A great vacation home!

Welp, I'm back from a trip home and I've got a few pics here of my family and friends. As always, there were so many pictures taken, it was hard to decide which ones to put in the blog.

Super Shuttle (da da da!) picked me up at 3am to take me to the airport (yes, I was verrry sleepy). My plane took off at about 6am and I landed in Philly at 4:10pm. I got my rental car (with Hertz NeverLost system! I have a GPS in my car and I swear I'll never go without again, even in a rental!).

Only my little brother and my "slightly" older sister knew I was coming home. I walked in and surprised my Mom. What a great visit. I wuv my mommy.

Day by Day account:

Friday night, I took my Mom, my brother Brian and his girlfriend out to dinner. We went to Red Losbter as that is my Mom's favorite. Then we came back home. I brought back (from myAustralian trip) and Australian comedy called "Mother and Son" that me and my Mom used to watch way back in the 80s. Since it won't play in American DVD players, Brian and I went to Best Buy and I bought the DVD adapter for his XBOX, Episode 3 for him (We were both major Star Wars fans when we were little) and the Star Wars lego game for XBOX (My friend Lou said it was so good, I had to buy it and check it out).

I was truly amazed to find out just how similar Brian and I are. It was funny hanging out with him. Even his girlfriend picked up on our mannerisms and how we joke around and stuff).

Anyways, we went home, watched an episode of Mother and Son, hung out talkin' then watched Star Wars until 2am. Needless to say, we were all tired, so we went to bed.

Saturday:
Mom and I went out and got "Yum Yum" doughnuts. Brian was saying how good they are, so while he was sleeping we snuck out. We also drive to the old house. Man, I'm telling you, the guy that bought our house should make scary movie sets...

After breakfast, Mom and I went to the store and bought my sister some stuff for the baby and some baby clothes for Barb's kid. Then we drove over to see my "FABULOUS" sister, her kids Mike and Katie, her husband Mike and her cute lil baby Krystin.

We had a fun time! It was my first time seeing my baby niece. She is soooo sweet. :) Was cool seeing everyone else too, especially my fab. sister. We used to argue like hell growing up, who knew we'd be this close today. She's really swell (gota kiss up, she reads my blog *wave* haha).

Afterwards, me and Ma came home and my sister Debbie came over with my niece Sarah. It was nice to see them too. Sarah is in 10th grade now and wow she's very pretty Hanging out with them was fun. When they left, I hung out with Mom Brian and Lisa until bedtime.

Sunday:
I went to go see one of my best friends Barby. I hung out wth her, her husband Sergio and their beautiful baby Sara. It was great to catch up! We even had lunch with Barb's Mom (always great to see her!) Barb and Sergio just bought a new house and it is way cool! Congrats guys! Sarah is so cute! I'll say it again "My lil Barby is all grown up." haha

Back home, Brian treated us all to chinese food and my Mom to a Hoagie! She does love her Hoagies...extra oil and peppers! I was feeling so tired from driving all over the place that we just stayed home, watched Mother and Son, chatted and played XBOX. Brian's girlfriend was right, she did kick my ass at Mortal Kombat. I did however successfully turn my Mom onto Desperate Hosuewives, even Brian loved it and wants to start watching it haha!

Monday, Mommy made me a nice Philly breakfast with Pork roll and toast! :) (She was so made all weekend that I didn't let her cook. I wanted to treat her the whole time I was home. In retrospect, I should have let her cook a meal. I know it would have made her feel good to cook me sometihing. Hmm, next time when I go back...) Patty came over with Krystin and we all hung out chatting before I had to leave for my flight.

And there ya have it. an almost complete account of the trip. And now here are some pictures! (Like you all didn't just skip right to them anyway!) Click on pics to make them bigger!

Here is a pic of me, Mommy and my beautiful baby niece Krystin-Nicole! Awww!

I am really gonna have to come home more often. I do miss my family!

One annoying thing though (on a totally vane fashion note) all my shirts this weekend look so shiny and gay in these pictures haha. They weren't shiny at all in real life. Hmmm.








This is my Mom and my niece Sara! We have such a big family, it's so cool to put pictures of my nieces together where one is a baby and one is in high school!

My Mom spent the whole weekend laughing. It was nice to see her all smiles.









My little brother Brian (little brother?! He's 31 now...but I'll always think of him as being 12 years old in his "pajamas with the feet in" and yelling "Fudgey Wudgey" with his "Fishman" face on the beach haha *inside family joke*) and his girlfriend Lisa.

I have no dount that if I lived back home, we'd be hanging out a lot. I miss him a lot too.





My fabulous "slightly" older sister, me and baby Krystin! Me and my sister laugh alot when we are together. It's always a good time!










Barby and me! She never changes! It was soo great to hang out with her. I feel good that everything in her life is working out great. Great husband (he's really fantastic!), great baby (very cute too) and a great house!

It was really nice to spend the day with her and her family!





Awww, Barb's baby Sara and me. She's such a good lil girl!

Gotta love her spikey hair hehe!

It's kinda weird though to see my Barby with a kid. Wow, we really DO go back a long way!













And that, my good people, was my vacation back home in a nutshell!