Happy Birthday Kelly!

"Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words" ~Plautus

Happy Birthday, Kelly! Hope you have a wonderful day that's as special as you!

(maybe Kimani will share her "Birthday Girl" bib for you to use!)

Eat your Veggies!

YES...finally a healthy diet we can enjoy!

"Vegetables are a must on a diet.
I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie". — Jim Davis

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JoAnne!

*click on the pictures to view larger images

“It takes a long time to grow young.” Pablo Picasso

Happy Birthday, JoAnne!

"Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again." Menachem Mendel Schneerson

...and so, today is very much YOUR special day! A day to celebrate YOU! And so, we do.....we celebrate your beautiful spirit and the important place you hold in our hearts....in our family....Enjoy this day to the fullest!

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." Abraham Lincoln

Happy Anniversary Corrie and Glen!

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.-- Barbara De Angelis

Happy Anniversary!

October 9, 1999-October 9, 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BETTY O!!!

Anniversary Congrats to Devin & Afternoon Delight!

West Coast Cousins & "Cousins" Check out the Anniversary show TONIGHT at the IOWest Theatre! (not sure if it's 9, 9:30 or 10pm (Devin?) but it says it's on the MainStage).

Afternoon Delight celebrates its ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY on Thursday!
Where were you one year ago? Nervous, in the green room, wondering if you were gonna pull out your "always funny" french accent in the first scene and really kill? Or, were you like me, in the audience for this fantastic show, laughing laughing laughing at all the jokes.
This Thursday, be in the audience and bring your french accent and a birthday candle.
Afternoon Delight is a long-form improv team that will weave one audience suggestion into 30 minutes of love, tenderness, and tears. And they turn one years old on Thursday.
Coached by Hal Rudnick. THE Hal Rudnick.

Check out More info on Afternoon Delight by clicking the links below:
IOWest Page
Afternoon Delight MYSpace profile

portugal and spain... respectively

With Love From Ireland...

TESTING

I hope this works for me too !!

love
Mb

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CORRIE LIZ

Hope you have a fabulous day and a wonderful year........Love you!

This is my first post on the blog,
from Sue B , Hope it works

Another test!

Testing to see if I can add to the blog

Glamour Girls

Testing New Google Account

Just a test to see if I can post again

Instant Karma; 'cause Genocide Sucks!

Re-posting this for Caitlin who's in N.Ireland advancing the cause of Peace. Her original post somehow got morphed into an earlier post with our wedding picture wishing us a Happy Anniversary. Now, as amusing as it is to see our wedding pix under the heading "Instant Karma; 'cause Genocide Sucks!" I thought this message deserved it's own posting. Check out the site at instantkarma.org, learn about the issues in Darfur, how you can take action to make a difference and listen to the great music on the player...maybe even order it...lots of tracks and good music!

I tried to insert the Instant Karma music player here from the site (http://www.instantkarma.org/InstantKarma.html) ...maybe one of you young technology savvy young'uns can figure out why it keeps telling me the "URL contains illegal characters"!

Happy Birthday Laurie...(a little late but the party never ends!)

"Happy Belated Birthday, Laurie! Still very much the "Party Girl"!!! - Hope this is your BEST year ever!!! Love, Mom

Boilermaker 15K Road Race 2007

The race was harder than i thought...was it the heat and humidity?
dehydration?...i think i got a little paranoid delusional...kept
thinking one of the BLUES BROTHERS was following us!

Happy 5th Birthday Ashley!!!!! (and belated 30 something to Laurie)

Happy 34th Wedding Anniversary Kathy and Kevin!

Happy Mother's Day!

A belated wish for a happy mother's day to all the Moms!
xoxoxo

Happy Birthday Erin!

Enjoy it! Happy Birthday Erin!

XOXOXO

Happy Belated Birthday

Hey Sean - Happy Birthday!

