Thank you NEW YORK! You made my 50th amazing!!

Well, on July 9th... we got up at the butt crack of dawn and headed to the airport.

Not bad for 4am!

 


First stop... Auntie T's!  Got to hug Teen and catch up... 

Hated that we had to talk about her cancer... but she's doing great and we moved on quickly!


She loves us well!!


Then Nick made a quick stop over (can't believe eh is going to college this year!) and we Facetimed Sophia so it felt like we were all together!!


Then, Saturday we headed to see Grammy and see the new apartment!!!


Grammy loved her mug!  Annnnd my mom regained her "shortest person in the family" status!


Zach, Solara and Lewy were off having their own family fun.. how cute are these???


The smiles!!


The suspenders!!


And my dad put this in the paper... so sweet!!


Then we popped over to see Bumpa!  T ate popsicles and was more spoiled than ever!



That afternoon, Lea Whaley stopped over.. part of the shorty club! LOL


So nice to catch up with one of my mom's Ya Ya's!


Monday T and I jetted off to Fillmore Glen because there was a break in the rain! 


Those steps... ugh.. A LOT HARDER at 50!!


I told a thousand stories about my mom and dad taking me here, hiking, waterfalls and God made slides IN the falls!!


He crapped out on me before we got to the big part.. but there is always next year!



It was my coveted time alone with him!


Tuesday was the big PUPPY PICK UP!

Meet Aunt Jeanne's baby Desi Giuseppi!


Tristan immediately tried to steal him!



He is like a little stuffed animal!


But don't let either of these faces fool you - they are BOTH feisty!





We swung over so Aunt Trisha and Uncle Mike could meet Desi too!  Plus, I needed to take my mom furniture shopping!


Then... we spent the night to try and help!  He did great!

We lost power but everything came back on after the storm and at midnight he was up full force but wore out pretty quickly and here I am with 5am dog duty!


Wed we made a trek over to Skaneateles to window shop and eat at Doug's (of course). I don't really get the draw but T loved the shrimp and mom loved the scallops!




Popped over to see Colleen and watch Tracy and T play a round of BBALL for bragging rights!

T got to see all of Timmy's pro baseball stuff and the new NY Yankee Additions!  VERY COOL!


And of course.. he has a new t-shirt! DUH!  Oh Poolsie!


Quick shower and then threw on a dress because it was YaYa Night!  So good to see my girls, even though we were missing two!  Chrissy comes in next week and Tracy and I are off to see Lisa so on some level, we will be together!  Plus, we have to plan our 2022 girls trip!


We got into a little trouble so we tipped well. LOL



Debbie busted us with the cheaters, the LARGE font on the phone and flashlight so we could read the menu.

WE. ARE. OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Thurs we were up and headed to Old Forge!  Trains were down so had to drive... thanks Poolsie!

Little photo op at lunch!  Thanks for the food mom!


Missing the "O" in Old... LOL


We were pretty dang happy and ready to bike!


BESTIES FOR 45 YEARS!!!


This looks fun!


He was more than ready!!!


Talked Grammy into riding ONLY... no peddling!!


Locked and loaded!


And we're off!



The view was beautiful!!!


Tristan didn't think we were peddling.. but we were 100% of the time!

Coming at you LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE





Ice cream:30!!!!!!


We earned it!  

Drove home and passed out!

Friday morning, very early rise and headed to breakfast with Dad!

Breakfast is T's dreaded meal of the day but my Dad's favorite so he took one for the team!






Mercy, we busted out the old photos... yikes!



And before we left Auburn, we hugged Don a lot!!


T even got a good squeeze by my other dad!!


And a goodbye to Desi was hard...




We headed back to Auntie T and uncle Mike's because Tracy was headed to Buffalo and we needed to get to ROC today!

Aunt Trish had quite the spread for us and a little Yankee game was on!!

Oh they love Poolsie (and Timmy!!)


Thanks for the best birthday week a girl could have asked for.  So thankful for my life and this trip was good for the soul.  Reminded who I am and who really loves me.  SO grateful. Miss everyone so much already!! Until next year!

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