Beauty & The Beast

Today we had the

opportunity to watch an production of Beauty and The Beast. It was presented at our church by members of the homeschool co-op, which a lot of our friends from church belong to, which means their children were in the play. The girls were so excited. Gretchen has seen the production at Miami East a couple of years ago and LaComedia, but Delaney had never been to anything like this before. So we decided to go and invite Grandma to join us. There was an tea party before the production which included a beautiful box from Mrs. Potts, which included an cupcake, candy, rose shaped sucker, bubbles and an autograph book. They also served them punch in a glass that they got to keep. Roses were on everything - attention to detail was amazing!! Then Gaston, Lefu, Cogsworth, Lumiere, Babette, Wardrobe, Mrs. Potts, and of course The Beast/Prince & Belle came in to greet us, sign autographs and invited us "To Be Their Guest" at the Show. And then on to the show, which I am always amazed to watch students perform because they are so wonderful and young and obviously dedicated for all the hard work they do. The show was wonderful and all had a great time "Being their Guest."

Cousin Fun!

So Missy(my cousin) and me (we are the Hot Mommas in those Sexy Glasses) knew the kids would be off of school today and since they are leaving for Spring Break in AZ thought this would be a good time to have some cousin fun! You have to understand we didn't grow up together and we love being together and so do our kids, none of "OMG do we have to go there?" I think we get as excited as the kids do to be honest. So we all pile in one car and off for lunch, Frisch's today since we still had some Valentines' coupons, which means kids eat FREE! $10 is the cost for my meal with tip. Then off to see Monsters Vs. Aliens in 3D, which side bar here is they totally screw you with that extra pricing because of those glasses and being special technology it cost me $31.50 to just get in for 3 of us and mind you this is matinee pricing. Then it is off to the snack bar for our FREE Popcorn, I guess since we have the frequent buyer card we earned a FREE popcorn and of course had to have something to drink, we shared to cut costs on this too. So I got away with $5 there and that is because we are both candy smugglers - candy jail here we come (see earlier movie post). So basically $46.50 later we are at the movie, but the experience and fun we have all together is Priceless! Of course, we both laugh afterwards because we compared notes and noted they showed all these other cool upcoming 3D movies to bait us now or so we can save up and that we both checked during the movie to make sure there is a difference with these glasses, yes we are eerily alike. But all of us love going to movies and even better all together. Our goodie bags filled today with a variety of candy and popcorn. Should have taken a pic of what we do, ziploc bag with your name on it and then we bust out all the candy and ask who wants what and we place some in each person that wants that particular type of candy, but hey it beats passing constantly and asking do you want this? So then we all head back to the house and the kids play outside and we talk some more, while they play. There never seems like enough time to talk about everything with each other and there is never enough time to spend together, as it winds down and they are starting to pack up, of course, this takes a while with 5 kids and 2 adults all having to get in their hugs, kisses and I love you, I start to feel sad already because our day of fun is about to end and I know they will be on their trip next week this time, but I already miss them! Thanks for another priceless memory!

Shake Your Thing!

So for my Brownie troop to earn their Dancerize badge we decided to pick them up from school bring them back to my house and dance, dance, dance! It was so funny they danced, played freeze dance and decided they needed a little break. We put in the Hannah Montana DVD so they could dance and watch, whatever they felt like as we fixed their pizza for dinner. So we danced some more and had pizza. After that they danced some more, played some more freeze dance and was really getting tired, so alas the Dancing with The Stars segment. Alot of them loved the show and we tried to show some good dances, not so good dances and talked about body image some ( I am amazed & sad how 1st & 2nd graders are already so concerned with this, which is why I think that Dove Foundation is so important) and how the same dance can look so different because of the interpretation of the dance from the dancer and their choice of music can influence this. Of course we did not watch the complete thing (some of those outfits are a little much, plus I sometimes think they are to distract from bad dancing), but they loved seeing and guessing scores too. Then it was time for parents to pick up. All and all they had a great time and we had a great time with them. Of course, Gretchen had already asked me before all her friends came over to "Please don't dance mom, you might embarass me" and I have to respect that, because if you have seen me dance anything other than slow I should probably be embarassed too!

