Pirates & Chalk Art Festival

Date night we saw the latest pirates movie. The hybrid vampired mermaids kinda freaked me out I foresee many girls dressing up as mermaid fanged for Halloween. The movie was great! I discovered at the theater has booster seats. Yes, for the short ones viewing pleasure. I was happy they thought of it. Not that Peanut would ever sit that long now.

Mr. Incredible was away on duty Saturday. So we went to the Chalk Art Festival with our friends H+P and Penelope. It was way fun and one day want to participate in it. Hilerious highlight of the day was Peanut spilled pinapple smoothie all over his lap and trunk. Even after being changed he smelled fruity all the rest of the day long. Thanks H for taking us to the festival it was awesome!

Chalupas

So keeping with our cooking and craft theme being mexican food we made chalupas. Love those little appetizers with pico de gallo sprinkled on top. I would have never guessed it was about frying corn flour shells that were pinched? I was under the impression that they were as large as taco bell made them, I was pleasantly surpised. It was amazingly yummy! Here is what we used for the batter for the shells 2 cups corn flour, 2 cups all-purpose flour, and 2 cups water. Mix together and create shells by pinching corners then fry. Add refried beans, lettuce, queso ranchero, pico de gallo, plus any other thing you want and eat. Thanks L for teaching me how to cook like a good mexican wife.

88 drive in

Peanut is a runner so will not sit still at the theater and watch it without him adventuring around. So, we found out there is a drive in theater at commerce city. I was excited to have more fond memories like I did when I was a child. Though not all places have the weather for drive in theaters. Well, I looked up the theater reviews they were not so good on the snack bar or restrooms and customer service. When we went this week the customer service was good. Peanut loved the alien glow in the dark pop we got for him. Mr Incredible told me the snack bar was stinky, the box which the candy came in stunk up the car. But it was amazing to watch Kung Fu Panda 2 and Thor for $8 per person. I did not want to try out the restrooms, but if you want to be stuck in your car for two movies it is great!

Art fest and Gin Blossoms

I watched all the movies in my house while I was sick. It was just gross doing nothing but hoping to get better! But we survived... Last friday, we went with our great friends L+P to the art festival. I was amazed by the many medias they used, it was an awesome to talk about what styles all of us liked. One of the unusual medias were butterflies they looked like the ones we saw in Costa Rica. It made me sad too!
Saturday we gardened as usual went to a grad party then off the Gin Blossoms concert at Day of Rock with D and C. It was amazing! I remembered all there big hits from the 90's. D and I were dancing and singing them all. Who wears a huge sombrero to a rock concert? The guy in front of us which blinded out view. Despite the sombrero, it was amazing!

U2

Two years of waiting for the concert, finally it was here! I loved every second of it. The Fray opened it for it, their lead singer looked like Lex Luthor to me. Though we hoped for warm weather it was windy and cold. Mr. Incredible had to buy an overpriced sweatshirt because he was cold. I thought taking the light rail was going to take too long, so we drove a huge mistake that cost me $30 for parking. That is probably why all the people in the parking were tailgating and there were alot of RV campers getting their money worth in parking all day. I realized during the concert Bono is as old as my mother and even after back surgery he jumping and running. I was amazed by him! I was amazed at the security at invesco field they worked tirelessly to find all the people smoking illegally and found them.

Millinery

So I've been MIA for a while, having no time to write. Millinery is hat making, yes I've tried it at first in celebration of the wedding and I had a ton of starch left over from other projects. I looked up on a you tube video and got inspired. I started off with thinking of the shape that I wanted, I used a glass candy jar cap for this one, put the fabric on it then starched it and left it to dry. Then attached it to the headband and stitched on by hand the nylon, which I learned quickly is why you need a thimble. So the other one is gray and red with white flowers. I got a fur shug to add to the look. Now, I just need to go to tea with my friends.

Surpise Mother's Day Party

So Mr. Incredible, called me on thursday night when Peanut and I had just gotten back from Seattle and informed us that he would have most of Mother's Day off. It was awesome to hear that. So friday I was cancelling our plans for the weekend in Denver to go to Colorado Springs to be with Mr. Incredible. Where he gave me a dozen red roses! We decided when we picked him up at a coffee shop to head to Manitou Springs we saw the shacks of hotels that lined the streets to downtown we were not impressed to stay at places that looked ghetto or looked like Woodstock was coming back. So we found the most pretty inn nestled near the main drag, it was called the Cliff House at Pikes Peak, it has gorgeous rooms and amazing views. We loved it

Then the next day, off the the Cheyenne zoo where Peanut looked like Indiana Jones and with the safari buggy he jumped on and off loving every minute of it.