Here's your veggie platter Rose

Once upon a time we took a girls road trip to Portland. We told ourselves it was to attend Time Out for Women, but it was really just to see Rosie Rose.
Cause she moved far away.
And I miss her.
So Time Out for Women was alright. I'll tell you more about that later in a post I'll never write.

Christy and I surprised Rose by showing up a day early and making her squee and cry. Then we hit the Cheesecake Factory and cackled until the wee hours of the morning.

The next day Christy and I slept in until 11:30 in a silent house.
It. Was. Heaven.
Then to top it off we woke up to Panera. Best day ever.

We spent the weekend laughing hysterically, getting makeovers from a 6 year old, eating way too much and sleeping. Then we of course had to hit this little restaurant called Carvers (that might have been in some famous movie you may have heard of) because we are grown women who think we are way too funny.

We walked in and we're like "What's Twilight??" and then the waitress laughed and sat with us and told us far too many details about how they shot scenes there. And she made us sign the guest book. And we left funny things that I will never admit to. It was super fun. And a lot embarrassing. But the french toast rocked my world.

What would a trip to Carver's be without a little Mike Newton booty shake? I totally did that. And I bet no one had ever thought to do it before. Team Mike!

 Robert Pattinson totally wiped his feet on that probably.

We miss you Rosie Rose. I am in misery. 

eCLIPse!

I don't know if anyone is familiar with a movie called Eclipse or not. It's a small little film about sparkly awesomeness.

So Christy and I teamed up to throw a rockin premier party again. We got over 500 prizes and donations to hand out this year! I know, right?

It was set to be a sweet night. Two theaters were showing Eclipse. One of the theaters was going to be let in early to partake in our party, the other theater had to sadly wait outside. Me, Christy and our posse got the benefit of no waiting in line + first pick at seats. Win win people! But our lame movie theater had to go and change things up on us at the last minute AGAIN.

The corporate lady called me 5 hours before we were starting and asked if we could do the party outside the theater so that everyone could participate. Long story short, we did it unwillingly outside which most people were ok with. Others were not. As you can see.

We played some trivia, threw candy by the bucket loads and eventually just started grabbing prizes and throwing them to the crowd cause we had so much stuff left over.

Then we all settled in for what I thought would be one heck of a Twi-bomb, but they proved me wrong.  I had heard too many horrible rumors and was determined it would be pretty cheesy, but tiny little Davide Slade totally pulled through.

Rosie Rose came all the way from Portland to rejoin Christy and I so we could adequately give commentary and inappropriate comments throughout the show. Then we got Denny's to give everyone a discount after the movie so we moved the party there until the wee hours of the morning.

This is the only picture we got of us partyin, which I think I'm ok with.

We're sick of this small theater run around and are taking our party elsewhere next year. We have several possibilities in mind. We're going big people! Wanna come?

I stashed some of the prizes we got and I'm giving them away over at Leelou Blogs. It's one heck of a lot of Twi-stuff! Go win it.

Twi-off '10

Once upon a time there was a girl named Boo Christy who had a wealth of Twilight info tucked away. She knew her sparkly facts, and she knew them well.

There was also a girl named Cherise who was another sister in Twilight. She too knew her Twilight stuff...so much that her enthusiasm scared me people a little.

One day Julie decided to host a Twi-off testing all the info one would gain from Sister Meyers. Christy and Cherise agreed to compete and it was on.

The teams were assembled and informed. Rules were established. Books were studied. Questions were created. Confidentiality agreements were made. Wavers were signed. Wingers was booked.

It was an intense night with over 100 questions. It was a close call, but in the end, Cherise pulled out ahead to become the Twi-off '10 champion!
I don't know if that made her the winner or the loser?  :)
Either way it was a good fight.

 Participants of the Twi-Off '10 may or may not have received exceptional prizes...and lived happily ever after.

And this is John Wu...our soon to be Twi-unicorn. We had to reserve him as well, because no other waiter will do. Thank Wu.

You gotta get your protein!

I'm just a Twilight lovin' girl with a sparkly dream. So Christy (my swag partner in crime) and I found out that our movie theater was showing Twilight before the premier of New Moon and we had to have a Twi-party. We couldn't help ourselves. Plus, we really really didn't want to wait in line outside. It was freezing!

So we got online and found some AWESOME people willing to donate oodles of stuff to our twi-cause

And then we teamed up with Sam Goody, Borders and some local vendors.

We had one hour between the 2 movies and we partied it up with games and contests.

I met this guy last year and he didn't even know what Twilight was. Do you see his shirt now?? That's right spider monkey.

Um, so I kind of loved New Moon. It was so much better then Twilight. Well...lets be honest. Anything is better then Twilight. New Moon could have had some of this:

and some of this:

and it still would have been better then Twilight. So my brief thoughts and feelings on the movie:

-Bella...although Molly and Alan some crazies would disagree, totally did a million times better.
-The wolves were awesome.
-Victoria looked amazing.
-Charlie and Mike Newton had the best lines...again.
-And...I totally got Jeremy to watch it with me last week. He may have dry heaved several times and wanted to run screaming from the theater, but he didn't. He humored me. And that is all I ask. Ok, actually he promised me on my last birthday that he'd go. There was no way out of it. I heart Jeremy.

