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Harry and Carrie at the Washington Monument with Grandma Susan, Auntie Angela and Dad.
Harry wanted me to take him to see WWE Backlash for his birthday... so I did! We had so much fun! Harry LOVED seeing the wrestlers.
Cheering!
We had a great view of everything!
Ok... so this is MY favorite wrestler, Triple H. He is just so darn HOT! lol.
My girlfriend Dawn came to visit over Easter weekend. We took the kids to Oakland Beach and let them run around... of course we also got dough boys at Iggys! 
Nate found JELLYFISH EGGS on the edge of the water!!! SOOOO gross, but REALLY cool too! You could actually see little tiny fully formed jellyfish inside these clear jelly eggs. He took several with him to show off back home in a clear canning jar. I didn't even know jellyfish eggs existed!!!
Nate, Harry and Carrie having fun at the mall!
My friend Dawn and her daughter Gabby. :-) Fun weekend!
One weekend while in NY we decided to kidnap Vayda and bring her to our house for a week. She had a great time and we enjoyed having her!
The girls had fun with the camera.
Strike a pose!
I took Vayda one day to get her nails done while my kids were in school. Vayda is home schooled so all she had to do all week was chill, create a facebook page and get her nails done! FUN!
Carrie and I went to Secaucus, NJ for a Tony Robbins Unleash the Power Within event. Carrie was a particpant and I was a crew member. We had a blast! Carrie had a life changing experience and I as always enjoyed being part of the crew! I also walked on FIRE again!!! It was absolutely incredible! I think I forgot how strong I was for a little while. I remember now. ;-)
Here we are at the convention in front of the Firewalk display.
This is me with our roommate Shiloh. Shiloh is a wonderful young lady from NYC. She also had a life altering experience at Tony Robbins! ( I look tired because I got only about 2-3 hours of sleep most nights that we were there. Crew members had to be there much earlier than the participants and we had to stay later too.... but it was worth it! )
Well the past couple months have been GO GO GO!!! So now, I am finally finding a moment to update the ol blog. Sorry folks, didn't mean to make you all wait so long! So here is what has been going on the past couple months.
Outside at Eco Village
Gathering for prayers
Eco Village in Ithaca... a green living, self sustaining condo co-op.
Carrie, Me, Harry and Maya
Maya, Harry, Carrie & Carrie ( yes, little Carrie was named after my BFF Carrie )
Harry and Carrie had a blast at the party!
Vayda did face painting for the kids and Elanee kept her company.
What a great day... everyone gathered together and helped out with the party. Eco village had this community room where the party was and it has a big huge totally green kitchen.
Our outing at the coffee shop... mmmm.... chai tea latte!
What a couple of hams!
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Look at my lovely asparagus!
Harry & Elanee dancing up a storm!
What a cool dude!
Everyone loved dancin!
The teens were having fun avoiding grown ups!
Carrie Sue is was a dancin fool!
Vaydas friends hamming it up to the camera!
Our lovely host Carrie and her husband Jody!
So ok... now this is like the second time I went to NY this month, but this time I brought Harry and Carrie and we went to learn about another new religion! Carrie and her family are "Bahai's" and they celebrated Ayyam-i-Ha this past weekend. It is a time for all Bahais to come together to do charity, gift giving, hospitality, celebrate with each other and express over all good will toward one another. We were thrilled to have been invited to thier big Ayyam-i-Ha party!
So Madison started at McCourt Middle in Cumberland this past Monday. So far so good. She says she hates it, but I know she doesn't. lol. She has already made new friends and has made a very smooth transition! I am SOOOOOO HAPPY!
My moms birthday is Feb. 28, my sisters is March 1 so for thier birthday I got us tickets to see STOMP. What a blast! Stomp was great... really loud and fun! After that we went to dinner at the Union Station in downtown Providence, the food was great! It was a great time for mom and daughters!
On the Friday before Valentines Day I took a trip to visit Carrie in Upstate NY. ( we were both able to ditch the kids! ) We had a blast! She was closing her rubber stamp store and I hung out with her while she had her sale. On Saturday, Valentines Day, we finished up her sale, got all dolled up and headed out! We went visiting first so Carrie could bestow gifts upon her family. First to her moms, then to her brothers house. It was nice seeing her brother Greg again, havent seen him in years! Then Carrie and I headed out for Indian food where the young 20 something waiter totally macked on us. lol!!! However, for a couple of old moms.... it was rather flattering! After dinner we went back to her house and talked all night long which is always the case! It was a really fun weekend!
I know I know... we all have on Patriots shirts! Well whatever, our team wasn't in it this year.
What a handsome Harry!
mmmmm.... superbowl party food!
I could NOT get a smile out of my mom and Carrie.... they only wanted to make faces and eat dough boys.
Janie and Carrie enjoying the junk food!
