this is new for me.

ok, so i finally took the advice of friends and the time and sat down to create this blog. it is not such an easy thing to do. but i think i may be starting to feel like i'm getting a little too old for my space-hey it was a great idea and i reconnected with a lot of friends but as i hear teenagers around me talking about their my space pages, while my friends were talking about their blogs it made me feel like i should look into this blogging thing. as you can teel i do not capitalize-it drives chris crazy- and sorry to those of you that it drives crazy but i feel like i can type a lot faster this way.

So, we have been in birthday-mode since christmas! it actually started right before christmas....my sister and i took my mom to vegas for her birthday (she turned 50 this year!) it was a blast and neither nichole nor my mom had ever been. we had so much fun, my mom won $360 bucks on the nickel slots and now she is hooked! the week before christmas we celebrated kathy's birthday (chris' mom). the week after christmas we started going to lainie and tristan's friend birthday parties and we have had one every weekend since new years! lainie's birthday was january 18th and she turned 7. she had a high school musical party (of course) and got way too many presents-the only downside to having children right after christmas-

this friday is tristan's birthday and he will be 6. on friday night we are celebrating here at home with family and ordering tristan's absolute favorite - imo's pizza! on saturday morning we are having his party at a fairly new place to st. louis called monkey joe's. it's filled with bounce houses and giant slides. he invited 16 little friends so it should be lots of fun....pictures to come! chris is in beverly hills this week on business-really hard trip huh? did you know the actual zip code is 90210? i thought that was just a show! i'm trying not to be too bitter seeing how last time he was in california (laguna beach) he was sending me email pictures of his lunch on the beach with the beautiful turqouise ocean and i was waiting for branches to snap and our power to go out while waiting out a terrible ice storm,..fortunately no ice forcasted for this week!