Soda Crates

It looks as if I need to take a drive to some Pottery Barn stores. I just saw that pottery barn was to sell these online and guess what? They are all gone! Any of you have contacts and can have these sent to me? Gosh, as a kid I could have gotten tons of these for free.

Our Fancy Nancy Party

We had a very fun weekend celebrating Isabel's 5th birthday! We started with a Fancy Nancy themed party on Saturday. We made some cute Martha Stewart Pink Pom-poms for the playroom and went all out making a fancy table in the dining room including little pots with mini pom-poms and butterflies. She was so excited and picked out her ensemble. She also help choose her menu for the day. It consisted of: heart and star shaped ham and pb&j sandwiches, baby carrots and hummus, olives, goldfish, grapes and cheese sticks. Oh, and fizzy pink lemonade.

The cake: Isabel requested a bottom of chocolate and top of vanilla. She wanted some pink and fancy stuff so this was our creation.

Her party began with some free play time while we greeted parents, followed by some fancy nancy coloring pages and mazes. We then decorated some jewelry boxes with 'gems'. I had painted the rim pink and written a their names in glitter glue earlier in the week. The funniest thing was that Isabel asked me 'Mommy, why did you scribble on all of the jewelry boxes?'. I looked at them and realized that I had written in cursive-so funny!! Since everyone was hungry early, we ate lunch and then went outside to read some fancy nancy books. Daddy then took the girls on treasure hunts in the backyard for a while. We played with bubbles, took photos of each girl with Isabel and then opened gifts. Ben had his buddy Hudson over and they spent lots of time playing cars, trains and making bubbles for the girls to chase.

Happy Birthday my sweet fancy girl.

Uptown Office

I am inspired. I have had a vision of my office for years now and this sums it up: painting my desk white, a colorful rug and bolder color on the wall. I have had a great blue chosen but have not yet taken the plunge.

My baby girl is 5!

Easter 2009: Great Chocolate Cake, Food & Fun

One of my greatest memories of Easter is how my paternal grandparents, I mean bunny, would hide 2 baskets for each of us in her house. I always knew that when I had kids, I would continue that tradition as it was so exciting for my sister and I to try to figure out where the baskets could be AND what would be in them. Here is what my children found (behind chairs, under tables and the bubbles on their place setting in the dining room) this year and we had so much fun watching them hunt.

Aren't my first attempt at royal icing cookies cute?

After looking at all of the treasures, we went and got dressed. The kids wanted us to try to dress alike so yellow shirts and jeans for the boys and pinks for the girls.

Finally, Isabel and I made a chocolate cake the day before and were quite proud of it, too bad the lighting was not better.

Love food? Come to my food blog, Savor The Thyme . By the way, I am entering this cake into the Easter Cake Bake 2009 at A Slice of Cherry Pie.

Countdown to her Birthday - Richard Scarry style

Isabel has been so excited about reaching this milestone (5 years old!) that she was asking me numerous times a day 'how many days mommy?' and 'Is that a long time?'. So, I decided we needed to make a calendar to assist in visualization and to give her something to be excited about everyday we got closer. Don't you love the Richard Scarry characters?

A necessity

I need this. I do, I can feel it in my bones. I am going to dream about it. Which color? both! that is what I was thinking.

Here comes Peter Cottontail

Color me some Easter Eggs

After opening the first box of egg coloring to find it was empty, I found myself reassuring the children that we would color eggs today and we did. They loved it. By the way, remember to buy white eggs not 2 cartons of brown eggs.

Ready for the Egg Hunt

Our two little bunnies were very excited to go to a friend's house for an Easter Egg Hunt. I will post more pictures from the hunt this week.

Pick my nose

Attention: I am hoping that these cups are well stocked at the huge surprise birthday party that will be thrown for me in December. Yes, hint to all of you.

A reminder about a positive attitude

Back in the day (pre-children), I worked in the pharmaceutical corporate world and often interacted with a lovely woman who always had a smile, a bounce in her step and was eager to assist. So it came to no surprise when this lovely lady started pursuing her passion of personal coaching. We have spent quite a bit of time together in the past few months and I can honestly say I look forward to her posts as they are well written reminders of how our positive visions, goals and attitude are important and offer unlimited opportunities. Please take some time to read at 'A place to learn and develop yourself.'

Love in Newport

This past weekend we went to Newport for Newport Restaurant Week (read more about it here) and some fun. After nibbling, we went to the beach and enjoyed the scenery.

Trish for Target

While flipping through the newest edition of InStyle magazine, this photo caught my eye. It is a new limited edition line for Target from their 'Design for All' series featuring Miss Trish. Wouldn't these look sweet with a nice manicure?

Monkey and Coffee

I must be craving coffee as I just posted about donuts below and now this picture of Ben at a Dunkin Donuts. We had such a good time spending an hour reading books (and yes, ate a donut) before we had to pick Bel up from school. Ben just wanted to look a books while I read magazines and then after a bit, I would read to him. This brand new 3 year old does not usually stay on a task that long. Does that mean he is growing up? NO, don't say that.

Time to make the Donuts

I am salivating. Yes, I know, you should not chew your toys but would you blame your kids for sticking these in their mouths? Adorable.

Tweet Tweet! 7 Useful Twitter Tips

I know, I know, I have already posted about a million great things about twitter but it seems endless. Check out this short yet super informative article from geeksugar.

Pingg evites from Martha Stewart

Did you all see what Design Mom found? She always posts about the best and most creative things in the world, well, at least in America. Don't know what Pingg is? They have very elegant, classy, fabulous free evites.

Bride's Party: Part II

Curious about part II? Head over the Savor The Thyme and enjoy.

Hugging not choking

Isabel loves to take pictures all the time like Mommy (she is always seeing me take pics of food for my food blog and them for fun) so she asked Ben and I to pose today. The photos crack me up because he was having a blast but it looks like I am choking him.