MM ~ A "Pitch Perfect" Spring Break!

And now for the first Memory Monday post in a long while:  =)

This week was "Spring Break," but Judge decided to come in for Monday and Tuesday, so I worked on scoping jury voir dire those days - great times. :(  Wednesday, I went to Lexus for an oil change (and read more of Bittersweet and drank their hot chocolate), then that night we had a movie night at my place!

The six of us (Tall Kyle was skiing so he couldn't join us) met at Five Guys Burgers and got our food to go.  

{Side note: I'm so very thankful for this group!!  I feel like we have fun together and we encourage each other and we have similar values... I found myself thinking a lot this week about how great it would be to have a LifeGroup with the Vegas peeps and a few others.  Not sure that'll ever happen, but I know I'm thankful for the time we do get to spend together, no matter what we're doing!}

I like that JEM has decided to just embrace my love of cheesy pictures. lol  And it cracks me up when he imitates the baby voice I use for Bellsy and Sammis! :)  You just can't talk to puppies in a regular voice.  You just can't.

The "30's club" as Chet called us, celebrating these cute, vintage cereal boxes - Laura's not sure what Jeff is doing, but following along nicely. lol

Watching Pitch Perfect - I assumed the guys would love it, and I was right! :)  About halfway through, Chet said, "Why did I think this was a baseball movie!?" lol  Now we're all excited for the sequel!

Thursday, Mom came to Creek County and we had an "organizing party" for Laura's new office! :)  We went through things from the prior bailiffs and organized the cabinets and shelves and drawers and made a lot of good progress!  And we ate Hideaway Pizza and mini-M&Ms while we were at it.  Then Mom headed to OKC, and I went home to pick up two puppies and we all headed to OKC - they're so funny in the car!

Friday - the first day that really felt like a day off - I slept in, then went to Rach's house.  Mom, Rach, and I took Jaceman and Kyndal to the playground at CHA (they were on Spring Break, so we were the only ones there, which was awesome).  Things have changed so much since Rach and I went there, all for the better!  They played for a while, I took pictures then held Missy K, Rach and I randomly jogged a lap, then we went to Panera for lunch. :)

I loved spending the afternoon with Jaceman - swinging and throwing rocks and listening to him make the Yak sound and trying to decipher his version of English. lol  And I loved hanging out with Miss Kyndal - holding her while Rach and Jace took a nap - she's just so soft and cuddly and happy and precious!!

Bellsy posing for her Glamour Shots. lol  She loves to look out at me from the bushes in Mom and Dad's backyard. :)

That night (Friday), TLT and I had dinner at MiMi's Cafe (yum, always a favorite!) and then went to Penn's AMC to see Divergent!  Tara loved the reclining seats (picture below - cute but blurry)! :)  Good movie, but for the record, the book is 1,000 times better than the movie.  They mostly begin and end the same way, but the middle was changed to a ridiculous degree.

Tara and I had a really great conversation - about creativity and writing, about friendships, about the ups and downs of life, about how we both feel like we're in a long-awaited winter-to-spring transition, about how cocooning is necessary for a caterpillar to transform into a butterfly.  Yeah, we were all over the place, but it was good.  As it's always good to be understood and accepted and cheered on!  We talked in MiMi's parking lot past 1am, and ended with a high five for 2014! lol

Saturday, I slept in till noon (awesomeness!), texted back and forth with JEM and Chettles about their weekend at the Bear-athon, talked to Dad about the men's group he's been leading, went to see God's Not Dead with Dad at Harkins, caught up on Jimmy Fallon (and the epic Kevin Bacon Footloose entrance!), held and played with Mini-Miss (Kyndal) for a while, read a bit, had Scholtzskys for dinner, and added pics to Facebook. :)

Sunday was LifeChurch (which made me wanna buy Erwin McManus' new book, The Artisan Soul - I'm really a fan of him, and I appreciated him delving into the doubt and pain that often comes with Christianity!), then lunch at Longhorn Steakhouse with all the fam, where we celebrated birthdays -- ALL the birthdays (me, Rach, Blake, Jace - February; Emily - March; T-man and Carter - April) -- the Kelly Clarkson lookalike waitress brought out several ice cream sundaes for the birthdays, so that was awesome!  Before we left, we took some "Generation Pics" - of the four generations present, both men and women! :)  So that was cool!  The rest of the day was spent napping, playing with the puppies, dinner with Mom and Dad, and finally driving back to Tulsa (where I caught up on some TV shows and started this happy blog)!

Generation Pic of the men, Grandpa and a very coy looking Missy K, T-man with his Gummy Lifesavers, and Jaceman swinging with Mamaw, saying "CHEESE!" =)

Generation Pic of the women, JB and I eating ice cream sundaes, Missy K in her little carrier, and Emily holding her (Rach took a class and made that bow for her - super cute!).  She's also teaching a wreath making class tonight for the first time, so that's pretty fun! :)

I'm kind of obsessed with the cuddly cuteness that is Missy K! lol  I love this pic of Dad holding her.  Rach and Jace at CHA playground, Rach and Kyndal on what was probably her first slide, me holding Kyndal as she slept ever so peacefully.  I 'heart' being an aunt! lol

So all in all, it was a great "Spring Break" week!  And now I'm back to work, needing to work extra hard this week to complete everything I want to by the end of this month!  So wish me luck on that. lol

Random fun video of my puppies:

Song of the Week = Just the Way You Are / Just a Dream Mash-up from Pitch Perfect! :)