Monday, October 26, 2009
Oops.....
A few of the big stories from the past couple of months:
We saw Greg and his men off for their deployment on 9/18. Earlier he gave us a cool tour of his ‘home’ for the next 7 months, the USS Rushmore. It was cool to see where he will be doing his pull ups, sleeping, and drinking French vanilla coffee with his fellow officers. He also got to show off his bad @$$ vehicles as we watched him lead them into the water and out to ship. Along with the other families there, we ran out on the rocky jetty to follow them. Only 1 cut toe resulting was pretty successful. But in all seriousness, big thank you to Greg and his comrades, and we’re looking forward to their safe return in April.
We had another trip back East, this time to NJ/NY for cousin Danielle and Anthony’s wedding. Of course Gevarters and Rengstls could not sit at a dinner table without some form of ‘food fight’ occurring….FYI if you’re going to have Good N’ Plenties at your wedding, you may want to think twice about inviting a family like us. Great time was had by all.
Matt then stayed in PA for the next week, and then went down to OBX for the annual DiGiulio men’s golf trip. There was a lot of golf, beer, and a mild case of the Irish flu for Matt. Amber, we need to get started on the girl’s weekend – I’m thinking Adam’s birthday?
There was actually some “gloomy” weather for about a week, where it was a tad overcast (a few clouds here and there) and was barely reaching the high 60s. But that streak is over and its been like perfect summer weather again.
Downtown San Diego is a great place for football. Since it’s such a transplant city, you go out and it’s like a commercial for the NFL with fans in every jersey. It’s nice to go out in our Giants and Cowboys jerseys and not get stares like we have a death wish like we do in Philly. We also went to Pacific Beach for our first PSU game with the San Diego Alumni chapter. Now we’re gearin’ up for a World Series clash of loyalties in our household. While Franny has adopted the Phils as a “home away from hometown” team while in Philly, true loyalty will always lie with the Yankees.
Birthday Shout-outs:
Welcome to the world to Jackson Joseph Gilmore! We are so excited to meet him and can hardly wait. Congrats to the Gilmores.
Happy Birthday to Phil – we hope you were able to peel yourself away from the computer (that includes your iPhone) long enough to do some celebrating.
Pics from everything: http://picasaweb.google.com/fmdigiulio
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Quick Update
Lot's of traveling these past few weekends...so we'll just sum it up and let the pictures do the talking blogging
PA: Jimmy & Lauren's wedding, Tara & Matt's wedding, Great Grandma Carmella's 99th bday, and brunch with the Gilmores (all in 72 hours!). When we landed in Philly, a very astute little boy said to his mom in a big huff "I think I should have packed an umbrella for Philadelphia".
Big Bear: Horse back riding, zip lining, and general relaxing to mark our 1 year anniversary.
After a couple of weekends away, we have a 3 day weekend in San Diego that will be filled with golf, football, and of course sunshine. Birthday shout-outs: Happy B'day Cindy, and all the rest of the large quantities of Virgo's out there (afraid to list more than just the immediate sibling or else I'm sure we'd end up leaving someone important out...but you all know who you are!)
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Tahoe
Kavanaughs:


Tahoe:




We finished the weekend out with a quick stop at Riverwalk in Reno before our flight back to San Diego.
Thanks again Trev, Tara, and Sean for a great weekend (and for loaning us your camera when ours decided to stop working). For lots more pics: http://picasaweb.google.com/fmdigiulio/Tahoe#

Thursday, August 6, 2009
July Fly By




Other activities have included seeing Body Worlds at the Natural History museum, golfing, hiking in Torrey Pines State Park, checking out the Glider Port, a few more Padres games, a shopping(economy boosting) trip to Fashion Valley mall (thanks Mom/Dad), a new-found addiction to the Food Network (thanks Mom D) , LOTS of good food in Seaport Village, Downtown, La Jolla, and Little Italy, beaching it up (intense games of Bocci Ball and continued surfing), and lots more. Matt bought MLB network so he's been enjoying catching the games every afternoon with the time difference.
We'll do our best to do these a little more frequently so that it's not just a big recap. Lots of exciting weekends coming up - next weekend we're doing a West Coast (Gilmore-less) Team Conshy BBQ at Trev and Tara's (and meeting little Sean!) in Tahoe, then we'll have our first trip back East the end of August for a wedding double-header (thanks Jimmy, Lauren, Tara, and Matt for planning so effectively for us!:) ), and we just booked a trip to Big Bear Lake for our first anniversary / Labor Day.
Lots of new albums up: http://picasaweb.google.com/fmdigiulio
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
If a picture's worth a thousand words....

Sunday, June 21, 2009
"I'm a MARINE" (da-da-da-daaaaa)







