A Great Movie Night thanks to my dad!

Posted on Nov 17, 2009 | 0 comments

We love movie night so much a few years ago we finally bought a projector. We got it at Circuit City when they were closing. I ordered a projection screen online and we were loving it. It made Movie Night that much better!! We already own hundreds of dvds plus have a membership to Netflix, so this is a very budget friendly activity. The kids can take potty breaks, we can replay different parts, invite family over and pick our own snacks. We do it every week. And everything was wonderful until our bulb blew last summer while we were playing Wii The bulb cost almost $250 to replace. So we have been debating whether to replace the bulb or just upgrade. Which is why we tried a projector a few weeks ago that was just not up to par.

Luckily this week, my dad decided to let us borrow his projector for movie night! His is a Dell 3300 MP.

A lot of great features including it auto adjusts, has built in speakers and can even connect to a laptop through a usb cord. Anyways, movie night was under way.

Hubby made smoothies and popcorn

The kids got comfortable on the couch

Started up the dvd/vcr combo. Yes we still own tapes, don’t laugh!!

Can you guess what we watched?

Yep Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs!! With the biggest dinosaur fan I know in the house how could we not watch this? It was a great movie. My husband and I found ourselves laughing throughout the movie. The kids had us rewind a few parts because they liked them so much. It was a wonderful choice for movie night and was very appropriate. And believe me after what happened with Transformers we were very happy about that!

The dell projector pictured above belongs to my dad and he will not let me have it no matter how much I beg. I even had the kids try but he won’t budge! Just kidding We appreciate that he let us borrow it, but if it ever needs a new home it is always welcome at our house! My dad also provided us with the smoothie mix which was delicious.