Incredible Pizza - just can't beat Chuck E Cheese

Riley is a HUGE fan of Chuck E Cheese, she loves the mouse (he sometimes gives her tickets) she loves the games and she loves, loves, loves that she gets to pick out prizes before we go home. Now the food is not fantastic by any means, but you know it's dinner and entertainment all in one so what can you really expect right..............well Incredible Pizza is yummy we have decided. Any kind of food you want plus some super yummy desserts too (the cinnamon rolls - ooohhhh very good).

We had never been until a couple of weeks ago and while Riley was perfectly fine in the bounce house for awhile (yeah totally free) she did get into some of the games the longer we were there. I think she didn't like that it was kinda dark and more like the atmosphere of an arcade. She did have a good time though and won some "great" prizes just like at Chuck E Cheese before the day was over.

Minature bowline was pretty fun - but since you really do 10 frames she lost interest after about 4 and Mommy and Daddy had to finish up for her.

The weird thing was not all the games were the same price, odd, and some of them took token instead of the card thing we got at the front, a pain, but the did have things like go karts, and bumper cars - how cool is that?

Riley was fairly uncertain about the whole Go Kart thing - in fact I wasn't sure if she might cry before they started..........

but she had a good time - and they didn't come in last place, woohoo.

FFF - Bloopers

The theme this week is bloopers for FFF - and I like the creator Sarah kinda had trouble with this one because I'm notorious for deleting the blooper-ish pictures (but I save the other 10 of the very same pose- hahaha). So here goes with what I can dig up ;)

One of my favorites "bloopers" of myself - I had just won 50 tickets with one token at Chuck E Cheese - woohoo

Joey will love me for this one, but I think he was talking at the time

And this one is super fuzzy, but Riley was being Super R (have you seen the show on PBS called Super Y, well we adapted for her since it's one of her favorites) and it's kinda hard to catch a moving target when she's zooming thru the halls at my office

FFF - Mommy and Me

Wow, this has been a crazy week - so crazy I haven't had time, nor thought about posting anything. I didn't want to miss this one though - I love FFF (favorite foto friday's) so here are some pics - some new, some old, of my sweetie Riley and me.

Wow - I don't think I realized how much I had changed too - Riley was about 1 month old here - her first Christmas :)

Riley's first Easter (06) we were learning how to hop like a bunny but took a minute to take a pic ourselves........not too shabby (well except for the wrinkle she's making on my face which really isn't there I promise)

Playing at the Bolivar park

San Antonio, TX - The Alamo
Riley was excited because she got animal crackers - Joey and I thought it was hillarious that they were shaped like TX, boots, etc

At the top of some tower in San Antonio - it was WINDY!


Multnomah Falls, OR - so pretty!

These two (above and below) are playing at a park in Cascade Locks, OR

Giving Mama the love in Oregon

Merry Christmas ('07) everyone

Chuck E Cheese - only the coolest place ever! (PS I won 50 tickets with one token see here for the lovely pic of that occasion)

The Coolest Place on Earth (if you are 2 yrs old)

Betcha can't guess who this is - it's a secret spy. Oh wait, it isn't a secret spy, it's my Riley after visiting possibly the coolest place on earth, if you are two years old that is.
Wow - does Riley love Chuck E Cheese! Until Saturday, she had only been one time, yep one time in her whole life, but she was hooked immediately. 'She loves the pizza, she loves the games, she LOVES pulling the tickets off, she loves the kids, and she loves the Big Gray Mouse - she loves it all, just ask her.

So Saturday morning when she woke up, one of her first comments was "We're going to Chuck E Cheese today." Deep down I was thinking - wow - how did she know I was already thinking about that because I kinda wanted to take her and we have something every single weekend until the middle of May so timing is kinda tricky to say the least. (that is the definition of a run-on sentence right).

Anyway, of course the place was packed (and loud) when we got there, but we had fun. I don't normally post pictures as "flattering" as this, but here's where I won 50 tickets with one token, don't you just love that face! I shot a little token all the way up to the top into a little cup or something, not even really sure what I did, but I was pretty pumped about all those tickets.

And here's a fuzzy pic of Riley collecting all those tickets that I just won. She was pretty pumped too.

Here's a pic of Aunt Sarah and Daddy doing some "surgery" on one of the games to get their token back. Haha, glad they didn't get busted by a worker!

Needless to say - it was a pretty good day. Riley only took a 20 min nap that afternoon which meant we had a fun evening, but the rest of it was great!