ROCK BAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you know about this video game? It's really quite fun, although I've never played but watched. The kids loooooooooooooove it! ALL KIDS LOVE IT! I just had to post some funny photos of my kids playing ROCK BAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you don't have this game, you might want to run out and buy it! Maybe some day soon I'll get up the nerve to try it! My singing voice is horrible and my hand eye coordination isn't so hot either.

On another note, Emily is so so happy to be around her best dog Gordie! Here are some photos of Gordie getting his much needed attention.

Best,

Jane

PS The deer climbed up my deck last night, knocked over my McCoy planter and ATE Gary's bachelor spider plant he had going since 1981! We both heard a crash in the middle of the night and couldn't figure out what the noise was. When it stops raining I will run out and take pictures. I'm so hopping mad you have no idea! I hope I can salvage 1 "baby" spider hanging off the plant to keep it going in the future. And to think the hunters came for 2 solid months this winter to cut down the on the herd. LOTTA GOOD THAT DID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Everybody is home in the Cahn household!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gordie, the best dog in the whole world, is thrilled! He can't get enough of Emily - and you can always find him all sniggled in next to her! Oh Gordie!

Russ's High School baseball is coming to an end - and in not such a good way. His baseball team peaked too early in the season and now they are in a horrible losing streak. So much losing, that I might not go to the last game of the year. I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Russ certainly tries his hardest - but well what can you do? Baseball is not an easy sport. I'm posting some photos of Russ in action.

Emily is enjoying NO CLASS WORK, but so misses her friends and the college life. I would think this will be her last summer home. After that she will figure out how to live on her own in the summers in her favorite new hometown D.C.! She is still writing articles for the school newspaper and has made a memorable notebook of all her articles. That book is very very impressive, IF I DO SAY SO MYSELF!!!!!!!!!!! Not too shabby for a Freshman -that's for sure!

Gary and I are just about finished designing the FALL 2008 line. WOW -- talk about DARK, DEEP RICH COLORS FOR FALL/WINTER! It's not easy just coming into Spring in real time and thinking to Fall/Winter -- but we really have picked some amazing colors and designs. Oh and you all requested a line of solids -- and we've listened!

OK then, back to the task at hand!

Leave me a comment and tell me what you would like to see in the next tie line!

Best,

Jane

Tough Loss

Russ's high school team did not win the semi finals today. RATS! RATS!!!!!!! OK here' some of what went on. First off last night we hosted another team BBQ. Well there was no BBQ because of all the rain we had. Instead it became a pizza party with the boys playing ROCK BAND and GRAND THEFT AUTO in 2 rooms. The parents all mingled and chatted as the boys got LOUD! Me, I had to leave mid party to get Emily at the train. YUP EMILY'S FIRST YEAR OF COLLEGE IS FINISHED -- IN THE BOOKS -- COMPLETED! Emily shipped her clothes home and spared me another trip to VA and all was delivered. Now if I could only get her to unpack and straighten things out. For 10 straight months Emily's room was spic and span. NOT ANY MORE!!!!!!!!!!!! So back to today's baseball game. Let me just tell you that Gary and I were hoping there might be college scouts about - because Russell played GREAT! Russell (CATCHER) threw out 3 runners in 3 innings! How do you like that?! Too bad I didn't catch any on my video. Had Russell not done that as well as caught a high foul pitch, well his team might have gotten clobbered. Russ's team lost 2-0 and the other team scored the runs in the last inning. Well next week start the State Champanionships, so maybe Columbia will have a shot at that. I'll keep my fingers crossed. Since I last blogged, Russell got his driver's license. YUP we have 2 teenage drivers now. LET THE FIGHTING BEGIN FOR THE CAR THIS SUMMER!! Emily seems to have her whole college career planned out. I don't want to jinx anything, but let me just tell you she's 1 mature kid. Enjoy the pictures I took early on in the game. Best, Jane

A LOT of HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!

The High School baseball season is short and compact. Many many games within a week and well on our team (my son's team to be exact) we do not have enough pitching! We were on a horrible losing streak (6 games in row) until this afternoon when we finally got a much needed win to boost the moral. Gary and I hosted the first BBQ of the season last night at our house. A good time was had by all. Then today, we had a big crowd show up to the game today. It was the first of the GNT games (GNT stands for the GREATER NEWARK TOURNAMENT - which is the oldest baseball tournament in the country!). Our High School hasn't won a GNT game in many many years. So next weekend we're off to our second game in the tournament.

Enjoy the photos I've posted with the BBQ and most recent game!

Best,

Jane

A Virginia Weekend

I'm still in rainy VA. WOWZERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I came down to see my daughter and my sister. Yesterday we celebrated Passover. We ate a delicious meal of chicken and matzo ball soup, brisket, potato pancakes and asparagus. This holiday just seems so so weird at Easter was a MONTH earlier! Usually the 2 holidays coincide.

Today we had a HUGE cook-in. H-U-G-E! We made an Indian feast. WOWZERS. I also bought Emily custom M&M's to share with her school buddies. But we decided to bake and use the M&M's as decorations. See above photo! It was a good day to cook, because it poured all the live long day! We also had a thunderstorm warning in the early afternoon. We drove Emily back to campus with some huge storage bins. I then took back from her messy college dorm room a suitcase of winter clothing. I'll be back in 2 weeks to pick her up and that will be the end of her Freshman Year of school. I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE HOW FAST THE TIME WENT!

Well I'm tired and I have to get to bed. I took Gordie with me so Emily could spend the weekend with him. He has been a very good guest, only his whole routine is off and well...I can't wait to get him back home.

Best,

Jane

Another Game Day

here at the Cahn household. We have too many rituals which are falling by the wayside. We are too superstitious and need to calm ourselves down! Russ packed his gear and put it by the front door so when we pick him up after school we can bring him his clothes for the game today. I was cleaning up the kitchen from breakfast and when I went to bring out garbage look who I found?!!! Yup, that's our Gordie in Russ's gym bag!!!!!!!!!!! OH how I love that dog! LOVE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Watched my favorite and last show of the season BIGGEST LOSER! WOW WOW WOW ... a woman finally won! And wow did she look fab! No more TV conflicts with Dancing With the Stars and Fatty!

OK then, have a great day!

Best,

Jane

Green Grass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You probably think I've lost my mind showing you our green grass! Well if you only saw our "lawn" last summer you wouldn't believe the transformation. Today we cut our grass for the first time after our new lawn finally came up! We might be the talk of the neighborhood after the disaster from last summer! How are we going to keep this green grass up? EVERY SINGLE YEAR on JULY 15th our lawn goes to pot. We do NOTHING wrong...it's just that the lawn dries up and the weeds take over. We are keeping our fingers crossed for this summer! And did you know GREEN is my favorite color???? WE HAVE GREEN GRASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK not much more to report ...

Best,

Jane