Jeff's birthday was Friday, (YAY!). I can't tell you how old he is, he's a little sensitive, but I'll give you a hint, we were born in the same year.
In honor of Jeff's birthday I thought I would write an Acrostic Name Poem for him
J - Jokester, and even though sometimes his jokes aren't funny, I always still laugh ;)
E- Excellent breakfast maker! He rocks at pancakes, omelette's, bacon, anything breakfast related.
F - Fabulous Doggy Daddy to Lily Belle
F - Fantastic looking. Whoo hoo Hottie! I'm a lucky girl.
R - Really good beer maker! If you want one ask, he loves to share.
E - Everyday he kisses me goodbye, I really am a lucky wife.
Y- Yard guy, no he isn't, that would be Miguel (WHAT?? Y words are hard to come up with!!)
I love you baby, I couldn't ask for a better husband and I hope that you had a wonderful birthday! MUAH!
Jeff and I recently had a discussion about 80's movies. I told him, give me a choice between an 80's movie and anything else and I would pick the 80's movie hands down.
I'm sure you've seen on the news about The Goonies anniversary and reunion and it got me thinking about my favorite 80's movies. Granted, I was born in the 80's and by the end I was only 7, but thanks to cable T.V. I've seen all these movies over and over again. So here they are, my top 10 favorite 80's movies. I tried to put them in order from my favorite on down, but it just hurt my heart too much to try and decide! So, in no particular order:
#1 Dirty Dancing
Heather Hayes and I must have watched this movie at least once a week for 2 years. We loved it! It was only years later that I finally figured the whole movie out. Baby tries to help out a dance instructor, Penny, when she gets herself into a "situation". Amidst all the drama she finds herself falling in love with the much older Jonny (Patrick "Hottie" Swayze). Of course her Dad hates it, yadda, yadda, yadda they dance at the end in the most famous of all dance scenes. "Nobody puts Baby in a corner!"
The Final Dance
#2 The Goonies
"Hey you guyyyys!"
Of COURSE The Goonies will make this list. What kid doesn't want to go on a buried treasure hunt? I've actually watched it so much on DVD that my disc is worn out and skips. That's called true dedication people (or too many times of having no cable).
#3 The Little Mermaid
This one barely makes the cut, made in 1989. Oh the songs, I knew every word, the story, it's heart wrenching, the action, it keeps you on pins and needles. Ariel dreams of being a human and marrying the man of her dreams. Even after making a deal with the devil a.k.a Ursula and almost ruining herself and her family the story ends happily ever after. If I had to make a call, I would say this is the BEST Disney movie EVER. And if you disagree, I'll fight you.
"Under the Sea"
#4 E.T.
I just fulfilled a life long dream of actually being in the movie E.T. Yes, that's right I got to ride a bike on the E.T. ride at Universal Studios, it's pretty high tech let me tell you. The movie was actually made a year before I was born (oh yea, be jealous if you were in High School when it came out) It's about a poor little adorable alien that gets left behind by his people, and all he wants to do is phone home. Sweet faced Drew Barrymore (before she was smoking cigarettes two years later) and her on screen brother Elliott have to help E.T. go home.
#5 Sixteen Candles
No list of 80's movies would be complete without Sixteen Candles. It's every High School girls dream to have the head jock want to date you, the lowly sophomore. Hopefully not every girl gives her panties to the resident geek, but I blame her parents, they forgot her freaking birthday!
#6 The Breakfast Club
While we're talking about Molly Ringwald why not include The Breakfast club, the Jock, the Brain, The Criminal, the Princess and the Kook. 5 kids have to spend a Saturday at school for various offenses they committed during the week. Like all good 80's movies it starts out as a group of unlikely friends but by the end everyone has learned something, about someone else and themselves. LOVE IT!
#7 Hoosiers
What self respecting Indiana girl would not include Hoosiers on her best of (all time) movie list?? Growing up our school usually had a pretty decent basketball team and every tournament season our school would shut down one afternoon to watch the inspiration we know as "Hoosiers". If you can watch this movie without feeling some kind of emotion then your heart must be black. I do wish the movie was called "Boilermakers" though.
Jimmy Chitwood's final shot
#8 The Princess Bride
"As you wish" Dang, I wish I heard that once in a while. KIDDING! What can I say about the sets and the animitronics. The part where Wesley wrestles the Rodents of Unusual Size, amazing. And
Andre the Giant was in it! You can't beat that!
#9 Back to the Future
Marty McFly, to escape death, goes back in time, 30 years earlier. While he is there he almost ruins his own existence by interfering with his parents original meeting. After finally ensuring his parents meet and fall in love, he has to dramatically make it back to the future in the DeLorean (Coach Kerr anyone?).
If you missed this movie when it came out, just tune into TBS or TNT on a Sunday afternoon and you're sure to catch it then.
#10 Gremlins
Holy moly! This movie scared the crap out of me when I was little. Those little creatures are so cute and cuddly and then BAM! they want to kill you! It should be a lesson to all kids about what happens when you don't follow directions. No getting wet, no eating after midnight and no bright lights.
So those are my top movies from the 1980's. What were yours?
On Sunday I attended another baby shower for Miss Kayleigh, I must really love that girl!
We all had a great time, good food, beautiful decorations and an awesome cake! I wish I was half as talented as Kayleigh's Mom. She can do anything, and when I say anything I mean anything, faux finish walls, decorate beautifully, refinish/recover furniture, paint wonderful pieces of art, AND she bakes! She makes not only beautiful cakes, but delicious too!
It was a three layer cake, chocolate on the bottom, carrot in the middle and french vanilla on top. Before you ask, yes I tried all three.
