We've been Ghosted!

We were sitting around home tonight,
just minding our business.



When we heard some eerie noises outside our window.



And who burst in the door?

Tommy P!

And Mar-Mar!

They came "ghosting" and brought us these plates of yumminess:

Too bad they couldn't stick around for very long,
but apparently our house was stinky

and there were too many boxes in the way...

What great friends!
=)

Chomp!

Round 4

I'm so special they always give me a long weekend for my birthday. I didn't have work today, but Jill did. I dropped her off, tweeted about them filming Transformers 3, went grocery shopping (used lots of coupons and saved nearly 50% at Safeway), came home and watched Future Weapons on Netflix while doing several sinks full of dishes and two loads of laundry.

Went back to get Jill from work. She took some other pictures from her building of them filming. (Will update with videos later). Made dinner while she ran to UPS to pick up two packages that failed to get delivered to our place.

Had yummy salad with some grilled steak and chipotle salsa ranch. Watched Sherlock Holmes on Netflix and started downloading our photos and documenting our experiences of the last few days.

Got an awesome new present today - I'll blog about it later. Stayed up too late blogging, and am now headed to bed.

I know some other gifts/cards are on their way from other folks. We'll keep dragging this birthday out all week if we have to ;-)

Round 3

The birthday celebration continued through to Sunday.

I forgot to mention that before we left for NYC I had received cards from many of my family members.

Got up, got ready for church, played the organ, helped in nursery, did singing time in nursery, and finished up third hour in elders quorum.

Singing time was fun. Learned some things. We started off with a "wiggle" song. I had them all stand up on their carpet squares, then told them to turn to the left so we could march in a circle. They were all facing different directions. Although they can remember the lyrics to a bunch of songs, apparently the concepts of left and right haven't sunk in yet. Our marching in circle looked like a little kid's soccer game, where everyone clusters around the ball.

We learned how music can make us happy and sang "If you're happy and you know it" and "No one likes a frowning face."

Next we learned how music can teach us about the world around us. We sang about the wheels on the bus and popcorn popping.

Last, we learned how music can teach us about Heavenly Father, and sang "I Am a Child of God."

When home teaching with Jill, then took a nap until dinner time. We were both pretty wiped out from our long ride back to DC.

Spoke with family members and had a yummy day-after-birthday meal.

License Plates

Apparently, one of my "things" lately is to take pictures of interesting/funny/personalized license plates that I see. Here are a few recent ones.

The Marines are coming - Run for it!

Greeted by this van coming up out of Penn Station

How lame. "RAV & US" on a Toyata RAV4 SUV? Maybe it also has the double-meaning of ravenous...

Not a license plate, but a tag line that seems out of place. Allied: The Careful Movers. If your stuff doesn't fit, we'll just strap it to the back of the truck and wrap some super-sized Syran wrap around it...