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Last year,for Kaylie's 9th birthday, I took her to see "The Princess and the Frog." She loved the movie!
Impressions Of Family Night By Studiogirls

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Birthday Party at Coco Keys

Kay and Liam heading to Coco Keys for Kelsey's birthday party.

Kelsey and Kay tubing in the lazy river.

Kelsey and the kids.

Birthday girl.

Kelsey hugging the Coco Key mascot.

Kay, Kelsey, Lily and Kelsey's cousin with Coco.

Make a wish and blow out the candles.

Kay playing skeet ball.

Kelsey celebrated her birthday on 8/25/2010 at Coco Keys, an indoor water park. The kids spent 2 hours in the Hurricane Harbor-like mini water park. It was their first time there and they enjoyed it a lot. Now Kaylie wants to have her birthday party there, too. 10122

Birthday Party at Coco Keys

Julia's Birthday Party

I don't know why Kaylie is looking up, but I kind of like it anyway.


Julia had a swimming pool party to celebrate her 7th birthday. The kids loved the swimming pool. 3939

Julia's Birthday Party

BIrthday - Krabby Patties

Playing the "Stinging Jelly Fish, " a/k/a hot potato.
The "Krabby Patties" were a hit with the kids. And so simple to make, too.

Surprise!

Was Liam ever surprised when he realized he was getting a Wii. We need the balance board to get some exercise games to get him moving. It is not all fun and games.

Liam loved his Spongebob Squarepants cake and krabby patties. He couldn't wait to whack his Spongebob pinata. They also flipped sponges (patties) with a spatula onto a bucket full of water. Later, they threw wet sponges at each other. The slip and slide was tons of fun for them. They got wet until they were too cold to play.

BIrthday - Krabby Patties

Someone is having a birthday!

My lovely girl turns 8 years old today.
We are having a small party at Chuck E Cheese. She is super excited.
Will come back later with photos, if I can. I have to survive first. :)
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Someone is having a birthday!

Birthday Invitation

http://shop.scrapbookgraphics.com/product.php?productid=21280&cat=0&page=2

Kaylie's birthday is coming up soon. This is the birthday card I made for her. I used the Buzi Bugs Birthday collection by Lorie Davison at Scrapbookgraphics.

Birthday Invitation

Birthday Party

I took the kids to Kaylie's friend's birthday party at Chuck E Cheese. We were there for close to 3 hours. Liam had a blast playing video games. Kaylie spent all of her time playing with her friend. A fun day for all.

Birthday Party

Week in Review: 8/3 Emanuel's Pool Party

I won't post the pictures again.
You can view this post HERE for pictures and scrapbook album.
Slide Show of Scrapbook Pool/Birthday Party.
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Week in Review: 8/3 Emanuel's Pool Party

Slide Show: Sleeping Beauty

AMPHITHEATER - “Sleeping Beauty” and “Cinderella”

Presented by Pages to Pirouettes Ballet Troupe

A night of fairy tales as the Philadelphia-area troupe, which specializes in the magical art of story ballet, performs two children’s classic stories.

The troupe first reads each story and then performs it in ballets. “Sleeping Beauty”- During this once-upon-a-time presentation, set to the magnificent music of Peter Tchaikovsky, the dancers will bring to life a day of royal celebration for the new baby Princess Aurora.

On the day of the party, the dark fairy, Carabosse, the infant princess to death, but the Lilac Fairy softens the curse so that Aurora waits in a deep sleep for true love's first kiss.

“Cinderella” – Living with her two wicked step-sisters, Cinderella spends her days cleaning and laboring in the house. When the Prince invites the whole kingdom to a royal ball, she is forbidden to go, but her Fairy Godmother helps her achieve her dream.

This enchanting tale is told with humor and elegance, and choreographed to the music of Sergei Prokofiev. http://www.pages-to-pirouettes.com/.

