Dan and I stood at the "finish line" of the parade, and the kids zipped by so fast I barely even got a chance to take a photo!
My friend Stephanie stood more in the middle of the parade route, so got a good one when the "float" paused
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Showing posts with label fun events 2013. Show all posts
Monday, June 17, 2013
Parade
My mother-in-law invited the kids to join her in the parade, walking with an organization she's very involved in. The overall theme of the parade has been pirates, so the kids dressed the part!
Dan and I stood at the "finish line" of the parade, and the kids zipped by so fast I barely even got a chance to take a photo!
My friend Stephanie stood more in the middle of the parade route, so got a good one when the "float" paused
Dan and I stood at the "finish line" of the parade, and the kids zipped by so fast I barely even got a chance to take a photo!
My friend Stephanie stood more in the middle of the parade route, so got a good one when the "float" paused
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Hotel Stay
We stayed in a hotel near Dan's work one night over Spring Break, figuring it would be a nice little get-away for the kids, and one night that Dan didn't have a huge commute to work AND would get to sleep in. I picked one with an indoor pool, and the kids and I checked in at 3pm and pretty much headed straight down to the pool to swim while we waited for Dan to get off work
I hung out in the lounge chair with my iPad and read a book on the Kindle app.
About 15 minutes after they started swimming, Connor came shrieking out of pool saying his throat was burning and his ears were gurgling. I quickly realized I'd neglected to put in his ear plugs. BAD MOMMY! Nothing like having chlorine water "gurgle" through your tubes and down your throat for 15 minutes... I'm still not super used to having to do this now that he has the tubes in his ears! I'd even packed extra ear plugs in case any got lost, and then STILL didn't bother to put them in. SIGH! Dried out his ears, got the ear plugs in, and he was good to go. And I was GOOD and didn't forget for any of the other times we hit up the pool during our stay!
Em wore clothes over her suit down to the pool, but when we had to dash back to the room to get Connor's ear plugs, she didn't want to put her clothes on over her wet suit, so she grabbed up a towel and put on her furry boots (she forgot flip flops) and followed me up to the room. Cracked me up!
Five Guys burger joint was RIGHT across the street, so we took the kids there for dinner. Connor was obsessed with the free peanuts!
He got peanut stuff ALL OVER HIMSELF, and when I commented to him that he was making a mess of himself and the floor, one of the employees walked by and said, "Actually, the whole premise of the restaurant is that people are SUPPOSED to throw the shells on the ground, but sales in our west coast stores were way down until we tried out keeping the floors clean. You should see the floors of the east coast stores! So don't worry about what ends up on the floor; it's supposed to happen that way, and someone will come along and clean it up."
I hung out in the lounge chair with my iPad and read a book on the Kindle app.
About 15 minutes after they started swimming, Connor came shrieking out of pool saying his throat was burning and his ears were gurgling. I quickly realized I'd neglected to put in his ear plugs. BAD MOMMY! Nothing like having chlorine water "gurgle" through your tubes and down your throat for 15 minutes... I'm still not super used to having to do this now that he has the tubes in his ears! I'd even packed extra ear plugs in case any got lost, and then STILL didn't bother to put them in. SIGH! Dried out his ears, got the ear plugs in, and he was good to go. And I was GOOD and didn't forget for any of the other times we hit up the pool during our stay!
Em wore clothes over her suit down to the pool, but when we had to dash back to the room to get Connor's ear plugs, she didn't want to put her clothes on over her wet suit, so she grabbed up a towel and put on her furry boots (she forgot flip flops) and followed me up to the room. Cracked me up!
Five Guys burger joint was RIGHT across the street, so we took the kids there for dinner. Connor was obsessed with the free peanuts!
He got peanut stuff ALL OVER HIMSELF, and when I commented to him that he was making a mess of himself and the floor, one of the employees walked by and said, "Actually, the whole premise of the restaurant is that people are SUPPOSED to throw the shells on the ground, but sales in our west coast stores were way down until we tried out keeping the floors clean. You should see the floors of the east coast stores! So don't worry about what ends up on the floor; it's supposed to happen that way, and someone will come along and clean it up."
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Swan Lake
Emily Grace LOVES going to see ballet productions, and we hadn't yet seen Swan Lake yet, so I bought us tickets this year. What a beautiful show!
