Yesterday was my birthday

July 18 was my birthday. My daughter made coffee cake … she’s 12. It was very good (from the recipe I make.)

We then left to go to the movies. It wasn’t really a present, sort of ended up as one, kind of. Me and my two eldest children saw Transformers: Dark of the Moon in 3D, while my husband and the two youngest children saw Cars 2.

All along, this year, we three intended to see Transformers 3 in IMAX, but didn’t get to go because it went out of IMAX before we were able to get to a show. Really crazy, a movie that was gonna open on July 1st, but opened a couple of days earlier, but still, less than 3 weeks in IMAX before H.P. knocked it out.

We went to an AMC theatre that we don’t normally go to, to see T3 in 3D yesterday. Our usual Regal theatre is what made us mad, plus it enable us to look at it differently, we could see the 3D version of the movie at AMC for less than the 2D one was at Regal.

We’d have loved the IMAX version of the film, so it was a hard decision on what to actually do about seeing it anywhere. So the final decision was 3D at AMC. We had the theatre to ourselves. It was a small theatre room, the sound was good, but not awesome. Win some, lose some.

Transformers 3 was a great movie though. It was awesome in 3D, it translated well in Real 3D, we feel. The story was good. Reviewers online have overstated how thin the story is, and how much you need a big picture and shaking seats big sound to get the value out of it. Hmmm. Not quite.

Big sound would have been so very awesome, but we so much enjoyed it as it was, and would like to see it again, in 3D always. The detail is incredible. Gorgeous environments.I could go on and on, this isn’t a full movie review post though. 🙂

My main present was LEGO Alien Conquest UFO Abduction. It was my first major LEGO set. We get stuff for our boys all the time, and a few things have caught my interest over the years, with this last year being more, and then when I saw the new Alien Conquest line I knew that was it. My time had come.

I built the thing in one sitting. It was easy enough. I know how to put the things together, helping my children through the years. This was MINE though 🙂

I didn’t put the stickers on (still haven’t) I don’t like doing it during the project. I prefer afterwards, when one feels like doing it, slow and painstakingly applying the stickers.

Anyhow, the UFO Abduction is a nice piece. Feels good, solid, playable. The Alien is Ugly. 🙂 The abduction light is awesome!

My daughter gave me a coupon for one Alien Conquest Battle Pack.

Also, my husband gave me a coupon for seeing The Lion King in 3D IMAX this Fall. ( …old story behind that …)

We had homemade pizza for my birthday dinner. Then we watched Pitch Black, then X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

My daughter also made a birthday banner for me. I never made any before this year, but I made one for the first birthday of 2011 in April, and one for the next birthday in June. I didn’t do one for my husband’s birthday. But a week later I got one! It’s very nice. We’d heard her banging away in her room for the previous few days, the reason was apparent finally.