And Congratulations on the presentation you delivered at your first seminar. .. and on being able to continue your research work now that funding has come through for the project! Love, All of us

XOXOX

changes and reminders

Hey everyone, Don't know if this applies to you, but I've been having trouble making posts maybe because I am lazy and don't like to pay attention
:) I guess Google has "taken over" blogger because I can no longer sign in with my old blogger user name, now I sign in with my Gmail account. You can click around and bring your old sign-on over to gmail ... Reminder to myself: You will sign in to New Blogger with your Google Account email address, from now on.

Belated Happy April Birthdays!

On April 9th, Devin "I'm the handsomest" Mahoney turned... wait for it... drum roll please...

28 years old! Happy birthday handsome!

On April 15th, Aunt "I'm not your Aunt I'm your Mom" Kathy turned a forever young 34! Oh Aunt Kathy, Hope you enjoyed it!

Happy Wedding.....9 months later!

Congrats to the newlyweds who will be moving into their very OWN place this weekend!

Happy 1st Birthday Sue!

our very own Stars of the Stage and Screen!

Congratulations to Christopher (front and center in the picture on the left) on his Stage Debut this week in The Music Man Jr. ..."break a leg", Christopher!

AND

Rachel is Co-Producer on the new Adam Sandler movie, ReignOverMe opening this weekend! Congratulations, Rachel...big buzz in the media about the movie! Go see it this weekend, everyone!

Beauties!!!

The Next Generation

Intrepid

This was somewhat exciting ... the Intrepid as seen from our 35th floor office as it is tugged down the Hudson to Bayonne.

Happy Birthday Meghan O. Mahoney!!!

Hey Meghan
Hope you have a GREAT day and a WONDERFUL year!!!!!!

Love you,

Aunt Maureen

Happy Anniversary Suzie and Al!!

Happy Anniversary to you both....can't believe it has been 11 years!
Time flies when you are having fun!
Have a great day!
Love,
Corrie, Glen, Ashley and Ryan

Smile...Christmas is less that 7 weeks away!

Happy Anniversary Jeanne and Chris!

"Love is patient, love is kind..."

Happy Anniversary!

Happy Birthday (+1) Maureen!

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy". Thich Nhat Hahn

You've been flashing those dimples and that smile since you were a wee lass....providing the source of much of our family joy with your sweet smile...keep on smilin' and may all of the joy that you give to others come back to you tenfold....

Happy Birthday!!

We love you!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG LOVER!!! (aka Aunt Maureen)

Hope you have a great birthday Aunt Maureen!!!!
Love,
Corrie, Glen, Ashley and Ryan

Oíche Shamhna!

Our Jack O'Lantern and ... some history on Hallowe'en I just learned ...

Halloween originated among the Celts in Ireland as the Pagan Celtic harvest festival, Samhain (means November). Halloween is most popular in Ireland, also known in Irish Gaelic as "Oíche Shamhna" or "Samhain Night". The Celts celebrated Halloween as Samhain, "End of Summer," a pastoral and agricultural fire festival or feast marking the end of the harvest, and when the dead revisited the mortal world; large communal bonfires would be lit to ward off evil spirits. In Ireland they continued to practice their deep-rooted, ancient pagan rites well after the arrival of Christianity in the middle of the sixth century.

The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Pope Gregory III moved the old Christian feast of All Saints Day to November 1 to give Halloween a Christian interpretation. Many European cultural traditions hold that Halloween is one of the liminal times of the year when the spiritual world can make contact with the physical world and when magic is most potent. (Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland, presumably named after the púca, a mischievous spirit.)

On Halloween night in present-day Ireland, adults and children dress up as creatures from the underworld (ghosts, ghouls, zombies, witches, goblins), light bonfires, and (especially in Derry and Dublin) enjoy spectacular fireworks displays. The children walk around knocking on the doors of neighbours, in order to gather fruit, nuts, and sweets for the Halloween festival. Salt was once sprinkled in the hair of the children to protect against evil spirits. The houses are decorated by carving pumpkins or turnips into scary faces and other decorations. The traditional Halloween cake in Ireland is the barnbrack which is a fruit bread. Each member of the family gets a slice. Great interest is taken in the outcome as there is a piece of rag, a coin and a ring in each cake. If you get the rag then your financial future is doubtful. If you get the coin then you can look forward to a prosperous year. Getting the ring is a sure sign of impending romance or continued happiness. Here's to getting a coin or ring!

