2011 Bridgestone Winter Classic.

1/1/11

















The outcome of the game sucked, but the whole experience was amazing.

...A Thousand Words...

SnOMG! 2010

Or Snowmageddon, or Snowpocaplyse...whatever you like best

Make Room For Kids (#30)

Once upon a time there was an online contest where you could vote for your local Children's Hospital, where the winning hospital got a playroom from X-BOX filled with fun stuff for sick kids to take their minds off being a sick kid.
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh did not win.

Enter Ginny Montanez, a.k.a. PittGirl, from the defunct BurghBlog and the totally awesome why aren't you reading this if you are from The Burgh That's Church


Ginny has a thing about sick kids. She also has a thing about helping them. When CHoP lost out on that online voting contest Ginny decided she was going to raise the $10,000 needed to give an awesome X-Box/computer/games/playroom to CHoP, using just the awesomeness that is the people of Pittsburgh.

She contacted the Mario Lemieux Foundation, who is involved in something called The Playroom Project,that places playrooms in local hospitals. What Ginny wants to accomplish would be the first "big kid" playroom the MLF has been involved with.

Ikea of Pittsburgh also stepped up to the plate, amazingly offering $5,000 of furnishings for the playroom so that the MLF will not have to use any of the money raised on anything other than games and their accessories for the kids.


The MLF will be collecting the donations on behalf of Ginny and anyone awesome enough to donate to this cause.
You can donate HERE through PayPal and the Mario Lemieux Foundation

This is an amazing opportunity to do something good.
$1.00
$5.00
$10.00
Anything you can give will go to help a sick kid have a little bit of time where they can stop thinking about being a sick kid, stuck in the hospital.

It;s Amazing, What You Can Find At Walmart (#29)

At our local Walmart today there was a man selling raffle tickets for a local Fire Company. The winner gets an autographed Evgeni Malkin jersey. Apparently his son also works for the Penguins organization, because he had this with him to lure people into spending their $3.00 on a ticket.


It's freakin' huge.
And it's pretty, so so pretty.

also, I wish I had remembered that I had my real camera in my purse, maybe the picture wouldn't be so crappy If I had.
And I'm a hot mess in this picture lol.

Baby Bennett Update (#23)

WTAE anchor Mike Clark recently spent some time with Kelly and her husband, Jason, and their little miracle Bennett.

You can CLICK HERE to see the video, or CLICK HERE to read the story.

Sometimes it's the little things (#20)

I was in a crappy mood yesterday, until I saw this when I went out onto the dock at work.

Baby Bennett Goes Home! (#12)

If you have been reading here (all 2 of you) or on a number of other "Burgh Blogs" you know the story of WTAE anchor Kelly Frey, her husband Jason and their baby boy Bennett.

Well to add another miracle to the list, Bennett went home with Mom and Dad today.

This is the kind of news that makes you realize that there is more to the world around us that what you can physically see. Believe in God or not, something miraculous is happening with this little boy, and I wish him, and his family all the best.

Call it a lack of motivation.

I should be writing about Brewing Up A Cure 2009, or the fact that I got to go because I won tickets from the awesome www.ShouldIDrinkThat.com podcast, and got to meet Mr. Doug Derda.
Or that I went with my friend Jon to the Steelers Game Sunday.
But I just dont feel like writing.
Like I said, a lack of motivation.

Everyday Miracles Update

Baby Bennett is a week old now, his tubes have been removed and hes doing well, but still needs your prayers and pockets.

You can see his new pictures HERE.

You can click HERE to see why this story is so amazing.

Kelly and her husband, Jason, are amazing people, and I am so proud of them, even though I have never met them.

Please keep this amazing family in your prayers.

Everyday Miracles.

Back in August, local news anchor Kelly Frey and her husband Jason,spoke out about their troubled pregnancy with their son, Bennett.
While still in the womb, Bennett was diagnosed with a terminal birth defect, he was not expected to even draw a breath upon birth.

Bennett was born today, and he cried.

Hes currently undergoing treatment at Children's Hospital.

Kelly and Jason had a photographer friend of theirs on hand to capture the moment to have a memory of their child, and she captured so much more than that
You can click here to see the pictures, but please read the link above so you have a full grasp of just how amazing and miraculous these pictures really are.

Please keep the Frey's in your thoughts and prayers.

Psssst...

PittGirl is back.

Maybe that should say "Meet Virginia"

With everything happening in this city in the coming year, I for one, am glad to have her voice back on the blogwaves.

Fun with www.photofunia.com