Quick movie review - THIS MOVIE WAS AWESOME!
We rented it over the weekend - I hadn't really planned on seeing it. But it was great. The characters were good, the awesomeness never got old. It wasn't too long, had a great moral at the end, no innuendo of any sort and just a lot of good clean fun. This is definitely one that I want to own.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
More Funny Things
Eli was a lot of fun this weekend, saying funny things. Here are some of them.
'Good night Beth, Good night Grandma. Good night, other Beth.'
This is a picture of Beth, and Amy (holding Josh). When Eli said goodnight to everyone Amy was Beth and Beth was other Beth. They do look similar, and we spent the rest of the weekend trying to get Eli to be able to tell the two apart.
On Thursday night Morgan and I were heading to go out to the movie and left Eli with some Aunts and an Uncle to be babysat. He grabbed both of our hands and said "Daddy, Mommy, stop walking." He didn't want us to leave him. :0)
I hope my sister-in-law will forgive me for writing this, but it was just too funny. I'm not sure what we were talking about, Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny, but my sweet SIL said, "I'm not a retard, I'm 14!" We laughed about it all weekend, giving it as a reason for one thing or another.
Eli jumping off the couch.
Eli: Mommy, look at me.
Say woo-hoo
Me: Woo-hoo
Eli: No mommy, say woo-hoo jumping
Me: (as he is jumping) Woo-hoo!
'Good night Beth, Good night Grandma. Good night, other Beth.'
This is a picture of Beth, and Amy (holding Josh). When Eli said goodnight to everyone Amy was Beth and Beth was other Beth. They do look similar, and we spent the rest of the weekend trying to get Eli to be able to tell the two apart.
On Thursday night Morgan and I were heading to go out to the movie and left Eli with some Aunts and an Uncle to be babysat. He grabbed both of our hands and said "Daddy, Mommy, stop walking." He didn't want us to leave him. :0)
I hope my sister-in-law will forgive me for writing this, but it was just too funny. I'm not sure what we were talking about, Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny, but my sweet SIL said, "I'm not a retard, I'm 14!" We laughed about it all weekend, giving it as a reason for one thing or another.
Eli jumping off the couch.
Eli: Mommy, look at me.
Say woo-hoo
Me: Woo-hoo
Eli: No mommy, say woo-hoo jumping
Me: (as he is jumping) Woo-hoo!
Friday, November 28, 2008
Twilight Thanksgiving
We had a really good Thanksgiving Day with Morgans family. We got up Thursday morning, loaded our van and drove down to Chillicothe. Lunch was great, we played some games, and then decided that we should go that night to see the movie Twilight.
8 of us went and saw the movie and generally liked it. It wasn't the most fantastic movie ever, and there was some acting that needed to be worked on, some special effects & sound effects that were quite laughable, but has a whole it was a good film.
The movie stayed quite true to the book, at least the spirit of the book. It added and took some things out, but not in a way that made me frustrated. I will definitely buy this movie some day and am looking forward to the sequel.
8 of us went and saw the movie and generally liked it. It wasn't the most fantastic movie ever, and there was some acting that needed to be worked on, some special effects & sound effects that were quite laughable, but has a whole it was a good film.
The movie stayed quite true to the book, at least the spirit of the book. It added and took some things out, but not in a way that made me frustrated. I will definitely buy this movie some day and am looking forward to the sequel.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Morgan said to...
Today I was telling Morgan some funny things that Eli does nearly every day and he said that I needed to blog about it. Apparently he thinks my blogs are boring and he liked these stories. Just kidding.
Anyway, apparently I am always putting Eli off by referring to Morgan. If something is broken I'll tell Eli that we need to wait till Morgan is home and "Ask Daddy to fix it." So it seems like if anything is going on and I am saying no, or hesitating, or if something is not working Eli always says, Ask Daddy? And usually he's right, we'll wait 'till Morgan is home and then figure it out.
The second thing is that Eli often tells me to do something "Like Daddy does." I'll be getting his socks on in the morning and he'll say, "No, Like Daddy Does." Meaning that I need to scoot back and pretend that the sock is a car. But nearly everything we need to do it, "Like Daddy does."
