Enchanting

Today is a holiday, as I'm sure most of you are aware. Ryan hasn't started his new shift yet (NEXT WEEK! YAY!!!) so he had today off anyway but it was really nice to have Cadi home too!

We wanted to have family time today so we started by cleaning the house together. That was really nice! :) Then, while Rori napped, Ryan, Cadi, and I played xbox - and we were on the same team everytime, except once (Ryan kept trying to kill Cadi and I and we told him he was being a big meanie... then we killed him. lol). After Rori woke up, we went to the movie theater and finally saw the film, Enchanted. I was pretty sure we'd all like it, the commercials were all cute and everyone that I know who's seen it, really enjoyed it. And sure enough - we all really liked it. It is high on my list for purchase when it's made available. :)

Next is Family Home Evening. We're running a little behind tonight, we should be FINISHING FHE now and getting Cadi ready for bed, but hey- it's a holiday! Well really, we're just running behind. lol

Anyhow, we've had a really nice family day and are so excited to be getting more days similar to this once Ryan's on his new schedule and has Saturdays off! :D

WE'RE GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL!!!

 

The Patriots are AFC Champions!!!  STILL undefeated!!!  18-0 with just one more game to play. 

Honestly, today's game really wasn't all that exciting and it certainly wasn't our best game.  It was very cold with a pretty strong wind.  There weren't very many big passes, though there were some good plays.  Brady threw 3 (THREE!) interceptions!  But we grabbed a couple interceptions ourselves and Maroney sure did have a great running game!  The Chargers didn't score a single touchdown, they were forced to kick 4 field goals, instead.  When all 60 minutes were up, the Chargers were on their way home and the Patriots were AFC Champions and on their way to the Super Bowl.  We'll take it! :)

Here are a few pics, just for fun. :)












GO PATS!!!

My Girls, pt. 2

Last week, I found Rori with a piece of chocolate candy that she wasn't supposed to have.  This is what she looked like...



Both of my girls love music. Rori keeps getting this hymnal out and just turns the pages, sometimes "singing" along.



Cadi is doing really well at the piano. I took this pic of her this morning for a school project.



She is growing up so fast! Today is her big class party and she wanted her hair wavy for it. She seemed pretty happy with how her hair turned out...



Looking at that picture makes me wonder where my little girl went!!!

My Girls

Are so cute!!!


Acadia is very excited about her class party tomorrow. She has posted a little blog about it, so go check that out. :) It's going to be a really fun day at school, and not just because of the party! They start with Sharing Time (every Friday, but will be first thing this time because of the other things going on too), then have Art Appreciation (I think this is usually once a month, one of the student's aunt is a professional artist and comes in to do fun projects with them.), they also have P.E. tomorrow, and then there is the class party! She's taking her shower right now and wants me to make her hair "wavy" for tomorrow. lol

Rori is playing on an exercise mat and literally, every 15-20 seconds or so, is coming up to me to give me a kiss. She'll kiss whatever she can get, I try to actually give her a kiss but sometimes she'll just settle for my hand or arm. Then she waves and says, "bye-bye" as she goes back to the mat. lol When she's on the exercise mat, she looks like she's trying to do the splits! She stands up and then lets her feet slide apart until she falls down on her bum. lol

Frankly My Dear...

I have a very important tip when watching an epic film like Gone With The Wind...

When you watch the movie, watch the first half first!!! lol

Neither Aimee or myself had seen the movie or read the book and that's really the main reason why we wanted to watch it. So Aimee put the movie in and we were kind of taken back at how it started right away with no credits or anything. Then as the movie went on, a couple parts really didn't seem to make sense and we were wondering if they'd be explained later. We knew it was a four hour movie so near the end of the first half we were thinking, there are two more hours? What else can there be? (Who is left to die!?!?! lol) And next thing we know it says, "THE END"!!!

WHAT?!?!?!? Where's the second half???

