It's a TWILIGHT kind of a night! November 21st

Marcie, Me and Toni at the Pre-party! (I made these sparkle Twilight shirts!)
At the theater before the movie. Everyone in the picture is part of our group!

So excited for TWILIGHT!

Wheren't the Twilight books so good?! I loved them so natually I was really excited for the Twilight movie to come out! I watched the trailers over and over and followed Stephenie Meyer's website for scoop. Unfortunately, I was really dissappointed in the movie. I thought that it could have been cast better and the special effects were anything but special (to me they sucked). And I hated the bluish tint to the whole movie. I tried to find something nice to say about it and the only thing I can come up with is that I had a whole lotta fun with my friends that night seeing the midnight show! We were a group of over 50 so AMC gave us our own theater to be in. We got there early, just after the pre-party at a friends house, so we had a lot of time to talk and laugh. That was so fun! Hopefully New Moon will be better!

Maybe I should see Twilight again - probably not!

She's a Liberty Bell! November 15, 2008

Her squad got the "Superior" award!
Cheering

Gabriella and her Coach!

Gabriella and her friend Callie. They had a great time together!

These are pictures of Gabriella's 2nd year of cheer competition with the Liberty Bells. She starts back up in January. We've really enjoyed seeing her LOVE this sport. She's always doing some cheer like "Big G, Little O, Go, Go" for Roxie Roo (our dog who tries to stay out of the way when she's kicking up her feet or jumping \"/) or cheering for Bailey on the sidelines of his soccer games! (Yeah, he's a little embarrassed, especially when she's running down the sidelines screaming "WOOO Bailey - you can do it!) She's quite the little cheerleader - "Bring It On, Ella!"

Our New President....

O-Puke!

Phantom of the Opera

(I forgot to put this in but it is so worth mentioning.) This year for all of our Birthdays (the girls of the Rigtrup family), Mom and Dad Rigtrup gave us all tickets to see Phantom of the Opera at the Paramount on September 20th. I loved the singing, the costumes, the set - everything! This was so fun! I will remember this Awesome night with my family always! I love you guys!

Picture of us at dinner just before the show.

(Left to right - Cindy, Me, Mom, Brea and Becky)

Gabriella's Golden Birthday (6 on the 6th of November)

For Gabriella's 6th Birthday, we rented out Kidzbounce in Preston (just past Issaquah). It was such a blast - we had the whole half of the place to ourselves! The kids (and adults) jumped their hearts out for 2 hours! The whole evening was so special for Gabriella and we truely appreciate all her family and friends coming to celebrate her. It was a golden opportunity!


(Left)Blowing out candles on the "Hello Kitty" cake!

(Below) This year Aunt Beth flew in to celebrate with Gabriella!

(Left) It was all about this Throne! She couldn't wait to sit in it and open presents. She got lots of great treasures!

(Below) Grandpa Rigtrup noodle fighting the kids!

(Left) Gabriella taking a rest on her favorite bouncer! What an AWESOME day!

Winner of the Contest

Opps forgot a major part of this year's Halloween! Gabriella won "Most Creative" pumpkin decorating contest K-1 at Maplewood Heights Elementary! She came up with this all by herself and I was quite surprised as she already had it loaded in the van when we went to take her brother to school at 8:20am. She was so proud of her little self - YOU GO GIRL!

Halloween

The scary zombie!!!

Vigor and Gabriella (enough said....)

Family picture after the torture of innocent pumpkins just to look good for their holiday!

Squishing the guts out! Poor pumpkins!!

Short guy, zombie, witchy fat girl, faiytopia fairy




We had a blast at our Halloween trunk-or-treat, carving pumpkins, class parties, trick-or-treating with friends and enjoying our dummy - Vigor - who scared the crap out of a whole lot of people! You gotta love Halloween!!!