Guest Blog: Movie Party with Beauty and The Beast by the Dog Walker

Ever since the family campout, I was showing the family a lot of movie options to pick from for our little movie in the park. The Beast chose Muppets From Space, but when we tried to play it, the DVD player wouldn't read it, so we watched Moana instead.

Since The Beast was a little sad that we didn't get to watch it at the campout, Mom and I were discussing about what can be done. We wanted to have a little movie party with Beauty and The Beast and their boys. We were going to do it here at the house, but then The Beast offered to invite us to their new house that they moved into a month ago. The Beast wanted to show off his new projector room.

So Mom agreed to bring some dinner over, which was sweet pork. She also made her newest homemade refried beans that The Beast surprisingly liked, just because he didn't like canned refried beans. I don't know if Mom ever told you about the Homemade Refried Beans, but maybe some time, she will explain how it's done.

Anyway, after dinner, we watched Muppets From Space, and Mom didn't quite remember watching it with us as kids. Some of the younger kids were really thought it was fun to watch, especially all those funny moments with movie references in them. Curly, in particular, wasn't quite familiar with other Muppet movies, except for the Christmas Carol version, because Mom always watches it every Christmas.

According to Muppets From Space, Mom was even surprised about the Independence Day reference in the movie. If Dad were still alive, and he watched it with us, he would've thought that reference was funny too.

It was a really fun movie party. The Beast thought of doing another Muppet movie soon, with the adaptation of Treasure Island. I think the kids might be looking forward to watching it later on, but I'm not sure about everyone. Then again, we'll just see how it turns out. We might be getting a lot of new Muppet fans in the family.

Watching the Boys - part 4

The boys slept well. We had plans to spend the next day with Bossy's family until Beauty and The Beast picked them up. I made a delicious lunch.

Then we started with a craft class at the library.

My job was to play with Bright Eyes.

I think I did a pretty good job...

After the library, we headed down the street to the rec center. It was time to go swimming. We had so much fun!

We had so much fun!!

Bossy's boys had a dance class, so we all got out around 3. We had a couple of hours until pickup, so we came up with a few more things to do.

The boys had never been to the cemetery to see my sweetie's bench, so that was our first stop.

Then one last stop for these cute boys.

Yumm!!

Until next time....

Watching the Boys - part 3

It is monsoon season in Utah, but sadly, I can only remember two big storms this summer. We were fortunate to have this one when the boys were with us.

Little Warrior and I were standing on the front porch watching the rain when the water started coming down in sheets. It pooled up in driveways and the gutters were filled.

I asked Little Warrior if he had ever danced in the rain. He looked at me like I was crazy until I told him that his dad had done it many times.

Then he turned and ran down the steps, across the grass and into the warm summer rain.

It only took a bit of urging to get Little Squire to join him. 

By then Scout had joined me on the porch. It took about 30 seconds before I started stripping off my shoes and socks. She followed me, dropping our phones and hurrying down the lawn to join the boys and enjoy the rain. 

We all got soaked and I won Pooh Sticks before minutes later the rain stopped as quickly as it came, the gutters emptied and life returned to normal. 

But that memory joins generations of others; just playing together in the summer rains.

Watching the Boys - part 2

Tuesday morning was our day to spend with Princess and her kids. We had decided on the Planetarium, movie and popcorn included. Curly and Baby Doll joined us.

We had so much fun!!

See ya!!