We had planned to go to our property up north near Seligman over the weekend, but changed our minds at the last minute; we decided to make it a relaxing weekend. We started celebrating Father's Day on Saturday night. It was a choice of dinner out, just ice cream, or a movie, and Michael, of course, chose the latter; our life for the past six months has been about movies(movie room), so why not? We saw 'Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonion'. We give it 4 out of 5 stars; it's about equal in entertainment as the first 'Museum' movie. We gave a new theater a try, the Harkins off of I-17 and Happy Valley Road. It's across the street from our favorite Barnes & Noble bookstore. We love that area, and would actually like to find a house there, but it's too close to a dump. Yep, a great smellin' place when the monsoon season hits and it gets humid and it's hot, and the smell lingers... oh yeah. Anyway, we're usually AMC people, we like AMC 30, it's located on the southwest corner of I-17 and Loop 101. Enough about movie stuff, you'll be hearing a lot about that in the coming months, I'm sure; our movie room will be a work in progress for the next few months. Back to Father's Day... I decided to start Sunday off with blueberry pancakes; what a fiasco. I burned the first few pancakes, so switched skillets, and the next couple of pancakes were pale, they didn't brown at all. I was about out of batter, but ended up getting a few decent pancakes out of it, and went ahead and added a couple of the not-so-appealing ones to the plate as well; I can't stand to waste food, and I wasn't eating them, so no biggie(i'm not as nice as i seem). I made eggs as well. They ended up having some weird greenish-blue spots on them, but they passed inspection(again, i'm not as nice as i seem). As soon as Michael got up, he headed for his quarter-of-the-way-done movie room; he watched some of his favorite programs. The walls next to the kitchen shook as I was making breakfast; gotta love the sound system. We then got cleaned up and I took some pics of Caitie and her Daddy together with the caricature t-shirts I have made every year; it's tradition. I planned it so that once I was done taking the pics, Caitie would give him his Father's Day gifts. It didn't go quite as planned, but he did get his gifts and I was still able to get pics of this in decent lighting; this is why he's in the bedroom opening his gifts, I like the lighting in that area. I didn't spend as much on gifts this year, per his request, he said the money being spent on the movie room was part of his Father's Day gift, but I did get him a few things... DVD's(movies), of course, a Disney Encyclopedia(we're disney buffs), a cute card, and a Father of the Year magazine cover plaque. Did you know that he won the 'Father of the Year' award? Well, he did!(at our house anyway). I told him that we could still shop for something a bit more exciting, so we headed to one of his favorite places... Fry's Electronics. The first thing we did was hit the snack shop; we love their food. Upon leaving the snack shop we headed to our favorite departments and looked around. We didn't end up with anything exciting to add to Michael's gifts, but I ended up with three new DVD's; it's nice how that worked out. Caitie ended up with a mini model car; she loves to put things together. We picked up a Glenn Beck book as well; if you haven't heard of him, give him a look-see on Google; he's funny and keen. After leaving Fry's Electronics we headed to the gas station near home; what would Father's Day be without a 64 ounce soda? Michael has to have one of these almost daily; it's his one addiction. I allow it, I can be nice at times. It was a nice, relaxing Father's Day. I must admit... I missed seeing the cows this year. If you keep up with my blog, you know what I'm talkin' about. Hey, guess what, you made it through this very lengthy paragraph, it's now time for pics...Here we are at Harkins, Theater #4; we saw the 9:15pm showing.
Sunday morning breakfast. Lovely, isn't it? It's a mixture of over-done, pale, smeared in butter(to help hide the imperfections; there were plenty of them) pancakes with moldy looking eggs. Yum! The 'mold' is actually from the blueberries; I made the eggs in the same skillet the pancakes were done in. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
A pic of Caitie with her Daddy in their matching t-shirts I have done every Father's Day; it's tradition.
Michael opening his Father's Day gifts. Caitie is trying to get Molly-Mae to move so I can get a pic; she's tired of me taking pics and just wants it over with. See the frustration on her face? Poor thing.
Here is a pic of the gifts and card. Most of the DVD's are manly ones, the top one, 'Guarding Tess', was more for me; I was hoping it having one of his favorite actors in it would make it acceptable; he said he liked that movie, so it was a win-win situation.
It's hard to see in this pic, but take notice of the card envelope... Caitie wrote "Daddy" on it. I only helped her with the "y". Good job, I say!
Here we are at Fry's Electronics... where else but the 'movie room' area. We would love to have some movie room chairs like the ones you see here; hopefully someday soon.
I forgot to get a pic of Michael's 64 ounce soda, that would have completed our Father's Day activities in pics. Dratz! (yes, i'm obsessed)
