WE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PHINALLY!!!!

What a night! Our Phils are World Series Champs!!!!!

The rains came on Monday night during game 5 and rained on our parade, however, the Phils would not let that happen. We will be having our parade on Friday now :) Dave and I are trying to see how we can go to the parade and still be home for Trick or treating. Do you think Halloween can be moved to Saturday for us Phillies fans???

Leah has been napping in the afternoon so she could stay up and watch the games. They have been on so late (8:30) and she never makes it past 10. Last night was the perfect set up since they started in the bottom of the 6th. The game was over by 10 or so and she was able to stay up and watch her crazy 35 year old Mother running outside like a loon banging pots and screaming. I'm yelling at Leah "C'mon! grab that pot! Yell!!" Poor Leah who is half asleep is standing there banging a pot in the freezing cold and saying (not yelling like her loon Mommy) "Yay" I think she was a little confused. Fager was barking and enjoying the celebration with me as the rest of the block was out yelling and shooting off fireworks and beeping horns. Poor dog was wondering what was going on.

It is wonderful! They deserve it. the city deserves it after a 25 year championship drought. Let this be the beginning of good things. Congrats Phils! Thanks for a great season. Looking forward to 2009 :)

3 Down 1 to go!

The Phillies are 1 win away from winning the World Series! This is so exciting. We're really hoping they do it tonight as these late nights are starting to take their toll.

It's amazing to think that tonight they can be the World Champs. Dave and I were thinking about how just a few short seasons ago we could sit in our seats at Ci*tizen's B*ank Park and look across our row, across sections and not see another person. We went to every Sunday home game (as well as watched every game on TV) and we cheered even though they didn't give us much to cheer about. 5 seasons of sitting through many "not so great" games all come down to this. It's all worth it.

I hope tomorrow I'll be posting that the championship drought has finally ended.

We're planning our trip to the big parade with about a million other folks :)

Oh please let this be it!

Day at the Pumpkin Patch

Saturday we went to a local farm to pick a pumpkin. Daniel is getting excited about Halloween. He has no idea what Halloween is but he keeps seeing all the decorations and says "Mama! Halloween's coming!" He'll be even happier when he sees the candy being dropped into his bag. We met a group of friends at the farm and had a great time. The kids got to pet some animals. Daniel was not so sure when the horse sneezed VERY LOUDLY on him. The girls thought it was pretty funny :)

This was the first time Daniel rode a horse. He seemed to enjoy himself. As long as it wasn't the same horse who sneezed on him.

Leah is a pony riding pro and knows to turn, pose and smile for the Mamarazzi :)

After the pony ride and the hayride (no pics, sorry!) we got a wheelbarrow and went out to the patch to pick the perfect pumpkin. I think Dave had two perfect pumpkins in his cart before we picked the orange variety.

Of course Leah chose the largest one she saw. We immediately said "No" and told her to pose for a photo with it instead.

I told Daniel to sit on a pumpkin for a photo. He was not happy with the one I chose cause it was "too messy!" How come a pumpkin with a little dirt on it is too messy but he's OK with ripping apart his peanut butter sandwich and smearing it all over himself?

And finally the happy family with the chosen pumpkin :)

And cannot finish without adding :

Bring on those Rays! Go Phils!

Series starts Wednesday night. I still have a few nights to rest up.

We're Goin' to the Series!!!!!!

After 15 years, the Phils are heading back to the World Series! It was a late night but well worth staying up to watch the celebrations. We have a week to rest up before the series begins. Heading out at 9 AM to purchase the new shirts :)

Lights Out Lidge

Good 'ol Charlie

I promise to be back to blogging about the kids soon. It's not often we here in Philly have anything to cheer about when it comes to our sports teams. We're going to bask in this excitement for awile.

Go Phils!

Yay Phillies!!!!!!!!!

Thanks to late game heroics from Shane Victorino and Matt Stairs, one more win and we're in the World Series!!


Dave and I went to the game on Friday night. It was AWESOME! We have tickets to Saturday's game 7, but since we're up 3 games to 1 I'm prety confident we won't be needing them :)

We had a busy weekend. We went to the zoo. This was Daniel's first zoo trip. I have some pics I'll post later.

Ok, Is anyone reporting me to Animal Cruelty yet???

I promise, she LOVES it! :)

Wonderful Weekend

Dave and I were able to get away for the weekend alone. It was nice to be able to re-charge. We went to Fager's Island. We stay at the Lighthouse which you can see in the photo below:

We usually go in June for our anniversary, however, it was too soon to leave Daniel at that point. Now he could care less if we leave him which is really nice.

It was nice to be able to sit and have a nice quiet dinner and talk without having to cut something up or get up at least 10 times to get something in the kitchen. Our conversations are not too stimulating without the children I'm afraid. We sat at dinner on Saturday night and discussed the bird poop that was on the windows above our heads. We sat and discussed how we thought the people at the restaurant cleaned windows. I thought they climbed to the roof and used a pressure washer shooting down at the poop. Dave though they probably had a squeegee thing that was long enough to reach with a ladder. Yeah, I know, the economy is in trouble and we have a presidential election in less than one month. And here we sit and discuss bird crap. It was very relaxing though :)

And to top off the wonderful weekend the Phils beat the Brewers to make it to the next round of the playoffs. YeeHaaa! Now we take on the Dodgers. Let's go Phillies!

Just a photo of Daniel in a potential Halloween costume. it's either this or Buzz Lightyear. He has a few parties. Maybe he'll wear both :)

And here is Leah playing around. She wanted to dress up as a cat and we thought it would be funny to make Fager one too. She's always up for a photo opportunity. When i was checking out the photos and saw this I almost lost it. She looks like she's smiling even though it's really a yawn. Leah and I were laughing so hard. What a goofy dog!