Happy Memorial Day!

I hope everyone had a happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all those that have served and to those that continue to serve.

We honored Memorial Day by attending our local Memorial Day Parade. We missed most of the actual parade itself but made it for some of the program they hold. The sun was out and we had Bella with us and so between Bella and Cordelia "melting" we couldn't stay for long, but we enjoyed the time we did get to spend there.

This is our local memorial garden where the memorial day program is held.

We're melting!!

 After the parade we went home to finish cleaning up and hanging some pictures that we've been meaning to re-hang forever ago. And then it was the moment Cordelia had been waiting for, for forever. We headed to our neighbors annual memorial day barbeque/ pool party. Cordelia loves to go and hang at their pool. It is heated and with her floats she can "swim" independently. They also have a grand-daughter who is a little younger than she is so she has a friend. Today with the party there were actually quite a few new friends to play with.

Ahh the pool.

 Because our neighbors have grand kids they have lots of fun kid size things. Like the lounger chair Cordelia is modeling below.

 Ben got to enjoy the usual game of wiffle ball they play each year at the barbeque. He was looking forward to horse shoes too, but before we knew it, it was time for everyone to go home. But they'll have all summer for that!

Weekend road trip to Delaware! Part 2.

We didn't have any concrete plans while we were visiting Ben's Grand-Mom other than actually going to Rehoboth beach, we've been to Delaware several times and always stayed close to "home". On the drive in I saw a sign for a community yard sale just a few blocks away. Cordelia and I were up early and after she finished her 1st breakfast ( a bowl) of cereal we headed to check out the yard sale. We spent a grand total of $1.50!

I wasn't looking for anything in particular but found these few gems-healthy toes-toe stretcher, twlight, chutes and ladders and a small flower saucer! I was most excited about the toe stretchers, which sounds a bit torturous but is apparently supposed to be really go for you. I see them advertised in my yoga magazine and they've caught my eye several times. They usually run around $30.00 but I was able to get these for a $1 and got the book and flower saucer for free. I had already read the twilight series (before it was all the rage) when I was pregnant with Cordelia. But I had borrowed the first two books and have always thought to add them to the last two books in the series I own.

Before we left to check out the garage sales Grand-Mom had promised eggs and bacon for breakfast. We were only gone about an hour but half way through Cordelia complains that she wants to leave before Ben eats all the eggs and bacon! She cracks me up.

Once breakfast was done we headed to the beach. On the way we stopped to check out a thrift store 

(I found some great jeans) and Ben and Cordelia noticed a little amusement place that had go karts. So Cordy and I hoped in one and Ben in another and we were off! So much fun!

 

 By the time we reached Rehoboth beach and found parking-it was suprisingly busy- it was lunch time so we stopped at a place called Nicola Pizza. The service was great and the food was yummy.

We were finally ready to head to the beach. It wasn't that warm out, though there were plenty of people in bathing suits so I figured we would just pull up our pants and just dip our feet in the sea. After a few minutes and Cordelia thoroughly enjoying it Ben suggested Cordy put her bathing suit on. I figured she'd be okay without it. Well I ate my words with the very next wave. Cordelia decided she didn't want to run away from it and she got soaked up to her waist!

Needless to say out came her bathing suit! And this is when I realized I hadn't put her change of clothes in our bag. DOH!

Cordelia sassing the waves!

After getting soaked it was times for ice cream and to head home for dinner. Cordelia had to travel home toga style with a towel wrapped around her waist, but she was thrilled that she got carried back to the car and didn't have to walk.

Cordelia was wiped out!

Once we got back we helped get dinner ready and relaxed while it cooked. We traveled home on Sunday after hanging out with Grand-Mom and Uncle Joe in the morning and enjoyed lunch with them. Thanks for having us!

 

 

Weekend road trip to Delaware! Part 1.

So we had made plans this past weekend to visit Ben's Grand-mom in Delaware. She is only a few hours away, so we loaded up the family in the Jeep and hit the road.

 

 It was a little crowded with 3 people, 2 dogs and 1 cat. But we made the best of it. We played "I spy" and the alphabet game. The alphabet game started off a little slow, it took us about 15 minutes to find the letter B but it was so fun! Cordelia was so excited with every letter we found. However, the novelty wore off by the time we got to F or maybe G!

  

 Juju wasn't so pleased riding in the Jeep, though she did a lot better this time compared to previous trips. She choose to do this half hanging off the seat thing, leaning on the bags that were on the floor.

 

 We finally made it. We hit a little traffic and with having to stop to get dinner it took a little longer than it could. Everyone was happy to arrive and get out of the Jeep!

Wordless Wednesday-JuJu

Bowled Over

This weekend was lots of fun. Cordelia got to spend Friday night and some time on Saturday with her Pap-Pap and Grammy. While Grammy worked Cordelia and Pap-Pap had to entertain themselves so they decided to head to The Garden State Discovery Museum! Cordelia had a ton of fun, but did get some blisters from her sandals, which, she is still "recovering" from! But that didn't mean the fun stopped there. When she was finally ready to come home and after Ben and I had had enough slogging away rearranging the garage we decided to go bowling!

Its been awhile and its not like riding a bike...it took some time to get back into the swing of things..sadly I didn't even get a strike! But we had a great time hanging out together.

Cordelia's turn-don't drop the ball!

We had to wait awhile to see how many pins she'd knock down as the ball didn't move very fast.

Yeah!

Fun times!

And you guessed it-Ben won the game! Way to go honey!

Alissa's baby shower

So not this weekend past, but the weekend before Cordelia and I got to attend her second cousins baby shower. Now on Cordelia's Dad's side of the family the cousins get very confusing, very quickly as they range from 35 ish to 6 months with this one on the way. I believe Cordelia is great grand baby #16. You do the math! 

