Cousins at The Pool

We all had a super time at the pool.

Faith Is 7!!!!

Faith had a very fun bowling party. Very calm and orderly with 17 kids bowling, eating pizza, and devouring lots of cake :-)

Morning Workout

Watch "Desert obstacle course" on YouTube

At The Albuquerque BioPark

Flying Kites With Great NM Wind

A Day In NYC

Thought it was about time the kids saw Manhattan!
So we packed up on Tuesday and hit the road. We stayed the night in Pelham with Steven (my youngest brother) and Tracy. Mark (younger brother) and Jess met us in the city on Wednesday. So all of us were tourists for the day in Manhattan. All the cousins spent much of the day together and each in their own way were in awe in aspects of the city. A lot of fun.
This morning we headed back home.

Extras From our Long Island Trip

Out for breakfast

Then we head home.

Playing at Haypath Park

Went to a local playground I used to go to as kid.  Would ride my bike down and play handball against a wall or play tennis.  Wall is gone, but the park is much nicer now.

Beach Day part II

And we had a fun time with cousin Nathan, Aunt Tracy, and Uncle Steven.

Beach Day part I

Great beach day at TOBAY Beach on Long Island.  Low 80's, light breeze, not a cloud in the sky.

Congrats To Karen

After months of preparing and studying, Karen was Bat Mitzvah'd today. She definitely peaked! Her best Torah reading yet on the day that mattered. It was especially nice to have a bunch of family and friends at the service and then our family our for dinner to celebrate together.

Not your traditional celebration for a 13 year old, but our dinner at Wildfire in Tysons was delicious :-)

Weekend in NY

Had a wonderful holiday visit with family in Long Island. Got to see everyone! Our kids were so glad to see their cousins. Everyone is getting so big. And Grandma held a great break fast.

Visit to DC

Nana, Fred, Levy, Karen, Reuben, Jacob, and Faith all got to visit the White House today. Very exciting, but no pictures. Afterward they went to the American History Museum and then around the Mall.

Yes. I guess Steven Colbert counts as history!


No argument with Kermit.





and the spies in the flower beds...

Faith Graduates Pre School Summa Cum Laude

Nice graduation ceremony for Faith this morning. She such a big girl.

Another Florida Movie

Pre-Passover playing...

Processing the vacation backlog....

Not much new here today, so a good time for some more vacation pictures/movies.

Jumping in the pool at Levi's

Playing at the beach on a very windy day (Gulfstream Beach in Delray)

Mother's Day And Soccer

We had a nice mother's day breakfast at IHOP and then exchanged presents back at home. We rode some bikes and tried to get a kite flying (no real luck) then off to Soccer (and I played my first softball later in the afternoon) ...

I was lucky to get a great goal from Jacob on video.

Faith also played (played maybe pushing it). She did kick the ball 3 times!.

Reuben played well too, but I think the coach told him to play defense which I didn't understand. I was helping Faith get ready so missed the start of Reuben's game. When I got there and I yelled for him to follow his kick of the ball, he told he was supposed to stay on his goal's side of the center line. Not sure he really understood the coach, but she didn't correct him either.

Party at Rio Grande

We had a big group of friends go out for dinner at Rio Grande tonight. Actually its now called Uncle Julio's. No idea why they would change the name and especially why to Uncle Julio's. Anyway the place and the menu look the same. We were a party of 20.5 with the kids slightly outnumbering the adults. We took the risk and it paid off... kids at one table, adults at the other! Waitress did a great job and we had a good time.




OK. Now back to my slow roll-out of vacation pictures...
Here we are at a water park with Nanna, Aunt Steph, Uncle Mitch, and Cousin Levy.








Then it was off to visit Cousin Levy.

Levy is hiding behind Reuben.


Uncle Marc and Aunt Meg came over too, with Marc pretending to work :-)

Steven, Tracy, and Cousin Nathan Visit Virginia

We had a great time visiting with Uncle Steven, Aunt Tracy, and super cute cousin Nathan. We went into to DC on on Saturday to the building museum (which recently hosted the 'emergency' international economic summit). Then in the afternoon our kids got their Hanukkah gifts from Uncle Steven and Aunt Tracy... A super hit as you can see from the movie.

Steven and Tracy even babysat for us Saturday night, so Karen and I could enjoy dinner out. We went to Sushi-ko in DC, a very well regarded Japanese restaurant in the area. It was very good. We then hit Thomas Sweets in Georgetown for some decadent ice cream. Nice night out even though we back home before 10.