Elvis, The Lufkin Gig

Taking a break from the Seniors Circuit to go back to the bread and butter, furniture store gigs.

I like the last picture where he is sitting on his own Franklin product. Now THAT'S a salesman!

Elvis' Birthday 2013

You know we don't miss Elvis' birthday especially when there is a free meal on the line. Of course, we would have dressed up anyway.

Elvis' Birthday

One of our favorite Mexican restaurants celebrates Elvis' birthday every year. If you dress like Elvis or Priscilla, you get a free meal. A free meal if you dress like Elvis? Sign us up! Turns out my friend and workout buddy, Laurie and her family have done an Elvis float in the family-friendly parades in New Orleans and even the local parades so she and her fam were on board for Elvis night. The impersonator didn't come to our Chuy's location, but no matter. Our table more than made up for it. We sang happy birthday to other patrons, ourselves, passersby, basically anybody with a pulse was fair game. And oh, the pictures with customers, waitstaff, managers and even some of the kitchen staff. So much fun. It really looks like Mac has found his Elvis kindred spirits.

King Creole

It never ceases to amaze me just how far this Elvis gig will go. Mac mentioned to our Elvis cohorts that we should have an Elvis party. And a party we had. My friend, Laurie's family can throw a party. An Elvis/Mardi Gras party. It was so much fun!! Mac performed his 10 song set to the lights and the smoke machine. Beads, singing, dancing. And then there was the shrimp creole....so good that's Mac's new motto is, "Will perform for shrimp creole".

Don't be jealous.

My friend, Laurie and myself in front of the Mardi Gras tree, practicing our moves. This was sort of a blend of Elvis and Body Combat.

Me, Jeannie, Lisa, and Laurie

We managed to score a few beads. Helped that I kind of leaped in front of everybody a few times.

I'm a wee bit competitive.

The Elvis Crew

(Those who dressed the Elvis part.)

Happy Birthday, Elvis!

You knew we wouldn't let the King's birthday pass without some sort of recognition or let the chance to get a free meal pass us by. And when we get the chance to marry the two, well, let's just say it's a very special time at the Davis homestead.

This year's "dress like Elvis and get a free meal" was at Chuy's resteraunt. They had a very good impersonator, but we had Mac. We met our friends, the Harvey's, ate and enjoyed the impersonator's show and Mac's.

There's nothing like sharing black eyeliner to make a marriage stronger.


The impersonator.

Holland and Deanna got scarves during the show....

and "I wanna be your Teddy Bear" bears.

The impersonator was good, but Mac had his own show going on. One of the waiters got him to go sing Happy Birthday to a girl. Next thing I know, he's got the bar singing Happy Birthday to someone else. People were asking to take pictures with him. One woman stopped me on our way out and asked me if he had a business card. I guess she wanted to book him. What started as a funny Halloween gag a couple of years ago has turned into a whole different kind of creature, a creature with weird hair.

I tell you what though, we always have a good time.

Thanks for hanging with us, Harvey family.

Thankyouverymuch!

Technical Difficulties

Ok, so we had some technical difficulties today here at The Davis 4 corporate office. I was trying to post the 2nd and final Elvis installment when all of a sudden my sidebar either went on strike, ran off with my footer, was amputated in some horrible fashion, or just od'ed on Elvis. Whatever the case, it was gone, and I was, and I'm not going to sugarcoat it, in GREAT DESPAIR. This blog is like one of my children. I'm not saying it's my favorite child. I'm just saying it's a tight race. Fortunately, The Davis 4 Emergency Response Team went into action....Translation: I emailed my fantabulous (Holland and I use that word when "fabulous" just isn't enough.) blog designer, Lindsay at Splat designs, who did all of my MSU blog design and recently updated the photos in my header which nobody has bothered to comment on. Hello? Anyway, she fixed it! I was totally dancing around the house singing, "go Lindsay, go Lindsay, go Lindsay". Of course, wild dancing and singing is pretty much the norm at this house. It's nothing for us to break into the"cabbage patch", or "roger rabbit", and usually for no reason at all. But watch out, if we have a reason. Anywho, I have added Lindsay to my Favorite People of All Time list which is an automatic in to the Christmas List which means one of you family members got bumped. Just consider it your personal sacrifice to The Davis 4 blog.


So, if you would like to see the latest Elvis commercial, it is in the sidebar, if the sidebar is still there, under videos and slideshows. The original title of the post was:

"Just When The City Of Victoria Thought It Was Safe To Turn On Their TVs Again..."

What You All Have Been Waiting For....

Dare I say it.......the floor is now open for comments.

It All Started With A Flyer

Two of Mac's favorite things are free Chik-Fil-A meals and dressing up like Elvis. Who knew that the two would marry on a cold, January, Saturday night? Mac was in chicken sandwich heaven. Here is the flyer that made it all possible......

Mac at the threshold of his free meal.

Mac ordering his free meal.

Mac eating his free meal.

That's the owner on the left, Mac, and the manager on the right.

Mr. Jesse Aron, the Elvis impersonator. He was awesome! Mac and others would request songs and he sang them all, especially Mac's favorite, "American Trilogy". He sounded JUST LIKE ELVIS! Apparently he is one of the top 3 impersonators in the country. His "look" was more of the "later years " Elvis, but his sound covered all of Elvis' career. We had a lot of fun! There is just something about Elvis. Several women asked Mac to take their picture with them . Seriously.

Holland danced the night away, and Grey hid behind us in embarrassment.