Spring Break 2015

We started off our spring break at the Lake House.

Golden Boy caught a turtle and we colored and made a fire and played games and watched the Swiss Family Robinson and had an egg hunt.

From there we headed to Atlanta for one night with the kids. we rode The Marta in Atlanta
to Centennial park. (i think just the waiting and riding of the train was the most fun for the kids)

Centennial Park

After the Marta ride we got in the car and went in search of the Ikea.
The kids just loved it and i sure did too. I couldn't get out of there without buying something. I looked for a frame for one of Little girls pictures but there wasn't anything that i liked but i did find this basket that i am now using on top of my refrigerator to hold bread and place mats and other things and the very large basket that was up there is now the shoe bin.

The next morning we took the kids to The Aquarium. It was really awesome. One of the things that they have is a dolphin show which is really pretty cool. they have it two times in the day and we went to see it both times because the kids loved it to much.

check this little fish. it would go into that hole and come out with a mouth full of sand and spit it out.

another amazing this was the whale sharks

we got waited to see when they feed them

Once we left the Aquarium we went to the Lego discovery center but need to stop to get something to eat. we were discussing what they had in this really high scale mall that we were in and when the hubby said Johnny Rockets, i jumped on that idea. i remember eating there when i was in college and how much i loved it. 

a peanut butter chocolate malt was for sure one of the things that i had my heart, mind and tummy set on.

The Lego Discovery Center was right across the mall from Johnny Rockets so we headed there after we ate. it was so much fun

i kid you not i thought for sure someone had dropped a hundred dollar bill on the ground. i bent down to pick it up and realized it was a fake. it sure does look real. both the kids fell for it as well. it gave the hubby some good laughing too.

When we got back home the Circus was coming to town. we went to the Elephant Walk.

and then we ended spring break with a trip to The Circus 

Easter Goodies

these cute little Easter goodies are over at The Idea Room

she has the cute frog printable as well as a chick and bunny to pair with an EOS lip gloss that looks just like an egg.

I don't have a colored printer so I chose green card stock and had to write the words

"Hoppy 'EOS'ter!" on it

I used my hole 1 inch hole punch in the picture below but it still wasn't big enough

 

I think they came out so cute for Little girls teachers. I ended up making one for Golden Boy's teacher as well.

 

another pin that I saw that I just loved was this bunny bait treat

I used the little buckets that I had from the Night Circus book club that I hosted and Little girl helped me to fill them with pretzels, mini marshmallows and Cadbury eggs (my favorite)

they came out really cute and I think the kids really liked them.

thank you ladies for such great ideas for Easter treats for teachers and friends.



Adventure 13

first let me say that this last week was spring break so there was many adventures that happened and hopefully I can get some great pictures up of the adventures we had but this adventure is not a family adventure it is one just for me.

I wish that this post had pictures to go with it, well maybe not. this adventure is a work out adventure. I bought a groupon for a local gym/studio that a bunch of my friends have been going to and have really enjoyed. I have never been a part of a gym or anything like that. the only group exercising that I have ever really participated in was in high school. I was on the dance line and in the summer we had dance camps and training where we did lots of aerobics and exercising. that was quite a while ago. I was also intrigued by the classes because they offer some of the barre classes and I have always wanted to take some of those. my first two classes were the barre classes. then I took a mash up of a bunch of different things and then something called torch and boy am I sore from that but I was good and pushed me.

I go back this week for another barre class and another torch. maybe I am crazy, maybe not but I am ready to be in better shape than I am in. it is scary and exciting. group classes like this intimidate me but so far I am being brave and hopefully doing well.

Adventure 12

Cinderella

Again

This time with my mom

I think I may find something new and wonderful about this movie every single time I watch it.

I wanted to purchase a Cinderella shirt to wear to the movie but remembered that I had one that my hubby had bought me years ago when we went to see the play. 

(a picture of my shirt is coming soon. I know you are eager to see it so check back in a few days to see it)

I wore it with my sparkly earrings that i purchased from ike and co. aren't they awesome. i just love them. i have two other pair from her shop.

We laughed at the previews, loved Frozen Fever and were taken away by the beautiful story of Cinderella with the message of Having Courage and Being Kind.

As we were leaving my mom told me something that made me tear up. that she cannon watch that movie without thinking of me and how no matter what i need to remember to always have courage and to be kind, as she believes that i have been, to not let others put fear and unkind words into my heart, that make me think i cannot show someone who i really am and be kind to them.

I will follow this with this quote that I wanted to remember the first time i watched the movie. this time i jotted it down......

"Perhaps the greatest risk any of us will ever take is to be seen for who we truly are." ~The Fairy Godmother in Cinderella

St Patty's Day Treat

At the end of last week we brought these cute colors to Little girl's teachers so that they would be sure not to get pinched today. I chose both of the colors one day when I was out shopping and I brought them home and asked Little girl which colors she would like to give each of her teachers. She chose the exact colors that I would have picked of the ladies and they are the exact colors that each of them liked. We were pleased. 

I saw this pin last year and knew that it would be fun for her teachers this year for St. Patty's day. 

 

I really liked their printable but wasn't sure how it would print on my printer so I just typed up the saying in word and glued it on some green card stock and tied it on with some bakers twine.

thank you eighteen 25 for always sharing cute ideas.

Adventure(s) 11

this weekend was full of expected and unexpected adventures.

it started on Friday, when I got a message from a friends how asked if Little girl and I wanted to go on a girls date with her and her daughter to see Cinderella.

now, for anyone who knows me, they know that I love Cinderella. she is my favorite princess and I have been waiting and waiting to see the movie (blowing up Facebook will all the excitement, full of Cinderella posts)

my plan was to wait some more, until this coming weekend to go and see it with my mom. I really wanted Little girl to see it but was debating on taking her when I went with my mom. I was hoping for just some mommy and me time with my own mom. so I messaged my mom and asked her if she was ok with me taking Little girl to see it and then her and I could go without Little girl and she was completely fine with that. so I let my friend know that I was good to go and thrilled to see the movie with them.

I asked if her daughter was going to dress up and she let me know that she really wanted too. Little girls Cinderella dress is pretty big and she I asked her which princess dress she wanted to wear she said her Elsa one, which was perfect since we got to see the Frozen cast in the mini film Frozen Fever.

 

on Saturday our plan was to go to the St. Patrick's Day parade. The rain looked like it was going to be all gone by the time the parade started. about 30 min before it was time for us to leave it started raining and didn't stop. we thought the place we had in mind to catch it at would be good because it wouldn't get there till about 30 min after the start time. we caught about 20 or so min of it. it misted pretty much the whole time but it was fun to be there with friends.

after the parade we went to visit Nana, which is what we did last year and had fun telling her about the parade and showing her all the kids were learning in school.