The "Twilight" experience!!

Twilight ....

Ok so I saw the movie tonight. I'll be honest I wasn't way excited or thrilled or really cared who played what part. I also kind of cheated and read a bunch of reviews. So I went into the movie, sorry for all of you fans, but I just don't get into movies and books to much that I have to clap and were shirts that support it, I just laught and look around at all the funny monkeys! PS to all my friends who do this I still love you all the same, this just doesn't "float my boat"

But I have never read the books. I haven't really talked about it with people, all they tell me is, "YOU'VE GOT TO READ THEM" ya ya ya. maybe one day I will but truth must be told, it just doesn't sound like fun to me ... even after seeing the movie.

So since I was problably the ONLY person in that whole audience that had no expections or visions in my head of things, or how something should be or what they should have put in or foucsed more on or not done this or that. I was suprisingly pleased with the movie. It held my addention, the scared me in parts, I "felt the love" and I just thought "Wow that wasn't all too bad" - Yes some parts were a bit on the cheese side for me but oh well what movie doesn't have a cheesey line in it?

I went to this movie with My mom, sister, sister in law, cousin, oh and my neice (ok so maybe 2 of us hadn't read the books, she's 10, but she wants too now!! Funny girl) And it was a nice evening out. We went to dinner after and it was just so funny to listen to them talk about it and oh he's important in this book

"She is so important for the next book"

"I wish they would have talked about this"

"They should have not foucsed so much on Bella and Edward"

and blah blah blah.

So I give you MY review of the movie from a "NON READER SIDE"

*** I enjoyed the movie. I liked how the actors kept my attention, I like Edward, I like Jacob (truth be told I leaned over to my mom and said, "So that is Jacob? I thought he was white!" Ha ha ha, that's what I get!!) But he was still cute. Edward was cute, I highly wish I could "Hang on like a spider monkey" and fly in the trees too! Wow that would just be fun! I loved the Cullen Family! They just rocked, I love the kitchen sceen! So funny! (Truth be told I also felt akward in that sceen!!) But the Doctor was cute! Loved his wife! And the kids were pretty sweet too! I loved the "black vampire" (sorry, I know I don't know names!!) he was pretty cool! I loved the fight sceen in the ballet studio, just totally different! I liked how you could also feel the sexual tendsion between Bella and Edward. Wow can you say I sometimes felt I soundn't be in the "room" with them!! As you can tell for someone who never read it, it was a pretty dadgum good movie!

So for all of you on "TEAM EDWARD" - Ya more power to ya!!!

And for all of you on "TEAM JACOB" -Ya more power to ya!!! (I hope I see more of him in the next film!!! {Don't worry my mom already told me he has a big part in it!})

So I say go and see it! Don't keep your hopes up if you have them set high if you have read the books, that is never a good thing cause there will be forsure a let down somewhere! They just can't fit a book into a movie, unless it's like a western or something!!

Anyways, my beloved "Twilight fans" I'll say this .... Wow! That is pretty fun!!

What takes up my time some days ....

So I've found a new love, besides my husband, kids, family, ect.

This is the site, www.thepioneerwoman.com


This is where I want to be one day!! Ha ha I know it's hard for me to even think about me being somewhere like that too!! But in all honesty that really is what I want!

Ok let me explain here. My friend Jenna had told me about this site and I just happen to forget and then ran across it. Anyways, as I've been reading about her and her family and life I just sit and gasp at everything! This is what I want! This is what we, Brandon and I, want. The ranch life! Oh my crap I couldn't believe it! And her and her "Maralbor Man" are just like Brandon and I!! It's kind of weird! But I love it, cause I now know that I can make it out in the boondocks of anywhere, she really is inspiring, you feel like you can do anything after reading it! Well i do! But it was just crazy! She was a city girl and married a cowboy, um .... well that stroy really does sound like someone elses I know!! ( It's mine and Brandons if you were having trouble thinging about it!)

So this is our new insperation, this is making us want our cattle ranch even more! Oh to see the pictures of there kids as young as 3 on horses bringing in the cattle! Oh man amazing and then just all the fun they have but she is still very ... um ... I don't know anything better to say than updated! Still "with it" I guess you could call it.