I am teaching the kids about different cultures and religions. This week we are learning about India and Buddhism. We were going to go to a Buddhist service yesterday in New Bedford, MA but got snowed in. Tonight we learned how a Buddhist worships. We found out that Buddhists have shrines in thier homes and so we built our own. The kids picked out each special item and we already had the Buddha statue (hard to see in the picture because it is dark, but the Buddha statue is right between the candles.) We learned the significance for each item too.
The kids are having FUN! We are getting lots of snow today... so far I think we have about a foot.
Next week I am heading back to school. I will be doing one semester at CCRI, then hopefully next fall heading to Rhode Island College (RIC) to finish my degree in Psychology. I am really looking forward to it. This semester I am only taking 1 class: Philosophy!
Tonight I taught Harry how to make a blog, take pictures of his creations, edit them and then post them into his new blog. He is so proud to be a blogger now and he can't wait for everyone to see his artwork! Please check out his blog at: http://supercrazyart.blogspot.com/
No way!!! Yup... the boy finally decided that he wanted his hair cut. Tonight we went to the mall and had it chopped off! What a handsome devil!
Carrie just after surgery, in recovery. Soooo sad looking... but woke up and didn't remember a thing!
I had to wear a hat like this too, and a mask! Carrie thought it was funny!
Carrie got to drive this SUV to the operating room!
We had fun coloring and watching a movie while waiting for surgery.
Finally going home! The wheelchair ride out was Carrie's favorite part!
After surgery, Carrie got to eat a popsicle.
In the waiting room... Mimzy came with Carrie.
Carrie in front of Hasbro Childrens Hospital.
Carrie had what we thought was a wart on her eyelid. The eye surgeon removed it and said it was not a wart after all, rather a sty that just grew huge. We had to be at the hospital at 7am and we were home by 11am. Carrie did great! She is so much happier too now that it is gone!
My super groovy friend Dawn sent me a subscription to Vegetarian Magazine for my birthday! What a cool gift... it has recipes as well as lots of info! I love being a vegetarian and its nice having such good friends too!
My very talented artist friend Carrie made this book for me. It's a book to keep my thoughts and ideas. She knows how much I love my chickens, peace signs, tulips and meditating... hence the meditating peace chicken! lol. She painted this herself!
Carrie loves Hello Kitty~
Santa Came!!!
Frankie thinks its too early!
Santa brought Madison lots of clothes and make up!
Santa brought Harry a very cool 3 foot green puppet! 
Later in the day, Janie, Papa, Stacia and Richie came over for dinner and to exchange gifts. Here Janie and Madison pose for a picture!
Stacia and Madison just attacked Richie with make-up.
Harry and his new puppet from Grandma Susan. He LOVES this guy!
Madison singing in Harry's new WWE microphone.
Carrie and Daddy
Stacia, Cousin Michael and Me
Aunt Rita and Carrie
I started a new blog for "The Wednesday Society." Check it out here: http://thewednesdaysociety.blogspot.com/
Heather & Carrie
The whole gang
Vayda
Elanee
Carrie & Carrie
Carrie & Maya
The kids and I had "visitors" this weekend... we love company! My friend Carrie and her 3 daughters came Friday night and stayed til Monday afternoon. We all had a GREAT TIME! These are just some of the fun moments!
Carrie is marbelizing paper.
Harry is playing football video games.
Madison is trying to nap.
This morning the kids and I picked up my dad and headed to the local farm to get pumpkins.
Richard, Stacia, Carrie, My Mom & Harry
Richard, Harry & Stacia
Carrie, Harry & I
Well I learned how to can a couple weeks back. It is really enjoyable to me! I also realized that you need about 50 million apples to make a very small amount of applesauce or apple butter. I actually canned 3 pint jars of apple butter and 3 pint jars of applesauce. The stuff is sooooo good! Totally delicious and WAY healthier than the stuff the store tries to pass off as edible. Mine has NO artificial ingredients, no high fructose corn syrup and actually very little sugar but it is really sweet and very yummy!
Funny thing about skunks... they dont like it if you run at them and scream! We put the trap out to catch a groundhog that has been eating our chicken feed and making a home in the coop. To our surprise, we came out in the morning after setting the live catch cage and we caught this adorable little baby skunk. All was fine, we opened the cage to release it, but it decided to try and run in to the chicken coop. Soooo, in my infinite wisdom, I decided to run at it while screaming "shoo shoo" noises so that it would not go in to the chicken coop. Well, you know what happened next... it sprayed me. uhg! After a day of washing and several showers with tomatos, all is well now. Hopefully next time we will catch the darn groundhog!
This is an old video but I wanted to see if I could figure out how to get a video on my blog... it worked! Woo Hoo! So now check back for videos too! :-)
This is a new venture but is coming together so easily and naturally that I know it is meant to be.
