The Evil Dead: The Musical

Saturday night Pete and I drove up to Lynden, WA to attend The Evil Dead Musical. We had a blast! I made sure we had tickets for the 'splatter zone', where the actors throw blood into that section of the audience during the performance. We lucked out with getting seats smack-dab in the middle front row. The show itself was great. They had all the key phrases from the movie, and even make references throughout the show about the director and the main actor in the movie (the chic that sat next me had never seen the movie, so she was always confused by why we were laughing or cheering at certain parts). During one of the song and dance, Pete was pulled up on stage by two of the female deadites. They put him in a chair and danced around him. One of the male characters even gave him a quick lap dance before someone else dumped a bucket of blood on him! I was so excited for him and cheered him on! The guy who gave him the lap dance was even kind enough to toss him a wipe for his glasses after he came back to his seat. I even had one of the characters die on me. She just plopped from the stage onto my lap. Then in another scene, the same gal died again and grabbed my leg. She held on for the longest time. For the finale, the actors went around the splatter zone section during their last main song and dance and dumped buckets of blood on everyone. I was a little sad that I didn't get as bloody as I was hoping for, but nevertheless, it was FUNtastic! At the end of the show, Pete and I had a chance to pose with the cast. We had so much fun. If the musical ever makes it back closer to Seattle, I think we'll go again.

Peter and I all white and tidy before heading out on our date

Bloodied and posing on stage

Peter and I posing with the cast. They did a fantastic job!

If it hadn't been so late when we got home, Pete wanted us to go into Walmart and scare a few customers lol

Meeting Uncle John

A few weekends ago, we drove down to North Bend to meet my family for lunch. My grandma's brother, John, whom she had never meet (they found each other a few years prior and exchanged phone calls/emails), came from New Jersey to visit her. So we made plans to meet up for lunch so we could have a chance to visit with him. My Aunt Susie also flew up from California to visit. We had a delicious lunch at a mexican restaurant, and enjoyed visiting with Uncle John. He seems very nice and very relatable. He mentioned about maybe coming back to visit next Spring. That would be nice. Hopefully then we can make a weekend trip to Yakima to visit again.

Kristjan snuggling with Grandma

Uncle John (sorry for the bad lighting)

Boys with Aunt Susie

Me 'n Uncle John

Fun Run Fundraiser

Last Wednesday the boys participated in their school's Fun Run Fundraiser. The goal was for every child to raise at least $40 prior to the run. Then, on the scheduled date, the kids would run for 20 minutes after school while having their wristbands tallied to see how many laps they ran. To raise money, I had both boys call their grandparents as well as personally email a few of their aunts and close family friends asking just for $5 each. This worked out great! Not only did it make it easy on me (each day I had them personally type up the email and then I would type out what they were trying to ask for underneath), but family members were more than willing to give them $5 each (sometimes a little more), allowing them to each raise just slightly above the minimum requested. If the school does the Fun Run again next year, this is the way to go for my boys. Pete and I volunteered to help out on the day of the event. We ended up with the responsibility of 3 classes, Clifford's being one of them. Our job was to gather the students in the gym and bring out to the field. We prepped them on the run and then marked their wristbands as they made their laps. Sadly, with being busy with this, I was unable to take any pics of Clifford and Kristjan as they ran. I did manage to get one after the event, with their rosy cheeks. AND unfortunately, rumor has it that our school barely raised half of the total funds we were hoping for. I'll find out more info this Thursday when I go for the next PTA Board Meeting. If that's the case, more fundraising will need to take place if we want to be able to cover the expenses for this school year's numerous events. We shall see...

Getting our little group of kids pumped for the run!

Clifford and Kristjan after the run, ready to go home

Our Personal Jack-O-Lantern

Clifford lost his first top front tooth last week!

By the way.....he's crying because Pete tied some floss around the tooth and yanked it out. It kinda scared him...

Cub Scouts

Cub Scouts has started back up. Both boys are now both in it. We switched Packs. This new one is way better than the one we first had Clifford in. This new Pack has boys from Clifford and Kristjan's school, and the leaders actually plan activities! We meet every Wednesday night. So far this past month the boys participated in the rainboat regatta and had an ice cream social with the Boy Scouts. The boys enjoy this a lot!

Clifford and Kristjan receiving a patch or two

Boys racing their boats

Ice Cream Social

King Tut Exhibit

Last month the Seattle Science Center ran a special for 50% off tickets for members to the King Tut exhibit. I'd been wanting to go for a while, but couldn't justify spending so much money. When I saw the email with this special, I figured this was our chance to go. So one cloudy Sunday morning we packed up a lunch and headed to Seattle Center. First on our to-do was go watch a documentary on mummies at the IMAX theater. Boys looked a bit bored, but Pete and I found it very interesting. Afterwards, we ate our lunch before making our way into our timed entry for the King Tut exhibit. We declined the 'extras', such as the audio headset that accompanied the exhibit. I'm sure if we had been without the boys, that extra feature might have made the exhibit a bit more interesting. But the gist of it was you walked through 3 or 4 different rooms looking at all the statues and artifacts. It was cool and we would never have been able to see such history had it not came here to Seattle, but I'm glad I only had to pay half of the original cost for all of us to go. Enjoy the pics!