Guitar Hero!

Last night, Adam and I bought Guitar Hero 3! I have been wanting it for awhile now, but could always find a million other things to do with a spare 100 bucks, but Best Buy had them on sale this weekend so we couldn't pass it up! Few people know me well enough to know my true outgoing nature! I wish life was set to music because I would break out into song and dance or guitar riffs all the time! Growing up my dad used to sing rock and roll songs all the time in the car and would use the steering wheel as a guitar. I guess I inherited my love of music and fake guitars from him - and the seat belt works best as a guitar, except for when you are the driver!
Almost immediately after we got home, we broke into the new game and realized it was a LOT harder than we would have ever thought! Adam kept telling me to strum constantly and play the keys, but that was like rubbing your stomach and patting your head at the same time - not easy at first! We did a few practice sessions and then started our Band called ADAM (very original, I know!). We got through almost the entire Easy setting last night! We totally dominated!
I am a very competitive person and even though Adam and I were on the same team, I still couldn't stand for him to perform better than me. He started out doing a lot better than me but I came back strong in the end with a 136 note streak and hitting 98% of the notes! Ha Ha!
We have completed the easy setting and are now on the medium setting, which is harder, but we are playing through!

Adam Playing Guitar Hero III and singing Welcome to the Jungle!

Lets All Go to the Movies!

Adam and I went to see What Happens in Vegas, today. I guess everyone is out on the lake today because it was like a ghost town inside the theater lobby. As we started into our theater, I told Adam that I bet there was no one else in there because it was very quiet walking in. To our surprise, I was right! I immediately ran for the best seats in the house - half way up and right smack in the middle of the row! We thought for awhile that we were going to have the theater all to ourselves but eventually a few couples started trickling in. I am a huge people watcher - not for the purposes of being critical of people, but more for the psychology behind it all,(I guess my degree comes in handy sometimes!, and yes, sometimes comedic fodder. After watching about 4 different couples come into an nearly empty theater, I discovered something very ironic. People enter a nearly empty theater the same way they do a nearly full theater. They walk in with their popcorn and drinks and indecisively stare up at the seats for an incredibly long time trying to figure out where to sit. Maybe these people are so accustomed to being in nearly full theaters that they simply can't think for themselves. Maybe theater tickets should come with seat numbers like sporting events! I thought to myself that Jerry Seinfeld should have done a skit or show about this!
Anywho, the movie was great! I like that there was not a lot of cussing, if any, that I could recall, and that it wasn't dripping with sexuality. Adam and I have seen the movies like Super Bad and such that literally make me embarrassed to be sitting there watching them because of the comedic vulgarity. It's nice to know that there is still some good, fairly clean comedy out there!
Adam is taking all next week off. Originally we were going to go to the beach but have decided to wait until it is a little warmer!

Birthday Week Wrap Up and Mother's Day

Yesterday Adam and I had our families over to grill out to celebrate Adam's Birthday and Mother's Day since both our mother's and Adam's grandmother were there! We had a great time. Dad nearly burnt the burgers - we will just call them char-grilled! Along with our char-grilled burgers we had Mamaw's wonderful potato salad (since it is the only potato salad that Adam will eat), Mom's Power T Pasta salad and Mamaw's strawberry pretzel dessert.
River made his debut at the family gathering! He was very well behaved and showed everyone his ball-throwing skills. He really has quite an arm for such a little guy. I think anytime he sees Frank for the rest of his life, he will probably automatically throw a ball to/at him, since that seemed to be River's favorite activity other than pretending to squirt us with the garden hose or playing with Dad's Woo Worms (i.e. brightly colored fake fishing bait)!*
*On a side note, that was just about all that was left of Dad's fishing equipment. He found out yesterday morning that a couple thousand dollars worth of his fishing equipment was stolen from his best friends garage. I guess we know what to get him for Father's Day, his birthday and Christmas this year!
Adam made out like a bandit with gifts. He really got some wonderful stuff, which I am excited about because he didn't seem to like my gift all that much! Ha! Also the Moms opened gifts as well. Adam, David and I got Jo Ann the Loving Arms necklace, which has two pearls on it - one that represents Adam and one for David, and Mom got a pair of sunglasses since she was wearing broken ones!
We had a wonderful time yesterday! It was the first time Adam and I have had that many people over at one time (12 plus River, so 12 1/2), but it went off without a hitch! Here are some pictures of the Birthday Week!

29 Candles!




Make A Wish!


His Favorite Gift!


The Moms with Adam

It's Official...

Adam is 29 years old today! Just imagine...29 years ago, today, the most wonderful man in the world was born! Aww...that really pulls at my heartstrings!
When I asked Adam what he wanted for his birthday this year, he said that he would like to turn 28 again! Ha...poor guy. He doesn't realize that 30 is just right around the corner, which officially makes him old!
Anywho, to celebrate Adam's birthday, we played golf with his coworker and coworker's wife. I really didn't get to play. I was just the designated golf cart driver, since I don't know how to play, and haven't touched a golf club in 16 years. Adam did let me hit a ball into the trees, which I think was mostly for entertainment purposes since it took me 5 times to make contact with the ball - granted I hit it hard and straight when I finally hit the ball. It is not like playing baseball, like Adam said. I understand the concepts of keeping your eye on the ball and swinging, but baseball comes a little more naturally to me! It was a learning experience!
We also learned that the golf course is directly beside a small "detention center" and that occasionally, a detainee will try to bust a move for a last ditch effort for freedom. It really messes up your tee-off when the sirens start blaring and the golf club marshal comes by to tell you that it's just a prisoner escaping! Luckily we were armed with plenty of golf clubs for protection. Hopefully I would have had better outcome with hitting an escapee than the aforementioned golf ball!
We will have more birthday celebrations this weekend. Maybe Adam will get what he wished for!