Fat and Happy

After a recent trip to the vet I have learned that Yoda is bordering obesity. Wow!!! He does seem a little heavy when I pick him up, but I didn't think it was that bad. Well I looked back on some photos and footage and found this video.

Yoda's schedule: eat, sleep, eat, sleep, clean himself, eat, eat some more, sleep, zzzzzzz

Guess that explains it

Cheers to Joe on his 25th birthday!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Can you believe the baby of the Stier's is this old?!! Wow!!. Have a good one Jody and be careful. We love you!!!!

gotta love this pic with the big knot on his forehead

I've been hiding and.......

I know I have so many posts to add. A lot has happened in the last few months and I have been suuuuuper busy. So there, that is my excuse. I plan to sit down one day and blog until I have everything up from March to July. But for now, I just need to share these pics in the easiest way possible, so here they are.

Rob and I had some photos taken in the good ole NYC (our city of love).

July 4th- 2nd annual lake party!!!!

We have decided to start our own family traditions. Party at Mel's lake house in Prosperity. Being out there is so peaceful, having coffee on the porch in the morning (sorry no pics of that). Anyway, last year Mel and Pat called some people to come out and it turned out to be such a fun time that we did it again this year and SUCCESS!!! We had such a wonderful crew. I said to Rob, "is it me or do I just have really cool, fun friends" he agreed. Well below are some pics from the weekend. Thank you to everyone for making our 4th super memorable. And a special thank you to Pat and Mel for hosting this wild crowd!!!

Happy Birthday USA!

The Ladies

brother don't shake hands, brothers got to hug!

Some other shout outs!!!

Jesse for maintaining the boats, jetskis, etc. all the fun things people to participate in, but never want to do the work for.

Max for his festive attire and almost making it thru the night

Beau for being a soldier (I think he was the oldest one there)

Maggs, oh Maggs for being your pirdy, dainty self. Even when you are tired you pose beautifully

Uhhh, did he say something embarrassing?

EHHHHHH!!!!

The Pinks

The Greens

The Pinks and Greens

the devoted men. wait where is Rob? oh he's taking this pic. that a boy!

July 4th continued..... home sweet home

You visit the Stier house, you inherit a child. After the weekend out at the lake, Rob, Alyssa and I headed to my parents house to see my sister and my nieces and nephew.

Juju, Alyssa, Ella Joy and Rob get some quality time in

being fed by whoever will feed you

Noah is almost 9!!

EJ loves Rob and prefers her undies to a swimsuit

Juju and Jenny staying cool under the umbrella

just relaxing

and hanging out

playing with Papa Jon's ipad

the little ballerina!

Only in New York................

can you see a sophisticated, middle aged lady on the subway beat a man over the head with her wet umbrella because she is mad he squeezed onto the train

or

can you see naked men trolling around their apartments at odd hours of the day from you desk

or

pick up a bottle of wine, eat chinese, buy a lottery ticket, a new pair of sunglasses, get a mani/pedi and finish off with a beer from an irish pub all on one block, phewww

It's a recession, Yoda has a job too...........

I debated on whether to post this or not because it's nasty, but it's a true story in my life and ya know sometimes the truth is nasty.

On Monday morning I awoke to a contently playing Yoda at 6:30, a nice change from him bothering me to feed him at 5:00 or 6:00. Well, I turned on the light to find a dead mouse being flung around my apartment, eeeewwwwww!!! I calmy discarded it in the hallway trash while congratulating lil' Yoda. He did his job well. I was just as much proud as I was disgusted.

When they gutted my place a huge crack was left between the floor and wall, so I think the the sucker got in from there. Maintenance is coming to fix the crack and the exterminator is returning asap. Until then it's all Yoda...................

Mardi Gras, King Cake- I Got the BABY!!!

I was in the kitchen at work and there was this yummy cake sitting there and I thought ouuuuu afternoon snack. Whoever was in there with me was saying its a King Cake, if you get the baby, blah, blah, blah, I stopped listening and starting cutting, mmmmmm. Low and behold I flipped over my piece and there was the baby!!!!! I won!!! Not really, but I was super excited. I decided the baby had be shown off, so he got to ride the mic on my speaker box.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_cake