Fall Festivals

Our weekends have been quite busy lately and this one was no exception! After soccer today the kids and I headed down to see Pat's sister, Aunt Liz. She was having a Fall Festival at her house for her friends and family and their kids. We spent the afternoon painting pumpkins, making Halloween paper chains, decorating foam pumpkins and watching all of the kids play together and enjoy themselves! With the weather being so nasty, it was nice to have a fun and unique way to spend a cold, rainy, snowy Fall Saturday!

Ready to Have Some Fall Fun

Aunt Liz and the Kids getting their pumpkins ready

Nicholas and Addison doing some pumpkin decorating

A Little Wii time!

We headed out on the front porch to blow some bubbles...
Addison carries that skull everywhere she goes.....kidding...

Aunt Liz and Her Niece

Bubble Time!

Nicholas, Addison and Their Aunt

Soccer Saturday

This morning was like every other Saturday morning since early September- It was a Soccer Saturday!
We spend our Saturday mornings at the soccer field watching Nicholas' team enjoy themselves while they run around wildly after the ball. Today was no different except that because of my ankle, I couldn't be out on field with the team. I have been lucky enough to have an awesome assistant coach who is the dad of another player and he has been taking over my on field duties. What has been nice about that, other than the fact that I don't have to run around during the entire game, is that I'm able to watch Nicholas and take a few pictures while the action is happening!

A little Pre-Game warm-up in the goal!

Nicholas' Biggest Fan!

Dribbling

Taking a Water Break

Wedded Bliss

Pat and I had the wonderful opportunity to attend his cousin's wedding yesterday. My parents quite gracious watched Nicholas and Addison while Pat and headed up to Bloomfield and Cedar Grove to witness the marriage of Anthony, Pat's cousin, and Patti, his new bride!

The ceremony was lovely and actually quite brief which left plenty of time for tons of pictures. The weather was GORGEOUS and perfect for outside pictures and plenty of them!

The reception was at a hall in Cedar Grove and it was quite nice. We were lucky enough to be at the bridal party table and got to spend the night with Pat's sister- Aunt Liz- and her boyfriend, Frank, as well as Patti and Anthony's other close friends and family. We were fed tons of food, listened (couldn't dance due to crutches and cast) to great music, and just had a really nice time getting to see Pat's side of the family and celebrate with everyone! It was a great way to spend the Sunday evening of a long weekend!

Pat's Sister, Aunt Liz, was the Best Woman

Anthony, Aunt Madeline and Uncle Anthony
(They really were thrilled!)

The Bride, escorted by her Dad

Exchanging Vows

MARRIED!

Pat and His Dad

The Cake

First Dance
"Can't Help Falling In Love"
By Elvis

Another Happy Couple

THE
Happy Couple

Brother and Sister

Dad and Daughter

Cake!

The End of the Evening

We Proved it All Night at the Stadium

There were no cameras allowed in- and stupid us we actually followed this rule!
This was taken with Pat's phone

Back in June it was announced that Bruce Springsteen would be the last musical act to play the current Giants' Stadium in East Rutherford. I knew that we had to be there for at least one of the shows!
I was able to get us tickets to the October 2nd and show and Pat and I have been eagerly awaiting this past Friday night for months!!
We took the new rail line directly to the Meadowlands and I cannot tell you how extremely fabulous this was!! You may have heard about the U2 concert debacle from last week- this was not even close to that! It was easy, fast, and non-stressful! The train drops you right at Gate B in front of Giants' stadium- AMAZING!
We picked up our tickets at will-call (for reasons we won't go into here!) and headed into the show! Our seats were upper tier but we had an AWESOME shot of the stage so it really made no difference!
Bruce has been playing full albums for all of his shows in NJ and we got to hear the "Darkness on the Edge of Town" album. While this is not my favorite album, it is an excellent album and nothing beats hearing it live!! He and the band played for three hours STRAIGHT and it was INCREDIBLE!
The show never slowed down and never had any low points- it was just incredible Bruce in action!
While we never wanted the show to end, the best part of the night was the very end- the second encore where Bruce and the band played "Rosalita" my absolute favorite song. It was incredible- fireworks going off, the entire stadium singing along, the band out of control. It was enough to make a certain someone get up on the chair in front of them and start dancing- in the beginning rain. The rest of the story goes exactly how you would expect if you know me- at all! Let's just say it ends with me in a cast and on crutches but completely willing to do it ALL again because the show was just THAT AMAZING!!
If you eve have the opportunity to see Bruce I HIGHLY recommend you take the opportunity! This is the third time I've seen him and he has only gotten better each time. He and the band put on an incredible show that is worth MUCH MUCH more than any ticket price could convey!
All in the all, the music was incredible and Pat and I enjoyed a wonderful night out together!

Family Pictures

While we were down the shore this past summer, a family friend who is also a professional photographer took a bunch of pictures of all of us. This past week we received the link to all of our photos. I'm not sure that I'll be able to share them individually on here but I can direct you to the website and give you the chance to check out our photos and even check out Jen, our photographer! She did a GREAT job and the photos came out wonderfully!

Head on over to Jenny Photography and enter the site and then click on the McGeary Family under Gallery.

If you're in need of a photographer- whether you are down the shore or not- Jen is really very good and I would definitely recommend her.

Partay

Well, Saturday night was alright for partying around here!
For the past few weeks we've been planning a big "reveal" party for all of the changes we've been making around the house. We got just about everything done for the party and the house looks great- in my opinion! In addition to celebrating all of our hard work and renovations we also celebrated Pat finishing his Business degree!! He is finally done and ecstatic about it! And we could not be more proud!!
Rather than having to worry about taking pictures all night long, I picked up a few disposable cameras and left them out around the house. We got some really great shots and some not so really great shots! Nicholas really took control of the cameras for most of the night and he actually took a bunch of really good pictures!
Here is just a sampling from the wonderful night filled with tons of food, friends and laughter!!

And the night begins out on the "covered" patio

This was actually near the end...Pat cutting his Congratulations cake with Nicholas

Nicholas enjoying the MASSIVE piece of cake that Pat carved for him!

A Cute Picture

Uncle Paul giving out rides

The boys were mesmerized by Keith's reading of "Harold and the Purple Crayon"

A little posing by the posers....

Aunt Liz and Nicholas

Uncle Paul had just finished reading to Nicholas when Ron looked over and noticed Nicholas was out cold!

Caught off guard

Some more Uncle Paul riding

Couples Candid

Uncle Paul was mesmerized by Keith's rendition of Harold that he just had to read it himself...

Meaghan and I....my husband is no Ansel Adams....

The day after...recovery

Self-Portrait

Cutie Pies!

Sleepyhead!

Swimming Lessons

Nicholas and Addison started swimming lessons this morning.
After a swim test a few weeks ago it was determined that both kids could be in the same class because Addison is actually a pretty good swimmer, but I decided that I preferred them to be separated. So, Addison is in a beginning pre-pike class and Nicholas is in pike. This morning both kids did GREAT and had an awesome time in the water!!
We're already looking forward to next week!