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Posted in Our Family on Nov 10th, 2009
The memorial service for Maryellen “Tracy” Forte will be held at 10:30 AM on Thursday, November 12th at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Herndon (1090 Sterling Road, Herndon, Virginia 20170). In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in Tracy’s name to the Association for Frontotemporal Dementias (AFTD). More information about donations [...]
Posted in Ellie, Motherhood, Our Family on Jun 2nd, 2009
For those of you who are not on Facebook, I wanted to to announce that Elizabeth (Ellie) Patricia Stroiney was born yesterday at 10:35 am. She weighed in at 8 pounds, 11 ounces and was 21 1/2 inches long – much bigger than I expected! Ellie is healthy and of course adorable and has a full [...]
Posted in James, Our Family, Pregnancy, Travel on May 28th, 2009
For the last few years, Jamie has been asking if he can go to Legoland in California for his 6th birthday (which is in September). We agreed, but told him it would be his only birthday present — no party, gifts, etc. to which he happily said yes. But then I realized we’d have a [...]
Posted in Bento, Food, James, Lauren, Motherhood, Our Family, Pregnancy on Apr 19th, 2009
So yeah. It’s been a while since I posted to this blog. Life seems to get in the way of my better laid plans! We’ve had one heck of a few months — I was sick for an entire week (I’ve never been sicker in my life), John was hospitalized twice since January (once for [...]
Posted in Our Family on Mar 9th, 2009
Hi All, Sorry things have been a bit quiet here. Life has been busy to say the least. But I promise a few posts soon (including some pictures from Sydney’s first haircut!). I did want to quickly post this message we got last night from our Dad. As some of you may know from Facebook, [...]
Posted in Our Family on Feb 5th, 2009
Happy Birthday to a very special lady in Denver. We cannot wait to see you in August when you come see the new baby. Hope today is wonderful and that Gramps treats you like a queen! Love, Leslie, John, Lauren and James
Posted in Breads, Chicken, Food, Main Dish, Our Family, Side Dishes on Feb 3rd, 2009
Kate and I are not football fans. Or really any organized sports fans. It’s just not our cup of tea. So usually every Superbowl Sunday we go to the movies and see a really girlie movie or take advantage of the empty malls and do some shopping. The only problem is that I love to make [...]
Posted in Crafts, James, Lauren, Motherhood, Our Family, Sydney on Feb 2nd, 2009
Les has not been feeling great with her pregnancy and I thought I would give her a little time to rest and relax a bit. So I took Jamie and Lauren for the weekend (or for a “two-night sleepover” as Jamie called it). We had a lot of fun, but I think she will have [...]
Posted in Food, Our Family on Feb 2nd, 2009
I caught an interesting episode of Oprah last month. She had Suzie Orman on and they were discussing America’s financial situation and what we could all be doing better in this tight economy. Suzie challenged America to do 3 things: Don’t spend money for an entire day. Don’t use any credit cards for an entire week. Don’t [...]
Posted in Motherhood, Our Family, Sydney on Jan 29th, 2009
We *finally* got some snow in Virginia this week. I think we halted all snow production last year by obtaining a snow blower from Jim’s family! Jim and I both rushed home after work to take Sydney out to experience the snow. Of course I first had to dress her for the weather – something [...]
