I Got End Tables!

I've never had end tables in my front room and I finally conned Albert into letting me buy some! The hard part was finding tables small enough to fit in my little space. My living room is pretty small, so I didn't get a coffee table. Maybe in our next house I can have a coffee table...

Cute, huh?

I love them!!!

Twilight Review

Again, I'm not sure why, but my computer is retarded and keep making small pictures. Whatever.

My mom and my sister went to see Twilight when we were in Texas. We're kind of dorky {would you expect anything different?} and we all got Twilight shirts and wore them to the movie! My shirt is a tribute to Carlisle and I still think he's way hotter than Edward after seeing the movie. I chose well.

Let me first just say that OVERALL I really like it. More than I expected {I've seen it twice now and the second time I went BY MYSELF like the big loser I am}. It tells basically the same story as the book and I thought Bella and Edward had fantastic chemistry on screen. I thought most of the characters were cast very well. Particularly Carlisle, Rosalie, Alice, James and Charlie.

That said, here's what I didn't like.....
The whole thing felt very low-budget. I don't know if it was a low-budget film or if that's just how it was supposed to be. I still maintain my opinion that they could have cast a better Edward. He was really the only character I didn't think was cast well. But that's just me. Others will disagree (Lowanna). I hate how Edward calls Bella "Spider Monkey". Irritating and cheesy. I didn't like how they introduced Jacob. It felt very awkward and forced. I also didn't like the scene in the meadow. Not like the book at all. Jasper's character didn't match the one I have in my head at all. I understand why he always looked terrified, but I had him pictured in my mind to always look very peaceful and serene. Different ideas, I guess. I also thought the baseball scene and after when they almost fight the other 3 vampires was kind of cheesy, but it was kind of that way in the book, too. That's all.

What did you all think about the movie? Is my opinion wrong?

Texas/Thanksgiving 2008

I'm not sure why, but my computer keeps uploading all my pix exactly backwards of how I try load them. Grrrr...

Anyway... Here are my pictures from our trip to Texas! YAY! I know you've all been waiting so patiently. Not all of them are on here because my dear sweet sister APRIL used a bunch of my pix on her blog, AND pretty much gave the entire narrative of our trip. SO. Y'all can just link to her blog for the play-by-play. I'll just give little tid-bits here and call it good.

The beach outside our condo in Port Aransas.

Mi Papa in all his awesomeness.

Mi Hubby and Granty in the car on the way to get some lunch at Whataburger!

My dorky, I mean, dear sweet sister who's blog you need link to.

Don't forget Peck in the backseat.

A pelican.

Mi familia chillaxin' on the jetty and watching the dolphins.

Some fish some guys on the jetty caught. Probably about the size of a football and maybe 2 inches thick with some wicked spines on the back.

Said dolphins.

The same dolphins.
I have about 18 of almost the exact same picture. Not sure why.

My awesome Pappy, again, in his sweet vacation shirt!

Mi Madre in the back of the car. She and Mikkele rode here because we were short on seating. Good thing she's short so she could fit back there!
Just kidding, Mom!

April and Granty giving Adam 2 eyebrows instead of 1.

It's looking better!

He loved it. Don't worry.

Albert and Johnny got to go fishing at Ken and Robin's river house in Wimberly.

Too bad it was too cold to get in.

Albert and Becky hanging out down by the river.

Out of place, I know. Stupid computer.
Grant loved listening to Adam's i-pod!

I guess it wasn't too cold to get in. Johnny did!

Albert paid Johnny $5 bucks to get in the water. So he stripped down and jumped in! He claimed it wasn't too bad.

Looking for a turtle.

Still looking for the turtle.

HuckleJohnny Finn.

Overall, we had a great trip! It was great to see all the Roberts family and Johnny and Becky. Oh! April (you need to clickit!) wanted me to mention all the great eats we had! With pleasure...

We ate at some of our favorite spots...
Rudy's BBQ ~ "The worst BBQ in Texas"
El Mirasol
Taco Cabana ~ We ate there 3 times!
Whataburger
We ate at a seafood restaurant in Port Aransas (can't remember the name).
Thanksgiving with the Roberts clan.
Thanksgiving Part 2 with Ken and Robin (Jalapeno Cornbread Stuffing... mmm....)
And of course, Mom's house! She made us some scrumptious German food, salmon, and strawberry waffels upon request from all of us spoiled kids!

No wonder we all gain a bunch of weight whenever we go to Texas. The food is so good!

Thanks, again, to Mom and Dad for having us and for taking us to the coast! It was a blast! Thanks to April, Mikkele, Grant, and Adam for riding down with us and sharing gas! It was a long trip, but loads of fun! Until next time...

One Hairy Update

Alrighty....

Here are my latest (and I'm sure, much-anticipated) pix of my new hair. For those of you who are like my hubby, you might say that it looks the same as it did before. You are wrong. I have different bangs, and LOTS more layers. The layering starts at my ears where they used to start at my shoulders. So, there you go!

{Feel free to ridicule me as much as you want for my retardedness. I won't be offended.}

Photag

Okay, here is the 4th photo in my 4th folder in my computer.

This is Albert and Sam this past spring trying out the rock crawler after Albert and Will had worked on it all winter. I'm not sure who took the picture.

Thanks, Sue, for another tag! Now I'm going to change it up a wee bit...
Y'all have to post the 8th picture in your 8th file.

Because that's my favorite #. That's why.

{...I TAG...}

April, Jenna, Becky F., Becky T., Alyson, Mandi, Julie/Kirk, McPherson, Kelli {BTW - welcome to the blogging world! Now, get taggin'!}, Carrie W., Carrie B., Camille,

AND

{Because I changed it up}

Sue.

You know you all love me. I just gave you something to blog about.

Like you need another reason, right?

Thank you all for your fantastic comments and opinions!

Updated hair pix coming soon.
I promise.


In other news...

New, more exciting, updates coming this weekend!

{Including}

~Thanksgiving~

~Texas~

~Twilight Review~

~And anything else I find relevant to share with you people~

I know you're excited.

Try not to embarrass yourself.

Tell me what you think.

AND BE HONEST.

Kinda short and sassy. Mostly just for fun 'cause I don't think I would really go THAT short.

And here, we're focusing on the CUT NOT THE COLOR.
If you can get past it.

I really like this one. It's a bit longer than what I have now, so it would take a while to get here. I could do a somewhat shorter version or something.

Really love this one as well. But it looks like a lot of work. Sue likes this one best.

TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!

{In all reality, your opinions may be a little too late because I'm getting my hair cut and colored - have to cover up those nasty grays (and YES. I DO have a lot of them) - at 3 pm tomorrow. So, get your comments posted quickly! Good luck!}