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Catching up!

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

It’s been a busy few weeks! Since the Cardinals weekend, we have helped John and Jill move, attended Nathan’s 6th Birthday, worked my last week at Americaneagle.com and went to Jake’s 1st Birthday Party! We’ve posted a ton of new photos and videos on our Flickr account!

Hopefully, everyone reading this caught that I worked my last week at Americaneagle.com. I recently received an offer from Digitas that I couldn’t pass up! I start on Monday, August 9th and it’s going to be a busy first week! The office is on Wacker and Michigan in Chicago. I’ll be taking the train in every day and can’t wait to join the team! I would just like to say thanks again to everyone at Americaneagle.com that I worked with! It was a pleasure working with everyone over the past 4 years!

One last thing, we had a great day today celebrating Jake’s 1st Birthday! It was fun hanging out with family and friends! We have some really good photos on John’s camera (let’s just hope he gets them to me in a timely fashion)! Our favorite moment came when Jake and Connor were on the play mats together. Jake took Connor down (in a playful way) and then gave him kiss! Connor proceeded to kick him and knock him over. It was pretty cute to see them interact with each other! They are going to pick on each other all the time. I caught most of it on film so I’ve included that here as well.

Check back soon for more updates! We have a busy few weeks coming up!

Tags: ae, beth, connor, jake, matt

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Cardinals Weekend!

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

07/24/10 – Cardinals (5) vs. Cubs (6)

This post is a little late but I wanted to still put it up! We had a great weekend in July when the Cardinals were in town playing the Cubs! On Saturday, July 24th, we threw our 2nd Annual Cubs/Cardinals viewing party at the Cubby Bear in Wrigleyville. We had a smaller crowd than last year but the new faces certainly made it a great time! The Cubs ended up winning the game but it didn’t matter we still had a great time! Tom, Austin, Keith, Chris and Amanda were all introduced to the family shot!

Special thanks to the everyone who helped with watching the kids for us! Kiley was in Madison, WI with Grandpa Lee and Grandma Sue. Ella was at a Baby Shower with Grandma Marsha and Grandpa Mark. Connor was at home with Grandma Debbie!

07/25/10 – Cardinals (4) vs. Cubs (3)

The very same weekend a few of us from the Sports Department at Americaneagle.com headed to the Sunday Night game! We have seats in the left field bleachers first row! It was a great game with the Cardinals winning it in extra innings with a HR by Felipe Lopez! I was hoping to get on TV but didn’t seem to. I did catch a glimpse of us in highlight video on MLB.com for Pujols HR. You have to look close at the end of the clip in the upper left corner. There is a fan in a cardinals hat with his arms spread out talking crap to the guys he’s with! That would be me!!!

Tags: beth, cardinals, connor, ella, grandma debbie, grandma marsha, grandma sue, grandpa lee, grandpa mark, kiley, matt

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@Anywhere

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

This is a test post of Twitter @anywhere! Check out these friends on Twitter now – @ChicagoBearscom, @mattmoreno, @johnflesch, @reintroducing and @jason_cherry

Here is my twitter account as well – @mattsaip

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Mets on a hot streak!

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

4/27/10 – Dodgers (5) @ Mets (10)

I was on a business trip to meet with the NY Giants and got the opportunity to hit up a Mets game at Citi Field. The ballpark opened last year and is really nice. It was really windy and low 50′s/high 40′s temperature wise so we didn’t stay in our seats that long. Again, thanks go out to Brian/Kevin for the tickets! It seems since the Cardinals game when we saw the Mets win in 20 innings, that they are the hottest team in baseball. This game marked 6 in a row for them and now they are up to 9 or 10. I would so root for the Mets over the Yankees any day!!!

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Last Supper…

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Disney on Ice

Ok, so the past two weeks have flown by and now I’m back into the office bright and early tomorrow. The past two weeks have been amazing and have let us really come together as a family with our new little bundle of joy! We got to do a lot of cool stuff as a family the past two weeks and Connor fits right in! Be sure to check out all the photos and videos @Flickr!

This past weekend we had Grandpa Lee and Grandma Sue over to celebrate Christmas on Friday night. The girls got some really cool gifts that included an Air Hockey Table! It was a great night to celebrate the holidays. Check out the photos here!

On Saturday, we had a few visitors in the morning, dance class and the girls took off with Aunt Lori and Grandma Debbie to see Disney on Ice! The girls had a great time and even called to ask for to borrow my Credit Card… ha ha! The snow cones were $15 bucks! Check out the photos from Saturday here!

Today, we went out to lunch with John, Jill, Jake and Grandpa Mark. Ella is with her dad today for a quick visit and will be back tomorrow morning. Now, I think it’s off to the store to get some last minute stuff for this week and then we will watch the Grammys!

You should notice some new enhancements to the site with the sidebar. I’ve added a widget that pulls in the most recent 15 photos from flickr! It’s a nice little touch to the site and I’m always looking for more ideas so let me know! Also, added Tag You’re It to the sidebar so that you can filter all the posts by ones you have been tagged in! Have fun finding all the posts and reliving the memories that we have shared together since the blog started!

Tags: ae, allison, aunt lori, beth, connor, donnie, ella, flickr, grandma debbie, grandma sue, grandpa lee, grandpa mark, jake, jill, john, kiley, matt, theFam

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Two Days!

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

We are only two days away now from the birth of our son! We couldn’t be more excited at this point. It’s always fun to talk about it with Ella and Kiley! The other day they were putting babies under their shirts to be like Mommy!

The only bad part is that the girls still won’t be able to visit us in the hospital. I truly wish that they could be there before and after he is born. We will just have to take ton of pictures and I’m going to try and hang out with them for a few hours each day. I really want to take Ella to see the new Alvin and the Chipmunks Movie. I know she would love that.

Everytime I think about Friday, I get more and more anxious and excited. It’s a wonderful experience and I can’t believe we are so lucky to have another . We are so blessed to have Ella and Kiley and adding Connor to the mix is going to be great!

Yesterday, I was talking to a few clients and had great conversations about Friday with them. Dan from the Bears was giving me workout tips to get Connor in the NFL. He said the quickest way to the NFL is to be a Long Snapper! I’m sure we can try and make that happen He also mentioned it’s an easy way to get a college scholarship. That would be awesome too! I am wanting him and his cousin Jake to play pee wee football as I never did. I’m sure Osol, Schmidt and Fletcher will be willing to teach and train him!

Gonna run and head into the office. Be sure to check back soon as we will be updating the blog as much as we can over the next few days! Allison joked that we should do a live feed on Friday – who knows we just might! Ha ha!

Tags: allison, baby saip, beth, connor, ella, gizmo, kiley, matt

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*Matt, Beth, Ella, Kiley, Connor, Gizmo and Teddy

Loving life!