Gingerbread Sweetness

I should be ashamed that I haven't been here since Summer... but well, life happens. Sometimes you need a break and that's just how it goes. I missed this place! But, I can't make any promises I will be a regular visitor again so just bare with me.

In the meantime... here are some pretty sweet picture to enjoy! I had a bit of fun with my girls this morning! They are growing up way to fast and this holiday season has been lots of fun already! Can't wait for more!!

Sesame Place: Day 2!

After a very pleasant night's sleep, we were up & ready to go by 8:00 for DAY 2!!! Besides, we had breakfast with Elmo & Friends.. woohoo!

This was so cute. You were assigned a table for your family, which I loved.. no hunting & fighting for a table with little ones. We found our table and immediately went to visit with the star! Elmo!!!

We had a yummy, yummy breakfast and then of course a few more characters came to visit us at the table... Zoe & The Count.. and Big Bird was there too, yay! I'm so glad we did this, it was nice to be in the park a little earlier and we got to see a few characters we hadn't seen in the park yet.

After breakfast we tackled the roller coaster. Oh. My. I asked the girls over and over.. are you sure? and beings we just had breakfast.. oh dear. But they insisted so up we went. I rode with Abbie, Chris rode with Jaelyn. The first DROP.. Abbie was like.. "NO NO NO.. I don't like!" .. I felt so bad! She was almost in tears but made it through the whole thing. Jaelyn, however was screaming with her hands in the air.. WOHOOO, Let's GO AGAIN!! Oh how very different they are, haha! Sorry, no pictures... but here is what the roller coaster looks like so you have an idea...

We made our way around the park a little longer... watched a few of the shows that we missed the day before and had lunch.

After lunch we were off to the water parks... Sorry, no pictures of that because hey, my iPhone is not yet waterproof! The girls had fun though, we sat in the little pool wave pool area for a while so they could jump waves & cool off. They didn't go down to many water slides themselves, still a bit small for that but we did go down the GIANT slide with all of us in one big tube, how fun!

Finally around 4-ish.. the girls were getting tired & cranky and well, so were we. So we headed out, got changed & dried off and headed home.

We had such a wonderful time though! I am SO happy we went and if this is a trial run for the big park down in Florida with the Mouse, I'd say that trip isn't far off... hopefully. I hope we get to visit Sesame Place again this year, I am sure the girls will enjoy it just as much!

Thank you for a great time, Sesame!!

Sesame Place

Sunny days.... chasing the clouds away... (now that will be in your head for the rest of this post, huh?)..

Just a couple short weeks ago, we had our very first family of four adventure! We went to Sesame Place located in Langhorne, Pa.  What a fun, fun, FUN time we had! I'm not sure who was more excited, the girls or myself, haha!

We went up on a Thursday - the entire way up the girls kept asking if we were there yet. It was only about an hour drive, impatient much? When we finally arrived, I thought they might burst at the seams!

The park is super cute. There are many, many water rides but we wanted to wait to do the water stuff till later or the next day. So off we went to the dry area of the park...

 YAY! We are finally HERE!!!!

On the steps of 123 Sesame Street.. Abbie is doing a little happy dance.

This was the first ride of the day. A carousel, of course!

(most pictures are with my iPhone.. I just didn't want to lug around my big girl camera and the iPhone fits so nicely in a pocket!)

More rides.. some of these made my stomach have butterflies!
Most of these are pictured with Daddy but rest assured, I went on them too... usually, the FIRST time! Just couldn't take pictures of that, lol!

These tea cups SPUN around so fast! I went on the first time, made Daddy go the next! WHEW!

I think we saw just about every character there was to see! The girls RAN to them like they were their best friends! I was so happy there was no being scared or shy. They happily gave hugs & posed like rockstars!

Bert & Ernie and SUPER Grover!!

The Count!

and.. Abby Cadabby (who is my favorite!!)

Does this guy need an introduction?  COOOOOOOOOKKKIIEEEEE!!!

