AMERICAN IDOL CONCERT

So thanks to my brother David and his wife Alyssa, me and Chelton were able to go to the American Idol concert last week. We had pretty good seats too. I have been a big Kris Allen fan from the beginning of the season and was pretty excited about it. I left my camera in the car and so at intermission I ran out to the car to get it. Then my memory card was full so I had to try to hurry and erase pics on my camera. Then my battery was not charged so I would only get a few seconds of video and my camera would die on me. That plus the fact that I am not very great with the camera and had a hard time focusing in make these videos not the greatest but I got a few that I will post here. I thought all the idols were really good but Kris Allen really took the show. I will definitely go see him again if he comes to town. If next season is as good as this year I might have to make Chelton go again with me.

AMERICAN IDOL PICS

7-year-old Mario Birthday Party

So it has been over a month but I thought I would post Garrett's 7th birthday party. He wanted to have a Mario Party. (He never picks anything easy). We started the party with an obstacle course where the kids had to crab soccer a big ball, go across a Bowser balance beam, make a shot in the Mario hoops and then do the Daisy hula hoop three times and cross the finish line. We timed each of the kids. After that we had a mario baseball throw. We had cut out pictures of different mario characters and taped them on blocks of wood and they were each worth different points. They had to stand behind the line and throw bean bags and add up the points. After that we played a balloon game. I blew up balloons and stuck pictures of four different mario characters. We played three rounds and each round they had to choose a balloon and pop it. They got certain points depending on what character was in their balloon. After each game the kids got a yoshi egg (green plastic easter eggs) filled with plastic coins (just like the coins you collect on the video games). If you won one of the mini-games you got an extra egg. All the eggs had different amount of coins in them. After all the mini-games were played the kids got to pick a prize. The one with the most coins got to pick and so on so all the kids got a prize. After that we did a Bom-omb pinata and then we had a Mario cake (made by my talented husband) and opened presents. It was real fun for the kids and Garrett loved his Mario Party.