noah's first time at the park!

last tuesday evening the weather was glorious . . . clear skies, sunshine, and warm temperatures.  we changed noah into a warm-weather outfit and put him in the stroller to head out for a walk around the neighborhood after dinner.  there is a park in walking distance from our house, so we went there for a bit for noah to experience his first park visit.  we took him on the swings and the slides.  he really enjoyed himself.  he especially enjoyed watching all of the other little kids play on the park equipment.  i'm looking forward to many more park visits this spring and summer!

and here's a few little video clips of noah playing at the park . . .

love, laurie

a video of our trip to walt disney world 2022

it took me over a month, but to conclude our walt disney world vacation posts, here is a video of clips from our trip.  i didn't document everything, but managed to get a few clips to recap most of our trip.

we had such a great time on our trip, and i'm really glad we have these photos/video to look back on  to remember our vacation.

love, laurie

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you can see more of our disney trip photos here, here, here, here, here, here, and here

keeping us laughing

seriously though, we didn't even watch one single second of the winter olympics this year . . . mainly because we were so busy with the musical.

love, laurie

hypnotizing

this painting video is so mesmerizing.  it's incredible how talented people are, it's hypnotizing!

love, laurie

the elliptical thinks i forgot about it

the holderness family always knows how to make me laugh.  it's january 21st and i've only stepped on the elliptical once so far on monday and that was only because ryan guilted me into it.  so sad.  when it's this cold i just want to cuddle under a pile of blankets with the kitten.  can we hibernate instead?!

love, laurie

is it fall?

not too sure about this weather.  it was hot and humid . . . then it got cooler and started to feel like fall . . . then it got hot and humid again.  regardless of whether or not the weather knows if it's fall, the holderness family is making me laugh again.

love, laurie

are you christmas shopping yet?

everyone is talking about how delayed online orders will be for christmas this year.  are you doing christmas shopping yet?  i can't even mentally think about it, but at least the holderness family is keeping us entertained once again!

love, laurie

this made me laugh

we have a neil diamond tribute show coming up at our theater in october, so this video really made me laugh.  god bless the holderness family!

love, laurie

please, everyone, just behave

we're finishing up the first week of school and seriously keeping our fingers crossed that we can stay with in-person classes and that our scheduled shows for the theatre don't get interrupted.  every time we turn on the news it's worse and worse.  (at least the holderness family keeps us entertained.)  please, everyone, behave!

have a lovely weekend (and behave)

love, laurie

fingers crossed that classes can stay in person

the holderness family is keeping us entertained as everyone is heading back to school.  please people, behave so that we don't have to put classes back online again!

love, laurie

ryan's birthday trip to knoebel's amusement park

we celebrated ryan's birthday on saturday by taking at tirp to knoebel's amusement park with our families.  we reserved a picnic table in the pavilion so that we had a home base for our food all day.  we packed brunch which we were able to eat before the park opened and then came back to our table later in the afternoon for dinner and cupcakes.

the weather was great and we were able to get on a bunch of rides.  it was a great way to celebrate!

happy birthday, ryan!

love, laurie

a little video of our anniversary weekend getaway to chincoteague and assateague islands

to wrap up our chincoteague / assateague islands trip, here is a little video from our weekend getaway.

love, laurie

see the rest of our photos: part 1 / part 2 / part 3

a little video of our soarin' eagle rail-biking tour

we really enjoyed our rail bike tour with soarin' eagle last weekend.  here's a little video from our adventure.

love, laurie

"anything goes"

gosh, i absolutely love broadway legend sutton foster.  (i'm still holding out hope that one day i'll get to see her performing live in person!)  everything she does is so incredible.  recently, she teamed up with bbc music to do a special performance of "anything goes" for the one show.  here's a little sutton foster to start off your week . . . perfection!

love, laurie

clever stop-motion animation of baking with legos

i'm mesmerized by this stop-motion animation lego chocolate cake baking video.  it's so satisfying to watch.  gosh, it must have taken forever to make this video.  people are so clever!

love, laurie

seriously, almost a year

the holderness family has been keeping us entertained for quite some time now, and it's crazy to think it's been almost a whole year since this nuttiness began!

love, laurie

super bowl 2021 instant parody

you've heard of instant replays in sports . . . how about an instant parody video?!

the holderness family has been entertaining us for quite some time now.  they really deserve credit for whipping up a super bowl parody song during the actual super bowl and having the whole video written, shot, edited, and posted all by the end of the night last night!  wow!  i would like half of the energy that penn holderness has in a day!

love, laurie

a man-made ice carousel

a man in michigan got creative with all of the ice on frozen spring lake and made an ice carousel for local residents.  pretty cool (ha, get it?  cool . . . that's a dad joke!)

happy friday!

love, laurie

yeah, sometimes our smart devices can be insulting

we love all of the technology and the devices that make our home smarter and our lives easier, but every once in a while they take on a life of their own and say/do the strangest things.  

we've worn our apple watches and loved them for over 4 years now, which is why i had a good laugh when the holderness family made this video about if the apple watch was a person.

as a bonus, i stumbled across another video on facebook where a clever girl did an amazon alexa parody to the "a little bit alexis" song from the "schitt's creek" tv show.  oh i'm laughing!

enjoy!

love, laurie

we're here for the bernie memes!

by far some of the best entertainment to come out of this week has been the plethora of memes about bernie sanders at the inauguration.  there are dozens and dozens of them flooding the internet and they're all so, so good.  the holderness family picked out a few of the memes and, of course, wrote a song about it to keep us all entertained.

happy friday!

love, laurie