Dog Park fun!

Today we took the dogs and kids to a new dog park. Well, it's was new to us anyway..

It was SO much fun! There was a huge amount of space for the dogs to run free, and a lake/beach where the dogs and kids could play and swim. We actually didn't plan to swim, so we were dressed a little oddly for that.. but we made do.

Here's Sagan wading in the water...













Beach fun!



























































What a fun day!!!!

Love, Holly

Professional pics to share!

I've been meaning to scan the following pictures in for the longest time and FINALLY did it! Enjoy!!!

Here's Aiden's 3 year portrait:

















Here's the hotel picture from our trip to the Nick Hotel















Here's the picture from our Day our with Thomas!

















The next two pictures of Aiden and I were taken by my friend Kristin Mizo in our Kindermusik class. Kristin takes pictures of all my studio classes each session. Isn't her work beautiful? I just loved these...






























This last one is Anna's Kindermusik for the Young Child: First Year picture. Anna learned how to play the Glockenspiel this year!


















Until next time....
Love, Hol

Our dancing girl!

Today was Anna's dance recital. She did an AMAZING job!!!!! I have a video from our camera and repeatedly tried to upload it to this blog, but it didn't work.. so Will is going to have fix it first. In the meantime, here are some pictures. Anna's Kindergarten teacher Miss Browne came to see Anna, which was just so sweet. We also had Grandma, Dori and Kayla watching too. After the recital, we all went to too-jays for lunch. We are so proud of our girl.

Here is Anna's official recital picture:

















Grandma brought some recital gifts..

















Here's Anna and Miss Browne!

















Here we all are at Too-jays. Miss Browne's boyfriend "Mr. Bob" joined us too!













Anna is already signed up for dance next year. She'll be taking tap and jazz along with most of her class from this year.

Another post coming after this one, with some long awaited pictures I've been meaning to share!

Love, Holly

Happy Mother's Day!

First, Happy Mother's Day to all those out there that are mommies (that includes mommies to dogs, cats, birds, fish and any other living thing that I can't think of at the moment!).

What a nice day it has been with my wonderful family! Today when I woke up Anna and Aiden came up and delivered cards to me, along with some carefully selected earrings that Anna picked out for me. She wanted them because she knew they matched a dress I just bought. She did really well!!! I wore them today along with the dress so that she knows how very much I love them. :)

Will gave me a beautiful silver and svarski crystal neckace that I LOVE and can't wait to wear, along with a gift certificate to shop at one of my favorite stores: Platos Closet! YEYYY!!! We got my mom her long awaited "Life is Good" shirt from Synergy!

We met up with my mom and Jerry at Hollywood Bistro for brunch. Dori and crew are in NY this year with Steve's family. We had a nice brunch and then headed over to swim at my mom's place. My mom, as a gift to me, let me "shop" in her Mary Kay stock!! Whew hew!!! That was AWESOME!!! :)

And now the pictures....

Here we are arriving for brunch!













Here is a KISS from me for all the wonderful Mommies out there!













Here is what I did on MY day! ahhhhh.....













Me and the kiddos in the jacuzzi!













and of course me and my mommy!














My mother's day festivities actually started with a Mother's Ice Cream social at Aiden's school, and then last Friday a Mother's day brunch in Anna's Kindergarten class. I took some video...

and here's a picture:














I definitely feel loved and appreciated! :)

So my Kindermusik Spring session is finally over. I just went over all the rosters and organized and we had 150 registrants this past session..which is completely baffling to me!!! So onward to Summer session which begins Mid-June. Will and I also have a new project we are cooking up! It's very exciting and I can't wait to announce it! In the meantime I must keep it hush hush (which if you know me is NOT an easy thing for me to do!)

I'm so excited also because Will and I are starting to think about our Vegas trip coming up in September for our 10th wedding anniversary. YEY!!!

Anna's dance recital is this coming Saturday. Her dance picture is precious. I actually have a lot of fun "professional" pictures that I want to share (from Nick Hotel, Thomas Day, Recital and Kindermusik), but they need to be scanned in...and we just got a new printer, so I have to figure that all out. I hope to do all that soon!

I hope this entry finds you well and happy. If you are reading, don't be a stranger. Leave me a comment or email me at hollyl@cfl.rr.com!

Have a perfect evening,
Holly

Mom's weekend and more!

We been having lots of fun lately! :) After Aiden's train day... life has been going by so fast. crazy fast! But here I am with some pictures to share...

Anna's school carnival was a couple weeks ago.. I got this cool picture of her on a pony!














Aiden and I met up with Dori and kids last week at Leu Gardens. It was a nice morning!














Will and I went out a week or so ago, and snapped these pics before we left.



















The next one was from Anna's perspective.















After a lot of working and craziness my annual mom's weekend came up. I went this past weekend with my girlfriends to the Ron Jon Resort in Port Canaveral. We had a blast.. and here's just a sample of the fun. :)

Here are the girls by the pool.















Here I am all dressed up for dinner. Next pic is in the lobby, and the last one is at dinner with our waiter Rado (who had to deal with 6 girls getting drunk and loud!!)















We had a blast!! This was our 5th mom's weekend and we had a GREAT time. It was by far the best one we've ever had.

This week is the last week of the Kindermusk spring session. I will have a 1 month break on teaching classes which I really need. There is still LOTS of work to be done in preparation for summer classes but it should be a bit more relaxed. Anna doesn't have much longer of Kindergarten which is baffling to me. The kids have been signed up for swim lessons and camp.. so summer is just around the corner! I can't believe that!!!!!!

Okay, MUST get some sleep tonight.. so going to bed.

Love, Holly