Great fun at yet another party!

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.

So then... Sunday, we went to another Ayyam-i-Ha party in Ithaca. This was the party with the entire local Bahai community. It was alot of fun and the kids learned so much about the Bahai Faith. ( Carrie wants to become every religion we have learned about. lol )

Everytime we get together, we go to Wegmans

Our outing at the coffee shop... mmmm.... chai tea latte!

What a couple of hams!

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Look at my lovely asparagus!

WEGMANS in the middle of the night! lol. This trip was no different. After the big party at Carries and all the kids had cleared out or gone to bed, Carrie and I made a trip to Wegmans to buy our favorite food: asparagus! We have been going to Wegmans and reaking havoc since we were teens!

Vacation Again!?! Yes!

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!

Oh my... Maddys first day at a new school!

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!

Lucky me... we went to see STOMP!!!

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!

Indian food for Valentines Day!

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!

Are you ready for some FOOTBALL???

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!

Our Buddhist Shrine

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.

Here is the link to build your own shrine: Buddhism for kids

Madison & Bella

Madisons new puppy... Bella Mae.

Snowy Sunday

The kids are having FUN! We are getting lots of snow today... so far I think we have about a foot.

Snow Day

Last Thursday they cancelled school and we didn't even get any snow that day. They had predicted a storm so they cancelled school the night before and we got nothing. So the kids and I, with my mom, Richie and Richies friend Mike all went to Diamond Hill for snowboarding and sledding! My mom brought a carafe of hot cocoa, I tried snowboarding for the first time and the kids had a BLAST!!!

Back to school!

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!

Harrys Art Blog...

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/

Harry got a..... HAIRCUT!!!

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 Sue had eye surgery 1/2/09

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!

Vegetarian Gift

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!

Peace Chicken

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!