Speck's first visit to Philadelphia
Speck had the pleasure of meeting her entire paternal family this past weekend. This is was a HUGE bag of firsts for speck. First Flight, First meeting with Mom Mom Barb, Pop Pop RC, Mom Mom Brenda, Uncle Mitch, Cousin Devin, Cousins Max, Jeremy and Cousin Ian. First to the Iron Shop at Broomall Pa. First time meeting Uncle Billy, Aunt Maria (we already met her coz she came to visit us), Uncle Steven, Aunt Louise.
Mom mom Barb was at the airport to pick up speck and then mommom drove us to The Iron Shop. This is where we met the crew. It was awesome seeing all those wonderful and new faces. Andi and Jona (Andi lives next door to Mom Mom Barb and Pop Pop RC) watched Speck on Friday night while mommy and daddy went to Smith and Wollensky's for a family dinner on Sept 15th 2006. Thank you ANDI :)
On saturday, Speck met her cousins Max, Jeremy, Ian and her Aunt Louise, ofor the first time. It was fun hanging out with the boys. Even though speck is a girl, I am sure she will turn out to be tomboy, and she will fit right into her all boy cousin family. After that first meeting we headed over to meet Mom mom Brenda. Mommom was so excited her to darlin speck. This is the 3rd grandchild for her, and it remember the 2nd grandchild is almost 20 years old. So it's like being a new grandmom all over again. Here we also met Phyllis and Ed, and Toby too. We had dinner at Fellinis with the family on saturday nite. Then on Sunday we went for Uncle Al's unveiling. Speck aka Ariel is named after her Pop Pop Al. She placed a stone on his headstone and said hello for the first time. After that we went to Mom mom Brenda's where she met a whole group of new people and of course all those new faces. Speck was on her best behaviour the whole trip. Through all the dinners, and day trips, and visits, and in and outs mommy couldn't have asked for more co-operation from speck. Later on Sunday night, the family went to PF Changs for dinner. It was nice to have almost everyone together again.
On monday Speck had an appointment with her cousins Devin, Max, Jeremy and Ian at the Picture People to take some family portraits. We'll post those soon too. In the evening we went out to dinner with pop pop rc and mom mom barb and uncle steven, aunt louise and all the cousins.
