Sunday, June 29, 2008

2nd Movie night - WALL-E screening


Last Friday (6-27-08) I had the girls swing by my work to celebrate the release of WALL-E. We hoped the actual wandering WALL-E robot that had made an appearance a few weeks back was going to make be there for photo opportunities, but... no such luck. At least the girls got some toy give-aways, and some stickers. We DID take a photo with this fun cardboard standee, but it wasn't the same.

Later that night we had our second movie night and watched "Beauty And The Beast". I gotta say, still LOVE that movie. Wonderful music, classy animation, great art direction... what more could I ask for. That night did, however, warn us that VIVI was still not probably ready to sit through a movie at the Theatre. We found out for sure that next morning. We went to see WALL-E at an employee screening, and at approximately 10 minutes into the film , Vivi stood up and said "No more WALL-E". Well, I had promised taht I would miss this showing, and would see the back up screening I had signed up for later that afternoon.

Vivi and I played in the arcade at the movie theatre for the next hour and thirty minutes while we waited for Lynn and Bella to finish. We had so much fun even though the first 20 minutes we played, none of the games were actually even turned on yet. Vivi danced and sang, making up steps and funny songs as she moved around on the Dance Dance Revolution game. She was a blast:)

So.. I may have missed the movie the first time through, but the fun memory I'll have of that crazy DDR VIVI queen will hopefully live in my head forever:)

Sunday, June 22, 2008

1st movie night


We finally made it! The first official Moncrief movie night went off without any problems last Friday night, and I couldn't have been happier. I've wanted to start this little tradition for a long time and now that we have the house we've dreamed of and the TV set-up to do it with, we gave it a try. It was wonderful. We all laughed out loud, and sung each song. What are we, the bRady Bunch??? Anyway- As you can see from the photo, we watched "The Little Mermaid". I made fun little tickets, each with the movie poster, along with their names and their snacks ( a pretzel and sippy for the girls, 2 pretzels and 2 diet cokes for me... Mama just wanted her water, she WAS allowed to have a pretzel, but decided against it at the last minute.. more for me..WOOHOO) We all enjoyed the movie as we have many times before, but this time we all cuddled up on the couch as one big family. YAY! I hope we can continue this for years to come. Next week is Bella's choice, I can't wait to do it all over again:)

Thursday, June 19, 2008

It's been a while, but here's some pics

Sorry... A LOT HAS HAPPENED LATELY! Here's some photos- you figure it out:)