Movie Fun

So Melissa and I went to the movie 'This is it' (I recommend this is you are a fan a MJ if not then don't waste your time).

My parents are the ones who got us the tickets, which is my smooth lead into the fact that we had a night, not unlike our high school nights of yore.

Let me list the ways:

1-I picked Melissa up in a boat like car (reminiscent of Lola (my first car)), at her parents house
2-My parents bought our tickets. (Thank You Parents!).
3-My Mom snuck in treats for us.
4-We drove around on all the back roads, listening to music.
5-I took her back home and we sat in the car and talked about girl stuff.


Here we are in the theater, and there is my dad in the background to prove that we were there with my parents.


Here is Melissa posing like MJ.


Here I am kissing a frog. Hehe.


This is us being weird in my car.

So there is our night of flashback fun.

Halloween fun work style

In preparation for Halloween, my costume took many forms leading up to the big day. I was feeling a Harry Potter vibe this year, but I was having a hard time landing on the perfect choice. I wanted to be Mrs. Weasley for a while. Then I flitted through some other options (i.e. Luna, Hagrid, Ron, a Hippogrif) Then I decided to go with scary so naturally I thought Dementor, scary right? I bought the appropriate cloak and with a sudden change of heart I went with a Death Eater! PERFECT!!! Not only a Death Eater though. Snape as a Death Eater. He is Good, He is Bad. Whichever side of the debate you choose, it's the best of both worlds. So without further ado here is my preview.

I tried on my costume looked in the mirror and I scarred myself. I am sorry, but that is one scary mask. So of to work. It is always fun to see other peoples costumes. I sit by the front so I got to watch them all come in.

Here are some of the ladies all dolled up.
Becca looking for any chance she can get to where the Footie Jammie's.
We also have Lindy the Ute Fan.
Amy aka Pippie Longstocking.
Last but not least, Bobbie as Raggedy Anne.

I tried to convince as many as possible to be a Death Eater with me. I only managed to convince one. So here is Gary as a Death Eater. And yes, for those of you as nerdy as me, that is a dark mark tattoo on my arm. I thought it completed the ensemble nicely.

I decided to spray dye my hair black. I thought it was a good idea, cause I was Snape, so without my mask I would resemble him. Well not such a great idea with the mask. It got a little hot in there and so the dye bleed all over my face. Every time I put the mask on I had to go wash my face. I eventually gave up and had a very dirty face for the rest of the day.

I ran up to the Layton clinic to check out the other costumes of some co-workers. Syd is Hermione, or as her brother says 'Hi-nor-me'. This is our battle to the death.
I probably won.

Syd and I thought it would be a good idea for her to carry around my cut-out of Ron with her today. I hear they are quite the item.

Here is the Magical bunch. Hermione (Syd), Ron (Cardboard), Snape (Yours Truly), McGonagall (Amber), Muggle (Lori (what that Muggle is doing with a wand, we may never know)). There was also a golden Snitch, but I didn't get a picture of her.

On the way home people kept looking at me, they thought I was weird. So I just pulled out my wand and cursed them. Then they thought I was crazy.

Moving on, during lunch we went on our usual Friday getaway over to Sparetime for some fun. We decided on the bowling today. Our costumes made it very interesting.

Who knew Raggedy Anne was such a great bowler?

The Death Eater, although it looks like great form, not so great.

Anyway it was a fun filled day. Not a whole lot of actual work was accomplished, but that is OK, it doesn't happen very often.

I like to call this one 'The Pensive Death Eater'....................It was a good day.

PUMPKINS!

Well here are my pumpkins for this year.
All of which are in the Syracuse Pumpkin Walk.
I thought I would share them here, because they took me FOREVER!
So why not share them, so more can appreciate them right?
So here they are Enjoy!

Severus Snape

Michael Jackson (Thriller style)

Frankenstein



His Bride

Bella
and what's a Bella without....

an Edward.

Kaylee? 4?

It's hard for me to believe, and even harder I think, for her Parents to believe.

But it is the truth, Kaylee is 4! I am such a proud Aunt.

We had a party over at Nate and Sarah's to celebrate, and it was great fun! Kaylee got so many presents....like always. Including a ton of new clothes, some really sweet toys, and a Ukulele (Grandma and Crappa just got back from Hawaii (need I say more)).

Here she is with her 'guitar'. Now she can have jam sessions with Nate.

Here is Brenna and Grandma playing with Kaylee's new toys. Brenna is definatly in 'Toddler Mode', and she is turning into quite the character (and may I say, a bit of a tease).

Crappa and Kaylee playing with my phone.

For some reason she loves to look at the pictures on my phone. You would think with all the toys she got she wouldn't want to play with my phone, but she played with it til the battery died.

Here I am with the Birthday Girl

Here she is with her requested pumpkin cake (spiders included).

Here she is the 4 year old. She looks so dang happy.

