"Up" movie night

"Up" is amazing!!!

For the semi-annual Calvary movie night we watched Up Saturday night.  First and foremost this movie is incredible.  I don't care how old you are, this animated film is brilliant!

The Calvary crowd of course had a blast, not only with the movie but with the chili dogs and fixin's before the movie and of course the rec and fellowship clean up crew which disolved into Robin, Donnie, Paul and Donna singing songs from Hee Haw and Oh Brother Where Art Thou. 

Here are a few photos of the fun and frivolity :)

The grillmaster dethroned!

Brenda told Robin to move over and she showed him how to clean a grill when you leave the brush at home.

Hysterical!

The food line!!

Me with my church "daughter" Brittany.

I love her!

Oh, Nikki....

I loves her too :)

That's about it for the pictures because Donna and Tammy threatened to take my camera away...

I didn't find myself annoying at all.

Nikki, Cynthia, Donna and Jessica in Wonderland (and Alice too!)

Well here it is the Alice and Wonderland redo.  Finally saw it last weekend with my girls on our mommy daughter date and had a great time.  Monterrey's first followed by the film!
Ok, well a little goofing off and then the film...
3D glasses are cool, just ask me and Nikki.  We had great fun with them...although I think it would be hilarious to be a theater employee to look up and see a gaggle of folk with their funky black glasses on.

And yes I am a super geek who is blind without her glasses so she must wear 3D glasses over the normal glasses and end up looking like some sort of bizzarre 6 eyed alien :)

While we had this incredible photo shoot the mommies were getting their Raisinette and Coca Cola what nots...then the film started!

And down the rabbit hole we fell!!

Seriously, after I saw it the first time I was like "huh? that was it?"

then I saw it the second time and was like "yep that was it."

But then I kept finding quotes and images floating up in my mind and it has quite grown on me.  I think in time this will become a favorite.  That being said this is the first movie of Tim Burton's with his company of Death Eaters that I have felt this way about.  Everytime they put out a flick I get really excited and then I am disapointed, ala the Sweeney Todd Christmas Day excustion of 2007.  This time, by golly I think they might have actually done it!  Ok, so Helena Bonham Carter still scares the poo out of me, but I think that is all apart of her charm.

All in all an amazingly wonderful experience but it seriously might have had a whole lot more to do with the company of the Mrs. Edge and Paxton and the Miss Paxton than the sound of Alan Rickman's incredible voice coming out of a drugged up caterpillar ;)

Junior Achievement BizBowl 2010

The bowling tournament was a BLAST!!!!!!!!!!
The first game I managed a 42...I started and ended with strikes and pretty much everything else was gutter balls.  Second game was a little better...3 strikes and a few extra pins here and there and still a whole bunch of gutter balls.  Seriously, I suck at bowling, but I had so much fun!!!!
I played with girls from the main office, but spent time running down to check on my Reidville peeps.
Here are pictures.....

I think I'm so artsy LOL

Harriett and Jeff...so cute!

Ted and Debra...my camera flashed a gazillion times in the dark bowling alley and Debra was not feeling the patience!

The newlyweds, Joe and Suzanne...after I got them to quit making out and smile for a picture.  DORKS!

Donna and Larry left before I took the camera out :(

And last but not least....

DRUMROLL...

POLLY WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me with the representative of Reidville Road, Miss Polly Palmetto

She won the bowling pin beauty pageant and on this auspicious occasion she would like to thank Cynthia Edge for helping to bring her into being and all those who donated to JA by voting for her!!

Here is some of her worthy competition!

The Village People on the left were quite cute!

My cohort Elizabeth's fish Lilly.  Definitely the most stylish fish I've ever met!

Ok, so obviously the pin pageant is my new favorite aspect of BizBowl.  Can't wait until next year!!!

Blackberries, Bowling Pins, and Palmetto Trees

As this week is completely bananas, here is the quick and dirty recap of the last few days.
First of all, we bid Chase farewell this past Saturday.  For those of you in my inner sanctum of friends you know that Chase has been my purple motorola W755 cell phone for the last 2 years.  She was a huge upgrade in my cell phone life and I absolutely loved her.  A great phone!!  However time flies and I used her almost to death.  The backlighting on her keypad went out, and she developed a strange need to shut herself off and sleep a while at random, so when my new every two came due I went shopping.

