I’m doing this post a few days late.. and I cant remember a single thing I did that monday.   One peice of big news is that our function at Beta has been transfered into the Industrial Design area.. I think thats a good thing.. still tryign to figure out what that means.

nite all, nite sam

-me

We had a nice morning with Vince, Trish, Gabriel, Vivian, Joe and Pat. ..We  had an unsuccessful hunt for a brunch place.. but no luck.. all the favorite places where clsed.. and the. others we found were too crowded.. go figure !  We settled for take out bagels

 

Had fun playiign with the kids for the rest of the morning

 

THen a nice ride home..good life discussions.  I love driving with Diane !

nite all, nite sam

-me

This morning we saw soem of the impact of the wind storms the last few days.. check out this cool pattern that part of our firepit made in the snow !

 

Today we headed down to Longmeadow Mass to meet our newest grandniece, Vivien. Vivien is the 2nd child of our nephew Vincent and his wife Trish. They also have (almost) 4 year old Gabriel. 

We also have another new Vivien  on another side of the extended family. Becky’s brother Danny and his wife Elizabeth have a new baby Vivien as well.. We got to meet her at max and Becky’s wedding..

It was great seeing Vince, Trish,, Gabriel and VIvien. DIane’s brother Joe and  his wife Pat were also there.. so it was a little family reunion.. Super fun !

Its great  seeing Joe and Patg around their grandkids.. 

We all headed to  a nearby Reptile place to check out the snakes.. some of young Gabes favorite things !

Then home to make fresh pasta for dinner. DIane braught her new ‘Chitara’ pasta maker.. it’s so fun and easy. Gabe liked helping !

 

AFter dinner diane and I drove to our hotel. It was absolutely full of kids that were here for a basketball tournement.. THey were loud but super fun !

 

Fun day with family !

nite all, nite sam 

-me

We got out for an early morning  morning hike.. we’re trying to get out whenever we can since we’ve gotten so little snow this season. On the way home from the trail we ran into our freinds Carol and Kim.. Carol is Dianes boot camp coach… She and kim run 10 miles a couple of times per week

The rest of today  was interesting in a very confusing way. I met with one of our financial advisors about Medicare.. I’ll be elegibal in a couple of weeks and I need to choose a plan.. Yikes.. so many choices.. and so many things to think about !…My head is still swimming

so much so that I woke up in the middle of the night.. it was a great time to go down stairs and drink a cup of tea by the fire.. t

hat makes everything better 

nite all, nite sam

-me