My family

Newest addition-My soon to be in April 2008 great Nephew


My nephew Casey James



My nephew Michael (soon to be papa)


My sister Kelly(older sister but not the oldest)


My sister Kim (The oldest)


My brother in law (my sister Kim's husband-married 25 years!)


My mom and dad (married 45 years!)


Eating fresh fish!

Some random pictures!

Griffin and daddy before daddy went to work




Griffin in Key West





Joe,my sister and I boating in Key West






Key West Sunset

Check it out now

It snowed here lol









It's a big deal in NC...for me it just made me happy and reminded me of home!

Getting Back to Normal

Invariably,everytime I go to Key West to visit family my brother in law (him and my sister live there) always ask me if I wish I could stay.I always answer no. Not because I don't have a wonderful time and don't absolutely love the weather but let's face it if we lived down there both of us would have 1-2 jobs a piece and when your working so much it isn't like you're on the beach or swimming or even enjoying the sunshine lol Many years ago when we first started going out Joe lived in Fort Lauderdale and we contemplated moving there but came to the same conclusion.I do admit however that as I've gotten older, I am no friend of cold weather.Having lived in snow all my life,the move to Northern North Carolina was a nice change.It is always sunny here unlike home in NY, where because of the finger lakes and the location of Rochester we get the "lake effect" snow and inevitably a gray sky 90% of the time.I guess it does snow here where we are in North Carolina but is laughably a "dusting" which isn't snow to me lol It is basically cold cold weather without the fight to drive in sleet and snow so it is a nice balance.

It is definately nice to be back home!I would love to join the Y here to take Griffin swimming all the time but it is $79 a month.I can't get over how expensive it is.Any gym around here is the same amount,I guess we can pay $5.25 everytime we go without being a member but geese.Anyways I did find a church pool we can go to and it would only be $18 a month with an 18 month contract but there isn't very many "open" pool hours.So I am still deciding and searching.It is nice to be back in the swing of things I guess so I will be a blogging.