A Few New Pics

A Mover's Birthday

To celebrate the boys turning 2 I wanted to have a Sesame Street birthday. However, the only and I mean only thing the boys were interested in were the Imagination Movers on Disney. I'm not sure why but Disney doesn't make A.N.Y.T.H.I.N.G for Imagination Movers. My cousin even went to the Disney store to see if they carried any merchandise and nada. I didn't want to go overboard or stress myself to the max trying to do too much so I came up with a few ideas and ran with them. I made a few gears out of poster board and made a few tissue paper wreaths using the Blue, Red and Yellow color scheme from the show. My two favorites were their movers tshirts and their cake. I purchased iron ons for blue shirts I got and made them their own personalized tshirts and my friend, college roommate and my Designs By Muah partner Jean made their cake.

The weather was great for the day. We had a lot of fun spending time with everyone and the boys partied till they crashed. Ethan didn't want to get out of the bouncy house once he discovered how fun it was. Lucas didn't care for it one bit. Funny how different they are. Here are some of my favorite pics from the day. (of course I couldn't get a really good one of them together)

MIA

Wow, it has been a long time since I've even visited my blog, much less written. There has been so much going on with birthdays and transitions that the first thing to be cut out for saving time was the blog. There are many things to update and I do intend to do that by the weekend. There was a 2nd birthday, my 29th, cribs are gone and big boy beds are here, climbing up bookcases has occurred, etc. With every thing going on I'm trying to figure out how to best discipline and teach them what they need to know. Oy, this parenting this is challenging!!!

Potty Training, I Think So

We tried potty chairs and Ethan seemed partially interested, but lost it rather quickly. So we decided to buy an over the toilet potty seat. Well, apparently that did the trick for Lucas because he has been peeing on it for the last 5 days. Not every time he needs to pee pee but at least twice a day, sometimes more. He's doing it; we're not pushing it. It does appear, though, that Ethan isn't going to jump on the bandwagon just yet because he'll watch Bubby go, but he doesn't want to go. He'll want to eventually. Wasn't sure how potty training twins was going to go so we'll see what happens. For now, I'm just a super proud mommy!!

A Few Hawaii Pics

There is A LOT going on around our house, especially preparing for their birthday party. Here are a few pics from our trip. I do intend to actually tell you about it, eventually!

So beautiful!!!

Home from Hawaii

We got home this week from a wonderful Hawaiian vacation. We are just about readjusted to the time change. I have lots of beautiful pictures to share, soon.

Let Me Tell You About My Night With GUY!!!

Guy Fieri from the Food Network, that is!!! Every Derby my husband works celebrity security and the past few years he's had Guy Fieri. The first year he was in town, I was invited to hang out with them. In all the years of him doing it, no one ever invited me. I could've peed myself I was so excited. HOWEVER, I was stuck in the hospital 7 months pregnant on bedrest and was not allowed to go. Total heartbreak!! Last year, I was invited out again. You've got to be kidding me. I was called an hour before I was supposed to show up somewhere, was in my lounge clothes with no babysitter. Didn't happen. Super super super disappointed. I learn from my mistakes! This year, I had a babysitter lined up before I got the invite because I was not missing this chance again!!!

(I had already met Guy once before when his traveling road show came through town. We got to go backstage and hang out with him during his pre-show downtime.)

Oaks came, Jean & I went. Had fun, even though my nasal and chest congestion had me feeling not so great. I looked great though :) Derby came, got a text message from James with details, got myself all gussied up, went to get Jean and we headed downtown. Guy was cooking dinner in a social club's kitchen while his wife, a few of his crew, and some Patriot football players hung out in the VIP room waiting for guests to arrive. I met Guy's wife, Lori. She was real down to earth and had kind of a bad ass style. Then again, being married to Guy Fieri, you kind of need to. We met Glenn, one of his crew, who invited us to come down to his house(which is really Guy's guest house) and stay so we could visit Guy & California. You don't have to ask me twice, dude!!! Then Glenn took us to the kitchen where Guy was cooking. Got a hug from Guy & Kleetus, his sous chef. Again, both I had met before. Then we went back to the VIP room to drink on Guy's bar tab and watch the celeb's trinkle in. Here's the kicker though, this was their time to get away from crazy fans and just relax. That meant no pictures. I will have these memories forever, though and they are awesome!!! Let me tell you who had me star struck.....Christopher Maloni from Law & Order:SVU, Joey Fatone, Wynonna, Travis Tritt, Eddie Montgomery, Peppa from Salt N Peppa, the Dos Equus "Stay Thirsty My Friends" guy from the commercials, Taylor Dane, one of the guys from Boyz 2 Men, Bode Miller, and some other actors whose faces I recognized but couldn't tell you their names. It was awesome!!! Thanks Guy for a great night!!! Guy also invited us out to visit and I do not intend to let that invitation go to waste!!

Mother's Day was yesterday and for the 2nd year in a row I was sick. I loved being able to have my boys, but the day was just yucky all the way around. Better luck next year!