Need your opinion!!

My friend Kristin took great pictures of Aiden for his 2 year pictures, and I need help deciding what to pick. Thought I would share them with my blog readers so check out the pictures on her smugmug account and let me know what you think! I also just wanted you to see Aiden's adorable punim!

BTW, if anyone reading this lives in the Orlando area, Kristin takes great pictures at reasonable rates, so call her! :)

Meet the cousin

Last night I had the pleasure of meeting one of Will's first cousins for the VERY first time. Yes, Will and I have been married for 8 1/2 years, and I just met Cousin Pete for the first time. He was in town for a conference from Virginia at the Florida Mall hotel, so we headed out there to eat dinner with him. Of course I snapped some pictures of the occasion (who knows if we'll have to wait another 8 1/2 years to meet him again!).

Why the first time? Well, Will has a HUGE family!!! Will's mom has 3 brothers who had a total of 10 children (all Will's first cousins on Molly's side), who have almost all had kids... Out of everyone, until yesterday, there were TWO left that I hadn't met. Now we are down to one, Cousin Chris. We'll have to make sure a meeting happens before our 10th wedding anniversary!!! LOL! Anyway, we had a great visit and Cousin Pete is a really nice guy!

Here we are...


Of course I had to snap pics of my cuties


After dinner we all took a stroll over to M&M's world. Anna WAS very happy about that!

This and that...

How can it be Wednesday night? I haven't blogged in a few days. What to say? I talked to a very old friend (well, he's not actually THAT old...haha) who I haven't spoken too in quite a long time, and it was like we had spoken the day before. Joe, it was GREAT talking to you, and I look forward to our next conversation soon! :)

On Monday is was "watching day" at Anna's dance class... I watched her practice her tap, and let me just say, that girl has rhythm. I was so proud of her! She just had the biggest smile on her face the whole time, knowing that I was watching, and every so often she would look up at the window at me, and wave just to make sure I could still see her. It was so sweet. She has come a long way, as last year, she was the shy one in the bunch. Not this year!!! Will and I are still in shock that we had to call her new Elementary School today to find out when Kindergarten registration begins. How in the world is that possible that we are getting her ready to go to Kindergarten!!!!! OMG!

So yesterday, Will quietly called me into the foyer, to show me the sweetness he was witnessing. He was able to get a picture.

Lucy our beagle and Sam D. Cat having a little snooze together...


Okay, Will and I are about to watch the "worst of the worst" American Idol auditions. Should be quite amusing and painful to my ears.

Until next time...

Celebration.......

What a nice weekend! Aside from the fact that we all are still fighting these colds and virus' going around it was a great weekend. We celebrated "Kindermusik style" for Aiden's 2nd birthday. I think everyone had a great time. Aiden sure did! Here are a few pictures from the occasion...

Aiden checking out his birthday cake.....



Mommy helped blow out the candle


Will, Anna and I got Aiden his own Thomas train to ride on... and he LOVES it!


It was really fun being able to do a Kindermusik party for our friends and family. Rachael and I spend many a weekend helping others in the Orlando area celebrate with their families. It was such a joy to do it for my own. Everyone got really into it too!! What fun! :)

Will's parents of course were in town for the birthday party, and requested that we try to get a picture of the 6 of us... well, of course we didn't think of that until today, when there wasn't anyone else around to take the picture for us... so we finally had to figure out how to work the timer on our camera.. here is Will making sure the timer was working



and here is the picture we were able to capture!


I know the rest of the country is watching the SuperBowl right now.. but okay, I admit it, I could care less. The Prince half time show was pretty good though. He is quite a performer, and to do it in downpouring rain.. well, all I can say to that is WOW!

Will and I are still fighting these colds... I'm still standing though a little scratchy, so I'm whipping up another batch of Matzoh Ball soup. YUM! It's time to finish that up so I can have some! It IS Jewish Penicillin, and it works!

Have a wonderful evening everyone... and I'll be posting again soon.

Love, Holly

Here comes the weekend!!!!

It's Friday!

We woke up and Anna got dressed for school. Today at school was their pajama party... so Anna wanted to pose for the camera to show off her attire. She was also told to bring a favorite blanket (Anna chose one that I sewed for her, with Ballerinas on it), and a favorite stuffed animal (she chose a bear that her daddy got for her).






After we got Anna off to school, I took Aiden to My Gym for his last class as a 1 year old!! :) Here are some pictures from that!

Playing some b-ball


He LOVES riding the train


Working on jumping, he LOVES the trampoline


Aiden and I at My Gym


Then we got home, and later on in the day... Anna helped me get the favor bags ready for the party tomorrow. She was big help!





Aiden came down from his nap and got in on the act.....


Tomorrow is going to be so much fun! Nighty night all...

Love, Holly

Mom's Night Out

I can't believe it's almost Friday... tomorrow I will take Aiden to My Gym - his last as a 1 year old!! Then lots of last minute things to do before his party on Saturday. I taught two wonderful Kindermusik classes today, and then came home and rested because I'm definitely feeling a bit under the weather. I'm still continuing the Zicam and Airbourne.. so hopefully, it will pass quickly! However, I did go out tonight to a Mom's Night Out. It was a farewell dinner for our friend Candy, who is moving to Tennessee! We'll miss her, but at least she'll be near Beth Valentine! How cool is that?? We went to one of our favorite restaurants - Season's 52, and here are some pics!

Beth, Nikki, Carol, Kristin, Candy, Kathy and Me at Season's 52

Another one...

Me, Carol and Kathy

Kristin, Me, Beth and Candy

I wish I had more to write, but I'm beat, so for now... so long, farewell... laaa laaa laaa....