Happy Birthday Kelly Liz!!!

Happy Birthday Kelly Liz!!!
This should have gone up yesterday (sorry)! Thank you so very much for coming into my life.........I love you so much and am so very proud of you! You are terrific, Monkee!
All My Love
MaMa

Happy Birthday Mom!

"Isn't she lovely......isn't she wonderful....isn't she precious"
-Stevie Wonder (and the rest of the O'Neills, Burrows's, Martin's, Moore's,etc)

Mom,

Happy Birthday! We love you soooooooooooo much!!! You have been the best mom in the world, and you continue to inspire us to be the best we can be!

Love, Laurie, Erin, and Sean

Newest Kimani Pic

Hey Grandbaby....can't wait to see you again soon!

Love ~ Grandma

Contacts Anyone?

Dear Family,
At the suggestion of Aunt Kathy, whom I know as Aunt Mom, I am making an appeal to all of you who have lived in the Boston area to find out if you have any contacts or ideas of the best place to start looking for an affordable apartment in Boston. I have been searching Craigslist like crazy and found some places, but figured I'd try with all of you as well. I am hoping to move to the Harvard/David Sq./Porter sq. area cause that seems most affordable and young. So, yeah, if anyone has any ideas of where I can look or who I can talk to please give a shout.
Cheers,
Meghan

Celebrating Sue!

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate" Oprah Winfrey

"Real Birthdays are not annual affairs; real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth"Ralph Parlette

"Birthdays are GOOD for you; the more you have the longer you live" author unknown

We LOVE you Sue....and celebrate today and every day, the wonderful gift you are to our entire family!!

Pictures

Everyone, I finally decided to add stuff to my personal blog including a wedding pic. If you don't want to go there, here are some pics of Kev and Rachels' rockin wedding day(sadly, my camera is not very good) and of wine country:
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=9AbNWzRs5csbS

Then, more pics of Northern Calif. here:
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=9AbNWzRs5csa0

Christmas is Coming!!!!!

I know, I know....we are still enjoying the summer but for those of us who like to plan ahead (AKA neurotic, Type A, "planner"), Christmas is only 4+ months away.
I didn't know how everyone feels about the drawing now that we are continuing to grow with spouses, kids etc
Basically, do we want to continue and add people as they join this crazy bunch? discontinue the whole thing entirely? find a middle ground?
Any thoughts, comments and suggestions would be appreciated. I would be more than happy to find out who is in and do the drawing if that is what we decide.

Jingle Bells to everyone!
Corrie

The O'Neill Chronicles

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CORRIE!!!!

Hey "Little Lover" Just wanted to take a moment to wish you a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

Hope you have a great day and a wonderful year!

Love Aunt Maureen

In Memoriam

Unfortunately on of the "girls" unexpectedly passed away yesterday. Apparently she was very sick and didn't make it. Please pass along condolences to MB 1 pup if you get a chance.
Corrie

The O'Neill Chronicles

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUZIE!!!!!

Dear Suzie....I have made several attempts today to get this birthday wish posted, however, I think that I may need some "blogging lessons".

Hope you have a GREAT day and a very WONDERFUL year!

Love, "The Babysitter From Hell!!!" (JK - just kidding)

The O'Neill Chronicles

The O'Neill Chronicles

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUZIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope you have a great day and a WONDERFUL year!

All Our Love, Always!

Closing Time

Well, we bought a condo in Jersey City. We FINALLY closed today! That's all I have to say right now. Seems pretty crazy, It hardly seems real .... but the bill sure brings it all home.
I'd post my new address but "they" say it's not a good idea to do that. Here are pics:
www.laurieandbrian.net
Yes, it's smaller than some bedrooms. It's only 640 sq. feet, but it has a deck!