Vampires vrs Kittens

So Dean left me a message that he had a blog post regarding the pile of DVD's that we have watched this week... and what I thot he was going to blog about was completely different than what he did...so lol I am blogging what I giggled about when I saw the pile. As Dean wrote some of the choices were National treasure, Pirates of the Carribean, both Great movies, both Disney and both kinda puppies and kittens... well NOT really but... then the other movies in the pile are Serial Killers, and vampires and I had to laugh... I wonder if people could guess which movies I picked and which ones Dean picked??

vampires vrs puppies and kittens.....

This Week's DVD Pile.

The DVD pile. Lots of good stuff there. If you haven't seen The Bone Collector - go rent it. A great watch. Can you go wrong with Angela and Denzel?

Can't wait for Pirates 4 - coming May 2011!

Also apparently National Treasure 3 is coming out in 2011.

When is the next Bond film coming out? Do I care? I miss Pierce Brosnan. He's the only one that can even hold a candle to Sean Connery, the best Bond of all.

Men In Black - looking forward to seeing Will Smith in the prequel to I Am Legend.

From Dush Till Dawn - George Clooney's first movie I think. I liked him in Up In The Air this year. I would like to see another Ocean's 11 sequel. I still haven't seen the original Ocean's 11.

Untraceable. Another one you should rent if you haven't seen it.

And that's this week's DVD Pile!

Staff Christmas party

inside nice and cozy....

the tables were all set, 1...

2...

and 3.

the little tree awaits the gift exchange

around the appie's, Nishiki, Holly and Carolyn

Laura, Kelly and Nola

the gift exchange... shhhh it's a secret! Gloria and Laura look on to see what Angela opened... a funny cookbook, looks like it will give a few laughs with a few good recipes!

Nola got the Timmy snowman die, and I got the kewlest Jack Skellington scarf! My secret Santa didn't know it was a secret, Linda wrote her name on the package...lol Angela ( AKA OA, other Angela ) opens next

Megan, Dianne, Holly and Nishiki,

Nish gets a Starbucks mug and gift certificate.

Gloria opens a "stolen book" and quizzes who her secret Santa is??? The book must be replaced at work, her signed copy is in the mail!

We also had a work gift exchange where 3 secret letters held the rules and the fate of our gifts... it was the white elephant game where you choose a wrapped gift or steal.... nasty lol there is always a gift in high demand that goes around the room the most. This year it was the Sizzix embosser. In the end, Gloria got it, it was a tough battle tho'!

Maddie's snow

we found some kewl stuff at Chapters the other day, it's snow in a test tube....

you put a little in a jar of water, and it starts to puff up....

and keeps puffing up! it's really fun! and it's not cold!

Maddie's treeeeee

get in your Santa Suit and decorate that tree Maddie :-)

hanging the ornaments

placing the star

Maddie's pretty little tree

finishing touches.... candy canes.

Missed our flight

So here we are saying goodbye to Barry... we thot we were leaving Vegas... but we missed the cutoff time of the flight... by minutes! The girl at the counter asks us "why are you so late" we said "we aren't" but we thot the flight left 20 minutes later than we planned for, so we asked her "well what do we do?" and she says.... "nothing" LOL!! I guess it's easier to live in the States than we thot, you just have to miss a plane and you are stuck there forever??? anyway, we went to a different counter and she very nicely got us on a later flight, about 6 hours later, and got us a direct flight rather than the Vancouver stop over we originally had. (in spite of the extra money it cost, we found a silver lining... and we hit the Strip for more hours of fun!)

we had to check our bags so we went to New York New York, we knew they had storage cause you had to check your bags before you go on the coaster.

one bag wouldn't fit, but it had wheels.... so we trekked on.

we went for lunch and decided to do our part to help the casinos and we gambled.... at the penny slots... and spent 10 bucks! It lasted a loooong time tho' Dean and I traded off, but the best part was, Maddie could be right there, she was just on the other side of the wall in the restaurant part.

here is a better picture of the chocolate fountain

don't leave your child unattended!

we caught the statue show at Caesars

and went into the top of the Eiffel tower at the Paris.

from the tower. That beautiful Blue building ahead may be on the "imploding" block. Yep, that brand new building, it's not even open yet. It is the last building of the City Center group of hotels, but there was a problem in construction so they shortened the building from the original plan of 30 some odd floors, but it still isn't "safe" so it is closed and used as a billboard for the Elvis show right now, it will probably take 2 years in court to figure out what to do... but it sure is pretty!

every time we passed the fountains at Bellagio they were off, so finally Maddie got to see them, and it was quite the view from up top of Paris.

we got to check al lot of things off our list today, in our unexpected extra time! The last stop we got peanut butter covered apples from New York. It took about 30 minutes to eat!! and it was HEAVY! But soooo yummy!

on the plane we got seats as close as we could.... and homeward we went.

leaving Las Vegas, passing a golf course. Then home again, home again, jiggedy jig

Black Friday

Picture this..... it's 11:30 pm when some people are going to bed... the 3 of us.... are going shopping! That's when black Friday started for us.... 11:30pm

Walmart opened at midnight... and we were there for the show! as far as you could see..... people and sale boxes.

we weren't sure where this night would take, the next store wasn't open til 4am... but as we shopped and then stood in a monstrous long line we realized our time line was closing in... making it possible perhaps to keep going without heading home to sleep. All 3 of us are the same when it comes to sleep... we don't like to, and when we do we don't like to wake up... so pulling an all nighter was much more appealing to us than waking up at 4....

this would help....

funny story, when we got to the til, there was a burst of heat, I had to take my jacket off, I was melting and then about 5 minutes later, Maddie turned white as a ghost, and had to sit down, she felt awful all of a sudden, so we sent her to stand outside to cool off, when she came back a couple of minutes later she started to get her color back.... but the funny part was... the guy behind the till, looks at Maddie and says "I like your hair" then he starts to blush and says " I was gonna say something else, but I can't" so he blushes more and says " I was going to say it's sexy... but then I'll get in trouble" haha so even when she doesn't feel well, she's still cute as a button :-) the poor guy stayed red faced until we were gone!

when we got out of Walmart it was 1:55. so we headed to the outlet mall to go to Hot Topic... which opened at 10pm. So here we are walking thru the mall at 2 in the morning and it looks and feels like noon!!

we exit the mall at 3:23 a little early for the 4am Target opening... so .....

leaving the mall we head to....

IHOP for breakfast! We had the sweetest waitress, how was she so perky at 4am?

there was a flashing cop car we weren't sure if we missed an incident or if they were just there for a presence.When we into Target it looked like the line was wrapping itself around the store. We said : we have to really want it to stand in line here" there were al lot of people with 40' flatscreens in their carts, but wasn't an option for us.... so we ended up leaving the few items we picked up and headed to our last destination... Joanne's craft shop and Best Buy....

they were opening at 6am, so we had a few minutes to wait in line... we split up here, Dean went to Best buy, me and Maddie to the craft store....

this was where our major purchases came from... we got a bluray player, a WII, a handful of cricut cartridges and a Cricut Imagine, I won't bore you with all the details of my stuff... but lol I will tell you they were all for scrapbooking.

and here we are at home.... we left in the dark and came home in the daylight... we went directly to bed! Happy Black Friday... uhmm now how do we get all this stuff home???