Lions and tigers and vampires... oh my...

Hi there! First post! First family blog! Hopefully this can become a good spot to update yourself, or anyone interested for that matter, on the goings on within the Lopez household. I know most people do these things when they have "the kids". Don't bust out the bubbly just yet. There are no "the kids" on the horizon. Just us still... Tonster and Renny Bopez. OH, and the dog: AKA Burty Butt, cat 1: AKA Butter Butt and cat 2: AKA Weezy F. Baby Lopez.

But. Hopefully there will be kids in the future, when that time has it's place. Personally, I'd love my little mini-me to have a nice, organized record of how goofy his/her parents really were/are.

Plus, unbeknownst to me (Jlo), a lot of ridiculous stuff happens to us. It's funny, it deserves to be recorded!

First order of business... I devoted a full evening to the new Twilight movie premiere: New Moon. Courtney, Amy, Shellie and I set out on our 3 hour tour at approximately 7pm on November 20, 2009 with a goal in mind to see New Moon (a 10:10pm showing) and partake in the best food Bowling Green has to offer (The Monte Christo/ Cheddars. I capitalize because it's THAT good people).

Cheddars is still new to Vette City. That means that every Ezekial and Jo-Beth from the surrounding tri-county area flocked eagerly with their 17 family members to the blessed resteraunt's doorstep. Thankfully Courtney and I arrived late (as per the usual) so Amy and Shellie bore the brunt of the 60 minute wait! :) We ate, we laughed and we caught up. A good time was had by all.

We assumed arriving at the theater an hour early was more than a sufficient lead time on the hoardes of tweens guaranteed to be seeing this very important piece of artwork along with us. Well, we totally assumed wrong!! W-R-O-N-G, as evidenced by this post's illustration up above. We took turns warming ourselves up in Vivianne the Volkswagen, Shellie and I had a particularly high school memory inducing experience... and eventually we got in the theater. Best part of the night was hearing Amy screech,

"RUN, COURTNEY, RUN!!! GET IN FRONT OF THEM! RUN!!!!!" Then seeing Courtney skinny pants take off across the theater. The other laugh inducing moment of the night came when R. Patzz shed his shirt in what was undoubtedly supposed to be the most drool worthy moment of the entire movie. One of these things is not like the other, indeed.

Tonster took some pictures of one of my lovely coworkers and his fiance to act as engagement shots last weekend. I've given him up to the office and Harpo control room for the vast majority of this week. I have gotten a few peeks at the completed, edited photos and they're breathtaking. I can truly say my husband is one of the most gifted men I know.

All in all-- New Moon was fab compared to Twilight. Courtney skinny pants and I found our inappropriate laughter to be infrequent during this installment. Granted, I didn't go in expecting Oscar worthy performances, writing or directing. But I definitely got what I wanted... Taylor Lautner's hot abs and R. Patzz's incredible jaw (wonky nipple). ;)

Love-- us.