A trip to North Conway.....

Our trip to North Conway was a bit of a bust... but we still managed to have some fun at the indoor pool and jacuzzi...... Jason enjoyed getting to hang out with his favorite Auntie Lisa.... Nicholas and Dan enjoying the jacuzzi.... Bathing suit-check....PJ top-check..... binkie-check.....winter hat-check.........let's head back to the pool!

New pics.....

I don't know why my brother doesn't like his winter hat.... fits me pretty good ! Mom - why didn't you tell me before how yummy my toes can be??? Dad, what is this silly stuffed animal on my head? Wow - this jumperoo is fun! Nicholas enjoys playing with it too! Funny how he still likes all his old toys. I love my exersaucer too!

Come on Dad, let's go for a ride... spring will be here soon! I hope!!

Nicholas trying to dress himself.... this matches right Mom?

Happy St Patty's Day!

And the celebration continues.....

Trying to get Dan to go out in Worcester is like pulling teeth! He just refuses to do anything there. Dan told me he didn't want a 40th birthday party but I just couldn't let the big event go by without celebrating somehow. Rather than the big blowout we threw for his 30th, I thought I would do something a little lower key. Just invite family and close friends and hang out. I decided to rent a couple of pool tables at Jillian's in Worcester and surprise him. To pull this off required quite a fake plan. It took many days to spin the excuse of why we were going to Worcester and then how we were going to end up at Jillian's. Our friends Leighann and Scott were my backup.... Leighann actually put the lineup together. They were getting emails daily of how the story was coming along so they knew what to say if Dan called or emailed. Once the story was finally all put together, the first words out of Dan's mouth were 'sounds fishy'.... ACK!!! So I kept elaborating on the story and he seemed to be convinced.

I can remember saying on Friday night after celebrating Dan's birthday how happy I was that the kids were healthy this year since our plans got ruined last year when Nicholas came home early from daycare with a fever. Man did I jinx us! Around 12:30AM I heard Nicholas stirring and coughing. I noticed on the monitor that he was wiping something off his pillow. I decided to go investigate. Before I even turned on the lights I could smell the vomit :( Poor guy ended up throwing up for the next 4 hours. Dan had him in and out of the shower atleast 4 times and stayed with him most of that time. After the last episode, Dan said we better cancel our plans with Leighann and Scott. At which point I had to let the cat out of the bag and tell him about the party.... he was PISSED!! He spent the whole day mad at me and held a grudge even into the first few minutes of the party! Luckily Nicholas had stopped vomitting the next morning and my mother and stepfather were willing to take one for the team and come babysit still (my mother ended up catching Nicholas' stomach bug - OOPS! - sorry mom!!)

Anyways, once the party started up and people started playing pool, I know Dan started to really enjoy himself. It really was a nice night out getting to see all the people close to us in one place. I think it was a huge success and Dan even thanked me for the party the next morning :) Thanks to everyone for taking the time to come out and celebrate with us!

Here are some pics from the night - most of them are from Dan's sister Aimee who already posted them on facebook so they might be duplicates to some of you!

Happy 40th Dan!

Dan celebrated his 40th birthday on March 11th. Unfortunately he had to work but Nicholas, Jason and I worked hard making him his favorite cake that he requests every year ....... strawberry cake from the box and fresh buttercream frosting. I must admit the cake looks a bit sad. I blame it on not having time to really pay attention while taking care of two kids :) When Dan got home, we took off for a family dinner at Friendly's! This is the first time we've ordered off the childrens menu for Nicholas. Such a waste seeing as he barely ate it but he sure had fun! He had french fries and then chicken fingers on skewers with three dipping sauces. He had a few bites of the chicken and then decided to just try to keep dipping everything in the sauces.... mess #1. Then came dessert. We ordered him a vol-cone-o. Basically a few scoops of ice cream with an upside down cone on top to look like a volcano. It's supposed to be like a make your own sundae with different toppings that you add yourself. I showed Nicholas how to drizzle the caramel sauce and then he went to town with the hot fudge! He wasn't interested in the ice cream but loved eating the hot fudge right out of the little dish. He would shake in a bunch of sprinkles... and then when he got a mouth full of them, spit them out! Needless to say the table, Nicholas and I were all wearing lots of hot fudge and sprinkles by the end of the meal! It was definitely a meal the required a large tip to be left.... not because of the service but because of the big mess we left behind!

When we got home, the boys helped Dan blow out the candles on his cake!