Movie Review

Ok...time's up! If you haven't seen the movie then don't read any further because I am ready to dish! I absolutely loved, loved, loved, loooooooved the movie! I am truly addicted. I went and saw it again with my sister in-law Nicole who couldn't make it to the first showing. I am so addicted that it gives me a stomach ache just thinking about it. Sad, I know. I've been reading the books and listening to the soundtrack 24/7 which doesn't help the addiction. So, tomorrow I will have a new header and background. I think I just need to quit this cold turkey! (ya right!) Anyway, back to the review. Jacob was exactly as I pictured him from the books. I was very impressed with him and I look forward to seeing him in New Moon. Carlisle was very hot!! They cast him very well and I was very pleased with Esme as well. Rosalie was gorgeous and Emmett was pretty much as I pictured him as well. Alice's hair could have been shorter and darker, but I was still pleased with her. Jasper was dang cute and my sisters in-law and I were thinking that he wouldn't have made a bad Edward. But let's get on to Edward.....WOOOO! He was totally doin it for me in the movie. He was starting to grow on me leading up to the movie and then when I saw him in action....Oh Baby! The only thing I didn't like about him was that he was way too serious for me. You didn't see hardly any of the fun side of Edward and that's my favorite side. Bella, on the other hand, is a different story. I did not like her the first time I saw the movie. I thought that she was very monotone and unemotional and as we all know, Bella is very emotional! My mom thought that she did a great job because her perception of Bella was someone who really didn't care about life. Which I agree to a certain point. Once Edward comes into her life (which is at the very beginning) she suddenly has emotions and she has a hard time controlling them. Some of the passionate lines were said without passion and they sounded like she was just reading them or saying them to be said. But that's just me. When I watched it the second time I liked her a little better, but I hope she gets better as time goes on. I totally would have made a better Bella! The part where he shows her what he looks like in the sunlight was a bit of a disappointment to me to because that is one of my favorite parts in the book. In the book it's a romantic thing and a relief to him to finally be himself and show her who he is. In the movie he's trying to scare her and I didn't like that approach. If Edward hadn't done such a great job during that part I would have poo-pooed the whole thing. However, I felt the adaptation from book to screen was done very well. Even better than the Harry Potter books. Other than the casting of Eric (what's up with that?) The casting was done very well. James was scary and Victoria was beautiful. Her hair could have been a bit brighter, but overall I think she will do just fine. Most people were shocked about Laurent, but I wasn't. My sister in-law and I were trying to decide how they will make the other movies. Do you think they will combine books or make a separate movie for each one? As always, the books are sooooo much better than the movies. At first I was glad that I wasn't sitting by my sister Kayla at the movie because she kept making comments like, "He doesn't say that," or " that's not the way it happens in the book," and so forth. After awhile though, I felt bad for my mom who was sitting in between us because then I kept talking to Kayla during the movie with book comparisons. I really don't have that much to complain about though. Like I said, I'm truly addicted. I just go home, read the book and lose myself in that world the way I want to see it. It's my own little escape and it's perfect! I loooooooooooved the music, as is evident of my playlist, and one of my most favorite parts of the movie was the baseball scene. I love the song during that time and I thought it was very well done. I told Jason that he should have come. He didn't want to see a chick flick...even after I told him there was sports, action, and fast cars. That's ok. I wouldn't have been able to oogle and drool over Edward if he was there. All in all, this is my favorite movie. If I had the time and money I would go and watch it every day. So, what did you ladies think? I'd love to hear your comments! Oh, at the theater there were a lot of T-shirts with clever sayings on them. My favorite one that I saw was, " I choose Edward...but I'll keep Jacob as a pet." So true.

I didn't take very many pictures. I was too preoccupied with the movie. This is my Mother In-law, My sister in-law Amy and my sister in-law Kristy.

This is my Mom and my sister Kayla and of course my little Edward...Nathan. He was sooo good during the movie!

Just Got Back From The Movie

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's all I'm going to say for now. (oh, and, does anybody have a light? :) )

The Long Awaited Day is Here!

