Movie Night

The other day at dinner, Dave says to the boys "I think we should have a movie night." I'm thinking great idea...except what's the plan for picking a movie? :) I was excited because the boys are getting old enough now to try to do something like this...but it was out of the blue, with no real idea of how this would go.

Immediately, Landon starts thinking he gets to pick the movie. It doesn't take long for Austin and Aiden to realize "wait - I want to watch this movie, not that one!" So the conversation at the dinner table was one of excitement, disappointment, curiosity (the twins didn't really know what was going on, but picked up on the plan)...all into one. Finally after going through about 10 movies on the table, talking about letting Dave pick since it was his idea (Landon was not okay with that) and drawing names out of a hat (Austin was drawn)...we settled on letting Austin pick. Landon still didnt' think that was fair, but that's his argument a lot lately, so we moved on!

Austin got up from the table and picked "Geo Trax" - a DVD with 4 short movies on it that came with Landon's Geo Trax he got for Christmas last year. In the end, they were all happy. Truthfully, Aiden was happy once he realized he got popcorn! :-)

These aren't great pictures, but for memory's sake, here are pictures from our first movie night...

All set up...blinds shut, popcorn and water in hand, ready to watch...


Aiden...

Landon...

Austin...

And a couple of nights later, one of the boys asked for another movie night. For the life of me I can't remember what movie we watched, but they all had fun again! (Might have been some Halloween specials we DVR'd, but I can't remember!)

My idea of movie night is pj's on...so next up we'll try a movie night after baths and pj's!!! Maybe Friday night! :-) It's so fun as the boys get older and we can get them "organized" for some fun like this. Next on my list of things I want to do wtih the boys...overnight trips! Maybe next summer! Sounds fun to me!