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Wednesday, December 27, 2006
12 Pie Memories of Christmas 2006
As the holiday celebration comes to a close (and since we have several hours to kill out here in the sticks of North Carolina before we head home tomorrow), we came up with our 12 memories from Christmas 2006...
1. Mom pulling off 2 nights of formal family dinners and doing dishes well past midnight.
2. "My Flabulous Family" comment by Carrie, with a comeback of "My Flatulous Family" by Chuck over Christmas dinner
3. Two back to back days of Rav’s
4. The worst rendition of 12 Days of Christmas in all of our family's history.
5. Hearing Grandma Bretz tell us about her Christmas memory at dinner
6. Hearing Mom's favorite Christmas memory about Mark getting sick from the anticipation of Santa arriving and Paul having panic attacks from the same thing.
7. Watching Vickie and her kids give each other a hard time.
8. The so called "dream team" of Trivial Pursuit (Benji and Jeff) losing to The Pie Team (thanks to "Slice", a.k.a. Chuck).
9. Cousin Bobby providing his musical skills for our caroling and watching Mark cringe at how out of tune the guitar was.
10. The toast at Christmas dinner, where everyone had something to add.
11. Hearing Pop tell me how smart he thinks I am! (hee hee... got him fooled!!!)
12. Great conversation, laughter and the joy of relaxed family time.
And here are some pics from our NC Christmas
Who said there's no Santa! ;-)
 Grammy putting the trimmings on the tree, my bored brother and Pa playing Suduko
 The dogs are always the entertainment at Christmas
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posted by Kristin
10:41 AM
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Thursday, December 14, 2006
THANK YOU, KRISTIN
This is great!! I missed posting messages on the Fab Fam website. But when it was moved to My Space, we all felt a little uncomfortable about the privacy issue. So now it's back where we started - only better. It's much easier so even Papa Bretz will be able to use it and start posting blogs. Thanks Kristin for creating such a user-friendly family website.
Well, this Christmas we will miss being with the Barrys and Paul. But we'll call them on Christmas Eve and wish them a very merry Christmas. And maybe next Christmas we'll all be together. But - we have June to look forward to and our family vacation reunion at Disney World. Speaking of which, I think it's a great idea to postpone the Christmas grab bag until June, when you will all be together to exchange gifts. You guys are soooo smart!!
I was in Orlando Monday thru Wednesday for a conference with my boss, and coincidentally, Paul is there with his show, so we were able to hook up for dinner. That was fun!!
We had dinner at the Porta Bella Italian restaurant in downtown Disney - which is where we all had dinner the last night of our last family vacation. Downtown Disney is all lit up with Christmas lights and it was great walking around. I can't wait until we're all there in June.
Meanwhile, keep posting so we can all keep up with family news. Love to you all!! |
posted by My Fab Family
5:26 PM
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Hello.
Hello everyone. I'm glad we got the MFF site back up. I'm just posting to see how everyone is. I'm doing good. I recently got some of my art work entered into the art show at school, so I'm pretty pumped to see it being displayed. I've been doing alot of art work lately. I've become fascinated with the world of drawing, painting and writing. I decided to delete my old myspace because it caused to much drama. Personally I hate drama but there is no way to escape it. I do whatever it takes to avoid it though.
Love Sam.
P.S. Thank you for buying me that Beatles 1 cd. It really gave me a whole new out look on music. =]
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posted by My Fab Family
10:03 AM
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Monday, December 11, 2006
Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!!
 Kristin, Thank you for reviving My Fabulous Family. It's great. I can give Eric and Gabbi the info on how to get on the website. They will love this. They're always asking about the family. Now they can get involved blogging and posting pictures. See you in less than two weeks. See the rest of My Fabulous Family in Disney, at the family reunion.....when we all..........you know. ;o)
Eileen |
posted by My Fab Family
4:47 PM
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California checkin' in
Hi family. I like the ease of this blogging tool-thanks Kristin. I went briefly through the other website links and am impressed by the amazing (and often fun) content, plus the visual sophistication of them all (although MySpace is one big jumble of information on a single screen- yuk). Kristin, did you design Paul's website? The Barry's do not have an independent family website (this is what MFF is right?!)- but I do have a site for my lab at the University that I update, populate and maintain http://seafloor.csumb.edu)- unfortunately, it is not nearly as professional looking as your personal/professional websites, mainly because I have NO web design training (I'm sure it'll be obvious!) and my "techniques" are pretty old school even though I use the latest version of Dreamweaver. I simply don't have the time to play, which is how I learn the stuff in the first place, and we don't have a budget for a consultant. With that said (covering my a--!), the site does function well and other research groups can obtain the information they need from it. However, any pointers (simple ones that I could accomplish!) would be most welcomed.
As you know, we are not heading east for the holidays. sniffle. We are staying home, finishing up end of the year projects at work and hoping for nice Christmas weather (right now it is cold-ish and it rained all weekend). Finn is very excited about Santa this year and wrote a lovely Christmas letter and list to him a week or so back. He is still on a Star Wars kick (just like his uncle!) and I can't imagine finding something that he doesn't already own- but I'd better! We are surprising him with a few mice this year, something he has wanted for a long time. He will see them by the tree Christmas morning, so shhhh, no telling. He has been a great kid all year and we will spoil him with a reasonable amount of Christmas goodies. And since his birthday is coming up too, we don't want to overwhelm him with "stuff".
Well, more bloggin' later, I better get back to work.....
C |
posted by My Fab Family
10:46 AM
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Sunday, December 10, 2006
...and she speaks from behind the camera
Okay so here is my take on this. Forever, or as long as I can remember, my brother Mark and I have always semed to be the center of attention in our family. Not really quite sure why. It probably has something to do with the fact that we both crave attention and enjoy making others laugh, cry or just plain fell good about the fact that they don't have to live with either one of us.
With that said, I recently visited the web site of Mark's wife, Sunshine Stancato or Kristin Royce if you want to be formal, which I never do. On her site she has her art work she calls, 'pop art' as well as some of her photographs and blog enteries. After spending a minute browsing around and reading a bit of her insightful opioins, I've decided that she should come out from behind the camera more often and preach the word. Too long have the Stancato boys held the spotlight and it's high time some new blood take the torch. So here's my vote that Kristin Sunshine be the one the shine. So shine on sister-woman. You have my attention! Blog on! Just don't say anything bad about me ;)
Paul |
posted by My Fab Family
4:41 PM
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Nice Site!!
What's up Fam? The new site is fantastic.... very easy to create a post. Kristin rocks!!
Hey Sam! What's up with you? Where's your myspace page?
Hey mom - I've been extra good this year. Just an FYI in case you run into the big guy.
love
xoxo
mark |
posted by Mark
2:53 PM
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Merry Christmas to Mom / Grandma
My gift for mom this year is the revival of MyFabulousFamily.com. The site has been uprooted once again and is back to being a regular blog like it was when it launched in February 2005.
The backend is supported by Blogger and you have all been sent invitations to start posting.
Blogger is much easier to use compared to TypePad - especially when it comes to posting photos.
So, follow the instructions in your invitation email and start posting! |
posted by Kristin
11:40 AM
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PAUL!!!!!!!!! I didn't know until this morning that you had spilled the beans about our grab bag rebellion (aka. The GBR)!! I was still working up the nerve to tell mom about it.... you know a few more visits to a therapist and I would have been ready to make the call (...then join a witness protection program). Oh well, as the bearer of bad news, now YOU get the lump of coal.
xo Carrie