Happy Birthday Kaylee!

the Picture worth a thousand ....laughs

So my Parents having been livin' it up in Hawaii, partying with my Aunt and Uncle. They are there Celebrating their 30th Anniversary (Congrats to the Parents!).

Anyway, they came across this sweet log swing, and thought that it would be one great picture. So My Father set up his camera (on a timer) and this is what happened.

Need I say more.

What a great picture.

The Princess Sleepover

Alright, so Kaylee and I had a sleepover last Friday night. It was so much FUN!!! Kaylee dubbed it the Princess sleepover, so that is what is shall be known. We started with a little painting of the toenails and coloring while we watched 'Anastasia'. Then we made some pretty pink cupcakes with sprinkles.

Here is Kaylee mixing up the batter. She is such a good helper. She could have made those things without my help.

We frosted and then she applied the sprinkles. She was very serious about this part of the job it had to be just right.

After we made and ate some cupcakes. We had craft time. I bought this kit that had a princess crown, a wand, a purse, and a book. It came with a bunch of foam stickers and glitter. That is what we worked on for quite a while. My roommate and I have been pretty obsessed with making these happy books lately (it is a book full of pictures and things that make us happy, pocket size so that we can take them around with us (so we are happy all the time (judge us if you must, but it really works (have you ever seen so many parenthesis in one sentence (it has got to be some kind of a record))))). Anyway we made the book in the kit into Kaylee's own personal happy book.

Here she is making the happy book. I had a bunch of pictures that I had no particular use for so I let her pick some out and put them in her book.

Then she colored and drew pictures on all the other pages. It is really a fun little book.

Then I wanted to take a cute little picture of us together at our Princess Sleepover. Then it got a little crazy. Kaylee wanted to make a funny face one. Then we just keep doing them, per Kaylee thought it was hilarious. I have like 25 of them. I will just show you the honorable mentions. Kaylee had the same face in most of them. I guess she hasn't sat in front of the mirror for hours perfecting her crazy face like some other people I know.....I am not talking about me.....I might be.

I really liked this one cause we were making the same face on accident. We must be related.

Anyway those are our pictures. Then after those she went to the counter again and played with my phone looking at all the pictures and making crazy faces every time a new one popped up. It looked like this....

For some reason she likes to look at all the pictures on my phone. A long time ago, she was doing this so Syd and I would tell her the person in the picture and then something about them. Then she would go through it again and say what we said about them. For example: a picture of Danie or Melissa she would say 'she's crazy', a picture of Syd or I she would say 'she's pretty' (we were just teaching her the facts). I was surprised that she remembered all the things we taught her. I mean it was a while ago, but she picked up the phone saw a picture of Danie and said 'she is crazy', and I said 'yes, yes she is'. She is one smart cookie.

Anyway after another movie, 'Muppet's Treasure Island', we went to bed early (1:30 am). Then after a good night sleep we woke up at 9:00, because 'the sun was awake so we should be too' according to Kaylee.

So we played all morning with the Alligators (aka scissors), that were making baby alligators (aka cut pieces of magazines), then rounding up all the baby alligators and putting them in their home (aka the garbage can).

We also played with this Tinkerbell cutout that you could color different clothes for. Since Kaylee is really into flying she would put clothes on her and then fly her around. The first time she said 'Cam look at me, we are flying' and I said 'Wow you have great flying skills'. So for the rest of the time she would say 'Cam, look at my skills'. It was so funny.

The whole thing was so FUN!
The Princess Sleepover was a huge success.

Another Great Concert

So Melissa and I went to a Brandi Carlile concert this last April. Well we both agree that it was the greatest concert that we have ever been to (to read about that concert, look up the post called "The Greatest Concert Ever" on my archives). So obviously, when we heard she was coming back we immediately got tickets, plus I already had a shirt signed by her for my concert apparel.

Here we are waiting in the lounge during the opening band. Melissa didn't want to stand the whole time, she wanted to save her feet (real quick, who wears stiletto heels to a concert? (sorry Melissa, but why?). The opening band was really good. I REALLY wish I could have understand what they said their name was, because I can't find them anywhere and they were good.

Anyway here we are right before Brandi came on. Look how excited we look.

So last concert I was so mad that I didn't have my camera. I could have, and I would have, had so many sweet pictures. So this time I made sure that I had it, with plenty of memory available, and the battery completely charged. Well it was a bigger venue, we didn't get to meet her this time, and I couldn't get one clear picture. So it didn't make much of a difference to have the camera.

I got clearer pictures than this, but since they were all a little foggy. I decided to put this one here. It looks Psycadelic!

Anyway it was another great concert. It was the first concert of the new tour (she has a greatly anticipated new album coming out at the end of September). There were a bunch of new songs that were incredible. She sang a bunch of our favorites. Also last time she was acoustic, this time she had the full band. They were really great.

AMAZING CONCERT!
I loved it. I highly recommend her to anyone.