21
Mar
This past weekend was the Super Moon. Although I didn’t see the superness in it, Ichiro was excited to break out his telescope to check it out! He even got Noby into his geekiness!
Ichiro took over 1000 pictures of the Super Moon and of course the only picture I downloaded is out of focus! haha OOPS!
20
Mar
Sunday morning Brenda hosted brunch for everyone. It was DELICIOUS!! Brenda proves time and time again that she’s got the skills to open a breakfast house!!! Her jingle would be, “you can get anything you want, at Brenda’s restaurant!” Now just imagine my dad singing the jingle!! haha
19
Mar
This weekend my parents came to Boston to celebrate my Mom’s birthday with us! She was turning the big 6 0 and her only request was that had to include everyone, especially the kids. She didn’t want to do anything silly, like a movie or a stupid spa. HAHA Brenda came up with a great idea for some candle pin bowling and she suggested a place she heard about on the Phantom Gourmet, The Flatbread Company’s Sacco’s Bowl Haven. It was a perfect afternoon! We were able to relax, chitchat, eat a light lunch and bowl! It was great! Everyone had a great time!
That evening we took our parents out to dinner at the Continental in Saugus. My Dad described the restaurant as old world. He was not only impressed with his meal but also with everything the restaurant did BEFORE your food even arrived. He said that’s what going out to eat use to be like. We all enjoyed it very much!!
Happy 60th Birthday Mom (Memere!)!!!
18
Mar
This week I worked hard on putting our kitchen back together, I couldn’t be more happy with how it turned out. As most of you know the pantry part of our kitchen was more of a nursery. We not only had a changing area set up in there but we pretty much stored everything related to the boys there. From diapers to sippy cups, plus medicine and bath towels. Like I said everything. Anyway I was tired of it so I slowly started finding new places for everything. Check out how it looks… I couldn’t be more happy!
17
Mar
Today Noby delivered his St Patrick’s Day pots of gold to his teachers. They were very excited AND impressed by his work! haha
Noby ready for school in his, “This is my lucky shirt” shirt!
Koji was also decked out in green…
Thumbs Up!
16
Mar
Today we had to add the candy and package our St Patrick’s Day gifts for Noby’s teachers. I think Noby enjoyed this part the most. Only because he ate so much candy! haha
One by one he added the candy to the pots…
When it came to the packaging, Noby was funny. I told him it was time to put them in the bag and this is what he did…
OOPS! He just poured the candy into the bag.
In the end I love the way the pots looked. I’m excited for Noby to bring them in tomorrow…
15
Mar
Today I had Noby work on the tags. I originally thought I could just have him cut the paper using his scissors. I thought it would be ok if it wasn’t exactly straight. Because it was from HIM. However I learned very quickly that that wasn’t going to be good enough. It didn’t look good enough. We had to fix it. After I let him cut the paper, I broke out the scrap-booking paper cutter to get some straight cuts.
Next I had him glue the paper tag onto some thicker white paper…
And we cut that…
Next we glued that to green and cut that…
I forgot to take a picture of them finished… so you will have to wait for the finished project! haha SORRY!
14
Mar
So as many of you know I’m obsessed with Pinterest! It’s a social network that’s a virtual bulletin board. You can post and organize different things you find on the internet. Save ideas for later in an organized fashion. When you click on the picture from your bulletin board it will link you to the original post on the internet. THEN you can see what other people have posted on their bulletin board and if you like their style you can follow them! Like I said I’m addicted. Anyway a few weeks ago I found this picture on Pinterest….
It linked me back to maddycakesmuse.blogspot.com’s blog. There the blogger gave free downloads to the tags PLUS these tags…
I loved the idea and thought I would have Noby make them for his teachers. Of course I needed to make a few changes, starting with a black bucket. We searched but couldn’t find any black tin so I thought, why not paint them! I decided to have Noby do one part of the project each day this week. First up… painting the pots!
I ended up using little flower pots, I had Noby paint them black…
13
Mar
Today was my birthday and after a slow start (to many Sharkatinis) it honestly turned out to be a perfect day! It started with Noby remembering it was my birthday when I went in his room this morning! It was awesome, he said “It’s Mommy’s Birthday!” Then we went in to wake Ichiro up, Noby sang the entire Happy Birthday song to me! LOVED IT, my heart melted. I was also very impressed, I didn’t know he knew all the words! After everyone was dressed we thought we might go get some breakfast but before we left Ichiro and the boys gave me a couple of funny cards and a beautiful Pandora bracelet. I was Soooo excited! I’ve wanted a Pandora bracelet for a while!! We decided that maybe I should get the next size bracelet. If anymore charms were added it would be to tight. So we skipped breakfast and headed to the mall.
Look how beautiful my bracelet is!! Ichiro (and the boys) did such a great job! The different color glass beads represent their birthstone colors!
After the mall we decided to get some lunch. We were going to try the Rainforest Cafe however the wait was an hour and a half!! So we headed to Border Cafe. I’ll never complain about Mexican! Especially margaritas!
We kept asking Noby what he wanted for lunch and he kept saying “a hamburger.” We decided we would get it and hope he was going to expand his menu. No such luck. He wouldn’t take a bite. Oh well! haha
Koji was so chill the entire time we were there. He just hung out in his car seat and sang us songs!
Thanks Ichiro for making my birthday awesome!! LU!
12
Mar
Megan’s away so Keith decided to come over and celebrate my birthday a little early!! While he finished a fifth of Captain, I decided to try to make the Sharkatinis I had at the beach. I have to admit they came out pretty good and I might have drank a few to many! haha
Koji was eyeing my Sharkatini…
