Mamma Mia!

The birthday girl! Callie turned a quarter of a century on Friday the 18th, welcome to the club! Do you feel old yet?
We got Ikea goodies, all thanks to Merr!

Kirsten, McKenna, and Callie waiting in line eating Costa Vida (yummy!)
Annette Merrilee, Faythe, and Robyn

The gang waiting for the movie to start! It was exciting! I haven't been to a movie premiere since I saw the midnight showing of Spider Man 2 with Tyler. I was glad that we didn't have to wait in line as long or stay up as late for this movie!



All the credit for this fun night goes to my aunt Merrilee.... A couple Saturdays ago I was at Ikea with Mom and Merrilee. They had a big promotional event in the front of the store for tickets to a preview of Mamma Mia. The catch was, in order to get tickets someone had to sing an Abba song karaoke. One of the Ikea employees tried to talk us into singing when we walked in but there was no way I was going to do it, and Merrilee wouldn't do it by herself. But, as we were leaving the store a couple hours later that same employee saw Merrilee and somehow convinced her to sing. Merrilee made the person who sang before her sing with her, and Mom stood behind Merrilee singing. I, however, stood next to them laughing my guts out and making phone calls. :) Merrilee performed "Mamma Mia" and earned 10 tickets to the preview. Thursday July 17th Merrilee, Callie (this was really all for Callie's birthday celebration), Kirsten, McKenna, Mom, me, Emma, Robyn, Faythe, and Annette had a girls' night out and drove to Layton to watch Mamma Mia. We LOVED it! It was so much fun! The best part was that we didn't have to worry about getting in hissed at for singing with the music because the entire audience would burst into song as soon as one of the musical numbers began. My only complaint is that it's hard to listen to Pierce Brosnan sing, it's kind of unbelievable, and Merrilee sounded better than he did!