Love, Holly

Kindermusik Wednesdays.....

Today is our longest Kindermusik day of the week. I love it, but wow, by end of day, I'm beat! We just finished dinner, and I excused myself for a few moments to just take a deep breath and chill. Anyway, one of the classes I teach is a babysigning class called Sign & Sing. I love it, because I feel like I'm using my Music Therapy background somewhat in that class and really taking music, mixed with Signing to help new mommies ease the frustration they have when all their child knows how to do is scream to be understood. It's really cool! Anyway, I asked Elizabeth to snap a few pics for me, for the purpose of my blog, and here are some of those...

I always have a strategy session with the parents, during which I dump a ton of toys on the floor to distract the babies... and well... as you can see, they dove right in!

The next two are me using signs with the parents...

Anna stayed home sick from school today. :( I guess she still hasn't shaken this bug that 's been traveling around my household. Hopefully she can go to school tomorrow. I'm still *knock on wood* the last person standing who has stayed well. For anyone that is interested, I've been taking Airbourne for the last 5 days (at least 2x a day), along with Zicam nasal swabs, and well...so far so good, so you might want to try that if you are living with sick people!

Oh, I took a couple pictures of our family room, with new floor and area rug...

and...our new kitchen floor

Gonna go play with the kiddies for a while before bathtime and bedtime... maybe I'll have inspiration to post again later... if not, have a perfect evening.

Love, Holly

What's in my head today?

Hello again, my second post of the day. I'm thinking about that song again (Stop this Train)... I took Aiden over to Kristin's house today for his 2 year pictures... and it is really starting to hit me that he is almost 2 years old. He's my baby, it still feels that way... and I know that the age from 2 to 3 is the year that he will turn from baby to boy, no matter how much I want him to stay a baby!!! His party is this weekend, so many wonderful pictures to come I'm sure... and I can't wait to share the works of art that Kristin took today!

Okay, onward to other things....

I took a couple pictures of our renovations...

first, our new front door

a sample of our new floor. This is the foyer, but it's also in the dining room, hallway and family room.
It has definitely been a challenge for our family going through these changes in our house, but wow, it was WORTH IT!!!!!! I'm so happy now!

Poor Lucy isn't so happy, though... she doesn't have much rug left to lay on and is constantly driving us crazy pacing around looking for a comfy spot to sleep... so it looks like we are headed to PetSmart to buy her a new bed!

Okay off to cook dinnner....

Have a GREAT evening everyone. I'll be praticing a bit for Kindermusik tomorrow, and watching American Idol!! Gotta love it!

Love, Holly

It's all in the eyes....

I was messing around with my camera today...taking pictures around the house (which I will put in my next posting) and decided to try and take a picture of my eyes... why? Well, I actually have Sunflowers in them. I thought that might make a cool picture, so this is what I came up with... :)

Anna was quite intriqued by what I was doing, and wanted me to take a picture of her beautiful browns...

Dinner, Renovations and John Mayer

Today wasn't bad... I love that it's colder outside right now. We are actually feeling a SEASON! They are actually talking about a freeze warning tonight. wow!

Mondays right now are my days to Mentor our new teacher, Elizabeth, so Aiden and I participated in a great Kindermusik class this morning. I'm still amazed that we are at the stage in our business of hiring staff, adding locations, etc. Right now Aiden is priviledged to be getting Kindermusik 3x a week! What a musical kid he is, oh and if any of you haven't seen his "tiptoe dance" yet, you are missing out!!!!!

Dinnertime at the Lesnick household always proves to be interesting. An event in itself. Tonight I took some pics of the kids being silly as usual. I thought a couple were pretty cute! Especially with mac and cheese all over Aiden's face!

Things around here have been nuts since we have been getting our renovations done... here's a sample of the changes around here....

Tonight my goal is to relax a little and watch Heroes. Will and I love to watch that show! Of course I'm endlessly drawn to the computer to work ----marketing----invoicing-----rehearsing----memorizing----lesson plans----AHHH!!!

Okay, I have to talk about this song I've been obsessing over lately. As some of you know by now, I'm pretty into John Mayer as of late. His soulful voice, mixed with his masterful guitar playing, just gets to me. My wonderful hubby surprised me with tickets to his concert last Saturday night, and I was in pure heaven for two hours! Anyway, his new album Continuum is great, but there is one song that if anyone has a chance to listen to (and if you are a thirtysomething) please do! It's called "Stop this Train". When you listen to it, let me know, and tell me if you all feel the same way he does in this song -- this song is so ME right now. Sometimes I look at my beautiful children and just want to press the "pause" button!!

Nighty night!

Love, Holly

Let's give this a try...

Well, I've been having a great time reading other people's blogs, so thought...why not, let's try this on for size. I think it's a great way to express thoughts, ideas, etc. as I used to do with my journal, and also a great way share what is going on in my life. My goal is to keep those interested up to date on me, Will, Anna, Aiden and my ever growing Kindermusik business. You can also find me on My Space, but I like the idea of having a seperate place for journaling... Here is my first picture, which everyone has seen by now...but hey I have to start with a picture of my family right?



This was a challenging week, as Aiden, then Anna, followed by Will were all sick. I also worked my tail off with Kindermusik...but, my wonderful hubby, even in the sick state that he was in, took me for an early Valentine's Day present, to see John Mayer. It was an unbelievable concert and the adrenilin is still high from it! All I can say is WOW! Anyone listen to his new album yet?? If not, check it out!

We were very excited and relieved to hear from Sam today. He is in Iraq, and was unable to communicate for a while... but today he checked in, and all is ok. Well, as ok as it can be anyway.

Signing off for now. ....

Love, Holly