Monday, January 31, 2011

Winter Days

I'm a little late in uploading these, seeing as how the snow has begun to melt (again) but we're in a winter storm warning (yet again) so I won't be surprised if we receive more snow (AGAIN!!) Enjoy.





Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Monday, January 10, 2011

Children's Museum Fun (Long post)

  Ok, I just have to express my thanks for my older sister's thoughtful Christmas gift that she and her husband gave to my family this past December: an annual family pass to the Children's Museum!!!!

 (For those of you whom have never been there, or don't know even what it is, you are living in a sick world! :) Ok, maybe that's a bit dramatic...maybe.)

 Anyways it's this AWESOME musem that (as the name suggests) is children focused. It has MANY interactive exhibts (ranging from the Maze of Mirrors to the Waterworks to many more) and it seems that they always have something new! It is such a blast and my family and I always have fun when we go there.

 I have so many memories that I made there with my family such as sitting on the dinosaur, telling time on the water clock and even getting in trouble for throwing fake, squishy rocks at my Granny (they were, honest!) to be funny, or sticking my tongue out at my Grandma and Grandpa-again to be funny. (Mom didn't think it was. Lol : )

 Anyways, the last time I was there was YEARS ago, so when I found out that my sister was buying a family pass, I was UBER excited, hardly able to restrain from jumping up and down! When we finally opened up the envelope for Christmas that contained our passes, I was WAY more excited than my younger siblings, I think!

 So on Tuesday of last week my family and I went to the Museum after we finished school...and boy was it worth the wait!!!! Check out the pictures below!



Glass Art

 






 


This is a real train! They actually built the walls up around it!

Watch your head!


Sister #7 showing Mom her "tickets" upon boarding the train!


 
And of course we had to visit the Barbie exhibit, right?


 

Swarovski covered Barbie in crystals for her 50th anniversary!

Sisters # 5,6, & 7 had fun "designing" outfits for Barbie.




Notice how the boys are "strangely" missing in these pictures?
 Then, we went to Egypt...



where Mama wrestled an alligator...with help from S#7.


Messing around before our "flight" to Europe...
 

 


 





...where we saw a famous face.
 



The Frenchman who wore this jacket survived several concentration camps.



Each butterfly represents 5,000 Jewish children who died during the Holocaust.



Carousel Wishes and Dreams
 
 

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Just Some Christmas Family Pictures

Well, here are some pictures from Christmas and as you can tell, my family and I had a GREAT time! (If you want a bit more of an explanation, check out my mom's blog here.)