Pics will be posted soon. But here is some news about Tyler & Zach's play.
http://www.doverpost.com/entertainment/x1799923713/Young-actors-experience-the-onstage-magic-of-Wizard-of-Oz
Friday, October 30, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Costume Party
So the kids were invited to a costume party by a friend of the fams. It was a theme (Princess and knights, etc), so I asked the kids if they wanted to get dressed as such. They said yes, Kayla would wear her Snow WHite dress, Brayden his knight costume from last Halloween. Zach wanted to be a Ice Wizard, and Tyler wanted to be a fire wizard. Well we only had one wizard robe, so one trip to the craft store and WOW a two headed wizard. Because of the schedule with play practice, Zach was going to meet us at the party. But that meant that we needed to take the kids' friend Ally to the party with us. Well, thinking that Ally and Zach would switch, I let Ally fill in in the two headed Wizard:
Unfortunately, this made Zach feel a little left out not having a costume.
But not to fear, one trip to the restrooms, and...POW...TP MUMMY. The costume party was a hit.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Memories of Halloween Past
Seeing ads for Haunted Houses etc reminds me of a haunted house we tried taking the kids to a couple of years ago. Three years ago, while awaiting to start in the AF I was working at USD. My job required me to work with a number of undergraduate students, who included sorority and fraternity students.
There was an advertisement for a sorority/fraternity Hauted House and Halloween Carnival in the college paper. The paper said that the hauted house portion of the event was "family friendly" from 4 to 6. At 6 it was supposed to go full board. So I asked my co-workers what kind of family friendly because at the time the kids were 2, 4, 6 and 8. She said that it would be ok for them. So we go...
We walked in and the bottum floor was decorated fine and we went to go to the haunted part. Zach and Kayla were really scared (Jen stayed with Brayden). The Sorority girls and their male counterparts were yelling up the stairs: "Really really little kids coming TONE IT DOWN." Well Zach and Kayla were too scared to go up but Tyler still wanted to go. One of the Sorority sisters offered to take him, and he said he wanted too. So why not...how bad can it be?
They went up, Kayla, Zach, & I played the carnival games (they got spoiled with candy rewards). Soon, Tyler and his excort came to the carnival. She said he only wanted to see two of the six upstair rooms and decided to not try going to the basement at all. He played the games and all of us left.
On the way home Jen and I asked Tyler what he thought. He thought it was fun. So I asked what the first room was like. He said it was evil clowns singing twinkle twinkle little star "but in a slow evil way" (his words not ours. ) This seemed to not phase him though Jen and I were a little worried, not to mention wondering what psychology bills would cost after that. Hoping maybe it would get better, I asked about the second room. His response: "There was a guy...torturing a girl."
Needless to say, next time maybe not the best to trust a sorority girls or frat boys on what a family friendly haunted house would be.
There was an advertisement for a sorority/fraternity Hauted House and Halloween Carnival in the college paper. The paper said that the hauted house portion of the event was "family friendly" from 4 to 6. At 6 it was supposed to go full board. So I asked my co-workers what kind of family friendly because at the time the kids were 2, 4, 6 and 8. She said that it would be ok for them. So we go...
We walked in and the bottum floor was decorated fine and we went to go to the haunted part. Zach and Kayla were really scared (Jen stayed with Brayden). The Sorority girls and their male counterparts were yelling up the stairs: "Really really little kids coming TONE IT DOWN." Well Zach and Kayla were too scared to go up but Tyler still wanted to go. One of the Sorority sisters offered to take him, and he said he wanted too. So why not...how bad can it be?
They went up, Kayla, Zach, & I played the carnival games (they got spoiled with candy rewards). Soon, Tyler and his excort came to the carnival. She said he only wanted to see two of the six upstair rooms and decided to not try going to the basement at all. He played the games and all of us left.
On the way home Jen and I asked Tyler what he thought. He thought it was fun. So I asked what the first room was like. He said it was evil clowns singing twinkle twinkle little star "but in a slow evil way" (his words not ours. ) This seemed to not phase him though Jen and I were a little worried, not to mention wondering what psychology bills would cost after that. Hoping maybe it would get better, I asked about the second room. His response: "There was a guy...torturing a girl."
Needless to say, next time maybe not the best to trust a sorority girls or frat boys on what a family friendly haunted house would be.
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Change in a Drive Thru
So I snuck out for a pair of Banana Milkshakes the other night. The total came to $5.78 so I gave the people $6.03. My hope was to get a quarter back. I then witnessed a complete and total breakdown within the restaurant as the employees seemed to not be able to understand what was going on. I had thought about just leaving and sacrificing the quarter to the arithmetic Gods. However the whole "Drive offs will be prosecuted" signed made me a little worried that in their confusion they may have forgot I paid. After about four minutes, I saw the employees seem to find a calculator and they were able to complete the transaction. Word to the wise, keep change simple at a drive thru.
For the Record
Movie Review of Aliens in the Attack
Brayden - B The big battle at the end
Zach - A+ Awesome Fighting Scenes
Tyler - A+ Down right Hilarious
Jen - Loved the rotary phone scene
Nick - Funny-Good-Enjoyable Family Movie
Brayden - B The big battle at the end
Zach - A+ Awesome Fighting Scenes
Tyler - A+ Down right Hilarious
Jen - Loved the rotary phone scene
Nick - Funny-Good-Enjoyable Family Movie
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