Pixar's Up

We took the girls to see Pixar's UP this weekend (click on link to see trailer).

The movie was great!! All ages would like this movie. My girls loved it and stayed still through most of it too (that doesn't happen...ever)! The main idea of this story centers around this 78 yr old man named Carl Fredricksen. Grumpy old man. :) Anyway, Carl decides to attach thousands of balloons to his old house and then takes off on an adventure to South America, where the unexpected happens. Once he's up in the air he realizes that he is not alone. Russell, a young wilderness scout, knocks on his door and is grudgingly let it (like he had any other choice). The movie was funny, cute, exciting, and very touching. Definitely one to see...or wait to redbox it if you don't want to admit that you want to see the movie. :) This will be one to add to the movie collection. Here's a few movie stills I found online.

New Moon Movie Poster

edit: added this!! sister sent it to me...

Look what I found today!! Guess it's been out for a couple of weeks, but I just noticed it. The Twilight Saga: New Moon Movie Poster! Ok Ok I know their were A LOT of mixed reviews from the 1st movie, Twilight. Myself included. BUT that doesn't mean I'm not looking forward to how they interpret the 2nd book on film. :) I'm still curious, and I'll still go see the movie on opening night.

more pictures here on IMDB from the movie, not many, but I'm sure more will be posted as November 20th gets closer.

ok, I'll add one more picture -- the wolf pack, minus Jacob.

how could I resist??! cute boys with their shirts off ;)

Our weekend at the farm

For the weekend, we took off to my husbands parents farm in Colorado. I love it there (my kind of camping!! hehe), and it has been too long since we've visited the property. They have 80 acres of land, some for farming hay and the rest is what I call a maze of trees and red rocks. While we were there, it rained EVERY day, and so it was a very muddy mess. The kids loved it. Now for the pictures from the trip!

Here is a picture of the trailer, and the barn that my husbands dad built (upstairs is the livable space).

This is one of the views from the property. From here you can see 2 different mountain ranges.

This it my little one making friends with Freckles the lamb.

The ducks!! My father in law was working on increasing the size of the pond, so they hung out in the empty chicken coop. I only heard them referred to as Short and Fat, not sure if that's their true names ;). The kids had these water guns to play with, and had a lot of fun squirting them with irrigation water. he he. But they won't be alone much longer! My mom in law is getting a new batch of baby chickens this week. should be fun!

Ahhh..the 3 musketeers. My daughter and 2 of her cousins surrounded by the horses on the property. I believe this year they have 5 horses and 1 old donkey named Donna. They are really beautiful horses, some of them used to be racing horses. My husbands parents keep these horses on their property for a friend. My husband and I tried to feed them carrots...you'd think they'd like them but no, they don't. They don't like anything sweet like carrots, sugar cubes, or apples, they stick to their hay and grains. silly horses.

Hapi Mack! or Mack, Mack Attack, we came up with a lot of nicknames for the newest member of the farm. He is a really cute fun little Maltese dog that LOVES being on the farm. Mack likes to sneak under the wire fencing and torment the ducks, or run and jump under the horses. He is supposed to be white, but with the red dirt everywhere, he's changing his colors. ;)

Here are the cousins with their grandpa on the backhoe. They loved helping him on the farm.

I love this picture. :) It's my mom in law shooting our 22. She is an excellent shot. We all took turns shooting the cans. Ok ok ok, everyone but me got a turn. HA! Yeah....so my arms are a little too short to look in the scope just right AND to pull the trigger at the same time. so sad. my vertical challenges strike again. Guess I'll have to bring my little 22 the next time we visit the farm so I can have a little fun.

This is my little family on the farm four wheeler. It mainly helps get from one place to the next a lot faster. My husband took them on a ride up and down the path to the front gate. I think my oldest was driving ;)

I took this picture on our drive home. These HUGE windmills are at the opening of Spanish Fork Canyon. I don't know if they are doing a study or how long they've been there, but I thought they were amazing.

The trip was a lot of fun and relaxing. I can not wait until we can go back and visit the farm again. We only had one kid accident. My oldest has her mom's clumsiness--poor thing. She smashed her fingers (no adults present, so not sure on true story) and then somehow was on the floor and her face was all scratched up and now has a little black eye. Considering the size of the property and how the kids were going non-stop dusk to dawn, I think that's pretty good. :)

Thanks for letting us come down and visit mom and dad! We had a great time!

They grow up way too fast

My oldest learned how to ride her bike without training wheels!!! We actually took them off last summer, but she wasn't really interested in trying until just now. She jumped on her bike and was determined. I think it helped that she had all her friends on their bikes cheering her on. Last weekend when her cousin was here, he jumped on her bike and taught himself how to ride without training wheels. I think that helped too. :) Once she was on riding her bike, then another kid in the circle wanted his training wheels off, and then another one. Fun night and I'm soo happy for my little girl! :)

Here is my neighbor running with my daughter in case she leaned too far and fell off.

And I had to include this CUTE picture of my youngest. :) that face is priceless.

Birthday, Mothers Day, baby blessing all rolled into one...yipee!

What a day! I'll try to keep it short, but wanted to share a few pictures. Sunday, May 10th was not only Mother's Day, but it was also my birthday (Amy and Aunt Reba too!!), and little Alice's baby blessing. My morning started off bright and early in Woods Cross for the baby blessing, and then afterwards everyone went to Amy's house for a little party. EVERYONE. It was literally a blessing/birthday/mothers day party. I thought it was great, and it's always fun to see family together. My mom even made a 3 tiered fondant cake for our birthday, and just so everyone is clear, it's not lopsided, it's supposed to look like the layers are sliding off. I thought it turned out great for her first time making that kind of cake. A lot of pictures were taken at the party, unfortunately it wasn't my camera, so I'll hopefully add a few more pictures in a few days.

Afterwards I hurried home to be with my family for the rest of mom's day/birthday. They decided to give me a dozen beautiful purple roses and 3 red ones, one for each of them. Then they wanted to make me a cake. The girls picked out 2 flavors, strawberry and fun fetti, and then tried to swirl them together in bread pans. After the cake was cooked, we put one on top of the other and they frosted it (with little help) and put the candles on top. Someone tried to use a few trick candles..hehehe, but only ONE actually re-lit after I blew them out. Oh...you know who you are and just you wait until your birthday cake. ;) How many candles is that again?! wahaha. We laughed the entire time, I loved it. I had a really great day with my family.

I also want to mention a new toy I got for my birthday! My sisters and some family went in and got me a Wii Fit for my birthday present!! How fun is that?! I've always been interested in trying the game, and I never said anything about it. I guess Lisa can just read my mind. :) I LOVE IT! Thanks! I've only started trying it out, and so far it's got my attention, and I'm trying to open other games. I promise to keep at it, it should be a lot of fun!!