We left the park mid-afternoon to go grab some lunch. We refused to pay the money in the park for a simple hot dog & burger (sorry Sesame!). Sitting at lunch though, the clouds grew dark and the skies opened! Good thing we were inside... it stormed like crazy! Sesame Place does this really cool thing where if it rains more than 1 hour on the day you have a ticket, they give you a "Sunny Day" ticket replacement to come back. So we were secretly hoping for at least an hour of showers. Well, it ended up raining for about 3 hours.. Boooo! The park closed at 6 on Thursday and it was 5:00.. we made a quick decision to go back to the park for the last hour, the showers were almost gone and we had to get our Sunny Day ticket anyways. When we got there, it was practically empty. I guess everyone had their fair share & left because we saw maybe 10 people? Jackpot! We got to see a few more characters with no line, of course and even dance in the street with Bert & Ernie. WOOHOO!

We made it back to our hotel, bathed, relaxed and both girls (and almost Mommy & Daddy) were out by 8:30, snoozing! By the way.. I think we need room darkening shades in their bedroom, they didn't make a peep until about 8:00am the next morning.

Stay tuned for Day 2...

 

Easter {2012} - Part 1

Yes, it's my Easter post. Well, the first one. 

Today I will share with you our egg dying fun!

If you follow me on facebook, you've already seen these... oh well, sorry.

For the rest of you, enjoy!

My Mother-In-Law joined us in this fun festivity. Not sure who had more fun, lol!

I put on some "play clothes", pulled the girls hair up and away we went...

Don't they look excited? lol!

There we go! Look at that excited face Jaelyn has! Woohoo!

 

Abbie had more fun turning her fingers blue than the actual eggs themselves. Have you ever tried getting dye off of skin? Yeah, um. Patience is about the only thing that works. Lemon juice is a no go, nail polish remover is a no go, vinegar is a no go. Patience.

Jaelyn did not want the dye on her fingers. She was very neat, clean & professional.

The look on Abbie's face in this one cracks me up. "Yeah so, you dyed an egg & got nothing on your fingers. Give me a break." haha!

"Watch how I stir it WITH my finger!" My little messy girl!

Here are most of our end results. We had another crate full but they pretty much looked the same. The girls had a blast, so did Nana so that is all that matters!

Abbie's hands did eventually turn back to flesh color, lol... not so bad.

I love their faces best!

Hope you had fun if you dyed eggs, too!!

InstaFriday

Hello Sweet Friday.

I love you. 

Are you guys tired of hearing about my 4-day weekend? Well, sorry but I have to brag one more time because it's SO GREAT to only have to work 3 days as a result of it. YES! I could get used to this.

I haven't done InstaFriday in a few weeks so I thought I'd join in today. 

I just downloaded some awesome new apps (thanks to Mrs. Stephanie T - go check out her cool post on apps for your iPhone to make your pics look awesome!). What was I saying? Oh, so yeah.. now that I have these cool apps maybe next weeks pic will be a little more colorful. :D 

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Happy Friday!

 

I was trying to be a romantic on Valentine's Day with the Hubby /// What he got me. What a sweetie.

Lunch with some lovely ladies /// Please Touch Museum! /// Cowgirl Boots /// Snuggles

2 new apps!! Diptic // Phoster - really cool!

Hey, since you are here... go enter my GIVEAWAY. You could win a lovely bar of soap from Coast Mountain Company. Yummy!! 

Little Bits of Happiness

 

 The beautiful Mrs. Stephanie T is hosting a new link-up every week called Little Bits of Happiness. She and all of us, want to hear what has made YOU happy this week! So hop on over, link-up and share in the happiness. Couldn't we all use a little more of that anyways? Here are some little things that made me happy this week... I am so blessed. ♥These are from my iPhone.. I really need to pick up my big girl camera & stop it. 

Girl Scout cookies///Puzzle Concentration = quiet time///Nice weather at the park!///Reading with Pop-Pop///Lunch with some lovely ladies.

Ahh. Happiness.