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Happy Birthday Cris Dabica….and me.

Driving to VT. Woot.

Hope everyone is having an amazing day with their families and friends! We had a great Christmas this year. Nice and mellow. No snow. It was close to 50 here today. We’ll get our share of snow in VT soon.

oh yeah and santa was real good to me this year and hooked the FJ up with some new all black rims. They are SICK! More photos to come as soon as Pete puts them on…

HUGS to everyone.

I have always wanted super curly hair. Never gonna happen. I have poker straight hair…. but I’ll settle for a bunch of fake curls made by the curling iron…

The amazing Food:

It didn’t get crazy - but towards the end it loosened up just a little once all the relatives left:

Shots..no really…

Art shots:

Party boy taking a nap. awesome:

Webster:

My boy and my Oma:

we have never had our house this clean…man it’s nice. my mom helped me decorate it and she should be an interior designer. So good. Here are just a couple pre-party shots:

Our 13 foot perfect tree. This year was an amazing one:

The living room:

The mini gallery in the hallway:

The office gallery:

The bedroom:

The outside looked just as amazing!!

Our new advent calendar from a few years ago. He’s Swedish..his name is Sven:

Stocking were hung by the gas fireplace with care..ha

One last tree shot because I am so proud:

So excited. Just got back from the hospital visiting with Keith and Andrea and their new baby girl.

Andrea is a total rockstar. Pretty much all natural.

Baby weighed in at an incredible 9 lbs 12oz. WHOA Baby!!

I picked Bennito up and Keith’s mom and brought them in. All he talked about the whole ride in was how excited he was to meet his little sister…He is going to be an amazing big brother.

What an amazing family. I feel so lucky to have been part of both the B man and the soon to be name new little lady in their first days on earth. Thanks K & A for including me. You guys are the greatest.

Oh yeah and…..CONGRATULATIONS!!

Mary had her annual holiday party last night. It was epic. Amazing food and fun had by all. Zoe was all dressed up with her pretty holiday collar. Wish I had some shots of her. She is a gorgeous dog!

Webster was in his usual entertaining form..holiday pants and all. Can’t wait to see what he wears to his party next weekend..these Orvis pants were all time…

He was so excited to come he even missed a belt loop in the rush

His wife fixed him up and set him straight…

Check out the full package..

Chuck got his usual middle finger reception from more then one person:

We surprised Mary with a belated birthday cake..she was a little taken a back - but a good sport about it..

Josh tried to get undressed more then once..ha

Oh yeah..and Phil and Josh had the same Brooks Brothers shirt on…amazing. Preppy boys

High school football pose (even though neither of them played ha ha )

Check out my ass in these pants…

Bird and his ladies..me and Kim

Me n my boy

Mary has and elevator in her house and Webster had to use it to go one flight..hilarious

Best photo of the night. Josh was the target of Chuck’s camera assault all night. He’s such an easy target..Thanks for the laughs!

Me n Phil

So in between finals and work I managed to find a few hours to sneak up to NYC for a few hours and go to the Tyra Banks show….

I know, I know….boring. She isn’t the most popular day time host, but I figured I would go because the topic of the show was women in uniform. Since I qualify for that - I grabbed my friend Lisa and we headed in. We got there and they made us give up our phones and cameras and pretty much everything else. We went through metal detectors and then waited in this little lobby area. The studios are in chelsea right next to FIT.

The building wasn’t impressive at all but then they took us to this big service elevator and we went up to the 3rd floor where it turned out to be an amazing set. Everything was decorated for the holiday. White trees everywhere and snowflakes and all that stuff. They seated us strategically by our professions. There were cops, fire fighters, chefs, nurses, correctional officers, stewardess’, and military. It was awesome. Then this little guy came out and started to explain to us that this was her big holiday show. Which meant we were going to be getting some really nice things. I couldn’t believe it. This stuff never happens to me and I almost didn’t come at all…so crazy. Rocco Disperito was there cooking, Warren Tricome was there doing hair and Mally was doing make-up. It was just overall an amazing day.
The picture below was just a few of the things they gave us to take home and the rest was in the form of gift cards so that we could order our sizes correctly. 4 GRAND worth of stuff. NUTS!!!

Now the important stuff..the show will air on DECEMBER 18th on FOX..around the Philly area it’s on at 10am. You can see the results of all the editing and all the lovely stuff we got.

Christmas def. came early this year!!

This comes straight out of Portland and is David Laborde’s amazingly beautiful little lady…make some more would ya. Love her.

She is holding the X-mas card we sent them..adorable.

Best night of the year to go out by far. We met up with Bird, Josh, Mary, Jill and Bobby and his lady in Manyunk. It was ugly..lots of headaches the next morning.

Me and Bird

Bird dressed like Josh to be funny. Ironed button down shirt and creased khaki’s. The standard Josh uniform. He even pulled off the loafers on his feet. Impressive…very impressive.

Bobby cut a rug hard. Spilled drinks all over him and almost got in no less then 5 fights. awesome.

Bird got real real drunk. The progression was epic. Most of it with the quotes…”I’m not even close to being drunk” It concluded with some up close views with the trash can. Infamous!