Saturday, January 27, 2007

Life is a Highway

I look up...and it's the end of January. What a month!! Let's see if I can recap everything here with the help of some pics.

An Uninvited Guest
The month began with a furry creature roaming our living room. Jerry the Mouse. Deb discovered him one morning at 6am and they heard the screams in Cherry Hill. I came running and watched Jerry run laps around the perimeter of the living room, up the cables and onto the TV stand, then back down the cables and around the room again. Nice. Set traps - go to work. What is the absolute worst thing that can happen when returning home to check the traps six hours later? A mouse trapped in every one? Think again. That's right.....nothing. Empty traps, quiet house...no Jerry. Gone. The exterminator came and placed poison bait in some strategic places in the house. If Jerry ate the bait, he would eventually die peacefully but, chances are, we would not discover him. In any case, after a few nights of six empty peanut butter traps, we decided that Jerry either left our house because there was no food, or ate the poison bait and died somewhere we could not find him. We have not seen a trace of him since.

Glevan
Evan visited us for the first time this month. The kids gave him a new nickname, Glevan, because saying 'Uncle Evan' quickly sounds like Glevan. One of the activities that we planned for Evan's visit was a trip about ten miles up the mountain to the Holliday Gun Range. Yes, I was going shooting. This was no ordinary shooting, though. One of my neighbors makes a living training law enforcement employees how to shoot. He owns a lot of guns. I don't mean regular guns....no - I mean, well as he puts it, "the fun stuff." The three of us drove to the range and, in ten degree weather, proceeded to take turns shooting a 22, revolver, glock, 9mm, and half a dozen other automatic weapons. I shot some weapons that were worth $25K apiece. For someone who had never even touched a gun previously, here I was shooting automatic weapons at ice targets in the Wasatch Mountains. I was good too! Now, three weeks later, Glevan still has an erection from that shooting session. For me, it was not that big a deal. However, I got some cool pics!!!








Mick Hadar Goldstein!
I traveled to New Jersey with Sadie last week and got to spend my first bit of quality time with my nephew MICK!!! He is such a joyful little guy, so innocent and happy. He spent more time smiling than not and, without prior knowledge of what he's been through, you would have no clue! We bonded for sure. It was sad to leave but something tells me he will remember me when we meet again this June.





Isabel Skye Coleman
Day two of my New Jersey trip took Sadie and I to West Virginia to attend the baby naming for my neice Isabel. The family got to see Sadie for the first time since October and she had a great time!!! Isabel is gorgeous!




Elijah's Big Day
This Thursday, Elijah was presented with the Principal's Pride award at school for excellence at Math and Reading! The Principal of his school called him up, spoke about his achievements and handed him his award. He also won a certificate for free ice cream and free dinner at a local restaurant! We are so proud of our boy!!!!


So that brings us to the present! Next week, Deb is headed to New Jersey with Sadie to see the family and celebrate Amy's 30th birthday.

Have a good weekend everyone!!!

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

2007

Happy New Year everyone!! I know it's cliche, but 2006 really did fly by. It felt like half a year to me. I just cannot believe that...
  • It's been over a year since we sold our house in Cherry Hill
  • We have lived in Utah for nine months
  • Elijah is SEVEN years old
  • Hannah is 3.5 years old
  • Sadie is over one!!
  • I am going to be 40 in 6 months

OK, that last one almost made me toss my Subway Tuna sandwich. Truth is, all of the boys will be turning 40 this year. I won't get into my personal feelings about all that...yet. I am sure I will blog about it as the day gets closer.

For now, the schedule is packed for the first half of 2007 already.

  • Uncle EVAN is coming in for four days this month!
  • I am travelling to NJ with Sadie for business and pleasure from the 20th through the 24th of this month.
  • Deb is travelling to NJ with Sadie a few weeks later to hand with family for a few days.
  • We are waiting to hear if Liz and Alex will be making an adventure to Utah in February!
  • We are meeting my parents in Vegas for a four day jaunt in March. We will be driving there with the kiddies through Southern Utah which should be beautiful!
  • April brings Bobe and Zeide back to Utah along with Carlos and Perla!!
  • May seems rather quiet for now...anyone wanna change that?
  • June brings a big trip to NJ with the whole family for a visit that includes my 40th birthday bash at Mom's on June 9th! You are all invited!!!

Tonight I am attending my first Utah Jazz game. It's against my beloved 76'ers so I will be cheering for my boys! Virtually every Jazz game is a sellout but I just saw on the website that there are 'plenty of tickets' available for this one. Guess the Sixers ain't quite the draw they once were...

We just had a record month here at Marlin Leasing Western Division and things are looking up, up, up!!!

Quick kids update...

Elijah has his next belt test on January 20th in karate. He is going for his orange/yellow belt!! He is really the karate master now and we are thinking about the all-day camp for this summer for him. It's called 'Kickin' Kids Camp'.

Hannah wants to take ballet. She knows all the words to The Little Mermaid song 'Part of Your World' and it's the friggin cutest thing EVER.

Sadie just wants to go everywhere she's not supposed to go and touch everything she's not supposed to touch. You can say it's cute. I say IT'S ANNOYING AS HELL. However, she's so damn cute that's it becomes OK.

Deb had her office redesigned this week and has a brand new desk and everything. Now she's working in style!!

Here's some news for y'all. The Utah Borensteins have been selected to appear in Salt Lake Magazine's Hanukkah special for 2007. The photo shoot is next Saturday night. They are re-creating a Hanukkah party and taking lots of pics! We are not sure when the feature is running but Salt Lake Magazine has a readership of 168,000 and is Salt Lake's biggest monthly magazine! We are famous!!

We spent a quiet New Year's with our friends, the Cohens. The kids played and we drank a bottle of Stoli Raspberry. :-)

Happy New Year everyone. More pictures coming soon!!!