Erin's 4yr Pictures

These are Erin's 4 year-old pictures we just got in. The kids had a shared birthday party yesterday (15 April) and it went really well (had it at a McDonalds PlayPlace... lots of slides and happy Meals). Pictures of the party to follow. We will be sending everyone some of the below pictue (with funny smile and big number 4) in the mail as soon as we can.

Some Birthday Kids

Thanks for the presents...

Here is Emmett's first bike (thanks Poppa-Don)

and Erin's new outfit (thanks Nanna)

and just a cute Emmett picture...

April foolz stuff

Some video of the kids... (sorry, could not embed the video this time... the Google was having issues, so please follow the link below).


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4659254449240415548

Happy Birthday Erin... my almost April fool!

This video is grandma kickin-it with Erin and Emmett

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2178906279283364660

Some pics of Emmett... First Easter egghunt... first egg actually i think?















Emmett coming out of hybernation... getting quite warm now!















Little Sean Cullinan now has a Blog... way-ta-go Seanie, not even a year old!

http://seanshow.blogspot.com/

Please go give the little fella some traffic!


Oh... and you have to check out the Googles April fools joke... very funny...
Read it while it is still "up"!

http://www.google.com/tisp/

Seriously... funny stuff!

Molly pics... the site was a bit kid-heavy

Some cute girls.... at Disney 2006





















Hey, stop calling me big ears.

Ireland 2007... I'll make ya famous!

Never thought you would see your picture online eh!

Well here you are... not exactly the fame you'd always wanted... but it is a start!

Rain over Dublin; well half of Dublin at least!















Best friends and cousins... oh and an Aunt too!


































Group huggers














New baby John... i mean Sean














Have i got something on my chin?















This will be great for throwing a tantrum... or sacking a village!















This is a nice buncha smiles!


















































Now that is a nice war-face...















New Grange on a typically-crap Irish day... The kind of day where a cramped prehistoric megalithic tomb looks nice and cozy!

Ireland... here come the Cullinans

Well... more Cullinans!

We are coming over for a week a the end of Febuary... see you then.




















The kids have been getting in the mood... thanks for the shirts Willie.

We will be there in time to see Ireland defeat England!!!!!

See you all soon
Paddy and Clan na Cuilleinain

Happy 007.... yadayadayada

It has been a little while since we posted last (Thanks for the reminder Jill).

I want a hacker in the family!












Erin decided she was a SuperHero... somekindof hammer skipping-rope girls with an airplane headband?!... just thought i'd share a funny picture!










We had a nice Christmas and a quiet NewYear. The kids were spoiled rotten and our home was Christmas central this year. All went well and the fire was put out quickly! I am joking... but only a little.




Thanks for all the gifts and cards and we hope you got what you wanted this year too.

Patrick and Family

Been a while... We had a nice Christmas and a happy New Year

Emmett lookin' cool






Erin getting an Early Christmas gift... yummy








Princess Erin going to my work Halloween party











Emmett trick or treat?











OH no... trick i think for the cow-boy/bull

Erin's a Wonder Pet

The lyrics of one of her FAV kids shows... Wonder Pets.

If the movie does not play use the below link:

Erin the WonderPet

or use this link

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=211479850461908798

More pictures.... get used to IT!

Erin's first school picture... aaaaauuuwww

No keys until she is sixteen! AT LEAST!

















C'mon Dad... i want to drive to the MALL... I can hear it already!












I am just tooo cute! and I know it!



Two easy riders...

Our Home...

For those of you have not YET visited us in our new house... this is what it looks like.

We are coming up to our 2nd anniversary in our new house and we are really settled in now, it is a home!

Come visit us some time soon!

Some great family pics!!!

Just like Daddy; only happy with a beer can (empty I assure you!) in his hand

AaaRRRrrGGggg...
We don't need no stinkin dollies!


Erin's first day of school
Sweetness
I am getting this cage foreth my basementith!
Cutie pie
Princess Erin

Cullinan Sites of Interest

I highly recommend "The Cullinan & Cullinane Family Genealogy Project" Website. It is a wonderful resource and i encourage everyone to contribute... Nice work Michael Cullinan!

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/5946/index.htm

Did you know we may have a Saint in the family soon? No... not me... Gelasius Cullinan

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/5946/mysteryc.htm

Going to South Africa... we are the "kennedy's" of South Africa... there are Cullinan hotels from the huge luxury Cullinan Hotels chain, to the smaller Inns in Cullinan town, and then there are the mines etc... for example check this out...
http://www.cullinanmeander.co.za/History/History.html or
http://www.africa-adventure.org/c/cullinantours/

Want to be rich... lets try to get the Cullinan diamond back from the Queen!!! Here is some info on "OUR" diamond!

http://famousdiamonds.tripod.com/cullinandiamonds.html

Next time i go home to Ireland i am heading to this B&B i just found!

http://www.ebookireland.com/cullinan.html


If you know of some other interesting sites... please let me know!

The Family!

Me and the Kids in Cashel... yep Ireland is GREEN
Molly, Erin , Emmett, and Minnie (she's the mouse!)

Calling all Cullinans?

Let me introduce myself. My name is Patrick "Paddy" Cullinan' and I live in Chicago (northern suburbs of Chicago at least). I am originally from Dublin (Ireland... not Ohio), but have been in the US for almost 10 years. I am married (to Molly) and have 2 wonderful kids who keep me busy (and awake!)... Their names are Erin (3) and Emmett (18 months).

I went to UCD (University College Dublin) for my Bachelors and U of C (University of Chicago) for my PhD. I am currently a manager with TAP pharmaceutical in Lake Forest Illinois. I am also the president of the MidWest Chapter of Irish Life-Sciences networking society called BioLink USA-Ireland.

I wanted to set up this page for Cullinans in this area to get to know each other and have a place to talk a little. There are not that many of us but that is the beauty of it... we are a "select" club.

For example, a few years ago just by pure chance i ran into another Patrick Cullinan at a car dealership... we had both given over our liscences so we could go on a test drive and this confused the hell out of the salesman!!

I also wanted any other Irish people, especially those involved in the life-sciences field to also drop me a message too if they are interested in BioLink. My email account for these contacts is pseudoboy @ yahoo.com (note extra spaces added to address to stop auto-spammers)

I will also use this BLOG as a platform to publish pictures of my family and use it to communicate with my family in Ireland and elsewhere.

Thanks and keep checking back for new posts.
Paddy

Me, Emmett, Erin, Goofy, and cousin Abby at Disney World this year.