Baranko Family Reunion

Emil, George, Mike, Bertha, Rosemary, Irene

Last weekend all six of the Baranko siblings were reunited for the first time in almost 8 years!  They hadn't all been together since our wedding in 2004, so it was a big deal when we had them all in the same room again. Donna and Emil hosted the big shindig on Saturday, with Bertha slaving away making all of the family recipes.  A bunch of cousins were there too, including Fritz, who had driven out from WA with his Mom, Aunt Bertha.  What a fun reunion it was to see everyone and hear all the stories of their childhood together.

Aunt Bertha making fried chicken

Super special cookies, their Mom used to make these - Matt's Grandma

It was a beautiful day, we had an indoor/outdoor party.

Celebrating Uncle George & Uncle Mike's birthday, and Aunt Rosie's birthday and retirement

Cousin's kids!

Brotherly love

The night before Matt and I had attended my work friend Katie's wedding.  She looked gorgeous and we had a blast.

On Sunday I left for a business trip to New York.  I have been working on the marketing launch of Walgreens' new loyalty program, called Balance Rewards.  It launched on September 16th, so I went to New York to make sure everything went as planned with our marketing, at least in that market!  The best part of the three day trip was sneaking in a visit with Shelley.  We walked our way up from 39th street to 54th strreet - hitting GMA, Times Square, Rockefeller Center, a Pink concert at the Today Show, (almost) Central Park, it was awesome!

This was our Walgreens in Times Square - the digital signage  was one of the things I worked on.  So exciting to see it up in person!

Shell at Good Morning America!

Rockefeller Center

One night me and my coworker hit the Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy

Amazing breakfast at Norma's in between store visits

Statue of Liberty sighting between store visits

One year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street - more riots - right outside one of our stores.