These are for a friend Jill. Easy photo hosting.
Grant and I sometimes “watch” Mia and Ally. When I say watching I mean, we are at home while the girls are sleeping. Every once in a while, the girls wake up before Tanya gets back, so we try to entertain them until Tanya gets home. Here is one of those times.
Mia and Tanya were shopping, and Ally woke up before they were back. I had just gotten back from work, so she was excited to play with me. The rules for the girls is that if they are in our room they have to stay on the bed. Because off of the bed are so many different things that they can break of mess up the room with.
So, ally and I were talking and playing on the bed, and she would jump around, play with Tanya’s phone, and then every once in a while lay down and point at the blanket and assume that I would cover her up. I would, and it was a constant Game. Right now, we are in Houston for the holiday and it is so cool to have the girls used to us and comfortable with us. It will be kinda sad when we get our own place because they won’t be as used to us, but that is ok. I have to say it is awesome to play with them,but them not be mine yet.
Here is a fun freebie that I found while looking on online. You sign up for a e-mail newsletter they send you some granola and a granola bar for free, and then if you don’t like the e-mail newsletter, you can always unsubscribe. I e-mailed it to some people, but I wasn’t sure who else was interested in it.
So, our Wednesday night Bible class for the young marrieds is a small, but fun class. We have finally picked a study, and the youngest… being me, got to teach first. I love food especially baking, so I wanted to make something. Well, all of us are trying to be healthy and some even dieting, so I knew I should take that into consideration. Grant was awesome and helped me come up with different things I could bring to munch on… only problem was each one was fatty and the last resort was always cookies. Cookies are great,but not very nice when most people can eat them and one or two can’t and are trying not to. So, I decided that if I brought in strawberries that would be healthy, and I could cover a few with chocolate so we each get one unhealthy strawberry, and the rest would be better and just as good.
I wanted a visual because I forgot to take any pictures of mine, so I am not as cool as whoever made these strawberries, but we can pretend that I was. Mine were tasty and not a pretty,but since no one was expecting it, it was fun. I don’t know how well me teaching went, but I know that at least my strawberries were good.
Last Week:
So, Wilson likes apple crumb pie according to Tanya, and I love baking, and Tanya has her hands full with the girls and doesn’t always have the change to bake. Thus, I decided to bake a apple crumb pie. I LOVE pies! I was the weird kid growing up that had pies instead of birthday cakes cause they are so much cooler.
I ended up having too much dough, so I made two little pies intending them for the girls, but I ended up taking the to work as dessert on two different days which was an awesome treat! Wilson said he liked the pies, and I thought it was pretty good and an improvement from the first apple crumb pie that I ever made so that is always nice.
So, I wanted to go and see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince opening night. I wasn’t sure where we wanted to go see it, but we ended up hearing about a place called the Alamo Drafthouse. This is a Movie Theater chain that has locations all over Texas and I think a few out of state. Grant was a great sport, and was very willing to come see it with me at midnight on July 14th which I think was a Tuesday.
What makes this movie theater special, is that you have your own servers as shown above that wait on you throughout the whole movie if you need either food or drinks of any form.
Grant took a picture for me of part of the theater. You can see it is kind of like a dinner theater where you eat and watch at the same time. There is a row of seats and then a small top that stretches across the whole isle.
Here is an example of the table tops. You get a menu at the beginning and decide what you want to order, then they have pieces of paper where you can write the things down during the movie, and if the waiter sees a piece of paper, they will come pick it up and get your order processed.
All of the food is made in house, obviously it isn’t too cheap, but if you don’t get that much food or stuff to drink you should be fine. Also, this was a special occasion!!! The opening night of HARRY POTTER ;p. Anyway, Grant got his really good pizza with spinach, sundried tomatoes, and lot of cheese. Before we came to this we had, had dinner at an elder’s house in our church and had met a couple that were missionaries in Thailand. We had eaten a lot of good food there, so we weren’t expecting to eat a lot at the movies. I got a chocolate molten cake which was delicious! Sorry I don’t have a before picture, but I didn’t want to disturb anyone during the movie to have Grant take a picture.
Since it was the Harry Potter movie, they had about 5 to 6 dishes that were English favorites from treackle tart to Mrs. Weasley’s onion soup. We ended up not getting them because of the prices, but I did get some butter beer which was a very interesting,but tasty treat. They also have a Harry Potter Feast where you pay a lot more, it isn’t on opening night, but all of the food you can eat is included… I just wanted to see the movie as soon as possible.
It cracked me up how this place had it own version of platform 9 3/4. Grant and I are cool enough to have been at the one in London, but this was good enough. Also, you can see that this was after the movie around 3ish, I think, so we are a bit tired.
Oh, one last thing, since it was an opening night production, the gave everyone a piece of film from this movie which was an unexpected surprise.
Grant was trying to show what part of the movie it was from,but I’ll just have to tell you that it was Harry and Dumbledore in our part of the strip.
Jessica got yet another pair of shoes.
Jessica wanted me to say “something cool about them” sooo… they have cork on them..