The Mountain View Elementary School's Talent Show 2009 was called the Kids Choice Awards. Austin was a MC in it and did great! We were so proud of him! Ashley loved watching all the acts and was even dancing in the audience when she saw the big girls dance. Austin said his lines perfectly and loves to be in front of an audience. MC was the perfect job for our little man! Way to Go Austin Boston!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Kids Choice Awards
SURPRISE!!
Duane wanted to hear Austin in his first Talent Show (he was an MC) which he was going to miss. So he was working in NYC and got on a shuttle and surprised us by coming home!!! He was only home for 12 hours, but it was one of the best 12 hours we'd ever had. It had been a month since we'd seen him last. We love you honey!
Swimming with Pop!
Pop really gets into his role as Grandpop with his grandkids. He wrestles with the kids, cooks for them, sings, reads, swims, rides bikes, plays soccer, makes clubhouses out of boxes...the list goes on and on with the activities that Pop does with the kiddos. Which in turn makes my life easier! (He even took the dog out the whole time for me...ahhhh.)
COCONUTS
Austin has always wanted to buy a coconut at the store. I've never done this only because I don't really know the proper way to drain/crack the beast. So Pop did it. I remember Dad cracking coconuts while we were kids and we'd think it was so fun. So we went to Wegmans and Austin picked the biggest coconut he could then Pop and he cracked away!
Grandparents here!
My parents Mom and Dad LaBarbera (Pop and Grandma) came to visit last week! This week, they stayed at the Hampton Inn in Gainesville where the kids "camped out" with their Grandparents for 3 days while Mommy got a couple nights of R&R without the kids. Whew!
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
So anyone who knows me, knows that I LOVE LOVE LOVE Holidays. I get totally into them. That includes good old' St. Patty's Day. So this morning the kids woke up to our tradition of having the house messed up, Finnigan the leprechaun must have come! He overturns furniture, pillows on the floor, and we set up our leprechaun trap to catch him. We left treats under the trap and in return he left treats for us. So Finnigan is actually always good. We clean up the pillows, and notice he went wee-wee in our toilet! The toilet water is green (this will be a new tradition-Thanks Erika!) and there are also white little tracks around the house where he's pitter-pattered around. Such great fun! Holidays are GREAT with kids. Memories and traditions I never want to end. Even when I'm full grown.
Biggest Loser 2nd place!
For the past 10 weeks, (Since January 3rd) I've been dieting. And I won 2nd place in our challenge! The diet ended yesterday and I lost 20 lbs and got down to 126 lbs. (13.36%) and I won $50! Yahoo! Bring on the Chipotle and chocolate.
Fair Oaks
I love the Fair Oaks area. The mall, the hospital, it's where we lived when we first moved to Virginia-right next to Fairfax Corner. The mall there has all the wonderful amenities for shopping with kids-pottery barn where they can play, Gymboree where they watch TV while you shop, a Chick-fil-a, Cold Stone, does it get any better?
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Fires and Chickens
On Thursday for Ash's little preschool, we went to visit the new Haymarket Fire Station. Then we hit the new Chik-fil-A restaurant in Gainesville. There's so many reasons that I love Gainesville, VA. Chik-fil-A opening just made my paradigm shift. And when Chipotle opens, gosh, I don't think I'll ever leave my 4 mile radius world.
Monday, March 09, 2009
Cartoon Cuts
This is the Ikea bookshelf I put together for Ash's room! Although in the end, I ended up with 2 extra screws and when I moved it against the wall a couple of pieces came apart, I told Ash this is strictly a bookshelf and to not climb in it or...it could fall apart. Although it serves its purpose for now.
The kids and I have many "parties" downstairs with each other with a special movie and its so cute because the kids cuddle up together in one chair instead of using the couch. I hope they always stay close.
Jonathan came home for 2 days. We hadn't seen him in over a month and he left again and comes back April 1. We had a great time together!!
Ash got her hair cut at Cartoon Cuts at Fair Oaks mall last week! She loved the pampering!!!
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