But while Eli tells me to do things like daddy does, he is always trying to imitate me. He pretends to feed his doll Lucy breastmilk, he wants to use my lotion, puts my headbands on his head and today while I was shopping for a new clothes he wanted to try them on too. Ahh, imitation is the best form of flattery.
Anyway, apparently I am always putting Eli off by referring to Morgan. If something is broken I'll tell Eli that we need to wait till Morgan is home and "Ask Daddy to fix it." So it seems like if anything is going on and I am saying no, or hesitating, or if something is not working Eli always says, Ask Daddy? And usually he's right, we'll wait 'till Morgan is home and then figure it out.
The second thing is that Eli often tells me to do something "Like Daddy does." I'll be getting his socks on in the morning and he'll say, "No, Like Daddy Does." Meaning that I need to scoot back and pretend that the sock is a car. But nearly everything we need to do it, "Like Daddy does."
But while Eli tells me to do things like daddy does, he is always trying to imitate me. He pretends to feed his doll Lucy breastmilk, he wants to use my lotion, puts my headbands on his head and today while I was shopping for a new clothes he wanted to try them on too. Ahh, imitation is the best form of flattery.
Happy Birthday Morgan!
Morgan's birthday was Saturday and I never got around to blogging about it until now. I have pictures on my camera, but I am going to write without them because if I wait it will take another week.
Morgan celebrated his birthday at work on Friday - their policy is that the birthday person has to bring treats in. So I made a pineapple/cherry cobbler and a pineapple/blackberry cobbler for him to take in.
We didn't have a party on Saturday because it was our Stake Temple day and we decided to go down. We were a little slow getting started because Morgan thought I was awake and I was waiting for him to come get me after his shower...But we left before 8am, picked up Charity, who was carpooling with us and started the 3 hour drive to Nauvoo.
We let Charity go in first while we took care of the boys and then after she was done she watched both Eli and Josh for us so we could go in together. We were a little worried about when Josh would wake up and be hungry so we decided to forgo an endowment session and did sealings instead. It was very nice, we saw a lot of people we knew from our temple working days and also saw several people from our ward, too. Unfortunately we missed Morgan's sister who was in the temple at the same time, but none of us knew it. We made the long drive home and checked the BYU v Utah scores, sad to see BYU lost.
Sunday was the big birthday party. I didn't want to wait so as soon as we were all up I wrapped Morgan's presents and had him open them. We got him a zip up sweater to take to work (it gets cold in his office and he doesn't want to wear his suit coat). And I also got him the DVD The Secret of Nymh. He really likes the book and I saw the DVD on sale at Walmart and had to get it for him.
That's all for this post, more news to come later if I have the time.
Morgan celebrated his birthday at work on Friday - their policy is that the birthday person has to bring treats in. So I made a pineapple/cherry cobbler and a pineapple/blackberry cobbler for him to take in.
We didn't have a party on Saturday because it was our Stake Temple day and we decided to go down. We were a little slow getting started because Morgan thought I was awake and I was waiting for him to come get me after his shower...But we left before 8am, picked up Charity, who was carpooling with us and started the 3 hour drive to Nauvoo.
We let Charity go in first while we took care of the boys and then after she was done she watched both Eli and Josh for us so we could go in together. We were a little worried about when Josh would wake up and be hungry so we decided to forgo an endowment session and did sealings instead. It was very nice, we saw a lot of people we knew from our temple working days and also saw several people from our ward, too. Unfortunately we missed Morgan's sister who was in the temple at the same time, but none of us knew it. We made the long drive home and checked the BYU v Utah scores, sad to see BYU lost.
Sunday was the big birthday party. I didn't want to wait so as soon as we were all up I wrapped Morgan's presents and had him open them. We got him a zip up sweater to take to work (it gets cold in his office and he doesn't want to wear his suit coat). And I also got him the DVD The Secret of Nymh. He really likes the book and I saw the DVD on sale at Walmart and had to get it for him.
