'Miracle Snow' in Chattanooga, TN

Hi everyone! Thought I would post a few pictures of the kids playing in what's left of our 'miracle snow'. Enjoy and Merry Christmas from TN!

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas!! No snow in Pottstown today, but there was definitely a lot of food!!! Hope everyone had a great day!

(took this group shot using my new travel tri-pod Sal gave to me today...this will greatly improve angles and where I can take pictures, what it won't improve are the way the objects look in the photo!....but it always provides for some good laughs!)

Snow Day

Happy Holidays to everyone!!

"The Doctors Are In..."

Kristina, I got your message. I believe that we both finished the physical therapy post-grad transitional clinical doctorate program this weekend!!! Kristina did a 1-year program at Jefferson. I completed a class at a time at Neumann where I got my masters (started back in January 2007). Congratulations Doctor Kristina; we did it! Thank you to my parents, sisters, and Mike for helping out with the girls. As I told my mom, now I can just focus on my family and work and enjoy the holidays!!!! Thinking of my girls helped me push through this final stretch:

(Kristin visited us the end of November gave her Shamu stuffed animals. Cally insisted on taking the smaller one. We said okay and carried on our conversation. When I walked out into the living room, I saw the "big" Shamu on Maya. Cally lovingly insisted on Maya having the "big" Shamu.)

Guess who's expecting!

Mark and I found out we are expecting a few months ago. It was quite tough keeping that secret but well worth the wait seeing the excitement in our friends and family's faces when we were finally able to spread the news. We can't wait for us and everyone else to meet our new baby in June!

Happy Holidays from NYC

What better way to get into the Christmas spirit than to go to New York City. After a quick lunch with Aunt Mary and Uncle Charlie, we walked around Rockefeller Center before heading over to Radio City Music Hall to see the Rockettes. One of our stops was to the Swarovski store....very pretty!!!

Even though we didn't have much time before catching the bus home, we rushed back over to Rockefeller Center to get a look at the Christmas tree lit up. Very beautiful, but VERY crowded. It was crazy....we barely made it back to where we were supposed to get the bus at the specified time. Mom almost ran several people over and poor Ashley was having a hard time keeping up in her boots!!!! Luckily the bus was stuck in traffic as well, so we had a few minutes to spare!!

Portsmouth Half Marathon

Charlie runs 20 minutes faster today.

Waiting for Mommy

Here she is!

Maia is 5 minutes behind Sara.

Maia ran the whole race with minimal training and finish line support from Giles.

All together now. Charlie ran the race in under 2 hrs.

Sara said that she felt great and could have kept running.

Happy 2nd Birthday Cally!

Thank you for the lovely party. We all had a ton of fun!
Love,
Mary, Sara, & Harper

now where did I put my glass slippers?

She's not 3, it's one for good luck...haha

Only a 2-year old can pull off a sweater dress...love the diaper butt!

Is this where my other earring goes?

When Cinderella lost her glass slipper on the step she should have taken fashion advice from Harper!

Work-out Cinderella!

Haiku

Here are 2 Haiku I thought up on my way to work today...

Thirty-two degrees

Wind blowing the leaves around

Oh my, it is cold

Wind that chills the bone

The leaves give in to defeat

Please turn on the heat

2nd Annual Oplinger Oktoberfest

The 2nd Annual Oplinger Oktoberfest took place on October 16, 2010. A good time was had by all, a drunk time was had by some...



yea, yea, I'm a little slow getting these pictures up (blame school...)

Aunt Mary pours and tastes the first beer (Uncle Dave's homemade beer)

Maya didn't want her hair ruined by the wind so she is hanging out inside with the ladies.

Hay ride for the kids (Cally in yellow, the girl and boy behind cally are Davy's kids Abigail and Dominic, red hooded sweatshirt is Aunt Janet's daughter Amy's child Logan, and blue hat is Kimmy's son Jacob)

Mark and Cally throwing rocks in the creek.

Happy Halloween!!!

We had such a fun weekend! Mike had the whole weekend off, so it was nice for us all to be together! On Saturday, we went to our friends' annual Halloween party. I was Rachel Zoe, Mike was a guy riding and ostrich (lol!!!), and Cally was happy to wear her Minnie costume again. On Sunday, we carved pumpkins, which was the first time for Mike and I. I remember baking pumpkin seeds one time visiting Aunt Linda, which I wanted to do later... but Mike threw all of the scoopings out!!! lol I walked Cally around our court (in Mike's ostrich costume; I plan on wearing that every year now!!!). Cally got the hang of trick-or-treating; she was too cute. Maya slept in her little cow costume while we were out... dreaming of "candy, candy, candy, candy, candy!"

Ghouls and Fools

Shauna did this trail run last year and loved it. When I told her I was doing the mud run earlier this year, she insisted we do this run as well. And....so we did. I talked two of my friends to join in the fun. There was six of us in our group who somehow managed to get through this 6 mile torturous trek in the dark. Half of it was pretty much a hike up a mountain while the whole time you can not even think about looking up or getting too confident without slipping or tripping on a rock or fallen tree limbs. The last mile down the mountain...all I could think about was finishing as I had a major blister on the instep of each of my feet and I was so tired of slipping on rocks!!!! We finished strong and had a blast hanging out afterwards with a couple of pitchers of beer, some shots of jager, and the sounds of man playing the accordion!!

At the end of the night....Shauna was talking and I looked at her and said...I really can't take you seriously while you are wearing those pigtails!!!....and then the witch freaked out!

Minnie Mouse at Longwood Gardens?

I took the girls to Longwood Gardens today. Kids were welcome to dress up in costumes. Cally proudly wore her Minnie Mouse costume, and Maya and I wore our orange tops. We had such a good time. The conservatory was full of mums, and Cally did a coloring activity. Outside, we caught a fountain show with music, and we walked through my favorite garden section outside where Cally stopped to smell just about every flower! Besides a major meltdown from Cally as we left the gardens, both girls were very good. It was great to see so many mums (my fav flower) and neat to see all the kids coming in their costumes (we ran into another Minnie Mouse). One of the newest additions is a long hallway of walls full of thousands of different greens and 16 private bathrooms (private and family) - pretty cool!

Autumn Happenings

Fun at the NH Children's Museum


Up in the White Mts.

Harper and I love to be outside during these bright Autumn days. We hope you are enjoying this season.