Boston Vacay 2013

Boston Vacay 2013

So when I say Boston, it was a little Boston and a lot of West Wareham, Mass. A lovely town (way) south of Boston, just easier to tell everyone Boston...lol

So enjoy my pictures and the short blurbs I took about what we were up to :) 

Friday, June 28th

11:45pm departed PHX to BOSTON!!!!

Saturday,  June 29th

7:35am landed Boston

Napped, settled in, went to Seekonk Speedway saw Joe Melberg race the 00.

Daren talks with an old family friend.

Joe Melberg, the only one in focus 

(complete accident by the way), the Black Double Zero

Sunday, June 30th
Breakfast & Lunch at home
Went to Plymouth, MA
Pilgrim Hall Museum
Walked around, saw the Plymouth Rock, Massisoit Statue, then Dinner at Sam Diegos in Plymouth, Back home, chilled, started fire pit, rained out after 5 mins, rain stopped after about 20 mins, went back out for about 1.5 hrs with the fire and fire flies, still got pissed on by the tree as the wind blew every now and then. Went in and enjoyed the massage chair watched some tv and then bed time.

Monday,  July 1st
Breakfast at home.
Lunch at Five Guys right before entering Boston. (Mom, B &D, Tom had Dr. Appt for ear ache.)
Going to the New England Aquarium. 
Saw court house with mob boss Whitey Bulger. He was on trial at the time we were in Boston.
Aquarium was awesome...Grand re-opening day for the gaint reef tank in the middle. inside it was Muggy! Penguins. Seals, jelly fish etc...
We walked back to the car along the harbor side catching some wonderfully cool breezes...aahhh.....back home we went, caught a bit of Boston traffic on the way out. Home again
Relaxed a bit, then Judy and I went to Cvs to pick up Toms ear drops, stop&shop for her ingredients for banana split cake (YUMM!!), then target for my face moisturizer.  Back home we went.
Took a short nap while Judy made her banana split cake, and tom and daren tinkered with RC Cars in the man cave and hole(basement&garage).
Meatball subs for dinner YUM! Boys went back to the rc cars, girls chatted. Dirty Monkeys (drinks) delish mmmm. Relax watch some tv, Under the Dome episode 2 was on (very disappointed that duke perkins didn't have a wife...wtf?!?...and his house burnt down!) Off to bed!

Tuesday, July 2nd
Chillax in the am (Judy gettin her nails done). Gonna have an EARLY dinner with Auhntie Dohnah...lol. But first a bike ride. Scussett Beach. Rode the bikes along the Cape Cod Canal to around the Herring Hotel/Restaurant and back to Scussett Beach. A 7 mile round trip. Walked around Scussett Beach picking up shells and small rock possibly some sea glass. Back home to be there when Aunt Donna picks us up for linner....lol. 
3:30 out to lunch with Aunt Donna. Kool Kone for fried seafood mmmm....then drove to Agawam Beach to see the old Olney Grandparents House. Then down to little harbor. Definitely got a sun burn down the canal and at Scussett Beach....

Wednesday,  June 3rd
BOSTON DAY
Drove in to Boston. Met our walking tour guide in front of the Old State House 10am, off we went. Most of the tour followed the "Freedom Trail" plus Beacon Hill and Coppley Square. We ended right before the Boston Public Library. Went there, then down to the Boston Marathon Finish Line that is still there as a kind of memorial of April 15th's race and bombing. Then lunch at Firehouse Subs mmm....the to the "T" green line to the red line for Harvard! We were all pretty hot and tired too, so  the walk around Harvard was quick. Took the T red line  all the way to south station and off to the car and back home we came. Pool time for a bit and now its dinner time,  burgers off the grill yum.

Thursday,  July 4th
Breakfast at home. Started re packing for the trip home :(
Went to Hanfords and BJs for food shopping with Judy and Daren.
Lunch was hot dogs and ribs. Mmmmm.
Off to Lobster Pot for some lazy mans lobster and clam strips. Very good!!
Now to Plymouth for Fireworks and last chance shopping. My shirt and bag, darens 100 $ towel. Fireworks over the water beautiful.
The trip home....Tom's tight squeeze parking job...the pickle smoochah hitting Tom's truck....the hill top stop...damn cop wouldn't let us go then when he did the pussy at the bottom wouldn't go, (Judy and I screaming out the window to them "GO!!") Lmao. Home, relax, ice cream and bed time.