That's all for this post, more news to come later if I have the time.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
More Movies
More movie reviews for you:
Made of Honor
I watched this movie without Morgan, during naptime today and maybe that is why I didn't feel is was a romantic as I was hoping. It was a fine movie. Basic plot: play boy realizes he is in love with his best friend, when he goes to tell her, she is engaged and asks him to be the maid of honor. He accepts hoping to break up the marriage and get the girl.
I don't really have anything to say about this film. It was fine. I don't think I would own it unless I got it for really cheap - less than $5.00. I didn't really care a lot about the characters. There were a few little scenes that were really fun/cute.
All in all this was a fine movie, but not that memorable for me.
The Jane Austen Book Club Some Spoilers
We watched this movie last night and really enjoyed it. Basic plot - 5 women and 1 man get together once a month to discuss the various Jane Austen books (and by extension their lives). Four of them are old friends and two of the people are new acquaintances.
I should start this off by saying that I really enjoy Jane Austen, but this movie (like the book Austenland by Shannon Hale) seemed to me to only use Austen as a vehicle to explore the characters and their lives.
I really enjoyed this movie. I expected the husband/wife to stay divorced, him obviously pining after her but she living her life without him. Even as the movie was going and he was showing obvious remorse I was just like "serves you right." But in the end when they got back together I was fine with it. He knew he had made a mistake. The wife still loved her husband and wanted to be married to him - the director didn't go with the 'modern, independent woman' cliche.
My problem with this movie is that there were a lot of sexual references, innuendo, etc. I would not allow my kids to watch this movie until after 14 or so (depending on their maturity). I'd like to watch this show again - which generally means that I want to own it (I like to own movies - I probably have about 100).
Before I go on, I would like to say that I am already planning on having my movies separate once my kids get older and actually want to watch movies. There will be the movies that the kids can watch and then the movies that Mom and Dad watch. And when they are older they can start to watch some of the other things.
So, to my dilemma. Do I someday buy this movie and put it in the Mom and Dad pile, or do I forget about it and shake my head at the movie industry for putting unnecessary things into movies?
Made of Honor
I watched this movie without Morgan, during naptime today and maybe that is why I didn't feel is was a romantic as I was hoping. It was a fine movie. Basic plot: play boy realizes he is in love with his best friend, when he goes to tell her, she is engaged and asks him to be the maid of honor. He accepts hoping to break up the marriage and get the girl.
I don't really have anything to say about this film. It was fine. I don't think I would own it unless I got it for really cheap - less than $5.00. I didn't really care a lot about the characters. There were a few little scenes that were really fun/cute.
All in all this was a fine movie, but not that memorable for me.
The Jane Austen Book Club Some Spoilers
We watched this movie last night and really enjoyed it. Basic plot - 5 women and 1 man get together once a month to discuss the various Jane Austen books (and by extension their lives). Four of them are old friends and two of the people are new acquaintances.
I should start this off by saying that I really enjoy Jane Austen, but this movie (like the book Austenland by Shannon Hale) seemed to me to only use Austen as a vehicle to explore the characters and their lives.
I really enjoyed this movie. I expected the husband/wife to stay divorced, him obviously pining after her but she living her life without him. Even as the movie was going and he was showing obvious remorse I was just like "serves you right." But in the end when they got back together I was fine with it. He knew he had made a mistake. The wife still loved her husband and wanted to be married to him - the director didn't go with the 'modern, independent woman' cliche.
My problem with this movie is that there were a lot of sexual references, innuendo, etc. I would not allow my kids to watch this movie until after 14 or so (depending on their maturity). I'd like to watch this show again - which generally means that I want to own it (I like to own movies - I probably have about 100).
Before I go on, I would like to say that I am already planning on having my movies separate once my kids get older and actually want to watch movies. There will be the movies that the kids can watch and then the movies that Mom and Dad watch. And when they are older they can start to watch some of the other things.
So, to my dilemma. Do I someday buy this movie and put it in the Mom and Dad pile, or do I forget about it and shake my head at the movie industry for putting unnecessary things into movies?
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