Winner of the FUNundrum Circus Tickets!

Here is the result of the circus ticket giveaway....

Looks like Art Couture is the winner!  Congrats, we'll see you at the circus!  Hope the motorcycle cage guys are all you hoped for!

Summertime Activity Conundrum? Try Ringling Bros. Funundrum!

When it starts getting hot here, we start looking hard for cool things to do during summer months.  Lucky for  us the circus will be back in town again this June!  Last year was the first time my kids had ever been to a circus and they had a flippin' blast!  I had a flippin' blast!  If you have never been to a circus, you have to go.  Click here to read about what we saw last year.  This year Ringling Bros Barnum Bailey Circus has a new show on the road called FUNundrum!!

The show celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of the legendary P.T. Barnum, the Greatest Showman on Earth!  It features "130 performers from six continents, almost 100,000 pounds of performing pachyderms, cowboys, pirates, and mermaids, Barnum’s FUNundrum! is a super-sized spectacle so massive you just can’t miss it!"

The good news?  Tickets go on sale today, May 8th at 10:00 a.m. at ticketmaster.com.  I know!  And you know what else?  You can get a family 4-pack of 4 tickets for only $44 - good to all performances (Excludes Circus Celebrity, Front Row and VIP seats).  I KNOW!  Sweet deal, right? You can purchase additional tickets for $11 each.  Just be sure to purchase early, because tickets go fast.  Just use code MOM online or over the phone to get your discount.  

Have You Ever Seen an Elephant Disappear?

A few months ago I shared my memories of my first circus, complete with an elephant parade through the middle of the small town where I lived. My kids got to see their first circus last week and WOW! It was so much better than the one I saw as a kid! For one thing, last week's circus was in an indoor arena and not outside in a tent, which made it much more comfortable! We also had really good seats, thanks to Feld Entertainment and Mom Central, so we were able to see everything really well, even when they were down on the opposite end of the arena. Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey chose a good theme this year in "Zing Zang Zoom". It coupled some really amazing circus acts with fun magic tricks. I think the best magic trick was when they made an elephant disappear! Yep, an entire elephant! The kids were absolutely amazed! And I was pretty impressed myself.

The acrobats were absolutely incredible. Talk about talent! There were numerous fearless feats taking place right in front of us including folks leaping through the air upside down and sideways, hanging from wires, riding on swinging on boards while flipping and twisting...it was all really cool to watch! Then there were those cage guys that ran around the hamster wheel spinning cage things, which would just make me ill, but made Little Man immediately decide to try to build one in our backyard. Nice. He already scares the life out of me with his lack of fear and his acrobatic abilities!

The animal acts were fun to watch, they included dogs, horses, elephants and tigers. I must have a thing for elephants, I found them to be the most entertaining. They have so much personality!

But my favorite part had to be the chicks who got shot out of a cannon. Cuz seriously? Who has that for a job? That's stuff you see on cartoons and old movies, right? I never really stopped to think that someone would actually do that for a living. It was so weird to actually see it in real life in front of my eyes. Boom! Chick flying through the air, lands in a big air bag...tah-dah!!

That's it, she's done for the night! Cake...right? I know, I know they practice during the day. C'mon! Don't wreck the easy job dream for me, folks! How does one get a cannon chick job, anyway? Maybe I'll apply. Although I have some concerns about the lycra suit and the whole weight/velocity thing.

It was a really fun family night and BONUS!...I ran into fellow blogger Melanie and family(she's got the cutest kids!), from My Little Patch of Sunshine and I also got to wave across the arena to my ticket winner, Trudi and family! My family will definitely do the circus thing again...great night of entertainment. Plus, I have a lot of questions for the cannon chick, so I have to go back to get the scoop before I apply for that job.

Don't forget, Zing Zang Zoom is traveling across the country and you can get a family 4 pack for $44 when you use the codeword MOM at ticketmaster(dot)com. Go see the circus this summer!

Win 4 Tickets to Ringling Bros Circus - Phoenix Only!!

The Boymom Blogoversary Giveaway Bash continues!

Phoenix Residents (or anyone willing to drive to Phoenix) can enter to win Circus Tickets!

It seems like life at Boymom's house quite often feels like a circus, particularly right now, as we slog through the last week of school. It's. Pure. TORTURE!

I am realizing now that our extended year school calendar comes with some drawbacks. Three weeks for Christmas Break is nice. Until now. When it's June. And we are still in school. Two weeks each for Spring and Fall Breaks seemed really cool and fun. Until now. When it's 105 degrees. And we are still in school! I am seriously starting to think about homeschooling. Because it's June. And it's hot. And we are still in school.

Last year at this time we were celebrating Little Man's graduation from Kindergarten. This year we have no momentous occasions to celebrate with the end of the school year, except the fact that there will be no school for a few months!

We have lots of stuff planned this summer, providing the finances will allow for it all. And we want to share some of our fun with our readers, so we are giving away a Family 4-pack of tickets to the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey "Zing Zang Zoom" Circus on June 24th, here in Phoenix! My family will be attending, so maybe we can hook up with the winners!

If you want to win, leave me a comment! This contest is open to Phoenix Residents Only until June 5th at Midnight. Winner will be announced June 6th!

The Circus is Coming! The Circus is Coming!

I remember when I was 9, we lived in the small town. One morning my dad ran outside where we were playing and told us to hurry up and jump in the truck. We ran to the truck and he headed to the center of town, about 15 minutes from our house. He parked the truck in a parking lot with the pickup bed facing the street and threw down the tailgate and sat us up there. When we asked him what was going on, he just said "Wait and see." He ran across the street to grab us an ice cream cone from the Dairy Queen (you could do that back then, no one would come steal your kids or your truck and we sat there because it never occured to us not to sit there like he told us to do. There were about 50 other kids running around by us waiting for their folks to come back from Dairy Queen too.)

Just as he ran back across the street and shoved the cones into our hands, we heard an incredible roar of music and some weird animal sounds. Suddenly a very tall man and some other performers appeared from around the corner and started down the street toward us, with a full band and a bunch of stuff behind them! What ensued was my first experience with the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus. It was AWESOME!! It was a parade down Main Street and it was incredible to watch! My dad watched us as we watched the parade and the performers and it was one of the best days of my young childhood.


The elephant part looked a lot like this, only there was a scantily dressed lady riding one of them. I remember the elephants had a particularly stong impact on me, partly due to their size and partly due to the giant poo! I remember feeling so sorry for the guy who had to clean it up. The clowns ran and drove around like hilarious madmen and there was confetti and balloons and music and candy being thrown by performers...it was such a great day!

Then, as if that weren't great enough...we got to go to the circus that night and see the show! It was the perfect end to a perfect day. Kids remember perfect days...I remember this one.

My kids get to experience the circus this year for the first time! Mom Central and Feld Entertainment are sending us to the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey "Zing Zang Zoom" Show in June. The show incorporates magic and illusion with traditional circus arts, which should make for a very entertaining event. I cannot wait to hear Little Man squeal when they make an elephant disappear! Actually, the real feat would be making the elephant poo disappear!

Here are the show dates, it will be held at US Airways Center:
Wednesday June 24: 7:00pm
Thursday June 25: 11:00am, 7:00pm
Friday June 26: 11:00am, 7:00pm
Saturday June 27: 11:00am, 3:00pm, 7:00pm
Sunday June 28: 1:00pm, 5:00pm

You can purchase a 4-pack of tickets for only $44 by logging on to http://ticketmaster.com/ and entering the coupon code: MOM. You can get additional tickets for just $11 each.

And be sure to check back in the coming days, I am working on procurring some tickets to give away on the blog!