Mooning

So a few months ago my Whitny sister asked if I wanted to go see "New Moon" at a special sneak peek the day before it opened (aka last night). I'll admit that I was not super hot on the idea, spending twelve bucks for a movie makes me cringe, but I said I was in since she seemed so very excited and I thought it would be fun to hang out with my sister. Then I started seeing previews and I thought, 'huh, I'm going to go see that in the theater before it opens instead of waiting to see it on Red Box like I normally do. That could be interesting.' And last week I started to get excited about going out in the evening time to see a movie with Amanda and Whitny, and Ryan would stay home with the kids and I would be fancy free. . . I was warming to the idea. Amanda and I discussed the book on the way out to the Chandler Fashion Mall last night and she is on Team Jacob and I am on Team Edward and we had a mild debate (I totally won). We got to the theater and there were girls in their black Twilight t-shirts and pajamas on chairs and blankets lined up all the way around the theater waiting for the midnight show. Our show started at seven. We felt a bit sad for them that they were HUGE crazy fans who would wait in the chilly evening air for hours and hours while we who were mild fans with a comparatively low level of excitement about the whole thing walked blithely into the theater and waited in line for about ten minutes, our seats were assigned. The theater was abuzz with excitement, and the ten men that were there were excited too. When the movie finally started there were excited shrieks and cheering. Amanda and I decided that Bella definately wouldn't be shreiking and cheering about a movie, even her own movie. But the energy was palpable, she might have been hard pressed to remain stoic. I gotta say, I LOVED that movie. Seriously. I laughed, I cried drippy tears (pick your jaws up off the floors). It was like reading the book only faster and that made me really happy. Now I have to go back and read all four of them again.

even though, "you can't really run with vampires."

-Bella, "New Moon"
(she said that in the movie and I know that because I totally saw it,
last night, not at midnight, so I got to sleep.)

Hiking and Leah's Lament

The kids didn't have school today, we love Veteran's Day! Thank you Grandpa Johnson, Uncle Chris, Uncle Jake and all the other Veterans. You rock. So we went to North Mountain and hiked. It was a lovely cloudy day, perfect weather for an outing.

Tess and Pete at the top. Maybe someday her front teeth will grow in and she will begin to look normal again. . .
A well deserved rest after we reached the top. I made them sit there and Alana was very frightened that she would tumble off into the chasm.

The crew.

I found this the other day and took a picture of it for posting. Leah wrote it. Pretty funny.

Public Service Announcement

Roo

Dracula

Mermaids

It's the Monday after Halloween, the children are at school. . .
Did you hide all the Halloween candy yet?

Photos by the Whitny sister (thanks Whit)