Enter Alice!  My new purple (all good cellphones are purple and have names)Blackberry Curve who does more things that I actually have comprehension of how to learn to do, but I love her!!!  Everyday I learn something new and amazing about her and she isjust soooooo pretty.  This is a Blackberry for girly boys and girls; macho women and men need not to apply.  NOt to mention that the lovely gentleman who sold me to her recommended a dark lavender protective case that looks like a dark frame around her face.  Beautiful!!
Currently mine has the blue catterpillar from Alice and Wonderland, Absolem as my wallpaper.  Yes, I did see the movie, but I saw it at the wrong time without the right people and when that happens then I will blog.  Sometimes a movie is about the people you experience it with as much as the characters you experience, and I need a redo on this one to capture to right experience to document.

Now onto bowling pins and palmetto trees....this is a convoluted little tale.
I work at a bank, and banks are required by law to do alot of community and public service (actually I think it is a shame that we have to have laws to make us be decent people, but I digress.)  This is the time of year that we in banking like to refer to as the fundraising season.  The precedeing month has been full of fundrasing for Junior Achievement of Spartanburg that will all culminate Friday night in a big old fashioned bowl-a-thon.  As apart of this event we were given a beaten and highly battered bowling pin to decorate for the event.  Now keep in mind, this is a season of fundraising.  This particular push will be followed by the March of Dimes and my personal favorite Relay for Life....so, I decided our bowling pin should be a mascot for the season, not just JA.  The Relay theme for this year is "Nothing Could Be Finer, Than a Cure in Carolina."  The t-shirts are navy with the Carolina palmetto moon and a pink ribbon inside the palmetto.  This a blue and pink and white color scheme...March of Dimes is for babies...a blue and pink color scheme...so.....(did I mention my heart was in Relay????)

Meet Polly!!

Cynthia spent her Monday evening helping me with this one!  She painted the pin for me and drilled the hole for the fronds and moon...not to mention cutting the fronds, making the moon and painting the face.  She is brilliant!!  I had a blast working on this with her and I seriously hope that our branch wins in the bowling pin beauty pageant that will go down on Friday night in conjuction with my horendous bowling.

For now, howeverCynthia and I are both pretty proud of our masterpiece!

Calvary Valentine's Banquet 2010

By noon on Saturday the snow had given up it's hold on the roads and the Calvary Valntine's planners got in gear!
The food was spectacular, the entertainment superb, and the fellowship as always, was the best to be had anywhere.
I can't put it all in words so thankfully I had my camera on my wrist for most of the evening and have some great pictures to share!

We went with chocolate and pink decor and after much debate on best shade of pink I think we definitely made the right choice!

Cupcakes, Cupcakes, and more Cupcakes!!!

This was the most beautiful dessert buffet ever!  Not to mention the yummiest!

In addition the chocoalte and red velvet cupcakes we had chocolate covered strawberries, dark chocolate mint petifores, heart shaped cookies, red velvet white chocolate balls and chocolate strawberry tarts! YUM!

Sir Robin Grillmaster putting the birds on.  The chicken breasts were huge and after he marinated them over night they were wonderful!!

Paul "buttering" the steaks.  A much better way than last years pouring butter on an open flame and trying to set his whiskers (and the church) on fire!

Robin teaching the master class on how to properly place the steaks on the grill.

Greg and Donnie look like such attentive students! Hahahahaha!

Anybody wanna play HOT POTATO?!?

Beth and Brenda on salad assembly duty...yummy salads, but this is my least favorite job...which is why I was behind the camera ;)

Donna filling up our tea pitchers...which went WAY better than Robin and I trying to put the tea up afterwards!  Can we say spillage?

The Edge, Waters, Mickey, Gilbert table....except I lost Donnie somewhere!

The coolest girls at the whole shindig!

Nikki, Abby and of course me!

Mrs. Sylvia with her friends, Linda, Darlene and Tammy

The "White Head Club"

:)

They came up with that themselves!

Weather's and Edge's

And of course "The Edge's" :)

Mimi with her babie's and me with her babies...they made me the SWEETEST valentine ever!

Scott and his baby :)

(This should totally make up for the Super Bowl picture, Scott)

The Robin, who loved his chocolate fish :)

This of course after his run home wardrobe change...dork.

Papa and Mrs. Higginbotham.  Two of my favorite Valentines!

Favorite conversation of the night:

Cynthia: Go get Robin, I can't make this work.

a few moments later

Cynthia: How'd you get it to work?

Robin: I plugged it in.

CLASSIC!!!!!!!!

Calvary's "Souper Bowl" 2010!

Last night was super fun!!!!
I love our church's Super Bowl party and it was Souper with lots of different kinds of vegetable soups, chili beans and some amazing chicken and rice soup that took fisrt place inthe cook off that my pastor's wife Barb made.
Cynthia made onion rings and I got to help (sort of like"Shake and Bake" LOL...although I got both hands going in the flour mixture and the butter milk and made everything soggy including my fingers...I know better now.
I have never seen so much junk food ever.  I didn't eat all day so I could pace myself through all 4 quarters and eat some of everything.  I think the total tally on the tables was 7 crock pots of soup/chili, 5 pizzas, 3 bags of wings, 2 cobblers and ton of brownies and cookies and ever ground hog meat served up with crackers (I skipped that!)
The game was fun too!  I pulled for the Saints.  Everyone else else in my circle of friends pulled for the Colts...yay me for having better picking abilities!!! :)
During the game I also worked on a certain birthday present and got the friends to pitch in and help.  Will post pictures of that later once madam birthday girl has recieved her gift.
For now here is my favorite picture of the night.  My pastor in his flip flops sitting back watching the game yelling "GO PACKERS!"  Bless him.

Oh and here are my fellas all engrossed.

I don't remember what was happening at this point but Paul sure is thinking it over awfully hard.

I didn't take the camera out until the 4th quarter so alas that's all I got.  Oops.

A Mint Chocolate Coffee House

When you get lemons you are supposed to make lemonade, right?  Well when you get a room painted in bright eye assaulting minty green you make a mint chocolate chip room.  At least that is what we are doing in our current church building.  Yes, we are trying to sell it, but a new building is still at least a year to 2 years out, so we are doing what we can to live well where we are while we are there. 
The church had an old library with the most current books being circa 1960, and everything had a few inches of dust.  The room is situated on the corner as you start to the Sunday School classes so Cynthia, Donna, Robin and I are turning into a coffee and donut greeting area for everyone.  Due to a miscommunication the room was painted a funky green color and from there we go.
Here are a couple of pics from last night.

Here is the bookcase Donna and I painted chocolatey.  The paint looked like chocolate cake batter when you stirred it us.  So yummy.  The green looks so much more muted and sagey in this picture, but in reality is it more like this:

Cynthia is doing a faux stone wall in part of the room.  It is going to be beautiful! 

She and Donna were none to pleased that I took pictures of them, and they said they wanted royalties...I'll give them 10% of what I make off this blog.  Boy they are going to get real rich!

Here is Donna.  I halfway helped with this window, but it was a beast.  You have to understand that our building is OLD, and nothing is exactly smooth or even and every surface has 18 layers of paint.  This window frame also has the most wonky chaulking ever, so painting it is disgusting and no matter how hard you try it looks buggery.  We had fun though :)

Cynthia is going to shoot me for putting this up because she will say it's a picture of her butt :P  It's not.  Those pipes she is holding onto are HOT!  and she hit her head on them and said special words :)  Bad pipes!  Very bad pipes!

Missing of course is Robin and the bar he hasn't built for us yet :P

He did replace a toilet seat and mess with door locks while we were painting, so I suppose he is off the hook for a second or two, but he better get us some boards cut for our faux window or we may have severe punishment in mind....