HB to me!

Thank you to everyone for all the lovely notes, cards, gifts, and Facebook postings for my birthday.  As you know, this is my least favorite day of the year but you have all made it special.  Mark and I had a lovely dinner at Bernard'O's last night, went to a movie today, having pizza tonight, and cheesecake later when Ryan gets home from work.  (Mark had to make sure we had the right "numbers" for the cake...oh great!) 

My mom baked me a prune roll and mailed it to me - and don't plan on sharing any of it!  Then Jill brought me the cutest cake ever...and I ate all by myself...

My crafty friend gave me the greatest craft embellishments in this awesome box ...

  

Then my jewelry-making friend helped me pick out the beads and she made this GREAT hedgehog necklace for me.  Makes me smile as it reminds me of our trip to Scotland where I saw my first hedgehog...

And of course my babies are spending the day with their mom in Jake's "bat cave" under my desk ... cozy ...

I am a LUCKY GAL!

With great sadness ...

Mark's uncle, John Cupparo, died this afternoon after a very brief illness with his children and family by his side.  We find happiness in his reunion with his dearly loved wife, Mary Rose, whom he has missed so over the last few years.  Has been a sad, sad day and our hearts are with his children as well as Mark's mom and her sister.

And we're off ...

After a nice week off, the rat race begins full speed today.  Connor has a week of missed work to catch up on and lacrosse practice starts three times a week until June with games on Saturdays.  Ryan has his training this week and I have my monthly Craft Night tomorrow night - yippee!

Yesterday a friend called to see if Ryan wanted to go see Linkin Park with her as she knows how much he loves rock bands.  Her son didn't want to go so Ryan was ecstatic to join her.  I'm not sure who chaperoned who!

His first job

Ryan had his second interview with the GM at Round Table Pizza yesterday and was offered the job!  He is very excited and will be the "dough roller" since he is a big guy and the dough is ~30 lbs each.  He has the training next week and officially begins the week after.  At the moment it's from 8a-2p four days a week which works out really well with his school, meetings, and the other kids' schedules.