Seizing My Day

A N Y T I M E

I will get to THAT in a minute!

One WEEK out of the year…

My week is ALL about The Birthday Kid.

she is NOT going to love me for posting this picture!

we will hash it out in therapy later in life.

=)

Anyways…

One week out of the year I bust my hiny planning, making crafts, buying supplies, sewing, baking, decorating, putting my heart and soul into SPOILING the birthday kid!

Don’t get me wrong… I LOVE it…

I love planning Fun Birthdays that my kids will ALWAYS remember!

I thrive on it!

I love these little cake pop cones we made for Abby’s class at school

even though they were A LOT of work

the kids in my little girls class were MORE than impressed!

and a few of the teachers were too!!

she gave one to all her past teachers  =)

I think I am currently the COOLEST mom in the 5th grade

(for a day)   ha ha ha

Abby’s birthday was partly themed around cake pops

so I busted my hiny practicing and practicing making Owl cake pops…

so we would be experts at making them during her party…

which was also themed for an OWL book series…

The Guardians of Ga’Hoole by Kathryn Lasky

SO ~ I  Also busted my hiny this week making cute little owl finger puppets at night…

in all my spare time  =)

Aren’t they adorable?

Sorry they are blurry…

I can’t live like this… with a broken camera… it is KILLING me!

I should have used my old slr film camera!  *ugh*

anyway…

So ALL week I  busted my hiny for Abby’s Fun Cake Pop/Owl Themed party…

buying all the supplies to decorate with owls,  finding owl birthday presents, spent hours and hours baking those darn cake pops (I love them really!) …. I spent sleepless nights cutting felt, hot gluing and sewing those cute little puppets… yada yada yada ( I am just saying… I busted my hiny all week ONE more time, K?!)

MOVING ON…

Lucky us ~

The wonderful Film Producing folks came out with A Guardians of Ga’Hoole movie!!

The day after Abby’s birthday… the day of her party!!   hoot hoot!

So we went to it OF COURSE!

Yesterday… There we were… in the Movie Theater… the day of Abby’s party…

I was happily snapping away blurry pictures of the birthday crew

with my broken camera

that has  no view screen at all…

hoping they were turning out…

Anyway…

I was happily taking pictures in front of this GIANT display

of the little ladies standing with the characters in the movie (and the books)

when the Manager of the Theater came over

He asked the Girls  if they had read the books

We told him the Birthday girl read 14 of the 15 books

**proud of my little book worm**

He said “OH who is the Birthday Girl” … and then wished her a Happy Birthday.

We told him She was OVER the MOON about being at the opening of the movie…

That  is when he asked us if we would like to go home with the above mentioned

GIANT display!

WOW… YES… YAY!!  Squeals of delight and laughter.

I told the girls he deserved a hug … and they all actually hugged him!!!  ha ha!

He immediately called a staff member  over to take down said GIANT display

to shrink it to “almost” fit in our Honda CRV!  =)

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

the manager disappears

and we carry on taking more blurry pictures in front of the Giant display

with my broken camera

before they “break it down” for us…

HERE IS THE GOOD Funny PART….

at which point I walk backwards while snapping pictures…

I would like to stop and mention I was wearing my flip flops

b/c I refuse to believe summer is over….

and then it happened…

In a quick second I backed into one of those poles with the ropes on them

and all of a sudden I was FLYING in the air…

backwards…

FLAILING arms and legs…

with a death grip on my broken camera…

I fell.  HARD.

Right there in the middle of the theater!

on my BUTT!  aka my hiny!

It wasn’t pretty folks!

HOW EMBARRASSING!

if only I could crawl under a rock and hide!  FOREVER.

At that moment you have 2 choices

Laugh or Cry.

Choose laughter… it helps ease the pain.

in your ego that is.

Not so much the Pain in your hiny!!

or your hips, your shoulder, your back and your wrist…

Can you all say OUCH…

I laid there on the floor of the theater with a million pairs of eyes on me…

laughing… wishing I could bury my head in a pillow and cry!!  ha ha!

Alright. Fine.  There weren’t a million people.

Really there were only 15-20 employees.

Fine. Maybe there were only 5-10.

One gal asked from across the huge room if I was ok…

Through my own embarrassed laughter I told her my pride was hurt

more than my hiny!   (I lied)

I HAD to laugh.

Along with every single employee in sight of the display!  ** sigh**

Not only am I the crazy lady who fell in the theater…

making myself the laughing stock of the whole town …

There in the theater I BUSTED MY HINY ….

all for the love of my little girls birthday!  ha ha ha

and then…

I drove away with the GIANT  display hanging half out the back of my SUV…

So that a Million people in the parking lot could stare, point and LAUGH at me

AGAIN!

**sigh**

I did ALL that for my Little Girl!!

Happy Birthday Abby!   I Love you!!

Memories made for a life time!!

A day she will never forget!

bawha ha ha ha

*ahem**

After reassembling the Giant display at home

we went inside for a little cake pop fun…

with our “Guardians” watching over us…

Seriously the party was a huge success…

Never Mind that My BUTT Hurts!!   =)

OH..

the Manager came out of the back shortly after my scene

with posters for all the girls too!!

He really rolled out the RED CARPET for my girl!!  =)

if you will excuse me now

I need to go ice my hiny!

=)