Tooling Around the Town

I'm a Belieber

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As promised from Scott's Birthday Pig Roast, I give you Phil (our Cajun Kiwi friend):

Roasted

So we survived Scott's Birthday Roast this past weekend. No time to elaborate on the happenings or post the vid of Phil's challenge so stay tuned... for now, here are some pictures.

May Cause Drowsiness...

Tonight we hosted our 3rd sleepover for Emi and this one was a BLAST (for the girls anyway). It started out innocently enough with a suggestion of Emi inviting ONE friend out for lunch and nail painting at the mall. She morphed this into into lunch, nails and a SLEEPOVER with TWO friends. No problemo! So we lunched at the mall and the girlies had so much fun goofin' off and singing to Daddy on the phone.

Next we stopped by Bath and Body Works to get some "Sleep" spray and lotion that I promised to use to make the girls fall asleep during the course of the night. Lastly, we hit the nail place for the girls to get their fingernails and toenails polished. That part of the day went very smoothly.

When we got home, the girls played in the back yard and with the neighbor boys, then we constructed our pumpkin bread pumpkins. The girls got to eat one and take 2 home to share. (Emi decided to share hers with her teacher.) We had a couple of movies for their viewing pleasure - Halloween Town High (DVRed) and Camp Rock (DVD) - while they decorated their photo frames for their "day of fun"picture...

The girls pretended to run a store and played "Hide and Seek" with Daddy while tearing apart the house. Later we settled them down with the task of making their own personal pizzas and a movie. Everything was good until they started production of their own movie, then we heard some dissension, too many producers. Hannah Montana saved the day! We found out that playing songs from Camp Rock or HSM works better for teamwork than hosing them down. By 11:11, we had the girls safely tucked in to their sleeping bags on the living room floor. So, after just over 11 hours of constant activity, they were ready for the slumber part...

Game Day

Game day means something different for each member of our household. For Daddy, it's beer and college football, specifically OU football (go Sooners!). For Emi, it's "You promised me we'd play Monopoly today!" There was a compromise, Daddy played Candyland with Emi during commercial breaks....


For me, game day was all about trying to catch up with household chores, cooking fresh meals for my family and sneaking in a nap...possibly catching a few minutes of the OU game.

We also had another game today that was much more important that any televised game, Emi's 2nd soccer game of the new season. Her team was in shock last weekend with the new rules (they have goalies now) and the new larger sized fields. But this weekend the girls were really aggressive and committed to the ball and scored, and scored and scored. I was so proud of every girl on the team and by the looks on their faces, they were happy with their performances as well... Go Eagles!

Mama Mila

So we went to the movies today and the ladies (me, my mom -Mila- and Rose) watched Mama Mia and daddy and Emi saw The Mummy. What a great movie Mama Mia was! My eyes were watering most of the time in between the times I was laughing. The color blue in the movie has been a huge inspiration for me over the past 2 years. For instance, my office getting painted a baby aqua and my husband and Santa getting together to get me some aquamarine earrings and necklace for Christmas. I have decided that after thoroughly enjoying the movie that 1) we need the soundtrack and 2) we MUST go to Greece ASAP!

After the movie we went to Shell's for an excellent mojito (me) and wonderful seafood (all). It's tradition to eat at Shell's as much as possible when we visit because we have nothing that compares in Central Oklahoma. I know that probably surprises you...

It was a very satisfying day...