Friday, July 5th
Breakfast, finish packing, off to the airport. Bought my key chain and our Lobster pet hehe then off we went. Back to Phx...lame...till next time ;)

Pop Rocks and GIANT Pixie sticks

Girls just having fun!

So there's this candy store called It'SUGAR
http://www.itsugar.com/ and they have giant candy, amazing! 

Any how, we went on found yummy pop rocks (regular size...bummer I know) and made ourslves giant pixie stick...mixed flavors of course...and the sour faces to go with them !!!

Resolve Pre-Treat

So I wear those 'nude' colored bras to avoid the "I see your bra through that thin ass shirt" syndrome, and they seemed to be getting dingy, so first thought was ok I'll bleach them that gets rid of everything.....NOPE....I was very wrong all I got was a bleach scented bra...great...



So I did some asking around and heard good things about Resolve, gave it a shot and this is what I got.






1st all I did was spray one side of the band to truly see the difference it would or wouldn't make. I was very surprised at the almost instant change ----->
*AMAZING!* (Bleach didn't even get rid of this stuff?!?!)





So I continued on by laying the bra in the tub, spray Resolve, rub it in a bit, and let sit for 5 minutes and tadah! A bra that looks (half) BRAND SPANKIN NEW!!! whoop whoop!!




This stuff works great on dirty, greasy boy clothes too!! I use it on my honey's work shirt that gets all kinds of boy dirt on it :)

Receipt Catcher

 Hate having receipts all over the place and floating around in your purse?? Me too!! So I had this idea to re-purpose an empty trash bag box into a receipt catcher until I was able to go through them. Cause I don't know many people out there that can go through their receipts every time they make a purchase...





So I started with an old small box (ziploc sandwich bag boxes are pretty much the same size as what I used) and it looked like so ---->

1. I covered the front opening with card board a couple staples  since I covered it with pretty paper. You can see a bit of the cardboard covering where the front opening was in the picture below.
2. After reinforcing and covering any unwanted openings begin covering the larger areas of the box with desired paper (or fabric) and your choice of adhesive. I advise starting with bottom and working towards the back and up over the top last.
3.  Cut the edges along the corners so you can fold them down on the sides.
4. Now cut paper to cover the sides so that it covers the folds from the last step.

5. Carefully cut, fold under and glue the top opening.

6. The front of the receipt catcher I used contrasting paper that was part of the other design.

7. I also printed out a journal accent to make my label for my receipt catcher. 

Forever Flowers

Being the girls that we are we LOVE flowers! Duh what girl doesn't! but highly dislike when they die :( :(
So we went to Hobby Lobby (kinda like Michael's but a little different) and found some beautiful flowers that happen to be on sale (lucky us we know) and also some blue and clear marbles for the vases to mimic water.

 Reesie's flower bouquet was gorgeous, tall vase, small white flowers with purple & pink roses!

 Babs opted for more greenery, than baby's breath effect.  Babs made a small bouquet for the office and the remaining bundles she arranged for the dinning room table for a larger affect.

  Either way this is a simple and cost effective way to add elegance and beauty to any space.

Purple Ombre Cupcakes

Reesie loves the color Purple, so for her birthday I decided to take some pinterest inspired cake

And transform the idea into cupcakes, since we were going out to a movie this was easier to tote around than a full fledged cake. Not exactly a "NAILED IT" but hell it worked and she LOVED it :D

Fun Craft Apron

Went to one of my favorite Scrapbook stores (Scrapbook Barn) in Chandler, AZ and saw this fun idea for an apron....

After a long debate with myself I decided that I was going to buy the apron and an assortment of goodies to put on, some were similar to the inspiration but I did want to have my own touch to it. 

I started by sewing on the additional ruffles behind and in front of the ruffles at the bottom of the apron:

At this time I also added the fabric flowers, and painted the large pocket. Painting the pocket does make the pocket a bit stiffer than normal, so be cautious if you want to do as I did.

Here's the Finished project: