The Blind Side

This is amazing. I knew it would be because it had Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, football, AND the south. Ever since the first trailer, I had been waiting for this to come out. I got to go see it with Jenn, which is always a good time. And Iggy's fries beforehand? Can't really get better than that.
I really did think this movie was fantastic. It was inspiring. It was funny. It was really touching. It made me want to adopt kids. It made me want to work harder with my trying students. It was just really well done. I highly recommend it.

On the other hand, saw "New Moon" as well. . . . I don't know that I realized what an unhealthy relationship is portrayed in book two. Don't get me wrong, it was entertaining and I won't lie, Jacob totally made this movie (I could definitely do without Edward AND Bella. Stop whining. Smile once in a while. Don't grunt and whimper when you kiss.) It is what it is, and I'm not going to rush out and see it again. Can't say the same for The Blind Side.

I heart Thanksgiving!

It's coming up. I'm really looking forward to this week. . .and not just because there are only two days of school!!! Well, really, since the students (and probably me) will be totally useless on Tuesday, just one! I saw this on another blog and loved it!

Ok. It's too big for my blog layout so I'll just link to it HERE.

Just can't get enough.

Hysterical. Touching. Amazing. Love it.

Dear Friends,

I need to start hanging out with people my own age. Felt like a 29 year old trying to hang out with high school kids today. Oh wait. . . .yeah. That's right. It's what I do.

Any takers?

Love,
Kat

My Reasons for Posting are Three-fold.

1. THANK YOU to the veterans and members of the military who risk their lives every day for the freedom that I am blessed to enjoy. I miss singing in the annual concert at the U. And I miss my grandpas, especially visiting my Grandpa Paul at the veterans nursing home and all of the awesome old people there with so much history. I love old people.
2. CMA's. I agree. I'm so glad that:
**Lady A won for best song AND best group. I'm loving them. Thanks, Jenn, for the introduction.
**Taylor Swift best album for "Fearless". It really is a great CD, even if I don't like "Fifteen" so much. She is a talented lyricist. TS said, "I think I fell in love with words before I fell in love with music." Love that.
**Taylor Swift for Entertainer of the Year. Awesome. So so exciting. I think that TS is really funny, and really REAL. I think she is very "everyday", which is a quality I really like. I think that she is an entertainer, even though she can sometimes be pitchy when singing live, she performs. She puts on a show. And I just flat love it when dreams come true.
3. I want my sharpies back, you thieving thugs.

Wooooo!!! WOOOOOO!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!

Yes, I do think I can dance. But not as well as those rockin' stars that put on the show Saturday night! Laura, Tracie, April and I all got tickets in, what? August? We've been so so excited, and the show did not disappoint! We got some eats at the Trading Table and then walked over to the E Center. What kind of name is that for an arena? Weird.
Anyway. Here are a few pics!
This really is April's hat, I just wanted to wear it. I've always loved hats, but they don't always work with my hair.This was hilarious! I guess they have come out with a SYTYCD "Get Fit" DVD and it was a shameless plug. Kupono was hilarious. This was a running gag. . . . Remember that one time that Phillip and Jeanine did the Russian folk dance and nobody liked it? So they kept trying to do the dance and would sneak onstage with a big old boom box. . . Totally planned, but funny anyway. Eventually, they got to do a bit and then everyone came on doing the same dance. . . ha hee ha.
Best dance ever. We decided that we are just going to say that Jeanine and Jason are a couple because they are waay too cute not to be.It was so so so fun! I'm really glad we went, I love girls nights!

Wow-ee.

Michael Jackson was a genius. Amazing.

Halloween for Real

Today was a big day. Victoria said it would be the best day ever, because FIRST she was going to get baptized. Then there would be a big party. THEN they got to go trick or treating! Can it get better than that? I don't know. I started the day off by taking pictures of my friend Ashley's family, and her little girls are so so adorable. I will post pics soon on my pic blog. Then I headed to Orem. They asked Alan to ask someone to give a 2 1/2 minute talk on baptism, and he asked me. I talked about the primary song, "I like to look for rainbows/whenever there is rain/and ponder on the beauty/of an earth made clean again. . ." and it went well. Toria did a great job and Alan gave her a beautiful confirmation blessing. It was very touching and I can't believe she's so old! She is such a little grown up and has true desires to do good. One day we were driving in my car and she said, "I was thinking that I need to be a better example to Brayden. And when he makes me mad I just need to walk away instead of fighting with him." It was so cute.
The luncheon was awesome, nothing like soup and breadbowls. Love it. We had a great time visiting with everybody, April has a great family and it's nice that we all get along so well. We have been so lucky with in-laws, way to pick 'em, sibs! I laid down with Audrey to take a nap and I think she only slept for about half an hour, but I didn't want to wake up. Naps rock.
I stayed the whole day so I could go trick or treating with the kids and it was fun seeing them get so excited about their costumes. April's mom, Grammy Susie, made an unbelievable mermaid costume for Toria, Brayden was a pirate, and Audrey who was scared of every costume (so so funny) wore a dress-up fairy/ballerina/froofy something.
I don't know that there is much more in the world that I would rather do than hang out with the kids. I think it's because I live vicariously through them. And because of their cuteness. I'm glad that A & A don't get sick of me around. . . .but it'd be silly to turn down free babysitting, right?!

This is the only picture I got, and Tor has this thing about not looking at the camera.

This picture cracks me up because they look so excited.

Ha ha. . .I remember this. Dad would have to go through all of our candy first. . . . watch out for those hypodermic needles and drugged taffys, right??

Halloween Part One

On Friday we had a rad halloween stomp. Jessy and I decided to be thugs. Or the word here is "chola", which means a mexican gangster. But we were in a good gang. Like the Buttercream Gang. Just wait until the Widow Jenkins falls down again, we'll be there.
Anyway, she was pink, I was purple. It was awesome.

We had a dance battle and I think it was pretty even; even if I like to say I killed it. Then we choreographed our own little line dance to "Thriller" and that was fun. Pretty rudimentary, but rockin.

Word to the wise: the fake nails were a bad idea.