Dear Christ Weitz,
Seriously. You redeemed the saga. I award you 3,000 sparkly awesome points and will name my next child after you if you direct Breaking Dawn. ...unless Ron Howard is available.
Love,
Julie

Winning free stuff is fun to do fun to do to do to do

I've got Halloween pictures coming. Hold on grandma! As for now....I am giving away one of these bad boys over on Leelou Swag




I made a list of my favorite things and Joovy is ever so lovingly letting me give this stroller away. It's been sitting in my house for 2 months and It's killing me! I love this stroller and think everyone should have one. Even if you don't have kids. It would make a sweet present :) Also on this giveaway, I want you to make a post on your blog of your top favorite things. Then you can link it to this giveaway with Mr. Linky. (Go to this giveaway if you have no idea what that means).

And in greater Twilight news...
Did you know the theater here in Klamath is also showing Twilight at 9:00pm on the same night as the New Moon premier?! I know you locals might not want to go since you can watch it at home, but let me sway you.


-If you don't buy a Twilight ticket you will have to wait in line outside until 12:00.
-If you buy a ticket to see Twilight, not only will you be able to sit in a comfy warm theater while others freeze outside, you also get to join a Twilight party at the theater! There is an hour between the 2 movies (from 11:00-12:00) and the movie theater is letting Christy and I throw an exclusive party for those who buy both tickets. We'll be playing Twilight trivia games and we've gotten over 70 prizes!!


It's gonna be super fun, so go grab your Twilight tickets while you can. It will be awesome. Plus you'll stay warm and score some free stuff.

BAHAHAHAHA

I haven't been taking pictures like I should be lately. The weather has been so yucky, so we have stayed inside doing very unblogworthy things. I know there are some grandmas that are dying to see this little man though. I can tell how much he is growing on a daily basis, and it makes me so sad. I don't want him to get bigger yet. With B and K I couldn't wait for them to smile and sit up and stuff. Not this time around! I know how fast it goes.

This isn't a good picture, but you can see how he's getting "puffy".




And this has nothing to do with anything, but I forgot to post pictures of my baby shower that was forever ago. This is back when I was on my camera hiatus, so I stole these pictures from Nicole's blog. My Twilight posse is accumulating incredible amounts of Twilight paraphernalia, which have accompanied us to every possible event in the last 6 months. Birthdays, girls nights, date nights, road trips, play dates, blessings...ok not any baby blessings...yet :) and of course they had to tie it in with the shower.

Scary picture of Julie, but check out the sweet onesies.

I had a shrine in front of my seat, we played some sweet games, and of course cardboard and wee lil' Edward stole the show. We can't go to Wingers without them.

Don't judge us. I have the coolest friends ever. Thanks to everyone who came and LOVED it...and thanks to Nicole for coming and only complaining half of the time :)

And this is for my fat sister Jaime :)

Rock stars, babies and Edward

We have discovered guitar hero and are totally hooked! We borrowed it from a friend the other day and I don't know if Jeremy will ever give it back. I'm horrible, but Jeremy is pretty good. The kids want to join our sweet band, so they rock out on the drums.

Last week Kelson was sick and just wanted to lay in bed ALL day every day with his mama. Poor Brynlie couldn't handle anymore inside time, so this weekend we tried to get out as much as we could. Then Kelson started getting crazy fevers so we took 'em in and found out that they both have pneumonia...ugh! Poor Kelson picks up everything! Brynlie doesn't have it as bad, but now we are quarantined for another week. Dang winter...

Good news...We got to have another ultrasound last week. Yippee!

This little guy was a stinker again though. The cord and his hands were in his face the whole time despite every attempt to make him move! So again, no great shots. This is just what he looks like though...

Luckily we do know that he's still a boy (whew) his cheeks are cute and chubby, and he has lots of hair. He's a little over 5.5 lbs now and he measures normal everywhere except for his head. Our kids like to have these 15 cm heads just like their big headed parents. This is our first baby to measure normal and not 3-4 weeks ahead though. He'd better pork up in the next 16 days or we won't know what to do with him. He is still nameless which totally keeps me up at night. I can't stand not knowing! Brynlie and Kelson were both named before we were even pregnant with them. I have anxiety attacks every night that this boy will be 3 months old and have no name. OYE!

Edward decided to make an appearance at bunko last time. That's how cool our bunko nights are. He always gets dressed up for every occasion. Silly Edward.

Kickin' it with "Coley" (the anti-Edward)

The only belly shot I have of this pregnancy. Edward totally wants me...

and Jeremy too...

Then he wanted to stop by for dinner. Luckily it happened to be the same day our fridge died, so he kept things cool until we got a new one.

Ok enough Edward pictures. I must say, way too many grown women have been having way too much fun with him the last few weeks. Don't judge us.

Wahoo for Edward!

Last week all us girls showed up in our pajamas to play a riveting game of bunko at my Mama's house. Jaime hosted this month and made us some amazing French Toast and got us all some super cute prizes. When we were done we headed on over to the movies and waited and waited in the freezing cold to watch Twilight. I thought the movie was pretty good after I got over the bad hair dying jobs and the fact that Jasper freakishly looked like Edward Scissorhands. It would have been better if it was a couple hours longer....but not too shabby. My Mom and I had to go see it again the next day and it was even better the second time. Now I've started reading the books all over. Ahhh, hot vampires.

My "sparkly" lover

I've had at least 19 people tell me to read these books and I finally have and am so addicted! If you've been hiding in a hole somewhere and haven't heard about the Twilight series GO GET THEM!!! They're really good.