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Busy, oh so busy

Seems like this is how a lot of my posts have been starting lately. 

Well, I am busy, we're trying to move into the house that Sean's grandparents are letting us live in until we find something to buy.  We bought groceries today and I think by Monday night we'll be staying there, of course that means no cable or internet, but I'm working on getting at least internet, we can deal without tv. 

I thought we had good news, we applied for a VA loan yesterday and got approved online, but then I had a voice mail this morning saying it wasn't correct.

They can't use my unemployment wages toward the loan, which means we don't qualify on what Sean makes part time.  Which totally sucks, because we found an awesome house, super cheap too.  But we're going to still go see if there is another option, if not, we'll just wait 6 months to a year. 

Keira and I went to see Ice Age, yesterday in 3D.  FYI, if you didn't know this, 3D movies cost more, like I paid $22 for us to see a movie at 11:45 am. 

 

It was a cute movie, I haven't seen the other 2, so I felt kind of lost.  I am not a fan of 3D though, Keira didn't like wearing the glasses and neither did I to be honest. 

On Monday Sean and I went to GI Joe, I really liked it. 

 

It was a total action movie, but I love Channing Tatum, so I couldn't complain.  I'm sure they'll have another one and I'm excited to see it. 

So, back to the busy thing, tomorrow we have a birthday party to go to, on Sunday we have a big family party to go to and after that we have the AC/DC concert, and a night alone in a hotel!  YAY!!

Next weekend we have Pat's birthday on Saturday and I'm pretty sure we're not doing anything on Sunday. 

And the weekend after that is my Sister-In-Law's Wedding, so we have the rehearsal dinner on Friday and Wedding on Saturday, and I also have my first class on Saturday.  I'm only going to be able to go for a little while and leave to be home in time to get Keira ready for the wedding. 

So, busy busy!

Busy Weekend

On Friday an old friend of mine and Sean's stopped by on her way to Ohio.  I hadn't seen Vanessa is 7 years, we met in Tech School way back in 1999, and were stationed together in Japan as well as our training.  She was probably my best friend in Japan, so it was really awesome to see her.

It was like we hadn't been apart at all. We had a great time and I'm hoping to see her again while she's in Ohio, before she heads off to Korea for 3 years.

We went to dinner and to see the Ugly Truth.

So funny, then again I love a good chick flick.

This is me and Vanessa.  I spent the night with her and we just talked and drank and had a good time.

Then on Saturday we had a family reunion to go to, it was fun, didn't really know anyone, but Keira had a great time swimming and there was good food.  I'm always up for good food.  LOL!

Then on Sunday was my Sister-In-Law's Bridal shower.

I think it turned out really nice and Jessi got a lot of great stuff.

These are just a couple pages that I did last night of the Armstrong Women.

Dinner and a Movie (AT NIGHT TIME)

That's a crazy concept right, we haven't been to dinner and a movie at night since I was 9 months pregnant with Cooper.

Sean and I went to the Melting Pot last night, really nice.  Something you wouldn't be able to afford often, but it was really nice, we dressed up.  The food was wonderful!  Gave me a greater respect for Fondue, I really want an electric fondue pot now. 

We had a Spinach & Artichoke Cheese Fondue, our meats where Lobster, steak, shrimp, pork, and chicken, with broccoli and mushrooms.  So good, you cook the meat in a broth or oil, we had a broth.  YUM!!  Then for our Chocolate was a Flaming Turtle.  Milk chocolate, caramel, and peacans lit on fire table side.  We had strawberries, pound cake, brownies, rice crispies threats, cheese cake, bananas all to dip.  So good, I can't say enough good things about it.  So, if you can afford to go, go at least once.

 

Then we messed around Ann Arbor for awhile and then went to see the Proposal, very funny!  It was probably the best romantic comedy I've seen in years, seriously.  Betty White, too funny!  Ryan Reynolds, I love him and Sandra Bullock is one of my favorite actresses.  Sean loved it too, it was just a really great movie.  So much better than The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, the last chick flick we saw. 

Internet is still crappy

I tried for an hour last night to get online so I could watch 30 Rock on Netflix, but it didn't work, so I didn't get to watch any last night.

Some good news is that the eggs in our backyard hatched.  I took a picture of them, but its not very clear, so you can't really see them, they just look like little brown blobs. 

