Patty Johnson's Blog

After getting "the call" we all headed to Joe's as usual. Tension was a little high because we had a rough last few hours so the Hamus bros were not in a good mood. Then, we headed to 90FM to see what place we came in. They announced Franklin Street Burnouts in 10th, Late Night with Bob Keeshan in 9ths, Horton Hears a Beerpig in 8th, The Basementalist in 7th, Ugly Undulated Uvulas in 6th, Graduates of a Lesser God in 5th, & Tin Man in 4th! That left us, Network and Festivus. We thought for sure that Festivus had done better than us because they got a lot of big pointers in the last few hours. Then they read Festivus for the Rest of Us in 3rd! Oz then pointed out the that difference between 3rd and 2nd was only 5 points! Then, Eck read off the 2nd place team as "Dad's Computers: Trivia is the Word" We were SOOOOOO Happy! I did the beginning of the speech even though I was in shock. Then, Eric spoke a little saying something like "5 years ago if you would have told me we'd be in here and the only team left in the hall would be Network, I would have told you that you were full of crap" lol. Then, Oz told me not to let Eric touch the trophy (because he had broken our trophy during the awards ceremony last year!) More photos: Here
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This year Trivia was a rollercoaster! We had lots of fun and of course a little drama. There were big ones we got from notes and guesses and there were ones that we missed that we shouldn't have. The food was delicious as usual and we thank everyone upstairs who helped feed us! More Photos: At Dotphoto Here
Videos: On our website Here

Today was the Trivia Parade. It was a beautiful day unlike last year. So, nice out that I had to have Lori run to Kmart from lot Q to get me some sunscreen! Our float was family guy themed because our theme was "Dad's Computers: Trivia is the Word" There was an episode where Peter gets obsessed with "The Bird is the word" after getting the record of it from a diner. So our float was a big diner with a bunch of family guy characters. More Photos: Here at dotphoto

We got in line for Trivia registration at about 11:30pm on Sunday (registration starts at 3pm on Monday) It was cold out but not too terrible. We hung out and talked for a while until everyone got tired. I woke up first, as usual, and chatted with Chuck until the rest of the gang emerged from the tent. Vanessa and I left at 11am for about 45 minutes to watch Lily's last dance recital. While we were gone Aaron got interview by Channel 7 News and then later I got interviewed for Channel 9 News. We had fun and it wasn't too terrible out but I of course got windburned as usual. Once 3pm came we got in, got our merchandise and ran outside to see the NTT Pics.
VIDEOS: Channel 9 & Channel 7 interviews
MORE PHOTOS: At dotphoto Here

We went to two egg hunts today. The city one at Pfiffner park and also the one at Celebration church. Lily had a lot of fun at the Pfiffner one but you couldn't bring in bags or basket so she was stuffing eggs down her shirt. The celebration one had a limit of 5 eggs because there was so many kids in her age group...but she counted to five and stopped like a good girl. After that they all colored Easter Eggs at my parents house. Easter was a little crazy because this year it was the weekend before Trivia so we had oodles to do. MORE PHOTOS: At Dotphoto Here

Today my nephew Braeden had his birthday party. We got there early and Lily and Braeden had fun playing with toys and balloons. Soon, a bunch of other kids came and they had even more fun with balloons. They also really loved taking turns doing a jack-in-the-box. Lily took 2nd place in pin the tail on the donkey and won some bubbles. It was a fun time!
MORE PHOTOS: At Dotphoto Here
VIDEO: Kids playing with Balloons
VIDEO: Singing Happy Birthday

Tonight was the midnight trivia movie. Vanessa and I got in line at about 8pm and the boys were at the bar. They drunkenly joined us at about 9:30pm and chaos ensued. the movie title wasn't announced ahead of time so it was a surprise...well, it was one of our guesses. Before the movie they showed some Bugs Bunny shorts which were cute. Casablanca was good, even though I'm not really a fan of old movies...especially b/w ones. MORE PHOTOS: At Dotphoto Here

Tonight we got together to tie-dye our shirts. Most of us bought 2 shirts just in case we messed up but they all turned out excellent! There was a little drama because some blue dye dust had floated around and gotten on everything...and of course it's invisible until you get it wet. So, most of the shirts started off having some blue speckles but they weren't as noticeable as we thought so all was good.
MORE PHOTOS: At dotphoto Here