http://www.greatestfanofyourlife.com/wp life's more fun together Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:52:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Emery's been growing day by day. She still sleeps a lot but when she is awake she is always looking around checking out the world. She's looks at us a lot and is learning to smile when we interact with her. She also makes a lot noises ... http://www.greatestfanofyourlife.com/wp/?p=816 That's a a long running joke but I think it deserves to be mentioned here that Ashley and I have been living in New York for over a year and a half because of a project that I have been working on during that time. My client is Allianz ... http://www.greatestfanofyourlife.com/wp/?p=821 Ashley loves seafood, especially oysters and shrimp.  So for her birthday, I took her along with Emery to "Fish" a great but reasonable seafood and raw bar in the West Village.  I excused myself from work early so we could avoid the crowds and we took a little family trip.  ... http://www.greatestfanofyourlife.com/wp/?p=814 It's been an eventful summer here for our family.  Lot's of change has happened here to our little family with the arrival of Emery. After Emery was born, my Mom came down for a few days to help us take care of her. It was good to have some help.  Our ... http://www.greatestfanofyourlife.com/wp/?p=807 Our little Emery born May 17, @ 8:20pm EST, 6lbs 12 oz at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital. Here are the sequence of events that led up to Emery's birth. Friday May 14 AM: During our OB visit (now weekly),  Dr. Bradley tells us that Ashley is 2cm Dilated and she is ... http://www.greatestfanofyourlife.com/wp/?p=783 One day in early September, I came home and Ash mysteriously sat me down and told me she had some news.  I had a feeling what it was and when she told me my heart leapt!  That's right, we were going to be parents!  Ashley is pregnant!  We were surprised ... http://www.greatestfanofyourlife.com/wp/?p=777 Ray is thoroughly enjoying his new camera.  On a couple of beautiful weekends in March, we went to the Central Park Zoo, Top of the Rock Observation Deck at 30 Rockefeller, Flushing Chinatown and did a little doggie photo shoot at home. The Central Park Zoo was amazing.  This zoo was ... http://www.greatestfanofyourlife.com/wp/?p=712 In December 2009, I officially incorporated my company, FiberScrumptious, Inc.  The goal of this company will be to sell high-fiber healthy muffins based on distribution to different health food stores, and hopefully, even to Costco one day.  My product is mainly about promoting the health benefits of consuming fiber on ... http://www.greatestfanofyourlife.com/wp/?p=646 Ray has wanted this for some time... a brand new SLR camera.  We finally decided to get one, with the extra push of knowing we will take baby pictures soon.  He did quite a bit of research and asking around, and then finally deciding on whether he will be with ... http://www.greatestfanofyourlife.com/wp/?p=674 Numerous people have told us about Del Frisco and that it has one of the best steaks in the city.  We live right up street from it and have passed it countless times over the past year.  We finally decided to see what the hype was all about.... We got some ... http://www.greatestfanofyourlife.com/wp/?p=765 We love Valentine's Day. It's always romantic and no matter which city we are living in at the time, we find something fun to do and really enjoy each others' company.  This year, we started off with making a nice breakfast at home.  Shortly before we got out of bed, ... http://www.greatestfanofyourlife.com/wp/?p=640 In early January, my friend Valeria, her fiance Walid, Ray and I went to see Russell Peters at Radio City Hall.  Russell Peters is one of the funniest comedians.  This tour was called the "Green Card Tour." We all had a great time and I was in tears by the ... http://www.greatestfanofyourlife.com/wp/?p=761 Our little princess, Pok'e, a female shih tzu we adopted from the Boston animal shelter about 6.5 years ago, turned 7 in January! Although we, unfortunately, did not do anything special for her this year (sorry, Pok'e, we promise to make it up to you), she is such a big ... http://www.greatestfanofyourlife.com/wp/?p=684 This Christmas holiday, Ray's parents and brother, Eugene, visited us in NYC.  They arrived a couple of days before Christmas and it was a wonderful time together. We walked around the city, hung out at Rockefeller Center, saw the big Christmas tree, and the everything was very festive.  Many buildings ... http://www.greatestfanofyourlife.com/wp/?p=653 Ray and I have yet to take our honeymoon.  But we decided that we'll at least take a babymoon! We wanted to do a little traveling before our little one arrives. Although it's still months and months away, it feels like time in closing up on us for the next... ... http://www.greatestfanofyourlife.com/wp/?p=622