My birthday!

Thought I would put up the few pics I have of my 23rd birthday. It was hard to not be able to spend my birthday with my family, but I was able to spend the morning of it with Jamie. He took me to the boardwalk to walk around and to get pizza. Then in the afternoon, the Milsteins gave me a chocolate mousse birthday cake (lauren knew how much I loved that and made sure that was what her mom got me) and sang happy birthday and gave me a present. They gave me a coach wallet that is absolutely adorable!

Florida Trip!

Last week I flew to Fort Myers, Florida with Jamie. Travis met us there which I was very happy and excited about. We stayed at Jamie's mom's condo down there which was really nice (especially since we stayed for free). Jamie and I's trip had kind of a rough start. We had been up in the air for about 1/2 hour when the pilot came over the intercom and said that there was an unidentified object on the plane so we had to turn back around and go back to the airport that we had just left. Jamie and I could tell that the stewardess seemed really nervous. To be honest, I wasn't too worried at all, just upset that we had to turn around. When we landed shortly after, there were police cars and fire trucks waiting for us. It didn't take long before they announced that the 'unidentified object' was actually just a toy. A toy!! Can you believe that. We ended up getting into Florida 2 hours late. Once we landed, different stories were going around. Someone said that the stewardess said that it really was a bomb and someone else said that they said it was a toy that someone made to look like a bomb. I highly doubt it was real or else we would have had to evacuate that plane asap! For the five days in Florida, the weather didn't want to behave. It hadn't rained in months until the day we arrived. It was pouring when we arrived. Luckily, though it rained pretty much every day we were there, the mornings and first part of afternoons stayed clear. And when it rains there, it pours. Jamie, Travis, and I had a blast. We went to Sannibel Island, Fort Myers Beach, took an airboat ride to see alligators, got caught in a downpour playing miniature golf, ate lots of food, went on Jamie's grandfather's golf cart around the golf course, and took the 'Key West Express' boat to the Key West Island. The Key West Island was probably the favorite thing we did. The boat ride to the island and back was 3 1/2 hours each way, but it was fun. We saw dolphins swimming as we were headed out to sea. Then at Key West I saw my very first cruise ship which was huge though Jamie said it wasn't really that big compared to some. All 3 of us were sad to leave, but we had a great time. I was so glad to see Travis again after 3 months. Most of the Florida pics are on my facebook but I am putting my 2 favorite ones up here.


Travis, Me, and Jamie on boat to Key West Island


Taken after our airboat ride

Washington D.C.

This last weekend, Jamie and I went down to Virginia to visit his friends and to go see Washington D.C. We had a blast, except for all the traffic we hit on the way there and the way back. The weather was perfect on the day that we went to D.C. We saw all the big sights, like the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Memorial, the White house, Union Station, and the Air and Space Museum. We did lots and lots of walking. Jamie was the tour guide. He had his little hand held gps with him and he had our tour all mapped out. We walked almost 7 miles around D.C. Jamie and I also had lots of fun in Virginia at his friend's and girlfriend's place. It is too bad I won't get a chance to go down there again anytime soon.


Jamie and me in Virginia


In front of the White House


The Capitol Building in D.C.


The Washington Monument


Lincoln Memorial


In front of Lincoln Memorial

Museum of Natural History

On April 9th, Lauren and I went to NYC to go to the Museum of Natural History. It was really really big. We were only able to see a small portion of it. After, we had lunch at a place called, Popovers, that was very delicious!



In the butterfly exhibit




Remember this from the movie, "Night at the Museum"?

Barnegat Lighthouse

On Sunday, April 5th, Jamie and I went to the seaside island park to see the Barnegat Lighthouse that sits on Long Beach Island, NJ. It was so cool and such a beautiful day!

Nickelback concert

On Friday, Jamie and I went to the Nickelback concert at the Izod Center in New Jersey. They had Saving Abel and Seether opening for them. It was awesome! It was my first rock concert and Jamie's millionth rock concert. We had general admission floor tickets so we were down on the floor by the stage. Chad Krueger, the lead singer of Nickelback had a great sense of humor and was very funny in between songs when he was talking. I also got to see the bass guitarist of Saving Abel up close because I took some guy's picture with him in it. It was a great concert! I want to go back to see them all again.

The troublesome threes

I am not very good at keeping up with this blog, but I try. I thought I would add a few pics I had of the kids. Oh and something funny that happened tonight was that Sam got a hold of some of his mom's wine and drunk it. So yeah he was pretty drunk!


Sammy and Lauren


Joey and Me


Sammy