sunday funday.

today was another great day.  i don't have any pictures to show for it, but it was great nonetheless. 

travis and i started the day having breakfast together.  we slept in {something we very rarely do these days  -- even the boys slept in.  i think they were tuckered out from their day at grandma & grandpa's yesterday}.
we hit up iHop and then headed over to the cinemark by our house to see jack reacher.   i'm not a tom cruise fan {and it annoyed me when he started flirting with his co-worker}, but all-in-all, the movie was pretty good.

there have been several tragic shootings this year {that i didn't capture in the blog} including the aurora, colorado movie theater shooting, the connecticut elementary school shooting, and another shooting at a mall.  while we were in the theater watching this movie about a sniper, i couldn't help but have an uneasy feeling.  i think it was likely magnified by the nagging feeling travis had in the pit of his stomach to get his pistol from the car.  i reminded him that movie theaters are gun-free zones, and he couldn't bring it in.  he said, "i just don't want to be the guy who says, 'i had my gun with me, but it was in the car.'"  i'm so sad that we now live in a society where we have to be so concerned about these types of issues. 

... but i digress.  i'm supposed to be talking about all the fun things we did together ...

we were supposed to meet up with amanda and zach to eat, but our movie had gone long, and they were just getting an appetizer at texas roadhouse when we wrapped up.  we were going to go shoot my new pistol as part of the day's activities, so we headed over to chili's at 51st and harvard, where we shared appetizers and a cup of soup, and then headed over to the range.  when we got there, they were closed for the day {to take some time off for the holiday}. 

amanda and zach were running errands and none of us were hungry, so we headed over to the mall.  we didn't end up finding anything, but had fun walking around.  after the mall we headed to the bookstore.  i grabbed a chai latte while travis browsed through books.  i was reminded that janet evanovich's new stephanie plum novel is out {i read the first eighteen this summer ... it became a bit of an addiction and i had to refrain for a bit. 

several hours passed us by and amanda and zach were ready to meet up at main street tavern {another favorite of ours this year}.  i was still so full, but we wanted to hang out with them, so we headed over to the tavern.

we started out with drinks {i was sticking to water}, but the guys ordered wings about thirty minutes into our visit.  i was sitting by a window {and i live in a perpetual state of cold in the winter}, so i went out on a limb to see if they had hot chocolate that i could add peppermint schnapps to.  i was in luck -- they did!

everyone started getting a little tired and amanda and zach still had to drive home {it was really only about 6:30, but we'd had a full weekend}.  they headed to muskogee and we headed home.

my mom and dad were at our house just to visit for a bit.  they rented a movie on directv while i uploaded pictures to facebook and browsed pottery barn online since we have some gift cards to spend.  travis was starting to get sick, so he went and laid down for a bit.

i was too tired to finish the movie with mom and dad, so i came and crawled into bed with travis.  he was watching premium rush, and we ended up watching it together.  it was a lot funnier than i expected it to be.


i have loved, loved, loved this christmas break away from work.  in the past few years things have still been so busy at work, even during all the holidays, that i haven't really had this kind of time off.  i have quickly become spoiled by it.