Chuck E Cheese {Love-Love Relationship}

Harper’s quilt is still not put together.  I am anxiously awaiting the backing fabric to arrive in the mail.  This has given me some extra time to try and figure out what I am really going to do when it’s officially time to put that thing together.  And it gave me some extra time to use the leftover scraps to make some cute little ‘flags’ (as Harper refers to them) for her room.

Yesterday I finished up this 15×30 canvas for my friend Cari.  Her daughter is headed off to college and she wanted a special piece of art for her dorm room.  I LOVE the colors and patterns in this piece.  Cari chose all the text and I was so excited that she was thrilled with it when she picked it up today.

When Cari stopped by, I told her how we were headed to Chuck E Cheese tonight.  Josh and I had a dentist appointment today scheduled for the exact same time, which we totally forgot about, which equaled no babysitter, which then equaled us taking our small little crew to the dentist office.

The bribe of a trip to Chuck E Cheese for good behavior was issued and they passed with flying colors.  I am not above a good bribe, especially when that means I will be eating pizza and playing skee ball for dinner.

  Cari is just about the only other person I know that admits to loving Chuck E Cheese as well.  Most parents despise it…at least that’s the word on Facebook.  In Cari’s words, “What’s not to love?”…my thoughts exactly.  She recommended we try the bread sticks…Whaaatttt?  How did I not know that Chuck E Cheese has amazing bread sticks…note to self was made immediately.

Our family and ole’ Chuck E go way back…we probably go way more than other families…we dig it, a lot.  My dad always gives the kids gift cards for their birthdays and on other occasions as well, so we never have to pay, which equals awesome (thanks Grandaddy).  Plus, thanks to my friend Brea, I am now on Chuck’s email list and get insanely great coupons.

Tonight we ventured in with some awesome coupons and the last of a gift card.  I had our total figured out down to the dollar and I was Oh, so successful and maximizing our gift card to token ratio.

That my friends is a whole lot of tokens…which I’ll just be honest…they are really for Josh and me.  The kids just love the craziness of the place and pretty much love the little ride games.

Kelley Fun Fact: We dig skee ball and race car and basketball games and we’re kind of good at all of the above 🙂

And it’s kind of fun to be rewarded with little tickets, that Harper thinks are gold, which you can later trade in for junk prized items…win, win!  Harper’s choice of prize was a small packet of Chuck E Cheese markers and when I say small, I mean tiny…really, really tiny.

Harper was all into the tickets tonight.  She would run over and proclaim with great pride, “I won 2 tickets.”  I was proud of her too.

Huddy climbing, yet again, unbeknownst to me.

We also spent quite a few tokens on the drawing machine.  I think Huddy just liked to put tokens in because we got quite a few that looked like this…

But there were some that I love and know that I will keep forever…is that a long time to keep a Chuck E Cheese token drawing…probably, but it’s just going to happen that way.

My heart is overwhelmed with my boy…I really, really need him home, like now, but we wait.

And all health conscious readers may want to turn away now.  I did splurge for the $5 bread sticks, based on Cari’s recommendation and they were AMAZING.  Thanks Cari…maybe you can go to Chuck E Cheese with us next time.

So all you Chuck E Cheese haters out there, give him another chance…you know you want to play skee ball and be rewarded with a small whoopie cushion with a mouses face printed on it that only cost you 1 billion small tickets…it’s just fun that way.

Happy Tuesday.