Family Party, WOW - WOTLK, and Painting at Lulu's

Well, I am back from my anti-social hiatus.  Thanks to all who expressed concern, but we are all getting along fine.  While I was away not answering calls/e-mails I did quite a few things.  

First of all, last weekend we had a family get-together.  It was very impromptu.  Leisa called at 4 pm asking if we were doing anything that night, and by 6 pm Leisa and Wally, Chelsea, Crystal and my parents were all over for dinner.  I made Cafe Rio pork, lime dressing, rice, and beans.  It was delicious!  (I e-mailed the recipe out to my family, but if anyone else wants it just e-mail me).  Here are some pictures.

Xander taught Cole how to play Lego Batman:

Then Cole taught Xander who to roll on the floor:

Here we are eating our yummy dinner:

Poor Wally had been up since 3:30 am, so he was a little tired:

We all played Mario Kart.  It was fun.

The next thing that happened was World of Warcraft released the expansion to their game, called Wrath of the Lich King.  The game was released Wednesday at midnight, and Jared took off work Thursday and Friday to just play.  It was a MAJOR dorkfest at the release party, which Jared went to.  It was a midnight release, but they had to be at the store by 10 pm, then wait in the cold until midnight to get the copy.  Jared was number 70 out of over 200 people show up at this ONE store, other stores were supposedly worse.  

I made him take the camera and take pictures.   If you ever wondered what a bunch of dorks do for two hours while waiting for a computer game here it is:

Then the real reason I haven't been on my computer this weekend, was because Jared had commandeered it, so I was left without my computer.

Since Jared was going to be dorking it up for a few days, and I didn't want to sit around waiting for him, I went to my Mom's on Friday.  We just relaxed and hung out.  We also made cookies.  I forgot to take my camera though.

Saturday I went to my sister Leisa's house.  We had a lot of fun.  She took me to lunch (a delicious Chinese place in Smithfield).  We also decided to paint large canvases to match the little wall art I did last time I was there.

Here are the pictures of what we did last time:
Sorry, these are blurry, but you get the idea:

Here are the canvases we painted (note they are still wet here, so the outlining isn't done)


Here we are, the victorious artists
I can't wait to see them all finished and hung up in the room.  They will match the cute little nursery sooo well.

Well, that sums up my last week.  Hope everyone else had a good week too.