Harry Potter Party - just try saying that fast 3 times

AE and I went with our good friends and neighbors, the Roses, to the last Harry Potter book release hurrah. We had a great time, the kids got their faces painted, ran around answering trivia, learned how to make potions and all other kinds of fun things.We were #546 in line for a book and managed to get out of there in less than an hour after the official release at midnight.

Our friends the Roses, all decked out in Hogwarts attire, sorting hat and Mad Eye Moody garb.

AE learning how to make bat's breath potion, gotta remember those safety goggles.

AE and NR round about 11:48 p.m. this standing in line thing is old already...

Still can't believe they managed to line up 800+ people in an orderly fashion throughout all of the books at Barnes & Noble. Our "line leader" honest to Pete could do voice overs for Julia Child if that talent is ever needed, we couldn't help but giggle every time she walked by barking orders.
FINALLY, book in hand at 12:55 a.m....

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Pleased as punch

We got our new vacuum cleaner last night. The home office was kind enough to pick one up along with our PF Chang's takeout. Take out Chinese on Valentine's is a tradition. Anyhoo, as you can see from the photo we basically sucked up an entire Pomeranian in our upstairs family room. I don't know if I should be embarrassed or pleased. I mean we just vacuumed on Monday with the Hoover and I knew it wasn't picking up everything, but this is ridiculous. The home office was so impressed with the Animal he went downstairs and vacuumed up another canine in the family room down there. I am still trying to figure out all of the gadgets on the machine. I seriously cannot figure out how to attach the stair cleaner. It is really funky how the thing is put together, efficient, but funky. I also for the life of me cannot figure out the directions. I dislike how all European companies, Dyson (UK), IKEA (Sweden) just show you pictures. I always thought I was a visual person, but I am b...

JG's in love

Remember that song Chuck E.'s in Love? I think it was by Rickie Lee Jones. Well, I have been singing that little tune in my head this afternoon. Evidently JG is smitten in a big way. I guess today at pre-school he went up and declared his undying love to Paige, a very cute blond with a bob. My friend Jeremie was picking up the boys and told me JG went up to Paige and told her he was going to marry her. I don't know what Paige's response was to his proposal, but when the boys were riding home Jeremie asked JG why he liked Paige. JG responded, "Because she is so beautiful."

I am usually an open book...

however have made the decision to have The Schmidt House be invite only, you are the ones that I want to share our lives with - if there is someone that I have omitted by mistake, please let me know. Think that there are some family members that I do not have email addresses for, so will need to track those down. I have found that I have been a little blog "stuck" for the last few months knowing that there were a lot of people who read my site and I became a little self conscious about what I was writing as to not offend anyone - not like I go out of my way to offend, but after awhile you realize that there are some pretty sensitive folks out there. I know it takes all kinds for the world to go around, however I don't want to have to worry about it when I am here. So now I feel a little more free to speak my mind which you all know has never been a problem, but now I feel I am among friends. Thanks for sharing this little adventure with the Schmidts...

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