Noelle is 15 today!

It is so hard to believe that 15 years ago our first beautiful baby girl was born to us~ Noelle Elizabeth Fedele. She was so tiny a BEAUTIFUL!

God has blessed us with this wonderful little girl who has grown up into a Beautiful young lady! Noelle is beautiful inside and out. She is such a sweet, kind and helpful soul! She is such a joy to us!(On most days...we all were teenagers once or have teenagers of our own so...enough said).

Happy Birthday Noelle! Dad and I are so proud of you! We love you with all of our hearts!!

Happy October 27,2008 a very special girl is celebrating today! We miss all of our family at home! We wish that you were here to help Noelle celebrate # 15.

Okay.... I wasn't going to mention this but I can't help it! Guess how old I was when I started dating Chris ( Noelle's dad)?????That's right and very scary to us...I was 15 (and a half)! Wow....my parents must have known what a good, honest honorable guy he was even back then! Ahhh...Noelle this does NOT mean that it will be okay for you to date yet~ I know your not interested but...just in case some time in the next year you are....the answer is NO WAY!!!





Please feel free to add you own wish for Noelle below in the comment section.

Daddy's Girl

Mary has been a real Daddy's Girl lately! I love this photo! Capture these moments....when you blink they are a teenager about to turn 15( Hard to believe but Noelle will be 15 on Monday).



Here is a photo of SLEEPING BEAUTY!!

Birthday Celebration

Another year....another celebration.

This year for Chris's birthday, we stayed home and I fixed his favorite meal. Meatloaf, baked, sliced herbed new potato's, beans with toasted almonds and macaroni and cheese.

For his cake, Mary wanted Chocolate and we went and picked up a famous Missy's Apple Pie!

We had a really nice, quite evening at home!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY~ WE LOVE YOU!

This picture is from last year's birthday!


Today is a VERY special day! On this day (a few years ago), a wonderful guy and his twin sister were born! The world is such a wonderful place with these twins in it!

Happy Birthday Carrie! Happy Birthday Chris(daddy or da,da) as Mary has been calling him for about the past week!

We are so very thankful for you...we love you very much!!


Oh...we have a surprise for Chris(shh..don't tell MARY).

It is something that he LOVES to eat more than anything else in the world. It is from a place that he has heard has the best _ p _ _ _
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in all of the state of Kentucky! Mary about gave it away but we are trying hard to lock her mouth up and throw the key away for a few more hours!

Happy Birthday! Here is something special for you....on your birthday we think that you need a little more COWBELL

Two Wheels, Bourbon and Fall Break

We have had an exciting event take place in our house~Mary can now ride a two wheel bike without training wheels. On Sunday, our wonderfully kind neighbor invited the kids over to play and inflated her HUGE water slide for the kids to play on. After the water fun, she and her 5 year old daughter taught Mary how to ride a two wheel bike!

Mary came home SO excited! She rode circles around and around our driveway for about an hour or so(until it got too dark). She has been obsessed morning thru night riding and riding and riding that bike!

Now Bourbon?? Okay....Chris totally has fallen in love with Bourbon (especially..Makers Mark)! He has taken tours of about 4 or 5 Kentucky Distilleries and is fascinated with the history associated with Bourbon and Bourbon making! Well...last night he went to pick up his prescription at Walgreen's and had a little wait so he decided to visit the Liquor Barn! He has been searching for the 17 year Pappy Van Winkle and found it behind the glass counter last night! It is VERY rare. Unfortunately, he did not purchase it because it was a little on the pricey side. Go on..take a guess???????????? Ready~ it is $199.00 a bottle. It's just very RARE so it brings along with it a hefty price tag. He also spotted the triple dipped Makers Mark Political Party Bottles...dipped in red, white and blue wax. It think we might be able to swing this one ($25.00) as a birthday gift for him to start his own Makers Mark Collection. He is after all a Makers Mark Ambassador!
We tease him about his new passion... but it is all in good fun. It has been fun to see him get excited about something that interests him and I don't think that he minds the taste too much either!!

So this is the last school day this week because of Fall Break!! The kids are excited and ready for a few days off. We are heading home to see everyone! We should be back in the New Haven/ Fort Wayne area Thursday early evening! We look forward to playing with our cousins and old friends and seeing our grandparents, great grandparents, aunts and uncles. I am especially looking forward to seeing on little convict(#030207). She is in the process of getting her transfer papers in order for her extradition to the great Commonwealth of Kentucky! She is seeking asylum for being misunderstood and wrongly judged and wrongfully sentenced by the prosecuting attorney. I am prepared to take this convict home and SPOIL her rotten!!! I really wish that I could!


