Karate Kids!!

John and Ryan have been begging me to let them join karate. I was always reluctant because I thought they would only be running around the house 'karate chopping' everything in site. Well, was I wrong. My friend Annie introduced me to friends of hers...Sensei Chris and Sensei Ryan. They told me to bring the kids down for a two weeks free trial. They absolutely loved it! They are learning not only karate, but dicipline as well. The boys will be participating in a competition on Nov 16th...will let you know how it goes! I only have one picture of them so far, but I promise I will post more soon.

Halloween Parade in St. James

After a cold and windy start to the weekend, Sunday turned out to be picture perfect!!! The sun was out and it was almost 60 degrees! The boys were asked to march in a local parade down in St. James with their karate class. We all had so much fun! John and Ryan dressed as .... you guessed it... karate kids. Their friend Shayna was a vampire and Nick and Kevin just went along for the ride. We went back to our friend Annie's house for some football and dinner. It was a great day!!!

Cousins come to visit!

This past Saturday, Angela came to visit the boys. We were hoping for a somewhat warm and sunny day, but instead it was cool, cloudy and very windy! We spent a few hours together and caught up on the kids, work and just life in general. Angela has all the good pictures and when I get them, I will post more here....I did however get some cute shots of Daniel and Alyssa. We went to the park and the kids seemed to enjoy the near hurricane winds!! It was a nice afternoon spent together!

Baby news!!!!!

Heather had suprised me about a week before that her and Jim were expecting their first child. How exciting!!! It was really hard for Heather to get Liz and I together to share the news, so Heather and I went to a jewelery party that Liz was having...it was there that Heather broke the exciting news....hope you can hear the video, there was a lot of back ground noise. Watch Liz's eyes...they tell all!!!!! We are so excited to be 'aunts' again!! We love you Heather and that baby bump as well!!!

Our visit to Montefiore Children's Hospital

I am thankful to say that our trip on Friday to the cardiologist went very well. John saw the cardiac electrophysiologist, Dr. Pass. After another EKG, the doctor determined that although John still has the condition known as WPW, he felt that we did not have to take any immediate action at this time. When John turns 10 however, he will be hospitalized for the cardiac cath procedure. At that time, they will insert a cath up into his heart to determine if they need to proceed with the 'oblation' of the cardiac impulse. They feel more comfortable doing this at the age of 10 as his heart will be slightly larger and he would tolerate the procedure much better. We left the doctors office feeling more comfortable than when we arrived. John has been cleared for all sports and gym. Thanks for all of the prayers and phone calls....John definately has an angel looking down on him!

My Boys...

Here are just a few pictures I came across this morning in my camera...they are the most recent of Nick, Kevin, John and Ryan...