Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!!

xoxo

Just updates from a camera down load.... I found a bunch of pictures on my camera and wanted to share... Coronado for Labor day 2008 Joe's 47th Birthday party at our house the night before we left town for San Diego...
Our 16th wedding anniversary at Mario Batali's newest restaurant in Las Vegas... Carnevino...!!!
Interbike show in Las Vegas....
Joe dreams of owning new bikes that cost more than cars.... Uhg....

Hope all is well...

Your in my thoughts,

xoxo

Birthday 2008 in New York City.....

Happy Birthday to me.... Joe did it again... Last year it was a surprise this year it was a choice. We had the most amazing time last year for my 40th birthday, that when he asked what I wanted to do for my 41st... I said New York City!!!!!!! Again PLEASE..... We went to see Young Frankenstein on Broadway.... Very good...
Babbo's for dinner again... Joe says top 10 meals of all time... and you know we are such foodies that it saying something to say that...
Game at the "Old Yankee Stadium"... so sad... Last night was the last ever game there... Joe was in heaven since Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantel and Joltin Joe DiMaggio were there in the house that Ruth built... Many memories... I cried when Yogi Berra made that last words speach after the game on 9-21-08... choked up....

Then we took the train out to Long Island and met up with Lisa and Willy and had an amazing time... It keeps getting better and better... If I knew it was going to be this fun I would have aged years ago.... JK!

xoxo

On a better note.... CAN YOU BELIEVE IT'S BEEN 16 YEARS ON FRIDAY.....??????
XOXO

Nick Faber Jan. 26 1988 - July 18, 2008

This is really hard to post and I have avoided it for over one month...

Dina lost her nephew on July 18th 2008 to a silly accident... Head injury due to not having a helmet on while skateboarding... He suffered in a coma for over ten days before he took him to be with him....

He has a memorial web site... mem.com

Name: Faber, Nick

Look at this handsome young man and mourn with his empty and sad family while they search for their true faith that will carry them through till they meet again...

Please pray for Dina's sister Londa for some peace and comfort... she is like a big sister to me and I feel her pain... and again for the family too....

Thank you,

xoxoxoxo

The Leonetti vacation for 2008... (Brady style)...
We had planned on going to Hawaii over a year ago due to the fact Joe had a medical conference there and Joe and his two brother's decided it would be an awesome Family vacation for all their families and our family would go and then they would all chip in to bring there Dad (we call him Whitey) to Hawaii to see the ship he was stationed on in the war... The USS Missouri. They parked it next to the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor... It was significant due to the starting and finishing of WWII. The Japanese signed the surrender on board this ship while Whitey was there in 1945... It was an awesome sight... well anyways back to my story... Mike was the first to pull out of the vacation. Due to the fact his wife was very ill with esophageal cancer...(she passed in March of 08) then Whitey(Joe's Dad opted out of the vacation for various reasons...he states he's too old to fly and his wife is too ill to leave and too ill to come) then Bill got out due to expense $$ and so every one else was out... So were we out too...
Then it was time to pick our summer vacation and Joe wanted it to be really special for Lexi going into high school trip... (we opted out for Europe... Since the dollar is so bad right now it would cost double than normal.)
So we though and thought... and finally came back to the idea of Hawaii... So what... everyone else did not want to go... we are!!! So we got tickets (a month before) and got a hotel(5days before)... and had an amazing time... beyond amazing....

This is the hotel we stayed at... It's called the Monona Surf Rider... it's a Westin hotel.

To Die For.

It's the oldest hotel on the islands, built in 1901, remodeled in 2007... it was right on the beach!
The hotel looks like it's out of a catalog for Tommy Bahama and is as Hawaiian as it gets. Very authentic... We got Lei's and Hawaiian white tea (iced) when we arrived and the service was amazing...

The tree right behind us is a banyan tree planted over 100 years ago... This is the bar out the back walls in the entrance of our hotel... no doors or windows to block the beautiful veiws of the ocean... this is going to be our Christmas card picture... (I think)
Joe was very surprised how much he really LOVED Hawaii... He was so relaxed, tan and chillin. We are definatley going back to explore all the islands...
We did all the dorky touristy stuff... we had a ball... The Dole Pineapple fields!
This in on board of the USS Missouri... we did an explorers tour and had a special private tour of the ship from top to bottom... awesome! The USS Arizona is in the back ground... That was very sombering... I remembered this the most from my high school class trip. This left the biggest impression...

The trip was everything we wanted it to be and more... They are growing up so fast and we feel the years slipping through our fingers of time...

4th of July in Coronado California....























Hotel Del...
























Mission Beach...












OMG... has it really been almost two months since my last post... Wow this summer has flown by so fast and coming to a screeching hault...




The kids go back to school in one week from thursday and Lexi starts High school on Monday the 11th...




Scary...




We have been so busy... Summer vacation... need to down load still since we just returned Sunday...

more to follow...