I can't wait to get a Wii and when we do, we will totally be adding these characters!
Jim and his girls up close...
For Casey, here's Dwight up close...
Honorable mention goes to Stephen Colbert's Wii-ification...
Sorry so dark - they looked lighter on my camera.
Funny...
Cute...
Payton invited three friends over for a slumber party. First up, manis and pedis for each of them...
Then it was off to the hibachi grill that Payton also ate at last year for her birthday. Different friends this year and she wanted to take them to the restaurant...
Hovered around all of their cell phones...
Chef made the rice into a heart shape...
Girls ate their whole meals w/chopsticks...even their ice cream!
Opening gifts - she got lots of stylish gifts including lots of jewelry, her favorite kind of gift!
DDR...the home version!
Friday night, me, Payton, Marcy and Aubry went bowling as part of birthday festivities for Payton. Aubry and Payton have been friends for years but Aubry is two years younger and doesn't know Payton's other friends because they are 6th graders so we celebrated separately w/her. Besides, Marcy and I are friends so it makes it fun for the four of us!
So we set out for bowling and we get the last lane. Unfortunately, they start the 1 hour timer right away even though it takes 10 minutes to change shoes, walk to the lane, pick out a ball, program the names, etc. We finally get started and we are starving. Pushing the button to order food isn't working so I go track someone down. She takes our order and brings our drinks right away.
Beer in a bowling pin shaped bottle tastes so much better for some reason (and helped Marcy and I kind of forget how starved we were!)....
Unfortunately, the bowling pin beers didn't help our game...
Black lights came on and the girls screamed "Yeaaaa!!!!!"
and Aubry was inspired to dance...
Second game was better...
But with only 5 minutes left on the clock, I was inspired to bowl backwards...
Marcy and Aubry followed suit...
When we were finished bowling, I gave each of the girls game cards to use in the arcade while Marcy and I sat at the bar chatting. Girls in a game of Dance Dance Revolution (DDR if you're cool)...
Then came the parade of freaks (not too obvious in this pic but they were all dressed in costume)...
Then the freakiest freak of them all...a guy named Jimmy who kept telling Marcy and I that we were the hottest women in the bar. Marcy is an attractive woman and all but we're moms in our 30s, out w/our daughters...surely there are 21 year old hotties somewhere else that he could find? Not according to him...he was funny to chat with until he'd had a few too many drinks and too a flying leap over the line of polite conversation. Bye, bye Jimmy...thanks for the ego boost!
I've spent the last two weeks working out daily Monday - Friday plus eating healthy and have lost two pounds in two weeks which was my goal. 20 more pounds to go. :)
Last year was the first year that I haven't had the kids in swimming lessons so I decided to go ahead and get Blake in now so I won't have to work it in around other summer activities. He's actually taking private lessons which cost about the same as group lessons at the YMCA which is a great deal. Some pics from his first lesson w/this teacher...
We kept it very low-key on Thursday because Payton's actual birthday festivities are this weekend. Some pics from Thursday.
Flowers from my parents...
Opening some gifts...
We weren't going to get her a gift for her birthday because her party stuff w/friends costs quite a bit but when I saw these Bichon stuffed animals, I had to get them for her (and I have been trying to reduce the number of stuffed animals...this won't help!)...
Birthday cookie cake...
Plus, it snowed! Payton screamed "it's snowing on my birthday!!!!"