Well Ladies, I'm getting ready to head out the door to go to the TWILIGHT MOVIE!!! Yes, that's right I get to see it the DAY BEFORE it comes out. No, it's not the midnight showing. It's the 8pm showing. I wanted to go to the 5 pm showing but I am being nice and waiting for the rest of the ladies in my group to get off work. Yes, I am bragging that I get to go see it before it officially comes out. ( Hey, I usually don't have anything to brag about. ) Thank you to Jason's work for getting these incredible tickets for us! My mom and sister Kayla and my mother in-law and all of my sisters in-law are coming with me. Thanks to Jason for sacrificing his ticket and finding a few others so the "chicks" could go out. I won't spoil it for you tomorrow, but come Monday I will be dishing so see it by then!

Funny...but Not

Ok, so , I'm at the Sunflower Market and we had quite an exciting shopping experience. As soon as we walked in the door the girls had balloons tied around their wrists. They were so excited you would have thought it was Christmas. The girls grabbed onto the cart and we started for the produce section. Emma has one hand on the cart and she is walking right next to the produce stand when POP! There goes her balloon and a very Loud and Shrill scream. I look over at her to console her and she is holding her eye. I immediately start frieking out (inside myself) and pick her up to look at her. She's fine other than a red welt around her eye and cheek area. The balloon had popped on her face! Then I notice that Maddie is also crying because she was scared by what happened. So, there I am with two girls sobbing in the middle of the produce section. Anyway, so an employee comes over with a brand new balloon for Emma. Emma shies away from it. I explain to the employee that the balloon had popped on her face and that Emma is a little scared of balloons right now. The lady has this horrified look on her face to which I quickly assure her that Emma is ok. Shortly after another employee comes over with a banana for each of the girls. I enjoyed that as much as they did because they were quiet and occupied! So, now we are almost done shopping and we start heading out of the aisle and there is another POP! followed by yet another Loud and Shrill scream...this time from Maddie who is holding her forehead. I pull her hand away and see a large red welt on her head. HER balloon had popped on her face. I look up to see a man walking towards us just shaking his head and laughing. Apparently he had seen the other incident as well. He walks past us and mumbles "this is when I'd file a complaint." Yet another employee rushes over and asks Maddie if she would like a pink balloon this time and quickly proceeds to get one for her. I remind Maddie to keep the balloon away from her face as we head to check out. I think the balloons had been blown up too much therefore making it very easy to brush by something and POP! But wait...it gets better. On the way home I had to stop by at a friends house to drop something off and Emma had unbuckled her seatbelt. Unfortunately she has recently discovered how to do this. She comes running out holding herself telling me she needs to go potty. So I say goodbye to my friend and get back in the car. Maddie tells on Emma about getting out of her seatbelt. I remind Emma to buckle up so that she is safe in case we get into a car accident. The girls have this habit of asking "what will happen if I don't..." in this case if Emma doesn't buckle up and we get into an accident. I have to be pretty graphic in my explanations with my children for the message to sink in. So I told them that she could get hurt very badly or even die. So, Maddie says to me , "Mom. Remember what happened to Sleeping Beauty? Remember when the prince kisses her and what happens?" I say, "What happens?" She responds thinking pretty confidently that she has the answer to all of our problems "She comes alive again. So, if Emma dies then the prince can just kiss her." Well, of course we all know that this is not the way it works and I had to explain to Maddie that once someone dies it takes a little more than just a kiss to wake them up. She asked how long they have to be in Heaven for before they could come back to life and more difficult to answer questions. Once I had answered them sufficiently she sniffed back a few tears and exclaimed "I don't want my baby sister to die!" To which I said, "I know! That's why we have to buckle up!" So, a pretty exciting day!

Blinkies

Ok, so I went a little overboard with the Twilight blinkies. But there were so many good ones and I didn't even put all of them on! If you like them and you want them too, then please go to the blog http://www.grahamlikethecracker.blogspot.com/ and download them from her and leave her some love (for those of you who don't know what that means it means leave her a comment thanking her for her hard work!). I just loved all of them. I am a Twilight Freak! and I can't wait for the movie tomorrow!!! So, obviously I am Team Edward but I also put on a Team Jacob for the few of you who are out there. I like Jacob...he just doesn't "do it for me" like Edward!!! You'll notice that I put Jacob last. I also have some Team Alice on there. She is one of my favorite Cullens. There weren't any Carlisle or Esme blinkies on this site, otherwise I would have them on there too. Who are your favorites?

