Fun With ABBY & the Kids!

After the Villages Quilt Show I took Abby home with me for an impromptu sleepover! 

She is so much fun! 

So Much ENERGY!!!  

 I love it! She wanted to play piano and sing with Uncle Detto!

She loved every minute of it! 

Stephen is sooooo cute! Both Stephen and Alyssa are growing up so fast! 

While Abby was over... 

Nana called!Abby HAD TO TALK!! 

This girly LOVES to talk on the phone! 

She also LOVES to play with TOYS! I love that she know right where her toys are and that she is fairly self-entertaining! 

Notice Sissy in the background??Abby insisted on watching cartoons while playing! So... Sissy complied!

I am still going to school FULL TIME... It is getting old quick! I am starting to feel like there is not much point in me completing my degree. 

I am sure the cats constant disruption has NOTHING to do with my frustration...

Do you see this CRAZY Juliet??

She will squeeze into ANY spot! 

This is my VALENTINES Wall hanging that I am working on... What do you think?

In process - quilting! 

I don't quilt very many things on my home machine anymore. 

It is sooooo much easier to throw it on Lisa's "Merida" (her short arm machine) and whip it out. 

I still enjoy quilting on my machine... especially when it is something this small! 

Hugs, 

Lisa 

The Don Quixote Museum!

Alyssa and I went to the Don Quixote Museum together on Valentines Day!

This is my favorite!

We spent almost two hours checking out all of the art work!

Isn't she cute?

Better Late than never - Valentines Day!

For Valentines Day this year the kids and I got to celebrate in MEXICO!!

Things are quite different in Mexico.

The streets are SWAMPED with people. There are street vendors pushing you to buy flowers.

There are men singing and trying to get you to pay them to serenade you with an AMAR song!

The little old women are trying to sell you jewelry, hair bows, scarves, and candies. It is amazing to see the people and feel the atmosphere. I really enjoyed just watching the lovers whisper to each other and watching the little kids run around and giggle with their Valentines Day ballons.

I found it interesting to find out that in Meixco Valentines Day  does not have the same meaning as it does in the US. For them it is The Day of Love and Friendship. I enjoyed watching young boys walking together and young girls hugging and giving each other flowers and candies. It seems that in the US Valentines day puts pressure on young people to “be in a relationship”. Stephen told me it was amazing how many of his friends changed their “facebook status” from single to in a relationship on Feb 13^th!

I love Valentines Day, but I do think we have commercialized it and make it too much about the STUFF and less about the love. I had a friend write on Valentines Day that if that is the only day your hubby does for you then your relationship is in trouble. You shouldn’t have to have a National holiday to do something nice for each other. You should love and do sweet things for each other every day!  

I hope you had a GREAT Valentines Day!

And I hope that you show love to your loved ones and friends EVERY DAY!!

Hugs

Valentine's Weekend Part 3

After all of the fun at Bok Tower Gardens and Pinewood Estates we couldn't decide what to do on the "actual" Valentines Day. So after careful consideration we decided to go to

THE PIRATE DINNER ADVENTURE IN ORLANDO!!

 

We were shocked at the price, but then we found a COUPON (I love coupons) for a Family 4 pack! It ended up being a bogo! This was the first year we ever took the kids with us when we went out for Valentine's Day. Let's just say, it was a "learning experience". It wasn't a bad choice, however it wasn't a romantic choice either. LOL

 

Detto got picked to "help" out, and then later a guy grabbed my arm and pulled me up to the front. THEN... Alyssa got to go up on the pirate ship, with all of the kids. I wonder why Stephen didn't want to go?? Hmm

Overall it was a great night. I thought the show was a little long. They told us to get there at 6pm and the show wasn't over until 9:30pm. Then we had an hour drive home. That is a long night. I didn't realize I would have the kids out so late on a school night. Oops

The food was pretty good definately not a 5 star restaurant, but there was lots of it.
The show was good too. We liked the acrobatics and the stage fighting the best. There was lots of people flying through the air too. It was a really fun time overall.