Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

This girl is 11!!







Layla turned 11 yesterday on July 11th.  It was a fun day doing all things Layla.
She (like me) has been celebrating her day for a week so far!






She chose cookie cake for her birthday cake this year!













She is just growing into such a smart little lady.  She loves to play guitar.  Every time she walks by the piano she plays a couple of songs.  She doesn't realize it, but she's constantly singing, especially in the shower.  She's still as loving as ever with animals and she's pretty loving towards her brother too.  They have their moments of fighting, but mostly they are buddies.









Her legs are getting so long!



Yesterday for her birthday we went to see The Secret Life of Pets.  It was so cute.  We all enjoyed it!




7-11 continued their free slurpee on 7-11 tradition, so we joined in on that fun.  She got a birthday cake flavored slurpee and it was pretty tasty!  After the movie and slurpee we came home to swim and then she chose Chic-fil-A for dinner.  It was a fun day and that is exactly what I want for the kids birthday days.  I love celebrating them!

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Jungle Book at the Cliftex


Saturday evening the kids and I had a date with my Aunt to see a movie.  
We went to the movie in my hometown of Clifton.  


This wasn't just any theatre, it was my childhood movie theatre!  

I can't count the number of movies I saw at this tiny little place.  It wasn't so tiny when I was little.  The road seemed smaller too after the movie when we walked out into the dark evening.  It's so funny how when you're a kid things seem larger than life!




I just love downtown Clifton.  I think big things are happening in that quaint little town.  It is a happening place and I'm so happy to be living close by again so I can visit and see all the growth.


The kids had to stand and pose by this mural.  

Layla made sure to point out that it says, "Life is short, break the rules."


Hayden Cole is crazy.  He has a style of his own with the camo shorts and plaid shirt.  Goodness gracious, I just didn't want to break his heart with all the pattens he is sporting, so I didn't.  I just let him be him with the bright orange monkey around his neck.  The both wanted to take stuffed animals with a jungle theme to the movie.  I told them it was fine with me, but I wouldn't be putting those fluffy critters in my purse.  I've had many random things in my purse in my momma years!




Layla was very shocked by the fact that there was only one movie showing in one theatre.  There was not a list of movies to chose from.  There wasn't a 7:00 showing and a 9:00 showing.  They liked it and they can't wait to go back for movies this summer!



The Jungle Book was a great movie. Go see it!!!  We all enjoyed it way more than we thought we would.  I remember seeing the animated version while babysitting when I was a kid. It was such a cute movie and the non animated version was perfectly done! It was great for us animal lovers.  The movie started at 7:00 and promptly at 8:00 the screen went dark and people started getting out of their seats.  Layla looked at me with confused eyes and wondered what in the world was going on.  She also commented about what a 'clifhanger' that was.  Hahaha! She said she hoped there was a second movie. We all busted out laughing.  It was intermission time.  What theatre still has a 5 minute break?  It was awesome and such a fun and educational night in Clifton Texas!



Friday, December 18, 2015

Christmas Break starts NOW!



We are starting off the Christmas break with a bang!


I have to be honest.  I was terrified of the Chipmunk movie, but it was my favorite one yet!

We are excited to turn off our early morning alarm clocks and enjoy some Christmas activities.  Tomorrow night we are busting out our ugly sweaters and joining friends to celebrate the season.  We keep praying for Me Maw, but we know she would want us to have some fun for her!

Merry Merry!

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

movie time!


The kids didn't have school today, so last night we went to Movie Tavern to see Goosebumps.

Guess who got scared and left the movie right in the middle??  Not me, but I took the scared rabbit to the lobby where we sat at the bar and had a cup of ice water.  Good grief, and then HE put the movie on his Christmas list and wants to see the rest of the show.  I have to admit a garden gnome invasion was a little creepy y'all!  And that's all I'll say about the movie.


We were shopping and these two sillies were touching the candy at the checkout line.  Why do kids insist on touching stuff all the time?  Ages 10 and 7 and still grabbing candy from the huge assortment on the checkout line shelves. And you think they had outgrown that...NOT! ;-)

  They have bags of Halloween candy and they still insist on asking for us to buy them more candy. Lordy Lordy.  Of course I used this as a time to snap a few pictures of these silly faces!  

Friday, June 26, 2015

hanging out with my boy




Layla went shopping with a friend and then they had a sleepover, so Hayden and I had a Hayden day.

We did all his favorite things.  He wanted to see a movie, so we saw Inside Out.  Then we went for a bike ride, while I jogged.  Dad got home from work and they watched a little soccer and played boats.  He wants a boat for real, so he loves to play with his toy boat and tube.

I think Hayden missed Layla while she was gone.  They are big buds this summer!

Saturday, April 18, 2015

rainy saturday


soccer was cancelled today due to the rain that is covering us.  it's been raining for days.  we missed almost an entire week of soccer, practices and games.  

the kiddos and I decided binge on popcorn and see the movie "Home"  

it was a cute movie and a fun activity for a rainy, gray day!

Saturday, June 29, 2013

our week in review ... otherwise known as the longest post ever

This last full week in June has been busy for us!  It has been packed with fun activities and late bedtimes all week.  I can't believe this week got away from me when it comes to posting our memories to the blog.  I am thankful for a quiet Saturday night at home with the kids so I can update!

Monday we took the kids to see Monsters University.  It was a cute movie and I'm glad Gary got to go with us.  The kids were so excited to have daddy at the movies!


