Where Has The Time Gone?

Happy 8th Birthday SM!

Wordless Wednesday ~ No Reservations

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Qdoba Giveaway!

It’s giveaway time here on Mommy Bits and have we got a good one for you! In celebration of its new Mango Salad entree, Qdoba has given me FIVE gift cards, each good for 4 Mango Salad entrees and chips and salsa!

So what is Qdoba’s Mango salad? It’s fresh mango salsa, fire grilled chicken and crisp romaine lettuce with a zesty cilantro-lime vinagrette and served in a taco bowl.

WIN IT

Five lucky Mommy Bits readers will win a gift card good for 4 Mango Salad entrees & chips & salsa.

There are several ways to enter, you can do one or all of them for additional chances:

1. Leave a comment sharing one of your favorite Qdoba menu items.
2. Follow the Mommy Bits blog on Facebook’s Networked blogs (left side bar, click follow this blog) and leave a comment letting me know you did so.
3. Subscribe to my blog, and leave a comment letting me know you did so.
4. Tweet  about this giveaway (include @mommybits) and leave a comment letting me know you did so.

Contest is open until  10pm on Monday, July 5th, 2010. 5 winners will be selected using a random number generator. Contest open to greater Cincinnati residents only. Winners will have 48 hours to respond.

DISCLAIMER: Qdoba provided me with a gift card for 2 complimentary Mango Salad entrees so that I could try them for myself.

Getting Away

This weekend we packed up the car and headed down to Burnside, KY for a little relaxing on Lake Cumberland. Like many weekends before it, we had an amazing time boating and swimming, just having some good quality family time.

Here are some pics I snapped over the course of the weekend. I’ll be writing more about our trip soon over on Family Friendly Cincinnati, if any of you are considering a trip down. We’ve been coming down for 5 years and I can’t say enough great things about it.

SM rides up front as we head out on the Lake Friday morning.

Marty let’s BMan help drive the boat through a no wake zone.

Everyone loves to ride on the tube! SM gears up for his first ride of the season.

Just because he’s little, doesn’t mean he’s not fierce! The BMan gets ready to tear it up on the Lake.

After a long day on the boat, the boys settling in to watch movies and play Angry Birds on the iPad (we borrowed one for the weekend… One word= Amazing)

The REAL Karate Kid

This weekend SM achieved another amazing milestone.  He tested and received his blue belt in Karate!

SM’s been taking Karate at Nishime Karate since October and it’s been one of the best things to happen to him. In addition to him just having fun doing it, it’s done wonders for his self esteem and his confidence.   If you are considering enrolling your son or daughter in Karate I would highly recommend it. Here in Cincinnati Nishime has four locations across Cincinnati including locations in NKY & Indiana.

Here’s a quick picture of SM with Shihan after receiving his belt.

If you are curious as to what karate is like, here’s a video I shot of him testing for his belt.  I could not have been more proud.

Finding my Inner Artist…..

I will be the first to tell you I am not an artist. This morning though I decided to give it a try, and rather than go out and buy art for my son’s room, I decided I was going to try and make it.

Knowing that my son is wanting to do his room in a “rocket” theme, I headed out to Google to find inspiration.

After finding a few images that seemed do-able, I invited the B-man to weigh in. We agreed upon a rocket picture that both he liked and that I felt I could replicate.

I grabbed some acrylic paint and a canvas we had in the basement from some previous art adventures and Voila!

Well how did I do? I think OK. Check it out:

My Rocket Ship “Masterpiece”….

I did the whole thing freehand, drawing the images in pencil, then covering them with paint.  When I asked the Bman what he thought, he loved it. Unfortunately now he wants me to make a painting for each of his walls (augh!).  Not sure there’s that much “artist” in me!

Five Years Ago Today…

Waiting for the B-Man to arrive

My little boy arrives around 5pm

He steals his Daddy's heart right away

Happy Birthday B-Man!

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Rockin’ with the Rollergirls

Earlier this month while my husband was out of town the boys and I had a blast attending our first Cincinnati Rollergirls match.  The entire evening the boys were mesmerized by the action on the floor, watching the Black Sheep & the Silent Lambs tear up the track and crush their opponents.

After the May 8th match the boys got to meet Kitten Kicker and Nik Jagger.

This past weekend the Rollergirls returned to Cincinnati Gardens to take on two teams — Gem City & North Star. Cincinnati Women Bloggers had organized a big group to go so we headed back the Gardens to root them on. Once again, they did not disappoint!

Wanting to show our support, the boys asked if we could make our own t-shirts. Channeling the talents of my friends Amy & Andi, I headed out and picked up supplies and we made special t-shirts to show our love:

If you’ve not had a chance to check out the Cincinnati Rollergirls, there’s still time. The LAST home game is Saturday, June 19th. It’s Home Town Hero’s night and the Rollergirls will be selling tickets to Military, Fire, Police & EMT for just $7.  We’ll def. be there…. and you should be too!

Warning — I Call Dibs!

My husband picked up some candy in Paris while traveling recently. I walked in to the kitchen to see what he’d brought back, and here is what I found.    He’s def. my son!

Cincinnati Rollergirls Fun

After reading Amy’s post about the Cincinnati Rollergirls on Family Friendly Cincinnati last week I was intrigued.  It’s sounded like a ton of fun, and uber family friendly. It sounded like something I wanted to check out.

This past Saturday the Cincinnati Rollergirls were scheduled to take on the Chicago Outfit so the boys and I joined Amy and her family,  along with my friend Andi, my sister-in-law, for our first (and def. not last) Cincinnati Rollergirls experience.

In a nutshell — IT WAS AWESOME.  Cincinnati Gardens was packed with all sorts of people, including a huge number of families (It was Scout Night). The boys were mesmerized as the players zipped around the track, CRUSHING the Chicago Outfit.  I’d never seen them so into anything. They literally couldn’t take their eyes off the track. It was a great way to spend a Saturday night.

Here are a few photos from the night:

The next home game for the Cincinnati Rollergirls is Saturday, May 29^th vs. Minneapolis. Cincinnati Women Bloggers is doing a group outing for this match – complete with tailgate.  You can find the details here and EVERYONE is welcome to join them!

An evening will the Cincinnati Rollergirls is really reasonable.  Tickets are $10 for adults; kids 7-12 are $5; and kids six and under are FREE! Parking is Free and they let you bring in snacks so you don’t have to deal with concession stand costs.

If you’d like to learn more about the Cincinnati Rollergirls you can follow them on Twitter@cincyrollergirl ; Like them on Facebook or check out the Cincinnati Rollergirls website.