Six weeks of planning is coming to an end!  Des Moines Moms Nite Out is this Thursday and I think it’s going to be an amazing evening!
Thanks to DMACC I am able to have the event catered by In the Bag.  Thanks to Veridian Credit Union each registered attendee will have a bag to carry [...]

Des Moines Moms Nite Out will be held at Staybridge Suites in West Des Moines!  I am realy excited about this location as it provides lots of room for pampering and fun!
Businesses around the metro are getting involved to help give Des Moines moms a great night of fun and pampering!
For more information on MNO [...]

All my Des Moines area ladies will want to mark their calendars for Thursday, May 6.  You’re taking the night off for an evening of fun and pampering!  Details are coming together and I am getting excited!
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Some things [...]

I don’t know about you, but I am sick of winter.
OK, that’s putting it mildly.  I am ready for winter to pack up its’ snow and go away.  I am ready for daffodils to shoot their stems through the ground, unfurl their leaves and open their sunny yellow faces to the shining sun.  I am [...]

If you’re searching for something fun to do in central Iowa I have 3 ideas:
If you’re lucky enough to be kid-free on New Year’s Eve and like great food and swingin’ tunes check out the Hotel Pattee.  An evening including dinner buffet, dancing and champagne is $80 per couple.  Add a room or a suite [...]

We spent all day Sunday in the Amana Colonies enjoying Prelude to Christmas.  You can see more at Have Kid Will Travel but I wanted to share the girls pictures with Santa here.

Of course Caelan was more focused on her candy cane than on telling Santa what she wanted for Christmas.  Brenna really didn’t know [...]

Last Monday we loaded the family, invited cousins, aunts and uncles and grandparents and went to Incredible Pizza for an evening of food and fun.
The first thing you notice when you walk into Incredible Pizza is how huge it is.  It sits on the corner of 86th and Douglas where Albertson’s grocery store once was.  [...]

If you are around Des Moines next Tuesday, October 7, be sure to mark your calendar for a fun FREE event at the Science Center of Iowa in Des Moines from noon-2 pm.
Come enjoy the Official Drink of Halloween tour when it rolls through Des Moines!
Learn the nutritious facts about chocolate milk
Try some tasty new [...]

Not long ago I gauged my readers and found that many of you were interested in a place to go and meet other Midwest bloggers, learn something and have fun.  Following on that theme I have put I_Blog in place and things are beginning to roll.
So, all of you “interested parties” will want to check [...]

We spent Sunday at the Iowa State Fair courtesy of Got Milk?and the Milk Mustache Mobile Tour.  We even had our own milk mustache photos taken.
Lovely, aren’t we?  They had a nice set up with free chair massages, ice cream shakes and a dietitian.
You may remember that I had three “Got Milk” goodie bags [...]

The Iowa State Fair is known for lots of things: food on a stick, all kinds of farm animals, foods not on a stick and lots of free fun.  For the $10 admission you can do a lot without spending another dime (food not included).
New to the free-fun line up this year is the Milk [...]

100 feet of plastic
30 feet of tarp
2 sprinklers
1 big hill

Last week we loaded up the girls, some food, grilling essentials and sunscreen and headed out to our town’s newest park.  There’s a reason we’ve been named a Playful City 3 years in a row.
The park is in our newest development (Prairie Trail) so there is lots of building going on and very few people [...]

This past weekend was my town’s annual community celebration.  And I took, literally, hundreds of photos.  And I have about 50 I would like to share. However I don’t have the time to edit and tag all of them before I add them here.  But I do have a couple that I must share.
First, this [...]

Mine is. And we have a sign to prove it. As you enter my town (listed first on the 2008 Playful Cities page- it helps to begin with the letter “A”) you are greeted by it.  And I’ve noticed it often.  In fact my cousin commented on it a week ago, “The sign [...]