Preschool at the Pizza Place

Just as the title states I had the opportunity to visit the local Fletcher Pizza Parlor right around the corner from Delaney's preschool on Thursday of this week. I had to laugh though Delaney didn't think it should be considered a field trip because we could walk there. And loudy announced "I can't believe we have to walk" the whole block I thought, crazy kid. They let each of them make their own pizza, of course the hardest part was waiting for your yummy creation to be baked to try it. Thank goodness we have very smart teachers that brought plenty of paper and crayons so the anxious little ones could create art as they waited for the delicious pizza to be baked. It was YUMMY!! And only had to dodge a couple spring rain drops.

Spring Has Sprung!!

Isn't this picture beautiful? We have 2 trees that are starting to bloom and other flowers starting to pop up. It is so great to only have to wear an spring coat or maybe not one at all and beautiful walks. Hope you are taking time to smell the flowers and watch the blooms at this most beautiful time of year.

Movie Time!!

So my weekend consisted of lots of fun!! First, they were having another Family Movie Night at the elementary school and I told Gretchen she could have a friend come with us. So after school off to pick up her friend, fix pizza and off to the movie, which was Kit Kitridge The American Girl Movie, but don't let the title fool you it is actually a really good movie about the Great Depression that I think everyone can relate to especially in todays turbulent economy. So the pic is my 2 girls and Gretchen's friend. Jason opted out of this to let us have a little GNO (Girls Night Out) for you non -Hannah Montana fans. I laugh because he even used the term GNO - he is a man with little girls and who has had the priviledge of getting his ear drums rattled as he enjoyed the Jonas Brothers/Hannah Montana concert - what you don't do to make your kids happy! So I digress! Then her friend spent the night. Then it was up early because Gretchen has been taking these Saturday enrichment classes because of some high test scores, so I took this time to get some retail therapy in and then Gretchen and me had our lunch date - lots of fun and then some more retail therapy. Which I have to say is always fun with Gretchen because she likes fashion and is brutally honest with you about clothes and how they look on you - not for the faint of heart I have to tell you! And then came home to do some things before off to the local volunteer Fire Dept. fish/chicken fry - yummy! But the best part was that I then got to go with my good friend, who happens to be my cousin, for a movie date. Long story short, Christmas present was a movie date for just the 2 of us because we like to take our children, but we never get to just go. So off to see a movie that had just been released, Duplicity. I was just excited to go see something that just came out and it wasn't kid related - sad I know! Have to be honest, not what I thought it would be and go in knowing you are going to have to think and I am the type that goes to have fun and not think at a movie, but I had great company (minus those stalkers -ha, ha) and great snacks - I love movie theatre popcorn and a coke!! And of course, the candy smugglers we are, Swedish Fish. Which I will digress again, funny story though. Over Christmas Break Jason and me took the girls to a movie, as promised, and we usually will let them get a drink and popcorn, which by the time you pay to get in, even to a afternoon showing is expensive, so I stock up on the candy beforehand. Well this day I was blessed enough to sit next to some freak that found it necessary to tell me, not to my face mind you, but under her breath ever so often that people go to jail for that - I guess smuggling candy, sorry I take my chances. Of course, she must have thought the candy police was going to come and haul me away and didn't want to be part of it because part way through the movie she got up and moved, which was fine with me because the constant "you are going to jail" was getting a little old. Okay, sorry, I digress again, but the real point is that I did have a great time with my friend, eventhough the movie was so so. And today was our last Cookie Booth - wahoooo!! Hope you had a GREAT weekend too! Busy week coming up with Pampered Chef and Girl Scouts, so until next time. . .

Beautiful Day, Park and Friends

Aren't they cute? Holding hands and all.

So after a call this morning wanting to know if we wanted to enjoy an afternoon at the park we threw caution to the wind and decided other things could wait - laundry, at least it is clean, desk - will get cleaned later and the mopping, well isn't it supposed to rain later anyway? We have been doing that all
this week I have to say, Monday errands ran into a friend and off to shop we went, but I did find Gretchen's Easter dress she wanted - whew!!, Tuesday was breakfast date with Missy, which then we end up spending the rest of the day together, because 2 hours is never enough time and then today, but sometimes you just have to enjoy life and it makes you feel good. So off to work on dinner, I think grilled chicken is on the menu tonight and then maybe we will enjoy a walk afterwards and maybe a little ice cream too -don't laugh - it balances out okay!! Enjoy the beautiful day God has given us!