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Labor Day 2009

by on Sep.11, 2009, under Reader Posts

Labor Day is officially a day to rest in honor of our American workers. Well the Marra’s celebrated Labor Day Weekend with 3 days of Fun, Family and Food! (Lo-Carb food for all us dieters)

We kicked off the weekend with our cousins Ed and Janet Fay coming in for a weekend visit on Saturday. Never to arrive empty handed the Fay’s brought in 6 plus pounds of Italian sausage which we properly dispatched of during Saturday’s First Lo-Carb dinner.

Sunday brought around a day of playing in the pool with the Earl girls, Erika and Anabelle, while a 16 pound turkey was roasting on the rotisserie! Lori produced several Lo-Carb side dishes to accompany the turkey and we all sat down to our Second Lo-Carb feast of the weekend that evening.

Monday took us out in the sun for lots more pool time followed by giant Lo-Carb barbeque cook out. Our old CA neighbors and honorary grandparents, Mike and Ann Terlizzi joined our old NV neighbors Charlie and Barb Hommel for our Third Lo-Carb meal of the weekend.

A great Labor Day Weekend was enjoyed by all… that is except the chickens, turkey, pigs, and cattle we ate all weekend to keep our carb intake low!

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Tony and Anabelle
Erika enjoying the sun
Just off the Rotisserie

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Janet and Joseph
Ed and Joseph
The dinner group shot
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24th Wedding Anniversary

by on Aug.30, 2009, under Reader Posts

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The Happy Couple – Still smiling after 24 years of Marriage – Aug. 31, 2009

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Brian Buffini

by on Jul.24, 2009, under Reader Posts

Finnaly after attending his seminars for years. And reading and studing all his methods. Lori met her work mentor – Brian Buffini.
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Brian Buffini and Lori Marra

Check out his website at http://www.brianbuffini.com for more info.

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Mikes Deli San Dwiches

by on Jun.03, 2009, under Reader Posts

Well if you ever find yourself on Military Rd. in Niagara Falls and your starting to feel some hunger pains, drive over to Cousin Michael Dorato’s new deli – “Mikes Deli San Dwiches” and grab a bite to eat. It’s located at:

2101 Military Rd
Niagara Falls, NY 14304
(716) 205-8889

Tell him I sent you and he’ll throw an extra pickle on your “san dwich” !!!


Here is Cousin Michael Dorato with Cousin LouAnn Parker
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Our Oregon Cousins

by on Jun.03, 2009, under Reader Posts

After posting the picture I found on the Internet of the Mucarello Cleaners matchbook, I got an unexpected follow up. Our cousin Jeffrey Angelo Muscarello Bobst (yes that really is his name!) from Happy Valley, Oregon wrote me. He is Uncle Angelo Muscarello’s oldest daughter Jeannette’s, oldest son. (She also has a older daughter Lesa and a younger son Mike).

Anyway Jeff and I have been exchanging emails and we hope to get together later this year in Vegas to meet for the first time in our lives.

And so here are our newly discovered Oregon cousins, from left to right; Jeff, son Nathan, son Garrett, daughter Kelli, wife Karen, and son Andrew.

Welcome to our family, Cousins !!!


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Academic Achievement Awards

by on May.18, 2009, under Reader Posts

On Sunday May 17, 2009, Joseph and his parents were invited to attend the Meadows School Academic Awards Luncheon. Here for his first time we witnessed Joe receiving not one but TWO Academic Achievement Awards.

The first one was presented to him for “Excellence in Production – Tech”.

And the second was for “Excellence in Trigonometry” .

Congratulations Joe !!!


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Mother’s Day 2009

by on May.12, 2009, under Reader Posts

Another Mother’s Day has come and gone and Lori and I were lucky to spend the entire day with Joseph. As soon as Lori woke up, Joseph and I treated her to breakfast on our side patio. After a appetizer, we followed that with eggs and then desert. And after we cleared the plates we presented her with cards and presents.

Later that afternoon after Lori returned from a leisurely shopping trip we treated her to snacks and beverages by the pool while Joseph and I threw the football around despite the 76 degree pool water.

That evening Joseph and I took her to Marche Bacchus French Bistro and Wine Shop for a beautiful dinner by the Lake. Actually it’s in the Desert Shores Community here in Las Vegas where they have these beautiful man made lakes. And from the pictures below you can see she truly enjoyed yet another Mother’s day!

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Lori with French Bordeaux
Waterfall next to our table
Mother & Son

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Lori next to the waterfall
View from our table
Lori and Tony
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Muscarello’s Cleaners

by on Apr.29, 2009, under Reader Posts

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Talk about a small world!


I was just doing a little surfing around the internet and stumbled (quite literally) on this.


It was part of someone’s match collection.
(I wrote him but I doubt he’ll answer)

How many of you remember Uncle Angelo’s store?


I can still picture all the bowling trophies in the window and the gumball machine when you walked in. I was always begging my mom for a gumball every time we brought clothes over to Uncle Angelo to clean.

Or how about that phone number?

BUTLER – 2 – 2500

Which eventually was changed to

282-2500

Do you remember all the fuss everyone made when that happened?

Ahh… but all the old people ignored the “28” and still referred to it as BUTLER or BU !!!

Wow… haven’t thought of that stuff in years.

To whoever collected this matchbook:

Thanks for the Memories!

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Twitter

by on Apr.25, 2009, under Reader Posts

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Everywhere I turn all I see is twitter this or twitter that. Of course being the curious one I have to see what this is all about. So now I’m now officially on Twitter.
(click here to go to my profile)

But one thing you’ll notice unlike Aston Kutchert who has something 2 million followers, I have none. I just can’t believe his live can me more interesting than mine… So please go join and follow or “tweet” me just so I have a follower.

-Tony

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Easter 2009

by on Apr.14, 2009, under Reader Posts

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Katie Wrona & her friend John were just here in Vegas for Easter. We spent an enjoyable 24 hours with them coloring eggs, (Katie won 1st & 3rd place despite John’s formal University Easter Egg training), attending Elton John’s “Red Piano” concert, (successfully kept John away from the gambling tables for you Dennis), attended 8AM Easter morning mass, where we all struggled to stay awake, participated in Lori’s annual Easter morning “Easter Basket Hunt”, (where Katie won again), and finally breakfasted on Betty’s Easter Borsht and Katie’s first whole wheat Pierogi, (which Joseph took to school for lunch the next day), before sending them on their way back to San Diego. Thanks for coming John & Katie, we had a great time!

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