“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
Yesterday, Kameryn crawled all by herself!!! I was watching a movie, and Kameryn was on a blanket with some of her toys. One of her toys went out of her reach, so she flipped over and crawled to it. Luckily, Kjersti had come into my room to talk to me for a minute and so she saw it happen. She went and told Jay, and Jay said that I wasn't allowed to watch Kameryn anymore since I was teaching her how to crawl. Kjersti told him that I had had nothing to do with it. He then came in and we made her do it again. It still takes her a little while. She isn't zooming around yet, but she is definately getting the hang of it down!!!
Christmas this year was a complete sucess! Both babies were thoroughly spoiled with presents ranging from high chairs, to books, to Disney movies to toys. The Christmas tree was almost covered in the Christmas presents piled under it and after Santa came, there was barely enough room for all of the family to be in the same room as all of those presents! It took two full hours to unwrap and then dig our way out of the room. We filed up three garabage bags just from wrapping paper! And, as usual, once the stockings were unloaded, there is no possible way to get everything that came out of them back into it! Even the babies got great stockings! It is always a lot of fun to spend the day with the family, and I think that the babies first Christmas turned out rather well. Thanks Mom! You did an excellent job!!!
The man that was robbing the Baskin Robbins stores, along with a few others, was finally caught yesterday morning. I don't really know any of the details, but I wanted everyone to know that he is off the streets! I certainly hope the small amount of money he got is worth the jail time!!!
Monday, the Baskin Robbins in Holiday was robbed by a man with red hair and a red moustache. He sat outside the store and watched for a while, went in and ordered, and then said he had to go back out to his car to get his money. When he came back in, he had a knife and robbed them.
I was at Kjersti's house when I saw this on the news. Justin's two new stores are the Taylorsville and West Valley stores, so it wasn't his store that got robbed. I called him and asked him about it anyways though. He said that he wouldn't have put it on the news. He said that it causes more problems to have people know that someone got away with robbing the store, then by putting the description of the guy out there. We both agreed that the guy had to be completely dumb to rob and ice cream store in the middle of the winter though. I found out later that the guy only got $70.
However, Tuesday night, he also robbed Justin's Sugarhouse Baskin. When Justin called the police, they told him that the same guy had also robbed three other stores earlier that day. He is probably not going to stop until he gets caught. not having learned his lesson from robbing the other Baskin, though, the guy only got $50. I sure hope that's worth the jail time. Maybe it will help him post bail...
On a scale of one to five, I would give Eragon about a three. I was extremely excited for this movie, but it really just didn't meet my expectations at all. First of all, it is really short! It is only 1 hr. and 40 minutes long, and trying to do an entire book justice in that amount of time is impossible. I felt like the movie was about 5 minutes long, and I had already seen the first 3 minutes in the trailers. The most important thing lost in this short movie was character development. I haven't read the book, so I wasn't overly effected by characters dying and I didn't feel a real sense of dread as the army is coming to attack the rebel city. I don't even remember the names of almost any of the main characters, and that usually isn't hard for me. I thought the effects were done well, and the acting was pretty good, but the whole story line just went too fast to have any real effect on me.
I will have to read the book to know for sure, but the storyline felt so completely predictable to me. I don't know if it was just how many fantasy books I have read, or if it was just the direction of the movie, but I already knew what was going to happen to most of these characters.
The music is done by Patrick Doyle. He is the same composer that wrote the music for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I think he did a really good job with this score.
So, all in all, I think that it was just okay. For my siblings with babies, I would say just wait to see it when it comes out on video instead of trying to get a babysitter or taking them with you. I would still see it, but maybe wait a little while. And, Allie, I heard that you are going to see it tomorrow, so please let me know what you thought about it too.
I always love it when the tree goes up! I love reading just by the light of the tree, and I have many memories that go along with it too. It looks excellent every year, but like mom said, it is a different tree every year. I also loved showing the Christmas tree to Kameryn. She was mesmorized by all of the colors and started to get so excited. I even showed her some of the presents under the tree from her Aunt Chelsee.
And, then just because I don't have enough pictures of baby Isaac up, here is another one that I wanted to show off!
A couple of weeks ago, Gary gave me his pedometer so that I could see how much I walked around at work. Here are the results:
Monday- 8.52 mi (worked from 9 to 5) Tuesday- 2.81 mi (worked from 9 to 1) Wednesday- 8.45 mi (worked from 9 to 5) Thursday- 8.83 mi (worked from 9 to 5) Friday- 9.89 mi (worked from 9 to 5) Saturday- 4.66 mi (worked from 6 to 11)
Yesterday I went and saw the Holiday after I got off from work. I loved it! I have been really excited to see this movie, and it was even better than I thought it was going to be!
I am always worried about Cameron Diaz in a movie, but she is getting better and did a good job in this movie. Jude Law, Kate Winslet and Jack Black also did a great job! And even the supporting cast are well know actors. (Or at least I know them all.) Bur, Rufus Sewell is in it. He plays Marco in Dangerous Beauty. And Jack Black's girlfriend is the princess in a Knight's Tale, etc...
I could relate better with Kate Winslet then with Cameron Diaz, but part of what I loved about this movie was that there were things about both people that I could relate to. Even though there were basically four main characters, they all have great character development.
And, of course, the music is done by Hanz Zimmer! So, add this soundtrack to my Christmas List!
There are also funny movie jokes along in it. It was interesting to see who in the audience caught them. It was generally a lot of the older people laughing. (Older meaning, not the 2 ten year-olds sitting close to me.) And, just for Allison, there is even a scene with James Franco.
I know it is a chick-flick, so Wesley probably wouldn't like it, but I would recommend it to anyone else. It is a feel-good movie that I really needed. (no one gets shot in the head in this one!) And, if anyone wants company, I would happily go with anyone and everyone! I was ready to see it again as soon as I walked out of the theatre!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEOFFREY! This is the cake that I made him. Just making it was making me sick and I haven't even had any yet!! Geoffrey wanted Oreo ice cream, with white cake. Then he said he wasn't picky, but he wanted a lot of the frosting border! When I asked him what kind of frosting, he said he liked the buttermilk frosting. So, all that white stuff that the oreos are in... yep, loads of buttermilf frosting. I hope everyone also grabs a HUGE cup of milk to help push all of this frosting down!! But, he's the birthday boy, so he can have what he wants. PG-16!!! I feel old.
Today is also baby Isaac's baby blessing. So, the family is all dressing up in our Sunday best and heading off to church this morning. I love you Danae! I hope that today goes how you hoped and that certain stupid in-laws don't mess it up for you!
Every morning I listen to 97.1 on my way to go babysitting, and then driving him to school and again on the way to work. Every Friday, they bring in the Chief of the Salt Lake City Police Department and they do a segment called, "Ask Boe" where people call in and ask them their police related questions. This morning, that person was me. I called in and told them about my stalker and asked his advice for what to do. They helped me out and got me the right numbers to call in and file a police report.
After work today, I was able to call them and file a report. I even have a case number. The police office also gave me some advice about what to do, such as don't answer the phone by saying my name, etc... And he made sure that I wrote down my case number in case this guy keeps calling. Danae also recommended to me that I should get some pepper spray to keep with me. Even if this guy stops, I think that would make me feel safer in general in Salt Lake.
