A Twilight Weekend

We had a very full but very fun Saturday. It started with a visit from the Quigley's (I have pictures but will post them later). We met up with them at In-n-Out Burger (Scott's favorite). It was so busy there it was crazy so we took our food and went to a park. It ended up being kind of cold though. We hadn't brought Ashtons jacket cause I had just washed it, so thankfully Carolyn let him borrow one of theirs. Nathan and Cole ran around and got rid of some of their energy from being in the car for so long. Right as we were getting ready to leave Nathan and Ashton warmed up to each other and had a little leaf fight.

Then, as almost everyone knows, the movie Twilight came out this weekend. A couple weeks ago I decided to have a Twilight party. Keanna and Ray helped me and we made some very cute invitations. So at 5:00 the Twilight guests arrived. We played Twilight bingo (which Ray had made up) and ate Twilight food. This, of course, consisted of lots of blood. :) We had bloody drinks (cranberry juice), and the cups were tainted with blood (I had dipped the tops of the cups in karo syrup that had been colored red), and bloody chips and salsa, popcorn covered in blood (red chocolate melts), and cupcakes that the vampires had left a bloody bite on (a little raspberry jam). (Sorry, no pictures. I was so worried about making sure everything was going smoothly that I forgot all about taking pictures. duh!!) Then it was off to the movie. We wanted to arrive early so we would have good seats. While waiting in line we played Twilight trivia. I had prizes for the winners of the games (I had taken unfinished wooden frames, painted them black, put a pictures of Bella and Edward in them, and then cut out the words "Bite Me" in red and put on the frame.) We had two guys come with us so they received BMW's and Volvo's (matchbox cars) for being brave and coming with all us females. (As you may know the vampires all drive very nice cars.) There were about 22 of us who all went to the movie. I had great support from people I work with, some of our neighbors and my sister-in-law and niece even came from Salina. Needless to say, we had a great time and everyone thought the movie was great. The girls and I want to see it again and keep finding ourselves discussing it. Yesterday Ray's brother Randy called him to talk for a minute and I think it felt good to Ray to have someone to talk to about the game on Saturday instead of hearing about Twilight all the time. :) We definitely recommend you see the movie and if you haven't already, reading the books.