4/23/10: Curious George Live

What a busy day. We started at the Shriner's Circus and then at night went to see the new Curious George Live! stage show. The kids had a great time and really enjoyed the show. All the performers did a great job. I highly recommend it.

Here is George being curious as always.
The kids hanging with George.
George learning how to make meatballs. Ok, now looking at this picture the guy in the back looks like Andy Samberg from Saturday Night Live.

Well everyone did well and Curious George even won a trophy. Since the show was all about Meatball making and recently we just saw Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs I made meatballs and pasta for dinner last night.

4/23/10: Allepo Shriner's Circus

We had a fun time again at the Allepo Shriner's Circus. What a fun event and only costs $10 per ticket. This is our 3rd visit to this Circus. Here are the kids with their Shriners Hats.

And hanging out with one of the clowns during intermisson.
Wow a Bear doing a hand stand. These Bears were cool. They even road bikes and a motorcycle.

Elephants, oh my!

Evan hanging out with another Clown friend.

What fun we had!

4/18/10: What Will You Celebrate?

If you know me you know I am a Walt Disney World Fanatic so when a Disney Mom's panel was started I applied. I was not selected, however I was able to become part of the Disney Mom's Club. As part of this Mom's Club I was chosen to host a "What Will You Celebrate?" In-Home Celebration. What this means is I received a box full of crafts, games and favors to host a party for Disney. I just received my big red box recently. With our Disney vacation coming up soon, what a great event to get us all in the Disney mood.

Another Disney theme going on right now is "Give a day, get a day" where basically if you volunteer in your community you are given a free day pass to Disney Parks. Disney has asked that helping others in your community be part of the theme for the party.

Well what a good time for this as it relates to my life. A week ago my daycare provider's house had a major fire. My theme is for people to bring kids toys, blankets, and essentials to help rebuild their lives and her daycare.

Here is a picture of what Disney included.

I have had a great response to my party invitation and look forward to hosting this event. I also promote Disney on Ice, another great Disney family event.

4/10/2010: Lauren's 3rd Birthday Tinker Bell Party

Lauren had a wonderful Tinker Bell party over the weekend. Here she is with the Fairy cake that Mommy made. We had a KinderMusik program which was a lot of fun for the kids. They especially liked playing with musical instruments.

And bubbles are always a favorite.

And they actually sat for a Tinker Bell story.

Time for cake. Yum! Everyone wanted a piece of the waterfall.
Here is a slideshow of some more pictures.

Here are Lauren's Formal Shots for her birthday. She was posing like a little model.

4/9/10: A Day of Swim and Gymnastics

Today we had a fun day of activities. We went to Gymnastics and Evan's swim which we could go in and watch. Here they are being cute together at Gymnastics.

And Evan showing off his big muscles at swim class.

Lauren all excited to go to Gymnastics.

Having fun.

4/4/10: Happy Easter!

We had another lovely Easter. We were very lucky after all the recent rain to have a beautiful day with nice warm weather. The kids looked so adorable. Love this picture. Notice Evan's hand on Lauren's head and her arm around him.

The Easter Bunny came! What nice baskets he brought.
Checking out their loot.

And the Easter Bunny hid eggs. The kids got to do 5 egg hunts this year.

Another adorable picture of them.

Lauren looking cute.

Evan looking handsome.

All the cousin's over at Nonno and Nonna's house right after their Easter Egg hunt.

4/2/10: YMCA Easter Party

Today we went over to the YMCA for the annual Easter Party with the Easter Bunny and Easter Egg Hunt. What fun the kids had. Here is our picture from last year.

Here they are with the Easter Bunny. They had so much fun hunting for eggs and doing crafts and bouncing in the bounce house.

3/28/10: Breakfast with the Easter Bunny

Today we went out and had fun at breakfast with the Easter Bunny at the Shawsheen HS as we do each year. The kids had fun eating, making crafts, having their face painted, doing an Easter Egg Hunt, and most of all seeing the Easter Bunny. We even got to see 3 of our teammates from the Green Goblins soccer team.

Showing off their eggs.

The family shot.

Yippee!
So much fun!

3/22/10: Live Like We're Dying

The song "Live Like We're Dying" by Kris Allen seems to constantly be playing on the radio and it got me thinking. Recently I have received a lot of bad news from friends. Of course I won't publish any details, but you know who you are and you are in my thoughts. It has made me think a lot about all the things I want to do and things I say I will do but never get the time to do.

It is so true that there really aren't enough hours in the day to work, spend time with the kids, spend time with your significant other, clean, do laundry, cook, eat, sleep, etc. As a Mom I am very well aware of this. The laundry is never done, the floors are never clear of toys and the dust comes back so quickly. But when we are gone these are not the things we will be remembered for, it will be how much we loved and the time we spent with the ones we cared about.

Some questions to ask:

Do we really take the time to tell people we love them or even that we are thinking about them? Have we become so technology driven that we rather e-mail or text a friend instead of picking up the phone or meeting them for coffee. Do we prioritize our life in the right way all the time? Do we get so caught up in the day to day that we forget sometimes about the big picture and how blessed we truly are?

A quote from the song that I love:

"We only got 86,400 seconds in a day to

Turn it all around or to throw it all away

We gotta tell them that we love them

While we got the chance to say

Gotta live like we're dying"

Let's take this to heart a bit. Call a relative, meet up with a dear friend, or just spend more time talking instead of texting, e-mailing, etc. We are all a victim to it. I know I am.

Sometimes even take the time to see things through your children's innocent eyes. My wonderful son the other day decided we should take plastic eggs to my Aunt's grave so she could celebrate Easter. What a wonderful thing, of course we took the time and went and did this.

Another quote:

"So if your life flashed before you,

What would you wish you would've done?"

Comment and let me know.

3/20/10: Spring has Sprung!

Well after a long winter and recently a lot of rain we finally got a nice day. It was 70 degrees! Of course we went out and enjoyed it at the park. Here are the kids having fun. It was 20 degrees colder today, but hopefully soon we will be getting more nice days than yucky days. Bring on Spring!

3/18/10: Hoppity Hop

Happy Easter early everyone. The kids loved going to see the Easter Bunny. Lauren thought the Bunny was very cute.

Hanging out by the Purple Topiary (Evan learned a new word today).

Here is our yearly card.

Here is a little video of the kids talking to the Easter Bunny. I was a little slow starting the video camera, they had already been talking to him for a while.

Here is another one when they first went up to him.

3/17/10: Perpetual Motion Fun

We love to try out playspaces. When I got the newsletter from Family Resource Network which included a sign up for going to Perpetual Motion Playspace in Lowell for 2 hours for free I jumped at the chance. Tonight we went. When we pulled in I was a little nervous as it did not look like the best place to go. As we went up the stairs even Evan made the comment that the stairs were old. I was a little leery, but again it was free. Typically it is $9.50 per kid and $12.50 for 6 and up that can go in both play areas.

With all the yucky rainy weather we have been having the kids were very excited to be able to go on the swings.

Of course Evan loves anything that involves Trains.

Lauren having fun.
Evan in the ball pit. Lauren enjoyed this area. She kept climbing up and going down the slide in to the balls.

A view of the Train.

The rest of the train. There was also a sandbox but even my kids didn't want to go in with just their socks and get too dirty.

On the other side is the 6 and up area with many things to climb and navigate. And this was the eating area. They had a concession stand. We got a free slice of pizza and juice. The pizza in my opinion was not very good and the kids didn't really like it either. Prices seemed reasonable.

Overall we had a good time. Here is a short virtual tour I took with my Flip: