Playgroup Give-away

The next two weeks for playgroup will be a "give-away" in honor of Spring Cleaning! I know Ayako and myself will be bringing baby clothes, boy clothes, toys, maternity clothes, etc... If you have bigger items, like furniture, please bring a photo instead! We will be meeting Tuesday the 15th and Tuesday the 22nd at 10:30 am, either at the church or the park, depending on the weather. I will post where when the time comes closer. Even if you don't have stuff to bring....come take ours! Whatever is left-over on the 22nd will go to Goodwill. If you're willing to help drop things off there, please let me know.
Charish

Playgroup for 4/8

We'll be meeting at the church at 10:30. The weather tomorrow is supposed to be cloudy and 46 degrees. If it feels okay when we get there, we can try the park if people want to.
Charish

Please add more!

It seems I only got a few photos taken, so if anyone else has some please add them or email them to me and I will!

Easter Photos

Ellie

Alex and Mom

Mallory

Tyler

Isaac

Lincoln

Playgroup for 4/1/08

Playgroup will be at the church due to rain! See you at 10:30!
-Charish

Playgroup for March 25

Playgroup will be at the park tomorrow at 10:30. It will be sunny and beautiful! Sorry I haven't posted photos of the Egg Hunt yet, I will as soon as I can (as well as update my own blog!).

Easter Egg Hunt

Playgroup tomorrow is at 10:30 at the park. Please bring 5 eggs per child, and try to avoid chocolate treats. The weather is supposed to be cold, so please dress warm. We are also doing a potluck with this event, and ask everyone to bring something to share. Don't forget your camera's! If you need directions you can email me or post a comment on here. I'm not posting the name of the park for safety reasons.
Charish

Playgroup this week

Playgroup this week is at the church. *sigh*, this weather just isn't letting us get out! Today is beautiful! Make sure to get out!

Links

The place name or activity is a link, the post just doesn't show it. So click on the name or title for more info. For example, Mary Riley-Stiles, or this link, or Adventure Theatre, etc.
Charish

Upcoming Activities

February 27th at 7 pm, Dinorock Puppet Show, will be performing "Mi Casa Es Su Casa" at Mary Rily-Stiles Library. This is a bi-lingual show that introduces Latin American culture through songs and stories. For ages 5 and up....but I don't think they'll object if you 'happen' to be at the library at the time!

There will be lots of activities going on at Cherry Hill Farmhouse: Victorian Readings (Emily Dickenson, Edgar Allen Poe, etc.), St. Patrick's Day Celtic Music Celebration, Egg Dyeing Workshops, Civil War Day, and more. For more info go to this link.

March 8th through April 20th, the Adventure Theatre will be performing "The Stinky Cheese Man", (a children's book). March 18th -20th they will be performing "Clara Barton: The Courage Within" (true life story of the founder of the Red Cross). These look great by the way!! $5-$8 a ticket

The Maryland Science Center has some neat exhibits up as well. $9.50 a ticket for kids 3-12 and adults are $14. It's expensive but is suppossed to be worth it! Very kid-friendly.

Wow it's February!

I have no idea where the time went! Goodness. We're still meeting at 10:30 at the church. On the rare chance that the weather is nice, it will be at the park. I'll send email's out if that happens. Some upcoming activities in the area:

Saturday Feb. 9 - there will be a Chinese New Year parade at the Eden Center (at the corner of Roosevelt and and Wilson Blvd.) at 11 am.

Sunday Feb. 10 - Barack Obama is speaking at Cherry Hill Park during the afternoon. (It didn't specify a time).

Hope everyone is having a great New Year, and hopefully the weather stays fantastic like today!
Charish

Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Just some FYI's on upcoming activities in the area.

- There is a holiday craft show Saturday December 1st: 9am-4pm, and Sunday December 2nd: 11am-4pm. Admission is $1 for adults and $.50 for kids 12 and up. Kids 12 and under are free.
Here's the link
- December 8th from 10am - 2 pm is a children's Holiday Shoppe.
Here's the link

Hope to see everyone Tuesday! Remember we're meeting at 10:30 at the church.
Happy Holiday's!
-Charish

New Meeting Time and Place

Since the weather is cooling down, we will now be meeting at 10:30 am at the church from now on. Please bring toys and a snack to share. Bikes are welcome!

Let's Share Some Holiday Recipe's!

Pull out that apron and get creative!

Spider Cupcakes:

1 box choc. cake mix
1 lb. licorice
1 16 oz. can frosting (depends on color of your spiders!)
Candy Corn
Red Hot Candies

Prepare cupcakes as directed. Frost. Use licorice as legs (stick on top outer edges of cup cakes). Place two pieces of candy corn on lower top of cupcake for fangs. Place two red hot's on top for eyes!

Fall 2006 Bouldins

Brian dressed up last year as Periwinkle the cat from Blues Clues
Ian as Harry Potter and Ashley was a DivaHaving fun on the hayride at Cox Farm

Fall 2005 of Bouldins

Playing in the leaves in our backyard ...All dressed up for Halloween ...

Let's see your kids fun old photos from Halloween/Autumn!

Lincoln 'helping' Daddy rake (2006) It was more like sitting and watching him do all the work!








Isaac the T-Rex (2006)























Lincoln with the 'Big Apple' from Cox Farms! (2006)















Isaac the Elephant (2005)














Lincoln in his peanut costume (2005)












Isaac in the leaves at Thanksgiving (2005)
















Isaac with the pumpkin from G-ma and G-pa's (2005)

It's October?? Yikes!!

My apologies for being a slacker and not posting more! With a new baby here, family visiting, pre-school starting, birthdays, and just being a mom you tend to lost track of time!! Well, we are still meeting at 9:30am at Westover Park, near the church. You are of course welcome to come at any time. We've grown in numbers, which is exciting!!
As for upcoming activities:
We're excited for General Conference this weekend! Don't forget to remind your hubbies about the Priesthood session at 8pm at the Stake Center!
Also on Saturday there is a Farm Day activity going on from 10-3 at Cherry Hill Park, which is by Mary Riley-Stiles Library in Falls Church City.
The city is also putting together a 2008 calendar. They feature children's artwork from the area. If you're interested in entering your kid's drawings the link is: http://www.fallschurchva.gov/ArtContest.html
Monday the 29th at 7pm Mary Riley-Stiles library has a puppeteer/tall-tale story teller coming. Free and no registration, ages 5 and up.
The library also has story times available for different ages. The link is: http://www.falls-church.lib.va.us/youth/summerstory.html
Here's a link of free activities in D.C. for you new people!
http://www.gallagherstravels.com/States/DC/FreeDC.html
and free kid-friendly things also:
http://www.our-kids.com/
Anyway, we hope to see you Tuesday! FYI once the weather cools down, we'll be meeting at the church!
-Charish

Fun things in the community

So this Saturday at 2 o'clock at the Mary Riley Stiles library in Falls Church, there is a Harry Potter party. For those who don't know, Falls Church City was voted the "Harry-est town in America" by Amazon.com because we had the most pre-ordered books online per capita. I'm planning on going, as long as I don't have a new baby around! Also, next Friday at the Cherry Hill Park - right across the street from MRS library, the city is showing Happy Feet, a kids movie. It starts at 8:30 pm. You can check at the Falls Church website online. They'll be doing a kids movie every Friday night during the month of August. It's outside, so the kids can also play and you can pack a picnic dinner or whatnot. It sounds like a ton of fun! I believe the week after that is the Wizard of Oz, we'll definitely have to see that one! It's one of Isaac's favorites!
FYI- I won't be at playgroup for the next 2 weeks. I have family in town for the baby. So if anyone wants to do an outing on those Thursdays I won't be able to plan them. Anyone else wanting too? Have fun, and maybe see you Sunday...hopefully not right?? haha

Anyone interested in Field Trips?

I was talking with Shar on Tuesday and we thought it might be fine to start doing field trips on Thursdays for those who are interested. There's so much to do around here and a lot of fun things. So if you're interested let's get something going. There's neat parks, kid's train rides, free kid movies at IMAX theaters, historical sites, museums, etc. Let's try to get a list going of things in the area and schedule a date.
Also, we'll meet Tuesday at 9:30 at the park. Email or call me for directions.