What a Day!

Inauguration of our 44th president and 4 inches of snow in Raleigh - all in one day! Needless to say it made for quite an exciting 24 hours!

We had already planned to have an inauguration day party Tuesday night - celebrating one of the most significant historical events in my lifetime! The party went on, with my family (who only live about 2 miles away) and neighbors in attendance. We had a politically-themed menu which included:

• Left Wings and Right Wings
• Campaign Trail Mix
• "Lipstick on a Pig" in a blanket
• Victory Veggies
• Red, white and blue chips and salsa
• Red wine, white wine, and Blue Moon beer

The coolest, however, was the cake we were able to get made at Target - I think it turned out great! And it was too funny when the kids were fighting over who was going to get to eat Obama's head. Personally I had a piece of his ear and it was quite tasty :)

Then - to make the day even greater - Raleigh got snow! Zenna was thrilled - this is only the 2nd snow she's seen. The first was on her 4th Christmas, when amazingly it snowed the day after Christmas, and her grandparents had just gotten her a sled for Christmas! So she got to break out the sled and enjoy the snow for a second time! We were out and about at least 6 times, with one rousing snowball fight of mom and Zenna against dad. Zenna got in one good shot for dadddy - right in his ear! A great time was had by all!

Needless to say - it made for one exhausted girl by the end of the day!

An oldy but a goody

Sometimes the best fun is had when you are not looking at a computer screen, playing any Wii game, or have any electronic games in front of you. This holiday we got to spend some quality family time playing repeated times "The Game of LIFE." Remember this from your childhood? We've got an old 1960's version where if you become a doctor you earn a whopping salary of $20,ooo per pay period!

So, Zenna has decided this is her favorite game! She gets a huge kick out of all the life events you go through and loves to play the stock market when she lands on Lucky Day spaces - she always bets big on these!

Last time we played she decided to give it a 2009 twist, and started out as a boy in her car. Then when it was time to get married, she chose a "partner" and decided to be a gay couple (not that there's anything wrong with that - and yes, she actually said this as she added the boy to her car, because she listens too closely to her parents joking around!).

Anyway, it's lots of fun, and great to just spend time sitting on the floor playing an good old fashioned board game. Who knows, next we might do something crazy like stay home for dinner!