Christine's First Ballet Class

Baby Bonanza - Movie Clips

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Baby Bonanza - May 2nd, 2008

Everyone made it but Sarah, KevinM, Colin, Brendan, and a few "inlaws"!



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MoMerk was showing off her new 4-tone Desperate HouseMilf jeans. They're all the rage at New Jersey Costco's.









Helena was so overjoyed with the Baby Bonanza that she mis-remembered how to properly open a bag of chips.

















I love this pic (above) of Wayne!











I've got some videos too. Y'all will have to wait for them though.

Colin's 4th Birthday!

Thought it was time to create my first blog posting. Just wanted to give an update on the "Merk" boys. Everyone is doing great. Colin just celebrated his 4th birthday! Here are a few pictures from his party. We had 15 kids ages 3-5 at our house! It was purely crazy, but thankfully we hired a clown to entertain the kids (Uncle Kevin and Aunt Jenn came down for the festivities, but neither of them wanted the job....what's up with that?!!) Anyway Colin had a blast and now we are inundated with Ben 10 toys - his new favorite show (for those of you with girls, you will never know anything about this show).

As for my other 2 little men, they are doing great. Brendan is starting to read a bunch now. He is playing tBall and has a ton of friends, probably more than I do! Devin is walking/running all over the place now, and learning new words every day. He has a great demeanor about him - always happy.

Devin and I are planning to be up in MA from May 1-3 so Devin can meet his new cousins and see the rest of the family. Hopefully we'll get a chance to see a bunch of you then.

hunger strikes us all in different ways

Easter Crotch Shots

On another note, Vanda has been getting hounded by ambulance-chasing personal injury lawyers.



They think they have a "slam-dunk" case against her hairdresser.

Now HERE is a professionally done 'do:



Easter dinner was French ("buffet") this year. We had a barbequed brisket, turkey, lasagna, broccoli salad, garden salad, green beans, fruit salad, and a kugel.

Attendees were Helena, UJ, Nana, Grandpa, Anne, Wayne, Vanda, Tom, KevinM, JennM, Julie, Mel, LittleJohn, Christine, GrandmotherLou, TimL, Inez, and Yours Truly.

Christine Wants Y'all To Know How Much Fun She Had

We went to Disney, check out the pics.

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Interesting

Correction

As a responsible blogger, you should know enough to do your research, Dan. Below is a photo of that same room taken in October (after I cleaned and organized the space). So not only is your post inaccurate, it's also old news (two big negatives against a reputable blogger).

MoMerk, Expect A Call From HGTV

I filled out the form and signed your name. I sent the pics of your mom's house and mentioned other tidbits like the AOL-Free 100 Hours collection of CDs. The way they produce the show, all the kids are involved. So Kevin and DrChunky will be needed as well. Oh boy, doesn't the camera "add ten pounds" or something too?



Persuasion, mockery,...none of it worked. It's intervention time.

NY Trip and Christmas in Steamboat, CO

We missed seeing everyone this year for the holidays,but had a wonderful time both in New York with Joe and Valerie and in Steamboat Springs with Ryan's family.

In NY we visited Santa at Macy's, went to Rockfellar Center, Shopped on Madison Ave. (took a picture of the sign for Maddie) and had a wonderful dinner at Joe & Valerie's....the rumor is true we were there until nearly 3am!

In Steamboat, Sienna got to experience the cold weather, touch snow and make a snow angel (well, not really...)!

We had a foot of snow on Christmas Eve alone- it was nice to see it for a few days but Ryan and I sure don't miss the shoveling of the snow and scraping of the cars! John & Susie (aka. Mimi and PePe) were in heaven to have Sienna there for her first Christmas and of course she was spoiled rotten!

Sienna is talking and laughing all of the time now and can sit up on her own! Her eyes appear to be changing to green like her Mama's and her hair is finally starting to grow in!

That's all for now- hope everyone had a Happy New Year and hope to see everyone soon!

Love,
Maggie, Ryan & Sienna

Blood Is Apparently Thinner...

We have to thank Anne for yet another lovely calendar.

But a cursory analysis has uncovered an unsettling trend.

Inez has five pics of her on it.

Meanwhile, there are ONLY three of me!!!

DrMark is only pictured twice and in a sense, he disproves my contention about thin blood.