Awesome stuff!

This Sunday (February 22, 2009), Studio Blue will be at the Hartford Bridal Expo at the XL Center (the Civic Center). The show runs from 11am-4pm and there will be tons of great wedding vendors there and exciting things happening! Be sure to stop by at our booth #306. We'll be surprising couples with some super sweet perks!!! You'll be jumping for joy! See you there!

A sweet valentine's surprise...from Mom!

We all LOVE and remember the flowers, chocolates, maybe nice dinner date and sweet kisses we get for Valentine's Day. It's sort of the unspoken rule of tradition and one that all of us girls secretly like a lot, even if we tell you otherwise! This Valentine's Day I got a little extra surprise, from my Mom! For all of us 80's kids, we can appreciate the lost humor and purely innocent entertainment of our generation that has so quickly been replaced with annoying and bad behaving cartoons of today. Yes, I loved the old school fun...Pee Wee (yes he was annoying but super funny!) and Strawberry Shortcake and my all-time favorite...the Smurfs! So simple, so noble, so purely innocent Smurfs. Of course we can comment for hours about the subtle naughtiness that some people's twisted minds can conjure up, but for kids, it's just pure fun and adventure. So for this Valentine's Day, my best gift ever was a DVD of the Smurf episodes. And what a hit it has been for my whole family! Much to my surprise, over the highly animated Nemo, and the violent Star Wars, and even the loud and cheerful Elmo, the Smurfs came out on top as being the requested TV show for both my kids over these last 2 days! Apparently mothers only get wiser as they become grandmothers! Thanks Mom!

Disappearing Act

With the holiday rush and our insane family timing to have EVERYTHING at this time of year, it seems, even to myself, that we disappeared for a time. Well actually, we technically did disappear for some time this winter! For the last 2 years we have had the tremendous opportunity to do some traveling with a group of 8 friends. Last year was our first time and we loved it so much, we all decided to go again! Our vacation of choice? Cruising! It leaves little for us to think about and if any of us just needs space to get away from the rest of us, there is a whole ship to hide away on and just do sudoku puzzles. (yes, I had a few of those moments!) This year we took a monster trip of 12 nights sailing from New Jersey to 6 Caribbean Islands. Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Maarteen, Dominica, Barbados and Antigua. It was truly off the hook!!! Here are a few pictures from the trip.


This is our ship, The Explorer of the Seas. Just awesome! Had everything from rock climbing to iceskating, mini golfing, a basketball court, roller blading, and everything in between.


Igor and I celebrated our 8th Anniversary while on the ship! The group pitched in and bought a bottle of champagne to celebrate. My parents also surprised us with room service delivering chocolate covered strawberries and champagne. Of course they came knocking on the door while I was naked and discombobulated!!! Figures!


Puerto Rico


St. Thomas - the best shopping EVER!!!

Pictures of St Maarteen to follow.


This is the rainforest in Dominica. This was a very natural island. So much to see but don't rent a car. Not only do they drive on the other side of the street, the driver also sits on the other side of the car!!!


Dominica's black sand beaches.


Mike, Jessica, Igor and I going snorkeling in Barbados. That was a really fun beach club! And just beautiful! We spotted a whole family of squid in the water while snorkeling.


This is Antigua. Just awesome! We actually went kayaking and snorkeling in Antigua. We saw tons of fish and had a blast. I took an underwater camera with me so I'll post those pictures at a later date.

So, now that we are back, after 2 weeks of sunshine, it just might be a little easier getting through the rest of winter! We already have our next trip planned! :)