Anyways, for some of you that have wondered what the heck we are doing this is what we are shooting for. So now I have someone to look up too and follow. WONDERFUL! I love it! (Side note: Her husband is amazing, really read her love story with him, um yeah it's so unreal and wowing) So I just though I would share that with some of my fellow readers out there. ( I've been doing so good at posting lately! I'll reward myself with a Coke when i'm done) So there it is. My new love! I would love to met this people one day! Wow! Or atlesat see there ranch! Anyways, just sharing and I hope some of you will enjoy her also! She is very funny also! But yes yes, I want to get on our ranch faster and faster! Oh how I hate waiting ............

I've gone Country ... back to my roots ...

Ok so I admit that I am "Country" I love having cows all around me and the "long" drive out to our house and that I have to drive to church every Sunday and thursday cause it's not close enough to walk! But what I really love that my daughters are country! It's in there blood. I've not really taught them to love what I love or even like what i like, cause if I did i would not be watching kid shows all day!! But they have just all of a sudden taken a huge interest in "western" Hadley mainley.
Taylor will kind of do what Hads does but she is her own personality too and she also loves the country life!

But here is the main part of my story. Just a week or two ago Hadley started to talk .... alot more than usual. She is shy around people at first but she is getting better. And just out of the blue she sarted to say Cowboy to me. And it was cute and i didn't think much into it. Until Brandon and I one night decided to watch one of our favorite movies. And now it's a staple in the movie watching with the girls, more or less a rquest to watch it.



I love this movie for reasons like George Strait and the music. But all of a sudden my daughters have taken lots of interest in the movie. Hadley now comes to me and says
"Mommy I watch Cowboy Show"
And I will have to turn it on and she will sit and watch the whole thing. Well the best part is the other day in the car we were listening to country, do I really listen to anything else?? Anyways the song by Brooks and Dunn called "Cowgirl Don't Cry" came on and Hadley started to sing it!! It was the cutest thing I've ever heard!! She says it so cute too! She will say Cowgirl and Cowboy and I love it! She will come to me and say "Mommy I want Cowboy hat" and her and Taylor will both have to put on there Cowgirl hats, but they will sit and watch the movie like that!! It's so cute and funny! I love having cowgirls. Hadley the other day to my mom on the phone told her that "she marry cowboy!!" Oh my I was laughing so hard! It was very random but so dang cute nd my mom was all, "your gonna marry a cowboy? well we'll have to see about that" Oh man she was laughing it was so cute! It's a wonder people have kids cause they really do say the cutest things!!

So to this post I'm letting my kids know, you can still love the city, trust me I still love the mall and going to Downtown Salt Lake, but keep your roots! Nothing feels more like home to me than the 10 to 15 mins I drive to get home from the freeway and passing all the fields and how the houses are spread out and seeing horses and cows all over the place. How my neighbors and I are separted with fields and no one lives accross he the way from us. Just a field, that now has cows in it! Ha I just can't escape them!! But it may seem far, but it's really not that far! It's just wonderul! And I love it! I love being able to stay home and be a mommy to the best girls ever. What a wonderful blessing that is to our family. We are truely blessed even in this time of worry and hardache, I really do have to count our blessings. And I'm so glad we are self employeed! I fear for what we might be like if otherwise! Anyways, just thought I would share what I've been up to the last couple of days with us. It's so fun. I can't wait till they are a bit older but right now I take each day as it comes! Thanks girls for givin me something to laugh about everyday! Even when you do wake one another up from naps, or in the middle of the night, I love to have to still cuddle with me. Um .... speaking of getting woken up .... someone just woke some one up! I'll chat later!
PS I'm still working on the picture thing too! I haven't forgotten!!

One ... Two... Three ...

