80's Party

Our friends Ben and Sonja had an 80's Party the other night. Everyone went all out to dress up in their favorite fashions of the decade. Hollie was ecstatic that she found a pair of stone-washed jeans in her size at the Goodwill. Then remembering the good ole days of puffy paints, she created a New Kids on the Block t-shirt for her outfit, complete with bright makeup and huge hair.

Byron was a little more creative with his costume and decided to be a Rubik's cube. So, armed with a cardboard box, poster board, and construction paper, he made a hilarious costume. It took him a week to make it. He won a Chia Head at the party for the Most Unique costume.

Ben and Sonja threw a great party! It was a barbecue in their back yard and there was lots of tasty food. They also had an 80's trivia game and we played name that tune from the 80s. We had a lot of fun traveling back to the generation of our childhood/teen years. The evening ended with going inside to sing karaoke and channel George Micheal, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, Queen, Aerosmith, Richard Marx, Micheal Jackson and all our favorite 80's pop stars. We had a great time!

Consultant Job at Flixster

I've had a profile on Flixster.com for a few months now to rate and review movies I've seen. It's like myspace specifically for movie fans. I had sent in lots of requests to add classic award winning movies to Flixster's database, and started trying to contact the people running it about a job. It's run by a small group of people and up until a month ago I was told they were not looking to hire more people in the customer service department. I kept on letting them know I was interested and tried to explain how my librarian skills could help their site. Finally, they offered me a part-time consultant job. Now, I'm a movie profile management consultant. To begin with, I was given the project of replying to the massive amount of messages sent by one Flixster user. I can correct or add details to movie profiles, add new movie profiles, or merge duplicate movie profiles. I can make my own schedule and work from my home computer. Plus I know I'll have fun exploring and researching movies all the time!

Byron

Geauga Lake

After Kristina's wedding, we decided to go to Geauga Lake with them. Hollie's other sister, Leanna and her fiance John were home for the week from Louisiana. Kristina's friends from Nebraska also came with us. We had a great time riding rides and chilling out in the sunshine. In the afternoon, we went to the water park to enjoy the Lazy River... where you just lounge on an inner tube and float along. Henry had a great time riding all the roller coasters and he loved the bumper cars. Little Henry really enjoyed the day there between the Kiddie Park rides and the water playground. He was exhausted by the end of the day. Leanna and John got a video from one of the roller coasters showing their reactions as they rode. It was pretty funny. Henry joked around that he was going to vomit on Hollie right as they got on the coaster... good thing he was just joking. That evening, we realized we had bright red sunburns. What a great souvenir from such a fun day! It was worth it.

What we did in June

Hollie's friend Kristin with husband Jeremiah and kids Gavin and Elia moved back to Ohio from Kansas. After they moved in, Byron had his first experience babysitting all by himself. Elia slept the whole time, so all he had to do was play Wii with Gavin. Byron totally forgot about the laundry because the Wii was so fun.

Hollie attended her friend Anne's baby shower. They don't want to know if it's a boy or a girl (they call it baby burrito), all the baby stuff has a frog theme. Hollie can't wait to have another baby to spoil, hopefully it's a little girl.

Weddings- Our friends Paige and Eric got married. Hollie was a Bridesmaid. They had a fun outdoor reception with great food and lots of music.






Hollie's sister Kristina also got married at the end of the month. Hollie was the Matron of Honor and Byron was the Best Man. She married Henry, a guy she met in Honduras. He has a son, Little Henry, who is six years old and full of energy. This is a picture of Hollie with Henrito at ChuckECheese.

We've tried to learn a little Spanish and Henry and Henrito are still learning English. They make a great addition to our family.

Kristina and Henry got married in a court back in February to get the paperwork moving. They had a wedding and reception in Honduras for Henry's family and friends in April. And so the wedding and reception here in Ohio in June was their third.

When they came up to Ohio before the wedding and stayed at our apartment for a couple days we went fishing. Byron had only been fishing one other time in his life, but he got the hang of casting out the line and relaxing in the breeze with the new fishing pole Hollie bought him. Henry caught a small fish that he wanted to cook for dinner, but we had to explain that our lake has a catch and release policy.

The month of June was so crazy busy, but all-in-all, we had a blast with family and friends. Celebrating these big moments in each other's lives bring us all closer. We are so grateful for all the people in our lives!