FRHS had another cheer banquet meeting last night.

no kidding... this is how it goes

get off work at 6, stop by the store, call kids on the way home and say get out here and help unload, get home, unload, put groceries away, wonder at what the heck the man I am married to is about to feed my children only to realize that I really don't care that much because I am not eating it..... get a text from Cara that says "I'M HERE!!!! :)"

run out to her car, jump in, stop by sonic, head to Kim's for our 'work meeting'.

everyone shows up and dumps a bunch of crap in Kim's living room and in her sweet super southern voice she assures everyone that life is good and wrecking her place is just fine. crazy nut :)

now i have to tell you that I am afraid to touch anything because Tonya is a bit... uhhh... detail oriented.

Tonya 'hoped it was okay' with the rest of us but she went ahead and picked the sides for the meal. The kids picked a champagne and herb crusted chicken breast. (alrighty....) and Tonya vetoed the regular mashed potatoes because she felt that there would be too much white/cream on the plate and went instead with baby new potatoes in a butter herb sauce because the red skin on the potatoes would compliment the chicken well. I sat there (dumbfounded) thinking boy its a good thing your in charge of this rodeo... I would have thrown some pizzas on the floor and said dig in! I simply agree with the rest of the people who were in shock over this type of attention to detail that indeed the new potatoes will work. Don't get me wrong... Tonya is great and I like her... but I am afraid of people like this.

we start off by replacing the 'fake family' in the photo frames that are gifts for the girls with a FRHS something or another. see. i told you. scary! at first Tonya thought we would have to unscrew the backs of the frames to get the fake family changed out. then someone informed her that the little tabs could be turned and then the back could be lifted off the frame. amazing how that worked. (I am starting to understand why Cara brought beer with her)

so we start on the programs. Again... good thing I am not in charge. I would have printed the entire thing on one sheet of vellum paper and attached that one sheet to a slightly larger sheet of heavier paper tri-folded it and stuck a sticker or stamp of the Eiffel tower on the front. DONE :)

no. this is a program that is layered. it has 5 sheets that are all different lengths, on top of card stock that is scalloped on one end and has the corners rounded on the other end.. the layered papers are then placed on the card stock and the top scalloped edge is folded over. then two holes are punched in the top and ribbon is wound through the holes and tied off. different tasks get doled out. somehow I'm in charge of scalloping the edges of 140 sheets of card stock. WOOHOOO!!!! all the while I keep hearing "don't worry... if I have to I'll take it home and redo it tonight" WTH!?!?! why are we here if you are just going to redo this crap!?!?!?

I hear all kinds of things about weird stuff... and to be honest... figure out why my daughter is taking a gay kid to banquet.

thank you Amy... seriously for not being boy crazy and full of that kind of drama. Thank you for being so in love with yourself that you simply can not allow another person in :) Your amazing!

Paige shows up about an hour into this hen fest. She tells Stephanie that she is 'doing it wrong' with the cutting of the layered pages and undoes what Stephie has done and gets everything out of order making a HUGE mess. Then she informs us that she is leaving at 10 which is in 10 minutes. yipppieeeee.... in her defense though... she does get it done...

all this to miss the SPURS vs mavs game? holy hell! spurs lost btw =(... (must be because Stephanie's husband is 'out of country'... sorry inside joke)

Kim and Tracy are in charge of folding / and corner rounding. They apparently do a great job without any drama :)

The ribbon cutting turns into a mess and it is a slow process when you cut only one ribbon at a time.... since the scalloping was done I pitched in to help them and cut 5 ribbons at a time... amazing how that sped things up :)

Finally we are done. Cara and I get the hell out of there. We laugh at silly ladies, and go home

Then today... ill be darned! there are pictures from this little shin dig on facebook. Imma kill Lisa! :) (who by the way was smart enough to bring her own beer too... kinda made me wish I drank there towards the end!.... the drama not the pictures... cuz pictures of me drinking beer would only add to the drama that is life!) Here I thought she was taking care of important cheer/baseball business at the meeting last night. no.... apparently not :)

btw... that Eiffel tower... ugh... what a pain in the butt....its going... kinda. thankfully the man I am married to (who by the way went to college for architecture) has decided to help us out. now I just have to figure out if the Eiffel tower is the one that leans a little or the big space needle/pyramid looking thing....

kidding...

i know its the one that leans ;)

haha... sorry.... just had to stress Tonya out a little :)