Yesterday Sean and I went to see two movies.  Angels and Demons, it was good, but they changed a lot of things from the book just like they did with the Da Vinci Code, but since its been so long since I'd read Angels and Demons I really couldn't remember that much about the book.  I think I droven Sean crazy asking him "was this in the book", "I don't remember this", "is he the bad guy".  If you haven't read the book it'll be really good I think.

 

Then after that we went to see The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, I'd been wanting to see this.  It was really funny.  Matthew McConaughey was beautiful as always, I love Jennifer Garner and Michael Douglas was really funny too.  It was of course a typical romantic comedy, but worth watching if you love Matthew.

Wolverine the movie

I am a huge fan of the X-Men Movies, I love Hugh Jackman and let me tell you I really loved Wolverine.  We went to see it to and it was great.  In fact, I like the X-Men movies so much that if Keira had been a boy her name would have been Logan, which is Wolverine's name.  LOL!

 

See it!! I hope they do many more of these movies.  Amazing!

17 Again

Sean and I went to see 17 again on Friday and it was so funny.  I enjoyed watching Zac Efron, because he's hot, but it was a really funny movie.  Sean even liked it. 

I thought it would be funny because I love Big and Freaky Friday and in keeping with those, it was very funny.  I'm sure it'll be on my "buy" list.

Bedtime Stories and Day Three

I love Adam Sandler, I think pretty much ever movie I've ever seen of his I've loved, except Don't Mess With the Zohan.  But anyway, Bedtimes Stories was really cute, funny and the kids can watch it.  Keira watch a little of it before bedtime, she was enjoying it. 

I think my favorite part was the Hampster, Bugsy.  He was funny. 

 

I guess day three could have gone better, but it wasn't too bad.  We were out most of the day, so considering I think it was good.

Day Three

Breakfast

Egg Foo Yung

1 slice toast (whole wheat)

1/2 orange

Snack

Fruit & Yogurt w/ granola

Lunch

Kettle Corn and water (wen't to the movies)

Snack

1 Hard boiled Egg

Dinner

6 inch Subway club w/ lettuce, pickles, banana peppers

bell pepper, little honey mustard & cheese

Yogurt

Snack

1/2 cup sugar free ice cream (couldn't find any frozen yogurt)

w/ 1/4 banana and 1 teaspoon walnuts

Monsters vs Aliens

 

I took Keira to see this yesterday with our friends Amber and Katie.  It was really cute.  Seth Rogan as BOB was probably my favorite part of the movie.  Very funny, I laughed outloud several times.  Keira was afraid of one part in the beginning, but she liked the rest of it.

Movies

I haven't really been up to anything worth blogging about lately.  The kids are doing good, I don't know if I've posted about this yet or not, but we have gotten rid of pull-ups.  By no means is Keira making it through the night without wetting her pants, but since I'm working mids this month, I can get her up around 10 pm and then around 3 am and have her go to the bathroom and it seems to be working.  She has been wet a couple nights, and that's more because I forgot to wake her up I think.

So, about the movies in my title.  Since I'm on mids, I've been watching more movies than usual.  I'll start with my least favorite of the bunch.

 

Mamma Mia, I love musicals and this one was alright I guess.  It was too much of a musical for me if that makes sense.  And it was just weird seeing James Bond singing and dancing.  I guess for $10 I can't complain much, but not my favorite, don't know if I'll ever watch it again.

 

I LOVED Role Models.  Very funny, not too over the top stupid (I hate those kinds of comedies).  I'm a big fan of Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott, they're both so funny. 

 

Ok, I am a dork and I don't care who knows, I've seen all 3 of the High School Musical movies and I loved all of them.  I'll probably end up buying them, for one thing because I like them and Keira will probably enjoy them in a year or so.  This is the kind of musical I like.  In Mamma Mia, they sang like everything, but High School Musical 3 is more like Grease.  Very cute movie and I love Zac Efron. 

Good movie and a video

Today is Sean's birthday, but he's at work, so we did the celebration last night.  I made steak, baked potato and homemade onion rings.  Yum!  And then we had Strawberry Shortcut Cake for his brithday cake.

 

 

 

 

After the kids went to be we watched Australia and I really loved it.  Beautiful country and well, Hugh Jackman isn't bad to look at either.

 

And now the video, of Cooper.