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This afternoon, we took Mason to see his very first movie in the theater! Since he's 4 now and well versed in Toy Story 1 & 2, it was a no-brainer that we wanted to take him to see Toy Story 3. He did a wonderful job sitting still & being quiet. He ate a whole box of gummy bears during the movie and only had to get up once toward the end to go to the bathroom.
The movie was really funny and also sad-I will admit that the Mommy hormones got to me at the end & I was crying (and trying to wipe away the tears fast because I felt a little silly!) Wayne enjoyed it, too...and Mason thought it was great. He liked the whole theater experience and is looking forward to returning to see more movies in the future.


With the movie poster (and wearing his new TS3 shirt):

Here's how excited he was right before we left home:

A Very Important Date...

I can't wait (and I won't be late!) for this very important date: March 5, 2010, when Disney's live-action movie ALICE IN WONDERLAND premiers! I ADORE Alice in Wonderland and judging from the trailer and photo gallery, the movie looks amazing!

I only hope that Tim Burton's interpretation doesn't get too weird or even ruins the story (as the remake of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory did-ugg!) but with Disney behind it, surely it can't go too macabre, right? But Alice in Wonderland is a weird nonsense story to begin with, so who better to make the movie than Tim Burton? (now I'm rambling)

Watch the Teaser Trailer

For more, go to The official Disney site

Christmas Morning

Christmas morning was just great! Mason woke us up around 7:30 and we went out to find that Santa had left him a shopping cart filled with "food", a cash register, lots of cool cars, and a stocking full of goodies. He also had a lot of toys from Mommy & Daddy waiting for him under the tree.

First sight of the goods

Playing with the Fisher Price cash register-just like the one I had as a small child.

Yes!


Unwrapping

A set of Spongebob beanies (warning: mommy without makeup ahhhhh)

unloading the stocking

I got Wayne this silly 4-in-1 hood thing for when he's doing yard work outside in the cold. (he will not be seen like this in public!) We laughed so hard when he tried it on. He looks like a monk/ewok/medieval knight!

After we all unwrapped our gifts, We had coffee (well, Mason had milk) and cinnamon rolls.


Mason played with his toys all day and we relaxed and watched part of A Christmas Story (my fave xmas movie)and Wayne & I ended up watching Batman (the original one with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson as Joker) just because it came on tv & we got sucked in. I stayed in my pajamas until 4 pm!!! Then we got ready to go to my parent's for turkey dinner. (next post!)

Sunday Funday

I'm so glad that Sunday was so much fun. It almost made up for Saturday sucking so much. [but not quite]
I started the day off by going to church early to see Cameron in the children's program. He had a solo singing part & was very good, I must say. After that we munched (too many) cookies and waited for "big" church to start. It was a special day~the Choir's Christmas Cantata! I love it every year-it's so moving! My sister, Angela sings in the choir & they had worked so hard putting it together.


These pics are TERRIBLY blurry due to my camera's suckiness.

Cameron is between the 2 guy's heads, to the left...

The cast of the children's program & adults who organized it (Angela is in red on the right, Cameron is front row)

Our awesome choir


After church, I ran home to eat lunch & spend some time with my favorite little man while Wayne got my car working!
Oh yeah-for those who don't know--my stinkin car would not start last week! Luckily, I was able to borrow my parent's car to drive while Wayne worked on it.



So anyway...Wayne got my car working just in time for me to drive it to Fayetteville to meet up with my best girly girls for a Christmas get-together. It was just my close friends Heather, Amber, Amanda & myself. We each brought food--and lots of it-& it was yummy. Then we went to a movie & saw some crazy one we hadn't heard of but sounded Christmasy called "Nothing Like the Holidays" [I think] Anyway, it had Debra Messing, Jon Leguizamo & lots of Puerto Ricans. It was funny & sad at some parts. There weren't many people in the theater at all & we were definitely the only white chicks. Hey-we had to represent our girl Debra. :)


Amber's gorgeous tree!


After the movie, we returned to Amber's for more food & a gift exchange. We drew names & Amanda received the gift I had brought. It was a foot spa. I have one & love it (although I need to use it more often.) I got the gift Heather brought & I love it. It was a bottle of Bath & Body Works lotion, a Ghiradelli dark chocolate bar (a BIG one) some cute painted blocks that spell "Friends" and the best part~a bottle of her fave Spumanti wine. Can't wait to break into that baby.
Heather, Amanda, & Amber


Amber opening a movie gift basket from Amanda

Wine-O

Amanda & the foot spa


I finally made it home around 9:00 to find Mason was still up~ waiting to see me. I was so glad because I really missed him all day! Thankfully he had a late nap, so he wasn't grouchy waiting up. What a fun, busy day!