Yes! That's a baby! Don't worry, we didn't eat it ;)
If you live in the Houston area, I highly recommend Cindy for any of your cake needs. You can check out some more of her stuff here
In case you've been living on an island inhabited by "Others", let me be the one to share some sad news with you. Rue McClanahan, from The Golden Girls, died yesterday, and now we're only left with one golden girl, Betty White.
Whenever I watch The Golden Girls, and believe me I'm on my second or third round of all episodes by now, I'm reminded of two of my best friends from high school, Tessa and Ashley. At the end of high school and beginning of college we spent a lot of time together and I remember one day while we were of course watching Blanche, Rose and Dorothy, comparing ourselves and our friendship to that of those three crazy girls.
Ashley was always one to tell you what was on her mind, and she was always the voice of reason when Tessa and I were being ridiculous. I remember one day, it was sophomore year of college and I had put on a few pounds (that I'm still trying to lose) and we were all jeans shopping. I DID NOT want to go up a pants size so we went from store to store trying to find pants that fit, in the size I thought I was. Finally Ashley yelled at me in the dressing room, "Just go up a size! You've gained weight, deal with it!" She was right, she usually was, just like Dorothy.
If anyone knows Tessa then you know it wasn't hard to compare her to Rose. We all love her, but she might be considered, sometimes, once in a while, or at least once or twice, a little bit silly. Like the time she decided to make Lucky Charm treats, and use colored marshmallows so they would be really colorful. FYI, they were brown, and horrible. Come to think of it, I MIGHT have been involved in that process as well, but I think it was her idea. Or mine. Who's really keeping track?
I, was of course, Blanche. I was always the one that came up with the big (usually bad) ideas and plans and drug them along. Actually it was usually me and Tessa dragging Ashley along. But wherever we went we always had fun!!
We were always together, always had each others back and they are definitely friends of mine for life. And even though we live in three different states, when we see each other we always pick up where we left off. Miss you girls!
Our downstairs AC went out last week, so we were without air conditioning all weekend downstairs. Yes, feel sorry for us, it was HOT! Because of this, we spent a lot of time upstairs where it was cooler, not cold, but cooler, where we had ourselves a little Lost marathon.
IMPORTANT NOTE: We are only half way through season 3, DO NOT tell me what happens!
While watching episode after episode of Lost, I couldn't help but think about how some of the characters in the show remind me of people in my very own life.
Jeff and Jack have more in common than just the first letter of their name. They both also married blondes! Hopefully Jeff can hold onto his better than Jack did though ;) Love you baby!
Let's face it. You want to like Sawyer, you really do, but he just makes it so hard! Just.Like.Audie. I mean, has he ever said anything nice to me?? Nope. And yet, I still like him!! There's still time to make it all up to me Audie, there's still time.
While we're on the topic of those Alaska relatives. I say Shandra and Hurley could have an awesome "Biggest Hair" contest any day! My money is on Shandra.
I don't know about anyone else in my family, but if I was going to be stuck on an island I'd want my step dad Phil (or Bear Grylls, he's amazing!) there. Like John, he can do just about anything.
Sun is nice to everyone and is always there to help out. Just like my lovely sister Angie. She's always been the nice one :) And they have the same color of hair!!
You got me. Jim is not on Lost, but holy crap, he reminds me so much of my brother Mark it's ridiculous! You might not believe me, but I've gotten the look that's on Jim's face from Mark many times in my life.
And of course, Lily reminds me of Vincent, the resident island dog of Lost. Although Lily is cuter, smarter and more cuddley.
Jeff and I just got back from Florida from a little vacation. It wasn't so much a real vacation as he met me after a conference I had in Orlando and we stayed the weekend, but hey, at least we got away!
I LOVE Pat O'Brien's
We did NOTHING! And it was absolutely fabulous! We stayed at the Loews Royal Pacific at Universal Studios. On Thursday we hung out at the hotel pool and then on Friday we decided to check out another hotel at Universal, The Hard Rock Hotel. It was pretty cool and their pool was waaaay cool because they had ledges where you could sit and still be in the water! It was all super cool until a kid pooped in the pool! Yuck, yuck, yuck! We took that as our sign that we should check out the other Loews hotel at Universal, the Portofino. The walk was so long (I'm talking 10ths of a mile here people) that when we got there I promptly fell asleep in their comfy lounge chair until Jeff woke me up. Meanie head.
Jeff wants to be a Nascar driver
All three hotels were very very nice and I would recommend staying there to anyone that is visiting Universal Studios or Islands of Adventure. We decided to check out both parks on Saturday and because we were staying at the Royal Pacific all we had to do was show our room key at each ride and we got in the Express line, which was AWESOME! We waited in line for no longer than 10 minutes at any ride. I'll tell you what. I have no clue how parents with little kids do these amusement parks (but I'm sure I'll find out!)
a) you're spending a week's salary to get in the park b) you're spending another week's salary to eat in the park c) you're spending ANOTHER week's salary keeping Mom and Dad boozed up. (haha...just joking.....maybe) d) it's hot, you walk a lot, kids are slow and I get cranky when I'm tired and hungry I can't imagine a kid being tired and hungry
Another word of advice. If you are leaving Orlando airport on a Sunday give yourself at least 1 1/2 hours to check in and get through security. Sheesh.
The only picture of Jeff and I together because I have nightmares about giving a stranger my camera and watching it fall from their hands and crash on the ground into a million (or really more likely 2) pieces.
"God could not be everywhere, therefore he made mothers"
I have the best Mom anyone could ask for, she's always there when you need her, she's given up so much to give my sister, brother and I whatever we wanted growing up, she's always chock full of advice (whether we want it or not!), she's been our biggest cheerleader in life, always encouraging us to do what we want, she loves to lend a helping hand with house projects and always has an opinion on them :)
Long story short, I hope I will be as good of a Mom as my Mom is. Love you Mom!!
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