Happy Thanksgiving and Twilight!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! A little late yes, but happy none the less! Scot's sisters and their families were all here for Thanksgiving this year which was so much fun! We love getting together and spending time with them! Among other activities (see Katie's blog) one of the things we did was to go see Twilight on Friday afternoon!
I was a little unsure about whether or not I was going to like it. I had heard mixed reviews about it so I was kind of on the fence. Honestly I don't really know a whole lot about who is a good actor or actress and if the filming was good, I just know what I like and I LOVED IT! Obviously they had to cut a lot of things out and a movie doesn't give you all of the detail and emotion that a book can but I thought the movie was great. I thought the characters were cast well and I was thoroughly entertained and that's all I really care about.

After the movie we went back to our house for Pizza because it is so close to the theater. The boys also had a tie swap which was fun. They picked ties from their closets that they don't wear anymore and brought them and they all swaped ties...

I hadn't taken any PICTURES while they were here so we did a little photo shoot before they had to go home that night.

Here we all are:

I guess we were feeling a little cheerleaderish...Here are the sisters and brother (shouldn't Scot be on the bottom?) I love this picture! So cute!:

And this last picture is just...ri-donk-ulous and funny...here are the IN - LAWS (- Christian who couldn't be there) we were just feeling silly...and cheerleadery again (see above picture):

GO TEAM!

I am thankful for so many things this year. I know I act extremely UNGRATEFUL most of the time but I have so many blessings in my life. Here are 27 of them since Thanksgiving was on the 27th (clever, I know) in no particular order:

1. My Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ
2. My wonderful and caring husband
3. My families (both my own and Scot's)
4. My job, even though I hate it 99.999999999% of the time I am grateful to have it
5. A house. We were very blessed this year to get this home.
6. Food to put on the table each day
7. Books, I love to be able to get lost in a good book!
8. Good friends, lots of them are far away and I don't see them very often but I am thankful for them
9. My sewing machine, my newest friend. Love it!
10. My car, who without I wouldn't make it through some of these Colorado winters
11. The Gospel
12. My Camera, I love pictures to scrapbook and I love the memories they hold
13. Gas prices being so low, it has been a life saver these last couple weeks
14. My iPod, it totally gets me through my day at work
15. Mine and Scot's education
16. Clean water for cooking, bathing and drinking
17. Pajamas! I would live in them if I could
18. Vacations!
19. Eternal marriage and the knowledge that families are forever
20. Toothbrushes and toothpaste
21. Ice Cream - especially Peppermint
22. My new white down comforter thanks to Black Friday!
23. A garage so I don't have to scrape my car windows
24. Temples
25. California - Elk Grove in particular. It is where I grew up and learned and played
26. Wal Mart - we have a love hate relationship. It saves me lots of money but NOT lots of time
27. The Red Box. I love the Red Box. I would WAY rather spend $1 on a movie instead of $5. Booo Blockbuster....and Hollywood Video...Boo.

We hope everyone had a wonderful THANKSGIVING!

We loved seeing you guys! We miss you already! Come back...K?

Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Last night Scot and I went to dinner at Olive Garden before going to the movies. So we are sitting there having an enjoyable dinner with good conversation and we both treated ourselves to a large refreshing Coke since we had been so good and hadn't had one all week. BOTH of our drinks had gotten down to about the 1/3 mark when our waitress comes by, looks directly at Scot and says "would you like another coke?" Scot says "sure" and she walks away. Meanwhile I am sitting there examining both of our cups and sure enough they are in nearly the EXACT same place. Why must this continue to happen? So of course after she walks away Scot just thinks this is hilarious because this happens almost every time we go out to dinner. But finally he is like "I will grab her when she comes by." I'm like "No it's not that I need or even want one yet, I just don't get why she didn't ask me. It's weird, that's all." So he's says to me "Well drink it down a little more and then she will." I told him "I will, I will." So he then he proceeds to grab my cup and start drinking it. She started to walk up behind him and I kept saying "she's coming, she's coming." but of course he got caught putting it back on my side of the table and she stopped and looked at Scot and said "Does she need another drink?" So I said "Yes I would." Is it so hard to talk to ME? I was so confused. So that's our Olive Garden story. Good food, strange little waitress.

Next we went to the brand new movie theatre right by our house. We are so excited to have this theatre so close. We are thinking that once they finish some paths and roads in the area we can start walking to the theatre on warm days which will be fun. Anyway, we saw Prince Caspian and we really liked it. We definitely recommend it if you liked the first one!

Leatherheads...Leatherdon't

Scot and I went and saw Leatherheads this afternoon and I thought it was crap. I hated it. It was so slow and so boring. Scot thought it was tolerable but I just didn't. Definitely not one I would buy. There were some rare funny scenes and it was a pretty clean flick but it was definitely one we should have waited for the RedBox to get. LUCKILY we had a gift card that we used so it wasn't a total wash. Anyway if anyone still decides to go see it you will either love it or hate it. The people next to us left about 45 minutes in so that tells you something, PLUS it just came out last weekend and it was already playing in one of the small room theatres today so it must not be generating a whole lot of revenue in the Colorado Springs area. For all those football fans out there it might be fairly entertaining but my personal recommendation would be to wait until it comes out on DVD so you can rent it and decide then if it is one to buy!!!

"Enchanted..."

This afternoon we went and saw the movie "Enchanted." While all the crazies were out shopping we had a nice relaxing afternoon in the theatre. This movie was hilarious and super cute. The funniest part happened during a scene where two people were about to kiss and a little boy in the back shouted out in a low, raspy, trying to be manly, hadn't changed yet voice "just do it!" The theatre erupted in laughter. It was a fun movie amidst the snow storm going on outside and we would definitely recommend seeing it if you haven't had a chance to yet!

Dan in Real Life...

Scot and I just got home from seeing the new movie "Dan in Real Life." It's the new Steve Carell movie that came out yesterday. It was pretty hilarious. We loved it and laughed really hard so we just wanted to blog and let everyone know that we think you all should go see it because we know how much our opinion of movies matters to all of you.