I can't wait for next week's performance as The Odessa Klezmer Band will be playing. I am a big fan of Klezmer music and plan to be there, front row of course! 505

Slide Show: Sleeping Beauty

Friday Fun

The kids have only been out of school for 2 days, and want to be out and about constantly. Today is Naysa's party, which should be lots of fun for Kaylie. Naysa is actually Liam's friend from Kindergarten. It is a girly birthday party...princesses party. Poor Liam, besides Naysa's 4 year old brother, he was the only boy in this age range there. Danielle, one of Liam's girlfriends from class was there, with her 10 year old brother. Altogether there were 3 boys amongst 12 girls.

The kids ate pizza and drank juice/soda. They had a brownie cake and cupcakes. They each got tiaras to decorate as they pleased. The most fun part for the girls was MAKEUP time. They each got their own makeup kit. They sat on a chair as some of the mothers quickly applied the makeup up to their faces, applied stick-on earrings and dabbed a bit of perfume. They got a magical wand, bracelets, lip gloss and other little delightful trinkets.

The party ended with a live presentation of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. Natalia, Naysa's mom, had the foresight to reserve the front row seating for all of us at the party. During the last show, the presenter even called out Naysa's and Ariana's names as birthday girls, who got a round of applause from all present.

The show was wonderful. It was Kaylie's and Liam's first time watching a live show, which they enjoyed immensely. Of course, I was taking pictures of the whole thing. The actors did a fabulous job and their performance was outstanding. They even invited the kids to the front so they could meet them and dance, if they wanted to.

I took the kids to meet the actors, who gracefully posed for pictures. Kaylie only wanted to have her picture taken with the female performers, while Liam only wanted to have his picture taken with the male performers.

A point worth mentioning is that Liam totally loved the performances and was humming along to the music. As I was congratulating each of the ensemble cast members, Liam was listening to my congratulatory spiel so that when we went to see "Sleeping Beauty" he told her that she had done a "fabulous job." Her smile was so big and heartwarming that I couldn't help but to smile at the both of them. :) The actors were all so very charming and deserving of the praise they were getting. I for one can't wait to go back to see other performances.

Did I tell you I took over 300 photos? I will try to post pictures later, if not tomorrow. Have a wonderful weekend! 496

Friday Fun

Birthday Box / Baersgarten Grabbag / 6th Birthday

Liam had a great time at his birthday party. It was just a small gathering. He loved his Spongebob cake and couldn’t wait to open his presents. I watched the cutest smile come over his face as we all sang the birthday song. The pinata was his most favorite event. 5-11-2008

Alpha from Breeze elements by Natali Designs
Font: Century Gothic and AvantGarde
Sketch 231 by Andrea Gold
Journaling Highlights - Jackie Eckles
Month and date lines by me
Kit used: Birthday Box - Supersized by Baers Garten
(You can get this kit for $5.00 from May 21 to May 25. It will be $24.00 thereafter.

Birthday Box / Baersgarten Grabbag / 6th Birthday

POA - May 11th

colorful pinata. A bull.

POA - May 11th

POA - May 8th

Look who turned 6 years old today!

He has the creamiest skin...with a few freckles here and there. Soooo cute. I love his eyes, too. Ok, I am biased.

POA - May 8th

Liam's Birthday and Mother's Day

Liam playing the Spongebob game after everyone was gone.
Daddy comforting Liam. Liam went to him to complain that he hardly got any toys and candies from the Pinata...the other kids were way faster. :)
The kids scrambling around to pick up candies and toys....

Emanuel thought that he was going to have better luck because he is bigger. Was he wrong! He came out swinging hard. Ultimately, it was Catalina that whacked the bull the hardest that it came tumbling down. It didn't break, so dh broke it apart for them and tossed the candies.

Kaylie's turn to club the pinata. She managed to pull off one of the horns.

Just one more try...

Liam whacking the pinata. He thought it was going to be easy. But I covered his eyes and then spun him around...he was so mad that he couldn't hit the pinata. Daddy was lowering the pinata up and down to challenge the kids....
I love the bright colors of this pinata.
Isn't this a cute cake?

Doesn't Liam look cute here? And so sweet, too. :)

I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day yesterday.

Liam turned 6 this week so I had decided to have his little party on Sunday; I had a serious memory lapse and forgot what day it was, duh! . We only wanted a few people over: my uncle and his wife, who is still recoving from testicular hernia. I thought he was walking a bit funny...:). He brought his 2 step-grandchildren so Liam had a new playmate. My brother Roberto came straight from his job for a bit, too. My friend Elizabeth came with her son and brought a little friend along.

