After Lent treat....

Here is L.Michael's ice cream treat...for going for so many days without ice cream, this is what he chose to have...(and yes, we love our ice cream)....

Easter Sunday

Here we are the Monday after Easter and I'm actually uploading and writing about something I just did yesterday!...can you believe it?...

It ended up being a fairly nice Easter Sunday...we have had tons of rain lately and we just wanted a nice day. We went to early, sunrise mass at church and the boys got a spot of fishing in before we even got together with the rest of the family. After our lunch of ham, potato salad, paska bread and halupki we went outside to enjoy the weather and to play some wiffle ball and tether ball. The sun kept peeking out from behind the clouds and when it was out, it was actually warm. So it wasn't all that bad. When we went to head home, we made a stop of King Kone (ice cream shop) and we all had a some ice cream...(we gave up ice cream for Lent, so we haven't had ice cream in quite some time)...Will post a photo of L.Michael's "cookie sundae"....all in all, it was a good day. The boys went back to school today, but Mom still had off...as did Aunt Jen-Jen and Aunt Coletta, so we went out for breakfast and did some baby shopping of things that she still needed...it was a good day....Will be sure to let you know when and what she has. Her due date is May 13!....

The kids and their fish....

This past weekend, the kids had their fishing contest at Tri-boro and they ALL wanted to win and they were ALL excited. It ended up being a beautiful spring day-perfect for the kids to be outside fishing....the day began very early for them as they are all old enough now to be up with dad and to help with the fish truck and help stock the fish in the canal. (I think Mike said they were up at 6am) The contest begins at 8am and goes till 12N. Once you catch a fish of significant size, you want to register the fish because if someone else has a fish of the same size, it goes off the earlier time. So..now that you know the rules this is how the morning went. The 4 cousins are on one side of the canal...and across the way-a blonde hair little girl about 5 years of age...She was catching fish after fish and BIG ones too!...definately contest worthy..well, anyone who knows us Bodnar's, you know there is a bit of competitiveness...so Eveylen had one...Patrick had one..Michael had one and than 2 and than 3 and than 4.....Nicholas had zero!....so he decides to switch places w/his brother and he catches a BIG one, but looses it...does NOT sit well with him...he is pissed and is very upset....and now the clock is ticking closer and closer to 12N...so now he switches to the other side of the canal...and he catches a fish..nothing to brag about, but at least he has caught one....than dad can see a BIG fish chasing his bait...and a few times, Nick almost has it and dad is JUMPING up and down because he knows how close it came...than all of a sudden...WHAMO..Nick cathes the HUGE fish with 3 minutes to go...it takes him about 2 1/2 minutes to reel it in and than once he does him and dad are running through the parking lot to reach the checkin stand in time...and luckily they do and Nick has caught a 20inch fish and comes in 2nd place..(there was another 20incher caught before him)...so here are some photos of this weekend....

Well, hello there....

Well, than...I guess it's been quite some time since I've said hello....wanted to share a photo of "Spring" here in PA....Yup, this photo was taken on Wednesday morning which was the 3rd day of spring....we got hit with a spring snow storm....was a strange storm as we had "thunder snow" and lightning...just like in a thunderstorm...it was crazy....anyways....that was Wed. Today is Friday morning and I'm thankful it is Friday.

Let's see, what else is happening? ...Well, even though we had snow, it is baseball season...and the boys were supposed to have started with baseball on Wed. and last night...but was xcld due to snow on the field...hopefully it will on be gone today and tomorrows practice will take place.

The boys are doing well...school is good, grades are good and both boys are ready for baseball season....as I type this Nicholas is slowly waking up next to me in bed....and Mike and Mike are just leaving for school and work. I need to get my butt moving.

Ice Storm...

Today was day #2 of our snow/ice storm. And yup, we were all off today. Mike did make it into work today, he said the roads were "ok" on the way in. So the boys and I slept in, until the power went out and the refrigerator alarm went off. I made some breakfast and we watched a movie together. We than went outside and chipped away at the ice and shoveled our way to the bottom of the driveway. It was very tiresome and seemed like it took forever, but we did it. We came in, had lunch, took showers and than took naps-well I did, anyways....The boys went outside later in the afternoon and went snowboarding in the back field. Tomorrow we are back to school- Yeah!!!...here is a photo of the boys in the back field today.

Ice storm....

Well, today is Tuesday, February 1, 2011 and we were off today-again-due to weather...and tomorrow is going to be worse!...the school I work for is already closed tomorrow, just waiting on the boys school to close....the issue is this...a HUGE storm system that is heading our way, but it is bringing ICE with it, instead of snow...and ice is sooooo much worse than snow.....they are thinking we may get 3/4 of an inch of ice, which will mean downed power lines and downed trees...so this is not good!...so to my friends in the southern hemisphere, I wish we had some of your hot weather...also to my friends in the southern hemisphere, hoping you are staying safe from the excessive heat and the flooding and the cyclone that is due to hit the northern part of your country...and since I have no school tomorrow, I think I will make myself a drink!...cheers!!!!

PS...the boys are now off tomorrow as well.....

Happy New Year!!!

Well, here I sit..it is January 2, 2011....crazy how fast a year has gone. NYE was good...unfortunately my husband got called out to work to fix a major water main break and was gone from 330pm-1030pm...luckily he made it to us before the clock struck midnite. At about 9am on NYDay.....the phones started ringing again and there was another problem. So he was again gone for hours....he fixed the one problem, but than drove around trying to find another problem. By 7pm, he was with us again, but it was a very long day and he was exhausted. NYDay for us was a day full of football, snacking and of course pork and sauerkraut. (an absolute must for us Americans on NYDay)...we have all had a sleep in today and we are planning on taking the boys to go and spend some gift cards they received for Xmas. It is also going to be a day of going through backpacks that have been in the computer room for over 1 1/2 weeks now. School is back in session tomorrow for basically the 2nd half of the year and we all need to get back in the groove of waking up and going to school and work.

I do hope my friends down under had a wonderful NYE....from what I've read, it sounds like you all had a good night. We missed Sydney's celebration by about 15min. so we watched it online. It looked wonderful!....the boys kept yelling, we were there...we saw that!.....

So to all my friends and family.....here is to a Happy and healthy New Year!....Cheers....