Walking With Dinosaurs

Most of you know John's infatuation with dinos. It is almost as bad as Ross from Friends. Everything was dinosaur this and dinosaur that when he was growing up, almost similar to the Strawberry Shortcake and Cabbage Patch craze that I went through as a child!!

So I thought it would be cool to surprise John with tickets to see the "Walking With Dinosaurs" show that was going on at the Spectrum this past weekend.
Since the tickets were about $50 a pop for the crappy seats I thought that it would be a pretty good show (and more "adult" oriented). Boy was I wrong! The show was only about an hour and a half long and I think we were the only adults there without children in tow.

I have to say that it was neat how they brought out these dinos that were scaled to actual size and you could actually see their muscle tone. The best was the T-Rex - of course he was the "grand finale" and they messed with everyone bringing out a baby one first. It was actually cute.
Two other dinos started messign with it, then the "MOM" T-Rex came out to protect her young. Boy was she pissed!! This video shows how they brought everything to life.
Not worth the $100 though, I would have paid about $25 each ticket but no more! And it was kind of scary, I wouldn't recommend taking a child under 12 to see it.

Almost There!!

So, many of you have been asking for a kitchen update, and I have finally had the time to snap a few pics (which I am glad I waited until today because John just put up our "island lights"). The following things still need to be done: floor needs to be finished by the back door, window/door/floor trim needs to be put up, back door needs to be stained/painted and the back wall needs to be painted. Pretty good for where we were a month ago!! It felt great today when we received a compliment from a total stranger about our kitchen today. A couple came by to purchase some dressers we were selling on Craig's List and when they came in the back door they were like "wow" this is nice! It's funny because the only people who have been here in thelast few months has been just family, so now that it is 95% complete it is liek a real brand new kitchen! Very exciting!









Much thanks goes out to the following people for helping to make this kitchen so awesome!

Jack, Joe , Jim , Mike, Sean, Pappy, and Davey

Family "Reunion"

Every year in August my mom's side (the Cannon's) gets together in Lewes, DE at my mom's cousins Mary & Robby's house. We have been doing this for 3 years now and every year it gets better! The usual things we do is drink, eat, go out on the boat to do either skiing, tubing, or this year "hot dogging". This year the following were in attendance: Me, John, my mom, Aunt Brenda, Uncle Davey, Cousin Davey, Jen, Aunt Natalie, Uncle Robin, Tanya, Aunt Debbie, Uncle Irv, Ashley and her friend?, Aunt Dolly, Mary, Robby and Cousin Billy. Missing were (Have to point them out! There are NO excuses!) Mike & Colleen and Cousin Matt. Matt has never came down all three years (shame on him!) and Mike & Colleen have missed the past 2. Their Loss!!! Well here are some pics to highlight the weekend!










One thing we all realized and discussed is how fortunate we are to live in such a versatile area of the country. We can drive to the beach and do any type of water sports we like or drive to the "mountains" and do any winter sports all in a days time if you really think about it. Some people are never fortunate enought to see the ocean or snow and if they really want to make plans to do so, they generally have to fly or drive a long distance to get there.

The Zoo

Okay, I just realized that I never posted this, it has been sitting in my drafts for a few months now...



This past weekend I had some interesting bonding time with my two nephews. On Sunday the three of us went to the Philadelphia Zoo. We got up at 6 am, ate breakfast, watched cartoons, saw Uncle John off to softball and then hit the road.
It was so cute, we went to Wawa to order sandwiches, packed up our lunch in our backpacks and headed off by 9 am. The kids had a great time, although the complaint from Riley wss "can we go soon, my legs hurt". He is infamous for complaining about his little legs!! Thanks for the great weekend boys!

All Work, No Blog

So, it's really only been a week. I'm not as bad as some bloggers I know (hehem!) This past week has been pretty nuts for John and I. My Pappy came down last weekene and installed our countertops and helped John install the sink. Hopefully, he wil only have to come down one more time to do all of the trim! I will take some pics and post them on Monday. We are also going to our "family reunion" in Lewes DE rhis weekend so I will deifnitely have some pics from that!! Just thought I would post a random pics of Lewes DE in 2005 here!

John

John just informed me that I did not post a picture of him OCMD. Boo hoo to him, but here is his picture:





Not too much different from when we are at home!!