Anyways....Have a great day!

URGENT UPDATE! I've just been informent that convict # 030207's paperwork is in order and has been cleared for extadition!!

Helping Out a Needy, Sick Brother and other Stuff!

Well today was an EVENTFULL day!

First of all...Ethan stayed home from school today and I took him to the doctor early this morning. He has a nasty ear infection and his sinuses are a mess.

He was feeling well enough to work on his "project" that is due tomorrow but has waited until Monday evening to start. He has known about this for a while ...a good month or so but, by Ethan's standards he started earlier than normal.

He took a break about lunch time. Mary must have taken pity on him and decided to "HELP" him out. You can see her black sharpie lines all over Ethan's artwork! I was fixing lunch and turned around and about died when I saw what she did to help him! He was pretty calm giving the assessment of damage. He was upset but said that maybe it was a good thing ~ He thought that maybe he could do better.

Well, it's 9:00p.m. and he is still working on his project. It looks really good and think that it will look even better when it is finished!

Now about Lauren
We went back to her orthopedic doctor today and ...............Drum roll............

She is HEALED and no longer needs the air cast or her crutches!!! YA...HOOOO!!!

She was shocked. It was a pretty quick 7 1/2 weeks. She was a little shy about walking on her left leg but....she is getting more comfortable with every step. She is limping slightly but I am SO PROUD of her. She has been a pure JOY!!! She is a great kid!!


I am so thrilled that tomorrow is the weekend!! I need an date night. I think that we might even go to Keenland this weekend!!



Have a wonderful, Happy and Safe Weekend!

I've been taged by Laura for 6 Random things about me. Enjoy

Tagged- 6 Random Things About Me

1. I love,love, love, love , love to go shopping....especially at Target!

2. I am a "dream" crafter! I wish that I could be "crafty" like so many people. I would love to sew and create cool things that would be useful to my family and that I would be proud to say that I made it!!!

3. I would love to go back into time and make right all the wrongs that I have made!

4. I miss seeing my Grandpa and Grandma together. They were the "real" love(like in the movie ~ The Notebook)! that most couples only dream of....I love Chris that old fashioned way.....and I hope that some day, some one will think of us like I think of my grandparents.

5. Right now, I would love to eat Ben & Jerry's coffee heath bar pint of ice cream!!

6. I wish that I could live closer to my family! I do LOVE our life and friends here but I miss my family being near.... I used to love to drop off left overs or cookies to my sister and parents.i would also LOVE to steal my nieces and nephews away for some FEDELE FUN! There is no place like home!



Okay....now it's your turn...go ahead and tell me 6 random things about you in the comment section...I tag you ....who is brave enough to answer!!

Oh...and buy the way Laugh yourself silly at my answers~ especially #4...I am an old fashioned romantic...I know I am a dork!!


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Laura's answers are below!




Okay... Carrie Nominated Me for 6 Random things about myself so Here I go.....

1. I have an unusual fear of birds. I think they are creepy.. I have always been terrified of Peacocks, but since we moved into our new house we constantly have birds fly into the windows and die!They leave feather on my window ewwww

2. My tongue... Chris says it is freakishly long... I can easily touch the top of my nose with it. hmmm is that weird??

3. I love the show the King of Queens....The father in the basement cracks me up. Watching it is one of my guilty pleasures.

4. I never ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich until I was 22 years old. My mom never made them for us when we were little (everyone thinks that's totally weird)

5. I have a "thing" about long nails (fingernails and toenails). They gross me out. BIG TIME. When I was in nursing school I about threw up when I saw how nasty some of the people were in the nursing home. So I would put on a surgical mask and glove and cut them. (Except the really thick yellow.....I got to stop my stomach feels queasy just thinking about them)

6. I don't eat seafood or fish (basically anything that swims underwater) or eggs.



I nominate....Chris, Tina, and Lisa~

Look Who's Running for President Now!

WOW.....we have had an extremely eventful week here in our humble household.

Please follow the link below to see what is going on: ENJOY!!

http://www.tsgnet.com/pres.php?id=357563&altf=Disjt1&altl=Gfefmf


Love and Kisses,

The First Lady




P.S. In reality it has been BORING here!