The Roby Family

Those that know me know I don’t get real excited about tromping down to the cineplex to see a movie these days.  Well, Spike Jonze came along and seized the opportunity to direct an adaptation of the Maurice Sendak classic Where the Wild Things Are.

I’ve been following the trailers for months now and the newest one is just amazing.  For the first time since Star Wars:  Episode I (which didn’t turn out so hot) I’m actually excited about going to see a movie the weekend it comes out.  The movies releases on October 16th, which also happens to be OU/TX weekend and we are seeing U2 that weekend in Norman.  Crazy!

Here are two screen shots:

Click here to see the trailer.

If you are wondering the song in the trailer is “Wake Up” by Arcade Fire.

Official site.

IMDB.

PS:  Jenny is excited as well, just not enough to write a blog post about it.

This weekend we spent the weekend without the boys. They spent the weekend with Mimi & Poppy. We spent Friday evening with friends and had dinner with our friend Jake Sullivan at Lola’s at the Bowery. We received a great surprise when we found out that Aranda was playing at Cain’s Ballroom Friday night. After wrapping up a great dinner we walked up to Cain’s and had a great time seeing Aranda. They were awesome and we loved seeing them in such a great venue. If you have never seen Aranda here is a taste:

Saturday we pretty much relaxed. I jumped back on my bike for the first time since breaking my arm in August ’07 and rode a leisurely ten miles with no broken bones. Saturday night we went to the Mardi Gras event at the Oklahoma Aquarium.

Sunday was even more relaxed. We went to breakfast at BBD and stuffed our bellies. Guess who had what…

Following breakfast we went to the late, late service at church. Not sure exactly what to do with ourselves on a Sunday afternoon without kiddos we decided to visit the Gilcrease Museum. We received a membership to the museum last year but had never used it! We were a few weeks late to see the Ansel Adams exhibit but the American Impressionism exhibit was really cool.

I convinced Jenny to take a few snapshots at the Gilcrease. She loves those self-portraits I just can’t resist taking.

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I am lucky to serve as the Vice President of the Oklahoma Aquarium Foundation’s Board of Directors.  This weekend the Foundation hosted our largest fundraiser, Mardi Gras at the Oklahoma Aquarium.  MidFirst is kind enough to serve as a sponsor of the event in honor of my service to the Foundation.  The sponsorship allows Jenny & I to attend along with a group of guests.  This year we attended with a prospective client, his spouse, a business acquaintance of mine, his spouse and my colleague Chris Cardoni & his wife Meg (check our their family blog here).  Our guests left early so it provided us bank employees time to let it loose in the casino.  By bank employees I mean Jenny & Meg.

Chris & I donated our chips for the ladies use and they won all kinds of stuffed animals for their boys.  We didn’t get a lot of pics during the evening, but here are a few.  You get the idea.

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Day two of making Mr Snowman was much more fun than day one.  It was decorating day!  The boys loved helping put all the frosting and other decorations on him.  Most of his decorations are varies kinds of frosting, but he has coconut snow on his hat and marshmallow snow at his feet.

Now we just need to figure out how and when to eat him.  He looks too cute to eat!

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Jenny and the boys are headed to OKC this weekend to spend time with Mimi & Poppy and Jenny’s girlfriends. I am taking a camping trip with a few guys from our small group at church. And no camping trip would be complete without a trip to Bass Pro Shops right? So, in the spirit of camping we loaded up the family and headed out for Jenny, Jacob & Jeffer’s first trip to the outdoor wonderland.

Jacob had a great time staring at the huge freshwater fish tank and climbing onto every boat in the store. Jeffer enjoyed pulling Jacob’s hair as he walked along the cart. Jenny decided she needed a cast iron skillet (although, I am not sure if it was for cooking or beating me on the head). I decided I needed this:

Yes you are seeing that right. It is a propane fired outdoor deep fryer with six fry baskets, dual 8.5 gallon tanks (total 17 gallons of oil), dual temperature controls and wheels! If you would like to purchase it for me please click here.

We had a great time and other than $55 in various merchandise we bought it was a cheap way to spend the evening.

Hopefully I have some great fishing tales to share soon.