Twilight Weekend

I feel like such a teenager!  I was totally one of "those" girls this week.  My Twilight weekend was a bit out of character for me, which is probably why I'm going on and on about it.  First, I rarely go to movies these days.  Just not in the schedule or the budget.  Second, I'm not much of a trend follower.  But I have to admit, this was dang fun.  I read Twilight after some coercing and was surprised at how captivating it was.  It was an

 easy, fun read that I could not put down. So when some friends of mine asked if I wanted to go to the movie opening weekend with them, I told the

m I was in.  They decided to get tickets Saturda

y night, which was perfect.  A girls night out - dinner and a movie.  A few days after agreeing to that, my sister-in-law called me about going opening night with her and some of her friends and relatives.  I told her I was going with some frien

ds Saturday.  Stupid peer pressure.  I called her back the next day and told her I had changed my mind and would go with them.  What the heck!  Spontaneous Maria came out of nowhere and paid for the same movie twice in one week.  Oh, and everyone was apparently buying shirts so of course I had to go buy a shirt too - a nice, teen-sized shirt that was way too tight.  On my way out the door, my shocked husband manages to

 mutter, "Wow, you look hot!"  Not exactly the look I was going for...stupid skinny teenagers.  But wait, it gets worse. We didn't get tickets to the 12:00 showing. Nope, we got tickets to the 2:30 a.m. showing. That's right, the nine of us went to bed for an hour or two (minus Jen who is pregnant and somehow managed to fall asleep at 5:00 p.m. the day before) just to get up and get ready for the movie. Let me just say getting u

p and ready for a movie two hours after you've gone to bed sucks really bad.  But once we were in the car chatting away and laughing at ourselves, it was really fun.  I had WAY too much Diet Mountain Dew fearing I would fall asleep in the middle of the movie though.  It was crazy! We had some mixed reviews from our critical group, but overall most of us liked it. Edward's character bugged me a bit with his super serious acting, but other than that, I was actually surprised by how much I did enjoy the movie.  I LOVED Bella and most of the vampire characters.  Not exactly like the book, but close e

nough for me.  My advice: don't reread the book the week you go see the movie.  You'll be far too critical of all the missing details.  I got home at 5:45 a.m. to find Dylan asleep in my bed.  Nice!  I threw on some pajamas and went down to the couch for an hour until I felt kids climbing on me.  Luckily Marcos stayed home that d

ay (not for my sake, he was taking it off anyway) so at nap time, he took Dylan to the Dinosaur Museum and I was able to rest a little bit more while the other kids slept.  Here's a picture of our crazy group.  

This better picture with all of us in it came from Laura's camera

Here's the picture from my camera that cuts Annie in half

Saturday I met at my friend's house so we could carpool.  Six of us drove together and we met up with two other friends who brought family members with them.  I think there were 11 total. We met for dinner first and then had to run over to the movie.  We were running late, but we made it just in time.  One of my friends had a gift card so we all got drinks and popcorn free. Fun stuff!  It was so much fun just hanging out with friends at dinner and a movie.  I really need to be better about planning stuff like that.  Anyway, I was having too much fun to remember to take a picture during dinner or after the movie, but I got one at the bakery we stopped at for dessert.  We were missing one of my friends who came with her sister-in-law and left after the movie and my other friend's sister and husband so the picture is not complete, but it's all I have.  Thanks everyone for keeping me young and spontaneous.  It felt good to kick back and be slightly irresponsible with the girls.  I won't give any more of a movie review.  All I can say is ... good times!