gasket.......so thank god I live only 3 miles from work because I am getting my exercise riding my bike to and from work......my butt hurts...my legs hurt....it is 100 degrees with the heat index, but since yesterday I lost 3 lbs.....so there is good news I guess.....

So I am weighing my options and will keep you updated..........make sure everyone plays the lottery tomorrow....it is at $245 million.....

Alana

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRISH!

Hope you had a great day you old woman.......hope you got lots of nice gifts and somebody took you to dinner....if not let me know and I will take care of them...I walked home from work three miles just so I could type this.....hate those check engine lights....forces you to workout.....so I am going to walk to the ice cream store and have a cone just for you....

Alana

Storm Damage

We had some wicked storms in the Burgh yesterday. I'm telling you it was some scary stuff. The first round came through at about 8am. I had just arrived at work thankfully about 10 minutes ahead of the storms. The skies turned black as night and then just released their fury. Loads of rain, lightning, etc. Then we had a nice break until about 2:30 in the afternoon, then BAM!! I'm telling you, it was the same black as night look to the skies except this time the lightning, thunder, and rain was combined with insane wind. I was thankfully still at the office and believe you me...far away from my windows. The wind was howling, small branches were flying around, and I swear everything had a swirling motion to it. I was so ready to take shelter and head to the basement of the building. I was borderline panic mode and all the guys I work with were having a field day making fun of me. Whatever!! Don't they know that I love all things weather and once I heard that a tornado warning was issued I should have had the right to panic! A tornado warning is issued when: "a tornado is reported on the ground or on doppler radar". Ahhhhh!! Anyway, thankfully we all survived the storms. I left work after the second round of storms and it took me a good hour and a half to make it home. Power was out all over town and loads of trees were down across the roads. A third round of storms came through around 7p but was nothing compared to the other two. Anyway, here's a few pics of the damage from around here. The big willow tree down by Aunt Alana's old office building at the end of the road

Vacation

Just got back from Caribbean(Mexican coast). It was wonderful-warm, BLUE waters, warm pools, all you can eat and drink! Derek and Dan took advantage of that! Pete and I had a great time just relaxing, snorkeling, boating,kayaking, and ...eating and drinking. Derek will post some pics.

Mya Joy

I just wanted to let everyone know that Mya was admitted to Children's Hospital earlier today. She has been sick with a stomach virus and hasn't been able to keep any food in her stomach. She was admitted to Grove City Hospital this past weekend and seemed to be doing better, but that was not the case. Last time I talked to my Mom, they were starting an IV and giving her some medication to keep her from throwing up. We will keep you posted.

Video attempt

This is my first attempt at embedding a video file. This was the first sign that it was time to buy Cadence a swing set. :-)

Pry Family Update

Lake finished his traveling tournament play last weekend. They didn't win any of their games, but their coach was expecting us to get blown out of every game since this was their first tournament. We actually almost won two of our games and I think we scared a few teams. Lake had a spectacular catch and my Mom got all teary eyed which was quite amusing. I told her there is no crying in baseball! I included a picture from his regular season play.

Aslyn recently went on a picnic with her Dad in the woods. She had a great time and wants the family to go on a picnic again soon.

The annual Frey Reunion was a couple few weeks ago. Our kids had lots of fun and that is why there aren't many pictures. They were too busy to be bothered with the camera. We took our bounce house and Davina lived in it most of the time or was in the swimming pool which she loved.

We are getting ready to leave for vacation. We are visiting John & Taryn in New Jersey and then going to Sesame Place in Philly. We will be staying with Derek for two days. Aunt Mary has informed me that Alex is in New Jersey for work so we will give him a call and see if he is available to visit. I will be sure to harass both of them regarding their lack of blogging!

July 4, 2007

July 4th, 2007. Had a great time at Louie's house. Three houses go in on this party. They built this fantastic deck that goes down to the lake and has a great view of the city. We watched the fireworks from here.

There is one more level down from here. The city is actually closer than it appears. Trish... my pictures of the fireworks were pretty lousy. Next year... I need you and your camera!

The sunset was spectacular! We really need a boat!!! If we stay in Cleveland......which is likely, now that Michael likes his job, then we will get a boat, as soon as the child is old enough to swim.

The summer in Cleveland ain't so bad!!!

Nice sunset, huh???

Camp Forsyth 2007

Brooke

These are only a few of my little campers this year. These kids were part of the class from the 3rd camp. We have one more left at the end of the month. There are two age groups: 5-7 year olds (my personal favorite) and the 8-11 year olds. They participate in tennis, golf and their favorite...Swimming!

I have two pictures of my all time favorite camper...Brooke! I would put her with one group and ten minutes later she would be in my group. She said my group was the fun group but that she didn't want to hurt the other instructors feelings! She could barely lift the club because she was so tiny! Then there was Tracy.....you have to love that face! There is also a picture of Lacey with her little brother Jackson who wanted to tag around with us, but he wasn't old enough and then of course there was Spencer. We had daily contests where it ended up being the boys against the girls and us girls of course won with a little help from little old me. So on Day 2..... my man Spencer asked me if we were going to have a contest and if it was the girls against the boys again. I said yes we were and he said in that case I want to be on the Girls Team! He never wavered the rest of the week he was a very proud member of the girls team. Smart kid......

Tracy

Spencer

Lacey and Jackson

It was definitely the best class by far and we had a lot of girls participate this time!

I saw Maya Angelou out at dinner last evening. She came to a local Italian restaurant that I hang out at quite a bit. I, of course, sit at the bar not in the fine dining part of the restaurant. Trish sorry I didn't take any pictures of Maya Angelou last evening....besides I wasn't dressed up for the fine dining part of the restaurant....I didn't want to be a stalker....She lives here for crying out loud. She also had a walker and I didn't want her to hit me with it....there was a nice car waiting outside with a driver.....sort of like Driving Miss Daisy. It was a pale yellow Rolls or Bentley or something.

Alana

Renovations....kinda

Some of you know that I few weeks ago I undertook a new project of painting my downstairs bathroom and I am now happy to report....mission accomplished. These pictures don't really do it justice but I love it! It's my new little spa retreat. I painted it a sage green and changed all of the accessories to a brushed satin nickel. I also got a new waffle weave shower curtain that I absolutely love (thanks mom!). While I was on a roll I decided it was high time that I got some new curtains for my kitchen. It's hard to see in these pictures but they are a tan with a small maroon stripe in them. I still need to get some tiebacks for them but I already love the huge difference they make. Finally, I got a new cabinet from my dad's old apartment to help with the lack of storage in my kitchen. Much thanks to Alex and Steve for their help and strong muscles in carrying it up my back steps. Lucky for Nathan, he was 'sick' (read hungover) so he couldn't help. So, I tried it over on the main wall of cabinets but thought that it was too overpowering there and didn't create a nice flow so now it's nestled in the corner near the windows and I think it's much more practical over there. Anyway, here's some pics of my adventures in renovations...

Boring white walls
New sage. Picture makes it look minty. It's not.
Old shower curtain
New spa-like curtain!

First placement of big cabinet
Old corner cabinet. Also notice the old curtains.
New cabinet and curtains
Another before and after of paint color

Happy Birthday Steve!

22 already! Where does the time go?! My guess is that your birthday parties look a little different these days. :-)

Some Weekend Pics

I spent Friday night and Saturday day with the girls. Here's some pics from our weekend.

The shirt says it all...
How do you like my new do?

I can't believe she ate my soggy cookie! Ha!