Thursday, December 27, 2007

Eden's 7th Birthday

We gave Eden the option of birthday party at home with friends or birthday with family at Chuck E. Cheeses (CEC). She chose the latter.
It has been a long time since I have been to a CEC. Most of the same components remain: mediocre pizza, clunky animatronicks, skeet ball and other ways to acquire tickets to exchange for cheap little plastic toys, arcade games, and a person dressed up in a mouse suit. The changes that I noticed tonight: a salad bar, each group gets a unique invisible ink stamp which they check when people leave to make sure kids go home with the correct adults, better lighting, a machine that counts your tickets and then gives you a reciept which you give to the teenager running the prize counter, a blue screen that allows kids to "be on TV."
We had a good time. The girls were soooo excited on the drive to CEC, the had a blast with everything there, and they so tired out for the drive home that they were half as chatty as they usually are. Tonight brought back a lot of fun memories for me, and I think it created a few for Eden and Emmy as well.

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Something

Our blog has been naked for far too long.
It snowed yesterday, so we might end up with a white Christmas if it stays cold enough.