I cooked everything by myself. I made Yellow rice with pigeon beans, potato salad, a leafy sald (lettuce/romaine/onions/tomatoes and feta cheese), lasagna (double layer: beef and ricotta cheese), baked chicken and baked bbq pork chops. The pigeon beans were brought by my mother in law from Puerto Rico. I had to boil them for 45 minutes before I was able to add it to the rice. I started some of the preparations the night before, but most of the work was done on Sunday as I like everything freshly made. I hate reheated food or overcooked.

By the time I sat for dinner, most everyone was done. Liam was super excited and couldn't wait to dig in to his Spongebob cake. He wanted a Spongebob cake so he was one happy boy. Liam and the kids were playing outside, so he kept coming in every 15 minutes to ask when the cake was going to be cut. He couldn't wait for me to clean up the table and set up....sheesh!

Anyway, after slaving over a hot stove and oven, I really couldn't enjoy eating my dinner. I was so freaking hot and bothered, that I didn't even eat much of anything.

We sang Liam the birthday song...he was acting shy, which is so endearing and strange at the same time. He did look adorable, though. He shoved the cake in his mouth as fast as he could, then demanded to open the gifts. I made him wait for everyone to finish eating the cake and icecream, then let him open the gifts.

We got him a super cool bike, which he can't ride because he can't reach the hand breaks. So much for that cool present! I got him a Spongebob game that one plugs to the tv, he loved it. He got a blow up scooby doo sand bag toy that he can punch around and a helicopter.

All in all, it was a day for Liam, and not a day for me. But, I can handle that. 127

Liam's Birthday and Mother's Day

Happy Birthday to...

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Liam! My baby is 6 years old today!
Boy, time sure is flying by fast. I can still remember him turning 5 last year. Why do I remember, because he wanted to stay 4, he didn't want to turn 5. Silly boy!

Anyway, he got up at 6:30 a.m. I was already up brushing my teeth before I went down to make dh's breakfast and lunch. He was super excited to be turning 6. Hmm, maybe it had something to do with the boxes of juice and cupcakes that he knew I would be bringing to school to share with his classmates.

He really didn't want to pose for the pict. but here is one nonetheless. Not his best, but then again, there is never a good time for Liam.

Happy Birthday to...

4/20/2008 - Adam's Birthday

These are the flowers that Liam chose to bring to the cemetery.

These are the flowers that Kaylie picked out.

Here is the site...with mulch and flowers.
Raking...
Aren't these the coolest gloves? The only reason Liam agreed to pick up leaves. :)

"Did you say you want me to pick up sticks AND rake leaves? Just look around, Mama, this will take me 10 years!



Today is Adam's birthday. We went to the cemetery to clean up around his grave and plant some flowers. What better way to honor his memory than planting flowers and teaching the kids that when someone dies that person still remains a part of the family and has to be remembered.

I asked the kids to help me by picking up sticks from the surrounding grave area. There were sticks EVERYWHERE so they soon got tired of picking sticks and wanted to rake leaves instead. Kaylie was a trooper, she raked, she picked up leaves, she dug a hole to plant the flowers and spread the mulch.

Liam, on the other hand, offered to pick up leaves because he wanted to WEAR the GLOVES I had brought to keep our hands from getting germy and dirty. I don't mind cleaning up, but hate picking up grubs/worms or any other kind of living being with my bare hands. Yuck! Anyway, the novelty of the gloves wore off shortly and he didn't want to help anymore. He has the attention span of a gnat.

While I went to the cemetery to clean up Adam's gravesite, when I saw how unkept the other graves were, I decided to clean them up a bit, too. Liam couldn't understand why I wanted to clean up the other graves, when we didn't even know who the people buried there were. I told him that this was like our Earth Day, when you clean up for the sake of the planet and because it was the right thing to do. In one ear and out the other. Maybe next year, he'll get the point of doing for others.

Later on the afternoon, we all went out for a bike ride around the neighborhood. The kids had a lot of fun...and got their exercise.

4/20/2008 - Adam's Birthday