Friday Night Preparations

The kids and I made our way to the Tri-Cities on Friday afternoon.  Presley really, really, really wanted to watch a Disney movie, "Teen Beach Movie", with her cousins.  She did not know that they have DISH TV so they get to watch shows at Eastern Time, which meant she didn't have to wait until 8 PM to watch her movie, she got to watch it at 5...a whole three hours difference!!  The kids watched the movie while Mom, Amy, and I started our decorating of Amy's house.

This is the stillest and quietest Harper was for the next 2 days...

They loved the movie and Presley ended up staying the night and watching it a second time with Mylee.

We were finally at a stopping point at about 10 and Logan, Rylan, Harper and I headed back to Grandma's house for sleep.  We all slept in the same dark, cool room.  Our house in Wenatchee has been so stinking hot so this was great. The kids fell right to sleep and mom and I stayed up and finished making the game winners prizes, layered M & M cookie mixes (which I don't have a picture of, but turned out super cute with the pink, white, and gray M&M's).  Everything was going along smoothly until I realized we were adding baking powder instead of baking soda and we had to sift out the M&M's and dump the rest.  Luckily, Mom had enough of the flour and sugar mix. 

You know its been a long night when Amy gives you the 

"Oh Shit" text response. 

I knew that Samee and Nate were having maternity photos done on Friday night.  I had contacted Samee's maternity photographer earlier in the week and asked (begged) her to secretly e-mail us one of the photos from her session so that we could print it, frame it and put it out on display as a surprise to Samee.   She was so kind to do so (and she even sent three).  Amy on-line ordered it Friday night about 11 and picked it up at Costco at noon the next day.  We put the top one in a frame and out on display on the main table. 

 Saturday morning came early and we still had lots to do...