We arrived with some time to kill, so we perused the gift shop, and Em tried on some hats and masks:
During the first Intermission, we treated ourselves at the concession stand. Em chose this fancy looking cupcake, and I picked out a brownie (which was heavenly)
Our favorite scenes in the ballet were where ALL the swans would dance together (24 of them!). They were so in sync and really just FLOATED across the stage. It was incredible. I couldn't find a comparable youtube video for the large swan scenes, but I did find this video (posted below) of one of the smaller swan scenes, which we think is pretty spot-on to what we saw. VERY VERY cool, in our opinion!!! (I did NOT take the video, just found it on youtube). I'd be hard-pressed to dance gracefully on my own, let alone joined to three other dancers doing those moves!
We arrived with some time to kill, so we perused the gift shop, and Em tried on some hats and masks:
During the first Intermission, we treated ourselves at the concession stand. Em chose this fancy looking cupcake, and I picked out a brownie (which was heavenly)
Our favorite scenes in the ballet were where ALL the swans would dance together (24 of them!). They were so in sync and really just FLOATED across the stage. It was incredible. I couldn't find a comparable youtube video for the large swan scenes, but I did find this video (posted below) of one of the smaller swan scenes, which we think is pretty spot-on to what we saw. VERY VERY cool, in our opinion!!! (I did NOT take the video, just found it on youtube). I'd be hard-pressed to dance gracefully on my own, let alone joined to three other dancers doing those moves!
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Ice Cream Outing
The kids had Spring Break last week, and we took advantage of the extra free time during one of the days to meet up with some besties for ice cream!
The girls' table: (Emily, Madisen, Kaitlyn)
The boys' table: (Cody, Jared, Connor)
The mommy table: (Me and Stephanie)
Emily and I got my all-time favorite, the pink peppermint candy kind, and Jared and Connor got a crazy green and purple kind with little bits of something in it (Rockin' Poppin' something or other... LOL). We were all happy with our choices. :)
The girls' table: (Emily, Madisen, Kaitlyn)
The boys' table: (Cody, Jared, Connor)
The mommy table: (Me and Stephanie)
Emily and I got my all-time favorite, the pink peppermint candy kind, and Jared and Connor got a crazy green and purple kind with little bits of something in it (Rockin' Poppin' something or other... LOL). We were all happy with our choices. :)
Monday, February 11, 2013
Father/Daughter Ball 2013
Pretty curls! We used a method we found on Pinterest, where you roll the hair into a coil, press between foil, then flat iron each foiled coil (ha!). Took about an hour to do her head, but we got WAY better results than using a curling iron or hot rollers, and they were still beautiful the next morning, even after a night of dancing and being slept on for 8+ hours...
Monday, January 28, 2013
Sleepover
Connor got to have a sleepover at his friend Cody's house Saturday. He was so excited he could hardly stand it!
I got text/photo updates throughout the course of the evening. LOVED IT!
Watching TV together (at one point, I guess the two sisters and giant dog were part of this line-up as well. LOL!!!)
When Cody slept over at our house recently, he brought microwave popcorn and lollipops, so Connor was very adament that we stop at the store and get some sort of treat to take over to Cody's house. We settled on ice cream and chocolate dipped cones.
The boys got to sleep in a little tent in the livingroom!
They took turns reading a book together
Connor chattered all Sunday morning about what a good time he had, and then fell asleep on the couch for two hours that afternoon. LOL Grandpa even stopped by for a quick visit, and when we tried to wake Connor up, he was GROUCHY and not having any part of it. When he was finally awake on his own, he had zero recollection of us trying to wake him up. I'd say he had a really good time; he hasn't napped in FOREVER prior to yesterday!
I got text/photo updates throughout the course of the evening. LOVED IT!
Watching TV together (at one point, I guess the two sisters and giant dog were part of this line-up as well. LOL!!!)
When Cody slept over at our house recently, he brought microwave popcorn and lollipops, so Connor was very adament that we stop at the store and get some sort of treat to take over to Cody's house. We settled on ice cream and chocolate dipped cones.
The boys got to sleep in a little tent in the livingroom!
They took turns reading a book together
Connor chattered all Sunday morning about what a good time he had, and then fell asleep on the couch for two hours that afternoon. LOL Grandpa even stopped by for a quick visit, and when we tried to wake Connor up, he was GROUCHY and not having any part of it. When he was finally awake on his own, he had zero recollection of us trying to wake him up. I'd say he had a really good time; he hasn't napped in FOREVER prior to yesterday!
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