We got to enjoy lots of good food and everyone's company. Cordelia of course had a ball. Here are a few pictures taken by another second cousin Malisa.

Time to open presents

Cordelia and her Mom-mom (aka great grandma)

Making instant friends

You can barely see it but that is a hair band in her hair..it lasted 5 mins : )

Turning 30!

So this was not a day I've been looking forward to, but here it is, I turned 30 today(this was written on Saturday : )). I decided awhile ago that I should definitely celebrate this mile stone. My usual celebrations are pretty low key and laid back. For example I love nothing better than to order take out and have a transformer marathon for valentine's day. But I knew I would regret not making the effort to make this celebration stand out. And because Ben is fabulous he was on board.

I didn't have anything extravagant in mind so we decided to take a trip to Atlantic City. We live less than 2 hours away and I love the beach and there is just so much to see. We found a deal on-line for one of the higher end hotels that had its own spa. Well I was in desperate need of a pedicure and an eye brow wax so we left right after work (on Friday) so we could get down there in time for me to go and partake. I didn't get any pictures of the spa but had a wonderful experience. Then it was up to the hotel room to get ready for the night.

All ready for dinner and a good time!

 Once I was ready and we finally decided where we were going to eat we headed out for a walk on the boardwalk down to Caesar's the hotel/ casino where we decided we would eat. This was disastrous for 2 reasons:- 1) I was wearing heels and the "short" walk wasn't so short and 2) The wind was a menace. My hair got ruined...beyond belief. So after a few shed tears and an attempt to fix my hair I forgot about it and went on to enjoy the evening. I say a few tears but it may or may not have been a full scale melt down in the ladies bathroom...opps!  It's a good thing it was dark in the restaurant; that helps when you're having a bad hair evening!

The rest of the evening was perfect-we enjoyed our meal and I got to watch some of the Philly's baseball game out the corner of my eye as I ate (The restaurant had a bar section with sports playing). After the meal we headed to Tropicana another hotel/casino where they had a night club called boogie nights-1 requisite I had was I wanted to dance. Well  as we were walking around the casino I saw an advertisement that said that if we had eaten at a Tropicana restaurant we could get into the night club for free. I hate to pay for something that could be free so we ended up at a bar called Tango's. They had a lounge with sofas where we could relax but they were also playing some good music.

Well we weren't even there 5 minutes when they had a DJ set up. And this is when the real fun began. Ben and I love to people watch and there were a bunch of hilarious people in the bar that night. It began with a older, heavier guy trying to get down with the ladies from the few bachelorette parties that were there. And then add in a group of young guys and the next thing we know one of the guys was shirtless...needless to say endless entertainment.

We called it a night pretty early, shortly after midnight, as we knew it would be a fairly early morning. The deal we got included breakfast at the restaurant in the hotel. Ben enjoyed an omelet and I enjoyed granola and banana's. It was delicious. We had to do a few logistical moves with our car and in the process noticed that there was an imax 3d movie theater at the Tropicana so we purchased tickets and headed to enjoy the beach for awhile and get Ben's art project completed.

Enjoying breakfast

Yeah! The beach

Ben's art project

Shoes and shells!

After the movie-which was awesome- we headed back home to scoop up Cordelia and head out to dinner. We ended up at a local German restaurant. we had a wonderful time and as Cordelia and I declared in the car on the way home...It was THE BEST DAY EVER : )!

Cordy holding the flowers she cut for me with Mom-Mom

Enjoying dinner

Movie Night @ Wegmans

Last night we had a wonderful movie night at Wegmans. I had seen notices up each time I was shopping and had just kept it in the back of my mind as something that would be fun to do as a family. Well it just worked out that Cordelia had two birthday parties to go to on Saturday (which will be another blog post) so her customary trip to Grammy and Pa-pap's had to be postponed for a week.  Well she was able to get the best of both worlds with Pa-pap joining us for the movie. So we arrived early as we had no idea how this thing worked. The lady at the customer service desk was wonderful and walked us through the whole thing.

I never realized that they had a second floor cafe area, but this is were the movie was going to be shown. We were very lucky that we were there 35 minutes early as the "doors" opened at 6pm and there were people waiting. Not many, but there are definitely prime seats which I took note of for next time. They had menu's which you could order off of, pizza and wings. They had a concession stand ( which we kept out of sight from Cordelia) and they also did prepackaged ice-creams. They had a mat in front of the big screen where the kids could hang out.
 

Enjoying ice-cream after the movie

 We really enjoyed ourselves and plan on doing this again. Oh and did I mention that the movie was free!

Happy Easter

So I was searching on-line today and came across a challenge on facebook to post one blogger post each day in the month of April. Having tried blogging previously and failing terribly I was up for this challenge. Well I already had a post in the works to count for my April 2nd post but didn't want to skimp on the challenge and I really wanted to post about Easter Sunday. So this is technically my April 1st post.

Well about a week ago Ben and I watched The Rise of the Guardians and got some inspiration, so we really got into the "Easter bunny" spirit this year. I had brought the eggs last year in the after easter sale so we just needed items to fill them. As I am currently on a health kick I didn't want to do all candy. So off to party city we went. Cordelia loves stamps so we got a bunch of pre-inked animal stamps, some silly putty, a rubber bracelet and a few other little things. She is also into "coins" so we raided the change jar to fill a few of the eggs.

Because Cordelia has a dairy sensitivity I didn't want to get her chocolate so instead I found these cute egg shaped bubble gum. Needless to say Cordelia was extremely thrilled with the Easter bunny.

Cheeky Easter bunny hiding her Easter basket on the ceiling fan!

Let's see what the Easter bunny brought.

I know these aren't healthy but its a step in the right direction : )

Look at all those eggs.

Happy Easter!