3 YEARS FLIES BY

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!

TERESA AND CHRIS HOST A HURRICANE PARTY

In honor of Hurricane Irene my sister's family decided to host a party. How else can you better celebrate the demon winds and torrential downpours? The party just made sense!

Of course, no party can be started without video games when Chris and Kyle are together; this time though Miranda and Oliver wanted in on the fun.

The party itself basically involved some boozin' and some eating. Teresa even kept it moderately healthy (to offset the beer, perhaps) by making chocolate covered strawberries! YUM!

The dogs has a lot of fun in the rain too. We left the doors propped open for them so they could run in and out of the breezeway and basement. Every now and then from the window you would see a bolt of black fur running by with a dopey bolt of brown fur. Cora and Ember were at it again....



Ember practices her frog pose since she's out in the rain.



Teresa plays doggie pied-piper as my mom decides a hurricane is the best time to pick figs.

Being stuck in the house also gave Miranda some bonding time with her uncles Kyle and Nick. Nick really isn't a big fan of holding babies. When you typically try to hand Miranda to him she kind of just bounces off of his stomach while he goes, "hi!" The picture below is the awkwardness that happens when you just run in, put the baby on his lap and laugh.  =)



Uncle Kyle on the other hand? Baby lover.





Because the storm seemed to move rain up the coast much faster than anticipated we all left early. I thought it would be important if my sister, Karen, and I could make it over the bloated rivers to our respective houses.

Later on that night, I looked out my windows to see how the rain looked and couldn't even see my driveway or the street. They were both running with water! I should have gotten out my raft and went down the whitewater.

To be continued...

THE HURRI-GAME

So, Hurricane Irene is heading your way. What do you do?

Well, if you're my Dad and I you go to the Phillies game that wasn't canceled. Of course! Around noon on at that dark and stormy Saturday afternoon we headed over to Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. The city looked spooky in the pre-hurricane fog and it really didn't bode well for the actually playing of the game.

But, as my iPhone kept telling me... the game was STILL ON!!

As with any Phillies game, once you're inside the first stop is Brewerytown for a nice, cold draft beer. I never understood why people are willing to pay the same price (a heartstopping $7.25) for a Miller Lite when they could get a real beer like Dogfish Head or Shocktop for the same price. Silly phans!

As we climb to our seats we realize the stadium is empty. There might have been 1,000 fans, maybe. The tarp was also on the field which is never a good sign. Haha!

Uhm, okay... obviously  the stadium lights aren't even on. Uh oh!

As we sat eating our hoagies and drinking our booze we saw the beginning of impending doom... the Phillies got up and left the dugout. Nooo!!! The game was canceled before I could even finish my first beer. How depressing.  =(

Well, I guess it's off to Teresa's First (Annual?) Hurricane Party.

To be continued....