Fun Friday!

Well lets just say that today was a BUSY Friday to say the least! We started off our day in Kindergarten today with our African marketplace. Our kids have been studying Africa for the past two weeks and they made goods to be sold in the market today. They got to come in and barter with us to buy some things for themselves! It is always one of my favorite things that we do each year and this year was no exception...the word "Jambo" means hello is Swahili which I why I chose the song for this post just in case you were wondering! Anyways here are a few pictures from the market!



After school we had a baby shower for one of our first grade teachers, Andrea, who is going to have a little boy in just a few weeks! We got to see some 4-D ultrasounds of him and they were really quite amazing!

The mommy to be with her new hand made blanket from Diane

A cool little "diaper cake"

Melissa & Andrea


After the shower we went back to Melissa's room and I got to cut James's hair! Our neighbor usually does both of our hair but she had surgery a few weeks ago and is unable to cut hair yet so James was stuck with me doing it instead! I was a little nervous at first (and I think he was too) but it turned out pretty good if you ask me!

Here we go!

The "before" shot...doesn't he look happy?

Melissa putting on the finishing touches and trimming up around his ears.

Well Melissa and I are off now to go see The Wizard of Oz which is being put on near us and it includes a lot of students from our school as munchkins so it should be fun! Never a dull moment around here...hopefully we will get some rest and relaxation in at some point this weekend though!

Will it blend?

Say it ain't green?

The idea of a green smoothie has been an interesting one to me. Most people I know would love to try a smoothie made out of banannas and pineapples etc, but not many have jumped at the idea of trying one made with Kale or romaine lettuce. We were in Costco a month or so ago and this amazing piece of creation caught out eye.

We stalked it for a few weeks and were able to get a good deal on it. Anna has even been heard calling it her "NEW LOVE". Who would have thought that I would have been replaced by a blender. It is pretty useful and I am starting to see where she is coming from. We have a short video that follows that shows you one of our green smoothie creations.

We are still working on the recipe daily to get it just right for a good ole St. Patrick's day celebration. A.J. thinks we are crazy but little does he know that he will soon get to experience the yummy green treats for himself. Yes...... thats right green smoothies for dogs. Oh Boy!

You can watch other videos of the blender in action at

http://www.willitblend.com/

Other than the blender we have started watching season one of Prison Break. It is a show that we have wanted to watch for a long time but quit because we missed most of the episodes. We are almost through seaon one. Sorry this is short but gotta get focused on more Prison Break and progress reports for school. Oh Boy!

Hope everyone is well and that everyone actually not just reads the blog but starts leaving us comments. It is easy to do!

Here are some pictures of flowers that I got Anna for Valentines day. She is such a great wife and deserves everything in the world. The flowers just help radiate her beauty! Enjoy.

This is really the size of her heart. I thought it fit.

Here is the video. Click on it to start it. Hopefully you like it. It may even inspire you to start your own green smoothie revolution. Good luck! Sorry the video is sideways. It just adds to the experience.

A Beautiful Day!

Well with the absolutely amazing weather that we got today we were able to get outside and get some fresh air by taking AJ to the park which was a great time. I just finished up some grad school work and wanted to update the blog since I haven't done that in a little while...but realized that I really don't have much new to update with...so I decided to add a few more pics from our trip that we didn't have in the previous posts...who knows maybe it's the warm weather that makes me think of it, I don't know!

Looking at each one of these pictures definitely makes me smile though and makes me so thankful that I have such a wonderful husband who took the time to plan each detail of our trip just for me...as I was adding pictures to this post James was sitting in the living room and working on some papers for school and one of the songs from our wedding, "I Will Be Here" by Steven Curtis Chapman came on the radio...for those of you who were at the wedding that is the song that played while we screwed up the unity sand (haha!). Anyways it only took a few notes of the song before we both knew what it was and James called me into the other room so that we could dance together for a minute...it's times like that one that make me remember how lucky I am to have such a wonderful man who cares so much about me! Ok enough lovey dovey stuff...here are a few pictures!

James and I on our big date night on the boat...we went to the "fancy" restaurant that night which was fun but I don't think that either of us REALLY know what we ate that night!

This was in Ft. Lauderdale before we left on the cruise at the Hard Rock hotel...can anyone guess why we took this pic?

Our cruise ship, the Miracle!

This was our first sunset picture that we took on the boat, that is the city line in Miami.

A few other sunset and sunrise pics from our trip!

Each night when we came back to our room our bed was turned down and we had a little buddy waiting for us...we had to take a few pictures of them!

This is probably one of my favorite pictures that James took...it is a horse in Cozumel wearing a sombrero...I thought that was awesome!

We saw a lot of iguana's in both Cozumel and Hondurras

Here we are on New Year's eve, our first night on the ship wearing our matching shirts!

Me with our awesome waiters, Rosanna and Martin...they definitely made each night at dinner a fun experience!

And of course you all know I couldn't post pictures of the cruise without including a tiki hut!

Alright well I hope I didn't bore you with more pictures from the trip...hopefully I will find something else to update about soon when I find our camera too that is "temporarily misplaced"...whoops!

Our 2nd Annual Superbowl Party...in 3D!

Here are a few quick pictures from our little superbowl get together last night. We had a few great friends come over to join us while watching the game and of course eating a few yummy snacks! Although I have to say I wasn't too impressed with the commercials this year, we did enjoy getting ourselves ready for the 3-D commercials with our lovely glasses! Here are a few pictures...yes don't we all look amazing in 3-D glasses??

Here we are...yep we make those glasses look good!

Matt & Molly...who now that I think about it never ended up taking off their coats...you guys think our house is cold or what?!?!

Beth & her friend Jim stopped in for a bit to join us in the fun...just in time for 3-D...lucky them!

A picture of Melissa and I...her quote for the first half of the night was "Is it time for our glasses yet James?" We are glad Melissa was able to make it even though we wish Brian could have been there too!