Tuesday Gary left early in the morning for Austria.  He had a dealer event in Austria and I have to say I am a little jealous of his over seas adventure.  I don't think the airplane ride is anything to be envious of, but all the fun food and drinks look amazing!



Layla was trying to see if she could fit her little body into his suit case!


The pups watched daddy drive away and I couldn't help but capture the cute moment!



Tuesday afternoon was full of fun in the sun.  We knew the rest of the week would be full of thunderstorms, so we decided to have fun while the sun was here!


We looked over at Hayden and he was meditating.  We all just laughed so hard.  He is so funny and we found out he learned about meditating from a TV show.


The kids were all posing and this reminded me of Charlie's Angels!

The clouds rolled in on Wednesday so we all decided to grab lunch after Zumba class and then hit the bowling alley.



Mrs. Erin treated the kids to a Hershey bar, and Hayden stopped to pose with his.  Gotta love the cool bowling shoes!


Meanwhile in Austria Gary kept texting me photos of himself all week.  It looked like he had an amazing time!




I am quite jealous of this beer fountain.  Pretty cool huh?


Today's picture was the best of the best...this is the golf course he played!


It looks like a postcard!

We kinda had a post card moment here on Friday evening while eating dinner out with friends.



We saw an entire rainbow!  It was gorgeous and if you look closely you can see a faint trace of the double rainbow!




Today we swam with friends and splashed and played in the pool.


Hayden has been nervous and cautious so far this summer.  Today he busted out of his shell and had an awesome time swimming.  He was jumping into the pool and swimming like the fish he was at the end of last summer!


I am thankful Gary is coming home tomorrow.  Summer days get busy and long and I really enjoy having a break from the kids.  I enjoy chatting with Gary after we put the kids to bed.  When Gary travels in the states I get to talk to him multiple times a day, but with the time difference of 6 hours in Austria I haven't talked to him much.  We miss him BIG!  

How was your week?

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

a movie and the mall


Spring break is supposed to be all fun and exciting, but I'm feeling grumpy. The snow is putting a damper in our week and I am feeling like negative Nelly.  Gary took off work so we are making the best of our time together as a family.  We haven't ventured too far away from home yet.  We weren't sure if the roads would be nasty.  But we are still having fun dang it!


The weather makes me wanna eat this whole bag of Twix Eggs.  Yep...Twix eggs.



Gahhhh.  They are so good, but really the Reese's eggs are better.
I'm a sucker for peanut butter. 


Monday we took the kids to a movie.  It was such a cute movie with a great message.  We all really enjoyed it.  I really enjoyed eating half a large bag of popcorn. Poor Gary he didn't know he should have gotten his own bag.  What is it with movie theater popcorn?  I can't eat a few pieces slowly.  I have to SHOVE it into my mouth as fast as possible as if someone is about to take it away from me.  I always get a popcorn head ache and I always eat the corn anyway.  What is wrong with me?  It's like you walk into a theater and breathe the air...you must eat the CORN.  ALL OF THE CORN.  See what I mean...I blame the weather for my crazyness right now.  I had to really floss after the popcorn eating contest also.  Holy moly the kernels get stuck in my teeth something awful.  Ok...TMI and now I'm changing the topic to soda.  Why do you have to drink a soda with movie theater popcorn?  Honestly I don't usually drink soda.  I mean I will use it in a mixed drink now and then, but we don't buy soda for daily consumption.  Oh my eating is bad lately, but HEY Jack...It's Spring Break.


Look at this mess of an iPhone.  We went to the mall today to have this fixed to the tune of $89.00.  OUCH!  I dropped my phone not only once, but twice.  AFTER HAYDEN DROPPED HIS iPod touch.  What is wrong with our hands that neither one of us can hold onto these pricey little devices?  His was cheaper to fix, but still.  It's like buying tires.  You have to do it even though you don't wanna.  I didn't want glass to chip off any longer.  I was leaving a glass trail.  Did I mention I had to leave my phone with them while we shopped?  I missed it so much.  I'm pathetic.


We ate lunch and then had ice cream treats.  I ordered salted caramel truffle ice cream and I almost went back for another scoop.  It was to die for.  The kids got Playdoh.  Yep.  That yellow stuff has enough dye in it to choke a chicken.  It is vanilla ice cream with multi-colored sugar cookie chunks.  It was gooooUUUood (said in my best cousin Eddie voice)!!  Gary got his favorite mint chocolate chip.  


These two little heathens needed to burn off some steam.  Wow ... maybe I should have done the same thing.   We let them play at the nasty, germy mall play area, ahem I mean the fun, super cool play area.  Germs make their immune systems better right?!

There is our Spring Break Monday and Tuesday in a nutshell.  Also we are all really addicted to Candy Crush. Gary and I are bad addicted. Oh and the kids won't sleep in.  And Lily won't either.  So we have that going for us.  And now I am off to get an attitude adjustment....SEND US THE SUNSHINE!


Friday, November 23, 2012

3D fun

The kids and I went with a group of friends to our local movie theater today.  We saw Rise of the Guardians in 3D.  It was my first 3D movie and it was so super cute.  I loved the movie!!  I also  love that the theater was about 5 minutes from our house.  Everything is so close to home here in our new small town.  It is taking some getting used to, but it isn't hard!




The weather is getting colder here!  Tomorrow the high will be about 39 degrees.  We are planning to go pick out our real Christmas tree tomorrow.  We haven't had a real tree in all the years I've known Gary.  I think it will be so fun!!  I hope when we go pick it out Layla isn't like Audrey on Christmas Vacation!  With a high of 39 we might get cold out there!