Tagged! Times 6

I guess I got tagged by my Aunt. I think you are supposed to go into your pictures from the 6th month and show the 6th picture in that folder. So here it is:This is a picture from my front door of a double rainbow. It was so cool. This is not the best picture of it though so I am going to cheat a little bit and show you the other pics I took as well.

And now I am going to tag Nic, Amy, Heather, Linda, Meg and Jenny U. So I think it's the 6th picture that you took in June 2008. Can't wait to see them!

Had to Happen Sometime!

It finally happened! The classic "let's play barber shop!" Maddie decided to pretend that she was Aunt Amy and cut Emma's hair. When I went into the room Emma (very proudly I might add) exclaimed "Look Mommy. Maddie cut my hair!" At first I couldn't really tell and I started to breathe normal again. Then, I got a closer look and realized that Emma has some very short pieces sticking up where her bangs normally are. A few hairs on the top layer also got severed. I told Maddie that she was grounded from scissors (in a surprisingly calm voice) and sent her down to her room. On her way down she informed me that her school has scissors. Fortunately this was not a "shave Emma's head so it all looks even" incident. In fact, I think we'll get by without any plastic surgery at all. Em will just look "not all there" for a week or two until the hair grows back. With girls and scissors it had to happen sometime! I remember when my sister and I did it. That did result in heading down to the neighbors house for a reconstructing haircut!

**Anybody besides me think that those are Krista's eyes looking at you?**

Twilight!

AAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!! That's me squealing in delight about the upcoming movie Twilight! I can't wait for it to come out. Jason's work buys out the theater so I am trying to get enough tickets for me and my mom and sister and Jason's mom and sisters and my sister in-law. It is going to be really exciting. I'm trying to get some of the music to play instead of the Halloween music so please be patient. I'm not totally satisfied with the header so I will probably change that in a wee bit, but for now it'll have to do. Visit www.stepheniemeyer.com for lots of exciting news and tidbits about the movie. Anybody else as excited as me? **NOTE** The first 4 songs on my playlist are from the Twilight soundtrack. I love the music!

History in the Making

Well, we were all a part of history last night. The first black President! I have mixed feelings about it. I'm glad that we as a nation have matured enough to get past the racial slurs...but I don't know how I feel about Obama. I wrote about this experience in a special journal that I have specifically for my kids. I write about special occassions like my wedding, the day of their births, the deaths of my grandparents and family members that they never knew, etc. etc. So, this was definitely journal worthy. Other than 9/11 this is one of the first moments that I will remember when people ask me "Do you know where you were when the first black President was elected?" And I'll say yep, at home on my couch feeling elated and deflated all at the same time. Jason keeps reminding me that we just have to "survive" for 4 years and then hope that we will be a part of history again when Mitt Romney becomes the first Mormon President. It's the "surviving" part that I'm worried about. What are your thoughts and feelings? I'd love anybody to comment to either soothe my soul or add fuel to the fire!

Halloween

Well, another Halloween has come and gone. Emma had dance class on Halloween and so they went dressed in their costumes, did their class and then had a party. Maddie had her school parade outside. I love these moments! When I was growing up I would think about these moments and I couldn't wait to be a mom and do all the fun things with them, like school parades and trick-or-treating. Grandma and Grandpa Newby came to see Maddie in her parade. Emma went in her costume and so did Nathan. He was a little vampire. I called him my little Edward. I fixed his hair so he would have that widow's peak and he just looks so dang cute. There's a pic of him with my dad and they look so good together. Trick or treating was a blast. We went to one of the local dealerships and did a trunk or treat, then we went around the neighborhoods and then we went to Grandma and Grandpa Childs and did a little bit of trick or treating there to. The kids came home with a lot of loot. Jason took some great pics of the girls trick or treating. Thanks babe! I'm sad that it's all over and I'm already thinking about next year's costumes! Be sure to check out the slideshow for all of the fun pics.