Trinity Marie Duarte- Due May 5

  Everything is going well.  She is right on schedule and everything looks good.  We got so see arms, legs and all different body parts!  Only about 4 months left!

First Play Date with School Friends

We went Ice Skating, for pizza and then to the Park with Conner and Makayla, Frank and Aidan.

Santa Day!

Merry Christmas to All and to All a Good Night!

Merry Christmas to you and yours- From us and ours!  Hope you had a wonderful day!

Merry Christmas From School!

Again, just like for halloween, they sing us songs.  It's about 6 min long but you only really have to watch a little bit of it to see him singing!  Very cute.  Rudolf is the funny one!

Happy 26 Steph!!!

Yup, yup another year for me and again I am pregnant for it! Ha ha ha!  It was nice.  Very good birthday!

First Christmas Tree Decorating!!!!! 12-13

Up until this year we have not had a tree that Tristyn got to help decorate.  We all felt that at this age of being able to understand and remember things we better get going on giving him these memories.  Uncle Ed picked out our tree with Rob and I went and got some decorations.  We had a nice time.  Uncle Ed bought Tristyn a train to go around the tree that came a few days later.  Tristyn can add trains and get more track as the years go on.  It was fun.

Lunch with Santa 12-13

His school had a Day with Santa.  You could come in the morning for breakfast or in the afternoon and have lunch with ice cream.  We chose the ladder so that Grandma and Mary could go.

Tristyn's Baptism- Nov. 16

Tristyn had his Baptism on November 16th.  Joseph Toleno and Jennifer Howe were named his godparents.  It was a very nice service and we had a nice family dinner after.  He was very good, being the only child over a few months old there.  His godfather Joe, got him a beautiful cross that was also blessed by the father!

15 Week Apt.

Well all is well on the baby front.  We heard the heartbeat.  Tristyn also got to hear his heartbeat.  He is lucky that he is so cute because everyone loves him when he is there.  He drives my up a wall and they could care less what he is doing.  Sitting in there chairs, opening the garbage a hundred times and asking if he can take my blood.  HA HA HA!   I have another apt for a 20 week ultra sound and another appointment in 4 weeks.  They are quick with the appts!  Everything was good over all, good strong heartbeat, weight and health.

Momma and Jeni are visiting this weekend as we are having Tristyn baptised Sunday afternoon.  I will have pictures to post after everyone leaves on Monday!

A little history...... Gettysburg and Penn State!

Last weekend we took a little trip to Penn State after some trick or treating and candy eating!  We drove on Friday night to York and stayed at a very nice hotel with great big beds and even bigger bathrooms (something I have forgotten about since I have a stand up shower) oh yes and we must not forget about the yummy breakfast!  After a short nights sleep from our late arrival we decided to eat and head to our first stop- the Harley Museum.

Harley First-  We stopped by the museum but they were closed on Saturday so we just went into the lobby and got some pamphlets and some pictures.  Then we stopped at the Harley Shop that has been in the area for a very long time I guess.  Pretty cool place and some need history.  After that we headed on....

Gettysburg Second-  We have all been there once before, minus that Tristyn is only 4!  It was neat to see again and we took thi

s CD toured ride so we could go at our own pace and stop to see what we choose while it tells us all about the war and so on. 

We stopped at Hooters for dinner and to relax OUT of the car and then went back to the hotel.  I took Tristyn swimming at the ICE cold pool and then we 

got a little more sleep.  Next day home but FIRST-----

Then a little Cabella's to end the trip- We started the drive home, stopped and got some fireworks and then went to Cabellas.  It's a very cool place!  HUGE!  We took lots of pictures there of the stuffed animals and the hugeness of the store and had lunch in there food court.  We had Elk, very good, a lot like Roast Beef or sliced steak.  After 4 hours, pictures, a few souvenir type purchases and some FUDGE we headed out.  Took us some time to get out of Jersey once we got in and that was it!  Home Sweet Home!

That was our trip, it was a nice Halloween weekend!!!

Happy Halloween!!!

Here is Tristyn singing Halloween songs at about 830a on Halloween morning in his class.  All of the students were dressed and they had a party once all of us parents left.  They did a great job.  It's a little bit to get thru, and a little hard to understand at times, but it's cute to watch and a bit funny too.  Feel free to skip thru parts, but the second one watch all the way thru, the teacher gives some direction about it in the beginning.

Birthday party from school and the OFFICIAL costume for Halloween!

Tristyn's first birthday party invite and attendance.  It was pretty cool.  He took a picture with what seems to be the friend he talks to the most, Andrew Benastro (I think that's how it spelled).  The birthday party was for a little blonde boy with a the black shirt name Aidan.  Everyone was very nice.  It was a fun time.  Wore them out!!!!       

After the party we went to battle the masses at Party City to see if we could get the costume he wanted at the very last minute, as always!  SUCCESS!!!  He saw a Power Ranger costume and after wanting Batman all n

ight, decided on the Power Ranger at the last minute.  So we waited.... waited.... got pushed out of the way a couple times by this guy 8 inches taller than me, waited some more..... and finally, out of stock on the Power Ranger, so Batman was the second choice and as you can see we got it, and I didn't even get a complaint out of the peanut gallery!  He walked around the rest of the time with the have face mask on.  Very Happy BOY!!!