Aimee mentioned that it could have been a two sided disc, so we turned it over, hoping there was a second part of the movie. Oh yeah, there was another part alright... The first part! Including credits! lol

We sure did laugh at ourselves for watching the end first. I laughed so hard, I was crying! lol

Wow, watching the first part made understanding the second part a bit easier. ;)

I have mixed feelings about the movie. It was a bit depressing at the end; I was sad for how it ended! I wanted everyone to be well and happy. But that's just me. ;) As for Scarlett herself, while she is definitely strong, her priorities were pretty messed up. But after I watched the second half, I could understand more of where she was coming from. She was still pretty selfish and even when she did the right thing, it was still usually because of an alternate reason. But still, she was strong and she did help her family when they needed it. The thing that gets me is that she had so much MORE potential. She was so beautiful and if she had only thought a little more about others (sincerely), she would have been just as beautiful on the inside. But she was alone on the inside and in the end, was alone on the outside too. I'd like to think that she went back to Tara, got it and herself straightened out, and that Rhett came back and they lived happily ever after. I don't know if that's what happened but in my head, that is. :)

Pop Quiz

1. 5:08 is:
a) the time it takes me to run a mile
b) when I had dinner on the table last night
c) when I was woken up this morning by a text message to my cell phone from Cadi's school telling us that school was delayed for 2 hours.
d) all of the above

2. My plans today were to:

a) spend the morning at the gym
b) go visit my friend in Seattle
c) have brunch with Ryan
d) volunteer in Cadi's classroom

3. I got up and took my shower at:

a) 5:08
b) 7:00
c) 7:47
d) 8:30

4. I am now running how late:

a) 30 minutes
b) 1 hour
c) 2 hours
d) I'm not late

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Now, let's see how you did.

I cannot run a mile that fast - I'm pretty sure it would kill me if I tried. lol I was close to having dinner on the table around that time last night, but when I took it out of the oven I saw it needed to cook a little longer. Dinner was closer to 6pm. However...

The correct answer to question #1 is C... At 5:08am, I heard my cell phone chirpping at me. My cell phone is my alarm clock and I was thinking, "No way! It can't be 7 am already!!!" Well, it wasn't 7:00. It wasn't my alarm clock. It was a text message from Acadia's school telling us that school was having a 2 hour delay. (They have an emergency contact system - they e-mail us and text message both Ryan and myself so we know as soon as there are any emergencies or changes in their schedule.) I turned on the news, the roads are covered in ice.

The correct answer to question #2 is B... My plans today are to drive up to Seattle for a little GNO. I'm gonna stay with my friend and we're going to watch Gone With the Wind tonight because neither of us have seen it but one of our friends just named her daughter Scarlett since she loves the movie so much. So, we want to watch it. :) I'm excited! Ryan is manning the fort here with the girls and so I'm child-free! :D

The answer to #3 is C... After I saw why we were having a delay, I turned the news off and went back to sleep. Since we had a two-hour delay, when my real alarm went off at 7am, I didn't really do much more than turn it off. lol Finally, I woke up and realized it was much lighter outside than it normally was when I get up, I checked the time - 7:47am. Time to get up!!!

The answer to #4 is A... Since I had been planning on leaving sometime between 8:30 and 9:00, I'm really only running about 30 minutes late. I'm packed and the kids are up, Ryan's taking care of them. Cadi will be going out to the bus in another hour. It's all good. ;)


So, how did you do? If you got all 4 questions right, I'm worried that you're spying on me! If you got 3 questions right, we're meant to be soul mates. If you got 2 questions right, you were totally guessing. If you got 1 answer right, you need to work on your process of elimination a little better. And if you got none of those questions right, you totally need to read my blog more since you obviously don't know me! ;)

An end in sight...

I love my husband and I'm so glad that he likes to do the projects that we want done on our house, it really saves us money and gives him experience. BUT. He usually does the main part of the project and then leaves the "touch up" parts to be done "later". And usually... later never comes.

Tonight I'm excited though, because we have a friend who is going to be helping us finish all those little things and also help us with our upcoming big projects. He's been having a hard time finding work right now and we would really like to get some of these projects completed, so we're hiring him to help us out and we feel good knowing that it's helping him right now, too. Paying him will be worth it because there is just no way we'd be able to realistically finish everything that we'd like to have done. Ryan just doesn't have the time or experience to do it all, but our friend does - he has both! So, it's looking like things are finally gonna get moving around here.

First up: Insulation. Ryan bought enough rolls of insulation to lay under the flooring of our house but he hasn't had the time (or strong desire) to crawl down there and tack it up. But our friend is coming Wednesday morning to get started on it. We also want to add more insulation in the ceiling because there really isn't enough up there right now. I guess we'd better go buy it because he says he'd be happy to do that next. Those two things will really help us save some money in our heating and cooling. :)