Mission: Twilight

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to go watch Twilight (again) and figure out where in the heck the soundtrack songs are played so that you can stop obsessing about it everytime you listen to it (way too much) and just enjoy the songs (more than you already do).

Mission: Accepted

Of course, Sydney had to go with me. So, while Bill and the little ones went to see King Tut, we went to Twilight....again! I think I may have missed one or two scenes, but for the most part this is accurate. And the movie was still good. But, I am ready for the DVD, so I can stop shelling out the $$ at the theater!

Twilight with "the Girls" and then the Fam

After much anticipation and reading all 4 books of the Twilight Saga, the day finally arrived that we had all been waiting for.....Twilight the Movie was released!!! My friend, Kristi, had arranged for about 9 of us to meet and watch the movie together on opening night. A group of them got together and made us all matching shirts (which now makes a great nightgown), and we had a great time!! The movie is not exactly like the book, and being that it was opening night, the audience leaned more towards the teens, so it really made the movie more comical than I am sure it was intended.

So, because Sydney is the reason I started reading the saga, I knew that I needed to take her to the movie. Hayley and Em wanted to come along, and I wanted Bill to see it from a fresh perspective. We headed out to the first showing that Sunday, and it was a totally different experience. I actually enjoyed it more, and it seemed a lot less corny. The girls loved it and want to see it again and again! Bill wasn't too impressed...too much romance for him. LOL!!

Movies with Miss Carter

Hayley won the teacher raffle at the PTA Carnival and got to enjoy a movie with her teacher (whom she loves!!!), Miss Carter! They decided to see High School Musical 3, and since I knew that Syd and Em wanted to see it, too, we all went together. Of course, we did not sit with Hayley and Miss Carter, so she still felt very special. And despite the huge cheese factor of the movie, we had a great time!

Twilight the Movie

Very Excited!! Can't wait to have a girl's night and see this movie!!!

Everybody was Kung Fu Fightin'

Last Friday, Sydney went on her last movie date with her teacher. Since there was no school, the other girls and I decided to tag along. We saw Kung Fu Panda....it was too funny!! I didn't realize it was opening day until that morning, so the line was really long and the theater was packed!! I usually make it a point NOT to see a movie on opening day/weekend, but this makes the second movie in two weeks, that I saw when it opened! What is up with that?!?! Anyway, it was a super cute movie, and we all liked it a lot!

While the Girls are Away.....

....the parents will: eat where they want, go shopping without hearing "can I have" or "I want", relax in a very quiet house, play wii without fighting over whose turn it is, get hair colored & cut (Steph), sleep 'til noon (Bill) and most importantly go see an R rated movie...wait for it...in the theater! LOL!

Seriously, our girls spent the weekend in Okla with my parents so they could go to a Missionette Retreat with my mom. They had a ball, and we have had a relaxing and quiet weekend.

The movie we saw was "The Strangers" with Liv Tyler & Scott Speedman. It was pretty creepy, if not a tad predictable. I think Bill and I were just glad to have a date. Our last one was 2 or 3 years ago, so this was nice!

Thanks Mom and Dad!!!

Fun, Food & a Movie!

Bill won passes for the Studio Movie Grill in Dallas a couple of weeks ago. This was our first time to visit a theater like this. We weren't really sure what to expect. We decided to see Nim's Island, and it was really a cute movie. Although, the little girl in the movie seemed like a very mature 11-yr old. Other than that, we really enjoyed it....Jodie Foster was really funny!

As for the food part of the movie, we had to pay for that ourselves. In typical movie theatre fashion, it was pretty much overpriced. But considering you could page your waitress anytime you needed anything from a drink refill, salt, extra napkins, etc, I think it all evened out in the end! So in all we would give this a thumbs up! Probably won't make a habit of going, but if free passes turned up again, we wouldn't hesitate to give it a go!

The pictures are kind of hard to see because, well, it was dark and we only had Bill's cell phone for pictures. But they did turn on the lights for about a minute (just for Bill, right) and Bill got a really good picture of us girls waiting for the movie to start.

The setup - small tables alternated with "bar" seating. The chairs were leather office type

chairs, which I loved cause I could sit up high! ;o)



Sydney perusing the menu.....what to get....ice cream, maybe?



Nope, buttery, buttery popcorn!!



What are we going to eat, girls?



This is the best picture. We sat at one of the "bar" tables. Bill had a Thai Chicken Salad,

Syd had buttery popcorn, Hayley had Chips & Queso, I had a Cheese Quesadilla, and Em

had Fruit & Chips. The food wasn't that bad, either. Syd loved the popcorn!