Everybody's working for the weekend.....

Chris and I had a superb weekend. It was spectacular. It was monumental. 

But most of all, it was FUN!!

1. Friday, we went to a surprise birthday party for a friend turning 30.  The party was supposed to be a BBQ cookout and swim party, but the rain ruined the swimming part. It was ok because we still stayed outside and enjoyed the rain while catching up:

I was happy because I saw Whitney! One of the cutest, smartest gals I know that I haven't seen in awhile. I said: "Oh, Whitney! You're so darn adorable let's take a picture together to commemorate this wonderful night!"

We took approximately 15 pictures, and were dissatisfied with the quality of most of them. Finally I said: "OK! Turn away from each other and count to three. When we hit 3 turn together and smile!"

Ready?! One....Two....THREE!

That'll work.

2. Saturday, Chris and I went to the mall to pick out his birthday present from my parents:

then we met mom and dad for bowling. You know how I feel about bowling- if not, click here.

I still didn't bowl a perfect 300, but guess what?

Those 5 strikes in row? They belong to me!

No, really! They do! My final score was a freakin' 198....

You are not blind. You read that correct. I gave Chris the bowling name of "Rooster Cock" and myself "Cock's wife." I'm weird like that. I also gave my dad the name: "Uranus." He was doing so well at one point I said: "Uranus is on fire, dad!!" I know, you find me extremely classy. 

I even won two bowling pins for my extraordinary efforts!

That's a lie.
 I just asked if I could have a pin, and they said yes. I see great potential for these babies!

Not wanting the extraordinary afternoon to end we decided to go to dinner where we saw a little girl wearing a tiny hat:

 How cool is this? I waited until I could hardly stand it, and finally asked what the heck was up with the tiny sombrero on her head. Her mom said the girl bought it at a garage sale that morning and was quite pleased with herself. I said I could totally understand why!

We were inspired by fellow diner who ordered 4 Long Island Ice Teas at dinner, and decided to go home and make our own:

The following picture is an attempt at cat herding:

Hey everybody! Oh..nevermind.

3. Sunday, which happened to be my awesome, funny, and cool grandpa's birthday, we went back to my mom and dad's for breakfast and a day of football. Let me re-phrase that: CHRIS had a day of football. I spent most of the day in my mom's art room:

This is just a small glimpse into her world. 

She has every thing you could ever need to make great art.

I was testing out a pinterest idea....

 

and we began an art project for the lakehouse:

Remind me, and I'll show you the finished product!

 

A great thing about spending the day with your mom in her art room, is the fact that it's right next to the attic; and the attic is full of boxes of memorabilia from her childhood and teen years, like this cool Nebraska Cornhuskers cup:

 

But the real find of the day was in the bottom of a box filled with mom's old stuffed animals, a baby doll and letters from my dad when he lived in Hawaii:

 

My dad's letterman jacket, and my mom's cheer leading sweater (which I thought was pointless considering they lived in Southern California). They were high school sweet hearts, ya know.....

 

Some things never change. 

Well, some do:

 

Bowling extraordinaire

A few days ago, I wrote the masterpiece called: "The bucket list! The bucket list!" As usual, I thought of 60 more things I would like to add to my bucket list like: create a new recipe and hit a home run (this does NOT have to be achieved during an actual game or on an actual field).

If you remember, one of my bucket list items was to bowl a 300. Well I went bowling with Chris and my parents last night, can you guess what happened?? C'mon, GUESS! If you guessed that I bowled a perfect game.... 13 strikes in a row.... a score of 300....then you guessed...

WRONG! Yay for you! 

This picture is from last year when we were in a bowling league, but you could pretty much substitute it for any other time...except I have blonde hair now and different glasses because I lost the ones in this picture AND I hate Miller Lite.....I'm only drinking it because it was free and free beer is always good beer.

It's ok I didn't bowl a perfect game, I'll get another chance soon because we bowl a lot. A lot a lot. We even have a locker to keep our shoes and bowling balls in:

Chris is holding my shoes and trying to get my ball (oh yeah--totally have my own ball) out of our bowling alley locker....shortly after this picture I realized I should have asked him if he needed help, but ....I didn't. 

It is vitally important to have the right equipment when bowling. You can opt to use the bowling shoes at the bowling alley that THOUSANDS of people have worn before you: 

 Note the many pairs of shoes on the shelves and any other possible bowling accessory you made need is readily available.

 Or just get a pair of your own! 

These little babies have seen better days. 

I got them as a  Christmas present from my parents two years ago.

After my mom saw what a blast bowling was she decided to get in on the action. Not wanting to wear the musty shoes provided by the bowling alley she decided to express herself with a pair of bowling shoes that showed her personality:

SHA-ZAM! Tie-dye bowling shoes? Yes, please!

When bowling, you must put your name into the mini-computer to track your progress. I find putting in funny or book characters as names makes us all bowl much better:

In the 1 position you have D for 'Dragon' (dad). R for 'Rocksteady' (me). Number 3 DQ is 'Dancing Queen' for mom and NH is 'Night Hawk' for Chris. As you can see Night Hawk had a heck of game, rocksteady not so much.....

Look at that form! Go mom go! Let's just all assume that this turned out to be a STRIKE!

Night Hawk is obviously AWESOME at bowling....and life.

So if you're ever in Missouri, be sure to look me up.

I'll definitely take you bowling. It doesn't matter if it's tomorrow or ten years from now. Why not? Because like the sign says when you walk out of our bowling alley: 

Oh hell.

(Obviously the sign is to big for my camera....)

 Take 2: 

*sigh* since this is clearly not working.....

..... I've recreated the sign for you and added a just little bit more pizazz....