Shopping, food, and a movie theater all to ourselves

Another fun and busy day. We started off the day with a family walk (although Alayna and Tyler were still asleep when we left). We walked around the farms out here for almost an hour. Once again, it was perfect weather!

(Notice Kayla protesting having to take another picture??)

We came home and raced to meet Diana at the mall for a shopping day. Bob stayed here with Alayna and Tyler and then they went to Sonic and out to play at the arcade for a while. Anyway, we spent about 6 hours out shopping! We went to one of our favorite stores “Head over heels” and spent quite a bit of time there. We found so many cute things and I finally branched out a bit and got some adorable skirts. We also went to DownEast Outfitters and I think we might be done school shopping for Marisa and Kayla. We went to Jamba Juice for lunch (one of our favorite places) and a new place called Einstein Bagels which had these amazing sandwiches on thin bagels. Then we went back to the mall to finish shopping. Diana found that Dillards still had some prom dresses out, so we went to look for fun. We found them on clearance!!! So, Marisa and Kayla both tried on dresses for a while and we found a prom dress for Marisa. It was an almost $200 dress for only around $50! So, we were very excited about that find! Then we made one last stop at Shopko where Marisa scored 2 new pairs of jeans and we FINALLY got Tyler some Sunday shoes, a size 10 (he has been wearing a size 6!)

(The prom dress we got)

(What we did while the girls tried on clothes)

We went to the Red Fox pizza (or called something like that?) to get stuff for dinner. Since the boys are looking for people to cater events at the theater, the owner gave us free drinks and samples of bread sticks and some cinnamon rolls to die for! I also tried some chicken artichoke pizza which was surprisingly good! I might point out that we “had” to sample homemade goods from another group of ladies yesterday who will be baking for some of the theaters main events. They had homemade cinnamon rolls (regular, apple-cinnamon, and white chocolate raspberry which quickly became my favorite food ever!) They also had these amazing brownies, cookies, and carrot cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. It may be hard for Bob to get me to leave!

(Waiting for the pizza)

We spent the evening all together at the new theater where we had a family talent show. Marisa and my dad played the violin,

Alayna did some cartwheels,

and Brielle was going to dance, but I think it was a little too intimidating. But she sure looked pretty in her blue dress!

Then we watched the premiere of Wipeout on the huge movie screen. It just doesn’t get better than that! I told Bob he needs to work on getting us a flat screen that size to put in our house. Then we got to stay after to see “Alice in Wonderland”. It’s so cool to watch a movie when you have the whole theater to yourselves. We enjoyed the movie a lot. I liked it because it was so different and you really can’t lose with Johnny Depp.

(You can sort of make out the wipeout hosts on the screen)

Misc PIcs from tonight:

(Alayna and Elijah watching Totally Spies on the big screen)

(Marisa in movie theater lobby)

(Like Jonathans shirt?)

(Joe and Hailey- she kept trying to pop his bubble)

(James and Brooklyn)

(Brynnlee wanted to dance with Jonathan too)

(My mom and dad!)