Family Fun

Amanda on October 30th, 2013

The Ellicott Creek Fire Company was having an open house in October so we made plans to take the boys.  It worked out well because Ian’s Cub Scout pack was planning to man a table to sell popcorn.  We signed Ian up for a one hour shift but unfortunately he didn’t sell any popcorn. 🙁 […]

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Amanda on October 28th, 2013

The Shea’s Performing Arts Center in Downtown Buffalo hosts a family film series through out the year.  They play family-friendly movies about once a month, tickets are free, and seats are first come/first serve.  It’s a nice way to get out of the house and have some fun on the weekend. Earlier this month dad […]

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Amanda on October 26th, 2013

(Please ignore the terrible quality of these pictures.  I was using my cellphone in a dark theater.  By the way, the movie hadn’t started.) There are tons of movie theaters in the Buffalo area and we tend to go to one of two Regal Cinemas.  The theaters are nicer and one of them is only […]

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Amanda on October 24th, 2013

A few weeks ago, we took the boys apple picking at a new-to-us farm: Blackman Homestead Farms.  It was a pretty no-nonsense apple picking experience (which Mike and I liked) but it was packed and the apples were kind of picked over (which we did not like).  We still managed to come home with more […]

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Amanda on October 21st, 2013

Ian has been asking to play Monopoly so we got our board game out.  We played teams since neither boy knew how to play and Matthew wouldn’t be able to keep up without help.  Matthew lost interested very quickly but the rest of us had a good time playing together.  We played another game later […]

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