Oh goodness So much has been going on, where to start? First off our computer has some kind of virus or something so we bought a laptop and I love it! But the only crappy part is all my pictures are on the other computer!! But I have loaded some onto the new machine! So I'll get some up! But life has been going so good! Oh we are just moving right along and it's a wonderful feeling. I just know that Satan is working his hardest with us right now, but we are fighting threw it! We are on the way to go to the Temple and it's such a wonderful feeling. But that is when he will work his hardest on you, at least that is how it feels to me. But I love my calling! The ward we are in the Youth are so amazing! I look up to them. They have such strong spirits it's crazy! I taught my first lesson to the laurals and I was a baby - serious I was crying at everything! Ug, it was such a hard topic for me too! The one on Loving Yourself and Others. Ya I swear that lesson was more for me than them! But I did feel better the next Sunday when one of the girls gave her Testimony and she talked about what I had said. So I know that someone took it into there lives!!! Otherwise I never want to leave! I love hanging out with the girls and getting to hang out with the leaders! I so can't wait for Camp! We have already joked about some of us there! So this is wonderful! And I'm feeling like more of the ward too! That is a bonus too! But the ward is amazing! And I know we will meet every one in time! So that is that, I'll keep ya posted on the temple too!
The girls have been so much fun lately! With Halloween they were so funny! Hadley is talking so much more and she says the funniest things! They were Fairies for Halloween and they looked so cute. But honestly I just couldn't decied what they were going to be. The last two years I've had it all picked out and this year I just wasn't feeling it. I would like something one day and hate it the other. So hopefully this is the only year I'm like that!! Ha ha we'll see! But we had a good time anyways. We went to my mom's school carnival and had a blast there, spent alot of time at the fishing pool!! And then of coures the slide they have every year! It's great! And the Soda game - the ring on the bottle! I've always won and did again this year also!yes I rock! But I love taking the girls to the school to show them off! I've known everyone since my mom has worked there and everyone that is new gets to know us also and they love to see the girls so it's great! And good perks too! But for Halloween we went to our old ward in kaysville - my parents ward- and did the truck or treak and made out like bandits - seriously that has to be the best idea ever! In like 20 mins you get all the candy that you would in about an hour!! And it's not freezing! I can remember so many Halloweens with Jenna and we were so cold! Ug! But now it's super quick! After the kaysville we went to our wards Trucnk or Treat and man can I just say they know how to do it in Hooper! We got dounts and apple drink and people bring horses dressed up it's so awesome! Oh yeah did I mention that it's in a field too? You just park right in the field! It's so funny! I love it! Can't wait til next year - we are already talking about what we are going to give out and what we are going to have in the truck and decking it out! Ya it's sweet!
Brandon has been keeping really busy. With the mowing season done and the Christmas Lights ahead it's just crazy! It's nice to have him home for a bit longer in the mornings and home earlier at nights! It's hard but it's good. So if you know anyone that doesn't want to get on the roof to put up the lights and then take them down, give us a call and we'll see what we can do! (We joke that we rise our lives for lights!! Ha ha! Crazy!)
The girls are good. They have started to play with each other more with out mom right there! They are so dang cute! taylor has 2 more teeth to break threw and I'm done with teeth coming in! FINIALLy!! thought that would never end! But we are starting to potty train both girls!! What a treat for mom! But it's still on the up and down stage! Hopefully it will get going faster! But they are doing so great I love these girls so much! They have the funniest personalities! They are so different and so much the same its amazing! They are so fun! And wearing the same size clothes! If I let them!! Hadleys are still a bit too big on tay but she trys! I can't wait til they get older and I just have to buy like two colors instead of two different sizes! But the hand me downs have been nice, they are still in style! Can't ask for better than that! But they are super good and nursary is becoming less of a chore on sundays, they are starting to stay and only cry the fisrt 5 mins or less! I love it!
But otherwise things have been good. I'm kind of bummed cause I've been trying to find THanksgiving decor and haven't been able too! It's nothing but Christmas! So I'll just have to look harder or faster or earlier next year!! I am super excited for Thanksgiving! I get to have it at our house! I get to be the mommy that cooks everything and works so hard just to have it done in about 30 mins!! But I can't wait I'm so looking forward to it! I love it! Nothing says Family like cooking and Thanksgiving! I'm also really excited cause I'm almost completely done with Christmas Shopping!! I have my things saved for Black Friday but for the most part finished! I'm so just going to cook for the Holidays!! Oh ya and relax! But anywho. There is a bit of an update and I'll chat later!