Grandad and Charlie Wilson's War

Okay, so Dan and I started this movie last night - and are only 30 minutes into it. Aside from the sketchiness in the beginning, the guy played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman looks exactly like my Dad. It had Dan and I cracking up last night and laughing so hard that we had to call my parents to see if they had seen it. Grandad had, Grammy hadn't. I told my Dad that the guy looked exactly like him. My Dad's reply? "No he didn't....he has darker glasses than me." Seriously? That's the only thing you can come up with that makes you guys different? So anyway, what do you think? And Mark, Brian, Heather or Sarah...have you seen it and did it crack you up, too?

P.S. 2 things: I don't think Phillip Seymour Hoffman looks like my Dad normally...just as this character. And, when we showed the movie cover to the kids and asked them who it was, they all shouted, "GRANDAD!!!" in unison!

Today's Friday

...and I've written nothing since Monday and still don't have anything too exciting to report. Dan got home last night from a trip, so we are all thrilled to have Daddy home again! He worked Sunday-Thursday work week this week, so didn't have to go in Friday (today)! We got Khun Som to watch Kylie for 2 hours this morning and had a Starbucks date (cheap date, expensive coffee) and then went grocery shopping without kids! So fun, got stuff done and had good time to talk!

Dan's off at school with Jack (he plays on the playground with them at recess, eats lunch, reads a couple of books to the class and then does centers with them) and Kylie and I went out searching for pineapple from a fruit stand and the shawarma stand happened to be right next to it, so I bought my first beef shawarma! So yummy.

Jack has a birthday pool party this afternoon, then we will have Matt and Tricia over tonight to celebrate Matt's 24th Birthday!!! And play settlers!

That's it for us...Kylie's off for naps :)

Moopert at School

Here's some cute pics of Moo off her teacher's website :)

I love this one of Moo running the 40 yard dash! It was from their "Elementary School Games" Day. We used to have one at the end of the school year in June. We can't have it in June here because it is the "hot season". So they had in December when it was a cooler 94 degrees. They had big water coolers for the kids to drink and plates of fresh pineapple, watermelon and dragon fruit for the kids to snack on in between! (I think she was looking at Bugga and I who were cheering her on from the side.)

Doing an obstacle course


Doing an outside obstacle course with her cool hat on that all kids are required to wear on the playground or outside :)

Her class showing off their muscles.
(thanks, A for the correction)


Moo balancing on 1 foot for 100 seconds on the 100th day of school, with her 100 hat on!

Playing 100 bingo!

Packages

We got a couple of great packages in the mail this last week (and today)! A package from Grammy and Grandad - which had valentine's for the the kids and boxes of valentine's for the kids to send their classmates, an outfit for miss thing (see above), sunglasses for the kids, a grinder of sea salt and scissors for me, a box of little debbie snack cakes and other fun stuff! Thanks for the great packages!

Dan was recently in another country and it is really cheap to shop the american stores there and send food here (like $1.32USD for a large box of cereal and $3USD to ship the whole package) :) We got things that are really expensive here, like Fruit Loops, Stove Top stuffing, dessert treats, m&m's and various Pringle flavors. Now if we could just figure out a way to have people ship us cheese (oh, we miss you so) and ham and various pork products (that do not taste like preservatives)! Seriously, when we come home this summer to visit, anyone we see had better be prepared to help us eat cheese in all it's forms and sandwich ham (although I won't pout at a nice hamsteak or oven baked ham, either). Oh, and hummus from Costco. And Anita's. And Taco Bell. And Boston Market. Alright, now I'm hungry.

Incidentally, here is bit of our room. Not finished, but at least my nice mirror/frames are up and our fun star over our bed. Our bed is one of 5 pieces of furniture we brought with us. 1)the bed and bedframe, 2)art/paper cabinet in living room, 3)kids table and chairs, 4)toy chest Dan's Grandpop made, 5)bookshelf in Moo's room.

Gingerbread House

Since Dan didn't get home until late last night, we needed something to do - and we made the gingerbread house that Greg, Melissa, Michael and Matthew sent us over a month ago! It was so fun and the kids enjoyed doing it...Jack kept asking when we could eat it (while it is edible, it tastes yucky) and Kylie kept trying to sneak candy pieces. Pretty predictable for us. :) It turned out so cute! Thanks for the kit, friends!!!

Updates

Megan's piggy toes - so cute!

My piggy toes!

Anniversary date night for Dan and I (I put make-up on in the car, so I don't have any on in the picture).

Picture frames we got for our wedding! They needed a spruce-up!

Ta-da! I wanted them black and white to go in our downstairs bathroom!

Our Kitchen (needs curtains)

Dining room off kitchen

Living room from above

Side of living room by stairs

Area between living room and family room

Desk in family room

First part of family room

Rest of family room

Front Entryway
Moo's room, which we love! She is using the comforter we bought for the guest bedroom in Blacksburg. It could not go any better with her room if we had planned it for years! All the fun colors she loves in the comforter, a yellow chair, her perfectly matching rug, her blue bookshelf and her purple corner stool! AND I put no thought into it. It just all happened to match! She loves it!

Kylie's Room - 2 Twin beds



Jack's "all-boy" closet


Jack's bedroom - trains and toys everywhere!


Jack's bookshelf!

It will be fun to actually get more stuff up on the walls and possibly paint! Yay for our new house!!!

Yay for that

Ahh, I feel like i've been off the grid forever! We just got internet about an hour ago. Yay for that. I'm not posting pictures because I don't have the energy...you'll have to wait for tomorrow. The move went great! Dan stayed at our old house with the movers, I dropped Kylie off at a friend's for a playdate (yay Sarah) and then I hung out at our new house waiting for the first load to arrive! We had a small army of Thai men move us - probably around 16 guys, with 1 large truck and a small truck. They had everything moved over and put in the right spot by 3pm that day. Then they just came back the next morning to collect their boxes (while Dan and I finished putting things away!) By far our fastest move EVER! No boxes left in our new house after 24 hours...a new world record, I think! It helped that they moved some of the items (dressers/end tables, 2 cabinets) with everything in them. :)

Kids are settled in - Moo is like a queen with her queen sized bed and awesome room! She loves it! Kylie's room has 2 twin beds in it and is so cute! And Jack's room is great and "all boy" - train tracks, a bookshelf for all his superhero and Star Wars books and he gets the "toothbrushes" in his bathroom - because he has the bathtub! (the girls have showers in their bathrooms). Jack has done well being in his own room - I think he likes having all his stuff and being able to do his own thing. We've set up our living room and tv room, but I'm having issues arranging furniture in the tv room...hopefully we'll figure something out soon for it :)

Other than that, Matt and Tricia came over and played Settlers Friday night with us to christen the new house, then came over Saturday night to watch our kids so Dan and I could go out for our anniversary! We went to a seafood restaurant and had a nice time with "grown-up" conversation and shopping in stores that have fragile items!

Then last night at 1:06am, Jack came in my room and said his tummy didn't feel well. A second later he puked in the sink (yay for that) and continued puking every 15-20 minutes until 6:45am this morning. So, I got around an hour of sleep, Jack stayed home from school and hasn't puked since, I had to miss our EW woman's bible study kick-off but still take the stuff I made for it over to church and our van got backed into by a golf cart. Dented the car, chipped the paint, but I didn't feel like dealing with it, so I told them it was fine. And then this afternoon, we got internet. So yay for that. I'll post pics tomorrow. Thanks for the happy anniversary love...