hope everyone had a good holiday season! we sure did!

its been so long. i know. this blog is one of my goals for this new year. i have a lot of posts that i am working on to catch everyone up to speed over these past few months, so bear with me.

sneak peak of our house. its the one on the left. 

my mom made this delicious pumpkin cheesecake for her birthday. we had her sisters and mom over to celebrate with dessert and tea. mouthwatering. 

life so far

these past three weeks we have been settling in to our new house and life here in bryn mawr. it's been an easy transition, and we are loving being so close to family and friends. we have been using our time off to explore and do some fun stuff. 

 bike riding through valley forge. 

 enjoying a cool morning on the hammock.

 eagles training camp. so neat. 

 ice cream at "the farm"

iced latte. peach-pear-apricot smoothie. raisin spice vegan cookie. 

work starts monday. heading downtown tonight to enjoy baltimore ave dollar days (basically all the restaurants come outside and give you food for a dollar....need i say more?) and then going to the shore on saturday. 

journey to philly

well we finally made it to philly. it was a long 24 hour drive...yes 24 hours. but alas we made it! here are some pictures of the ride. 

we left west palm with a bang. all of our friends went out for our last dinner together and stefano and i destroyed the "grease beast"...it's a double cheese burger with two grilled cheese and bacon sandwiches, fries, and onion rings all piled high on top of each other. delicious. 

and yes we did have chest pains later that night. 

 getting gas in some state in the middle of the night. we were both over driving at this point. stefano was driving the penske truck with the volvo on the back and shilah and i were following behind him in the jetta. 

every time i looked back at her on the trip she looked so peaceful and cozy. poor thing has such a hard life. ha!

never been so happy to see this sign. 

we made it! woo hoo!

im on a boooooat.

this past weekend we celebrated our friends birthday by renting a boat. it was such a blast. we cruised over to peanut island and got to see west palm from a different angle that you normally don't see from the road. it was such a relaxing day on the water with great friends. 

getting ready to unleash the boat....

 the birthday boy and his lovely wife. 

love these two!

still not sure why i'm wearing two hats? lol. 

you can always count on lots of laughs and lots of food when you're hanging out with all of us.

it was so nice to be surrounded by our lovely friends on our last few days here in west palm beach.

 it's going to be really hard to say good-bye to our friends. *tear*

two of the coolest girls. ever.

for the past few months i have had the pleasure of nannying two amazing girls. 

today we had to say "see you later" (i don't say good-byes well, lol) as they left the country and we leave next week for philly. 

i'm really going to miss spending time with their amazing family!

 taking a homework break for pool time and nutella....of course.

 love this chicka!

i am going to miss these two so much! 

packing and tutti frutti

so we have been busy this past week packing up our apartment. we leave next week for philly, and i am still shocked on how fast time has gone by. we enjoyed some quality time with our friends recently by going to the norton arm museum and eating tutti frutti. our favorite. 

there is something about picking different flavors of yummy frozen yogurt and multiple toppings that i just love. 

i hope everyone had a great 4th of july. i spent my day with some amazing girls at a water park, and a bbq and fireworks for dinner. such a splendid day! :)

simply delicious.

so yummy.

back to the reality of packing. almost there.

all snuggled up to watch the storm outside.

 i get excited over buying a new trash can. i am pathetic. 

mr. harriton

so i have to dedicate this blog to my brother-in-law lorenzo. stef and i surprised him and his mom by coming to his high school graduation. they were both really happy...we even made his mom cry. hehe.

over the past 8 years i have seen lorenzo grow up to be quite a young man. it was so exciting to see him walk across the stage and begin this new chapter of his life. 

so proud of you lorenzo!

it's offical.

 lorenzo and monica

brothers and sisters