Friday Night Fun

Friday night we went and got a pool for the kids. It wouldn't fit in our van, so we had to tie to the top of it. I'm sure we looked pretty silly driving down the road with a pool on the roof! Oh well! It has turned out to be alot of fun!!!

Here are a few pictures to show you just how fun it is. The kids think it is so awesome!

Here is Chloe trying to reach the swing.

A couple of cute ones of Jack drinking his capri sun.


I'm not sure what Chloe is trying to do to Brooke, but it doesn't look good....

Dinner time!

Check out Jack's face in this picture. The hose was running and Stuart kinked it. We told Jack to look inside it to find out where the water went. He looked inside, Stuart let go of the hose and it just splashed Jack's face. It was SO wrong, but SO funny!

Jack and Daddy

Thursday Thirteen #19

Thirteen things I hope to get done today. 1. Run to walmart to get a pool for the kids (it's already in the high 90s here!) 2. Go to the gym for pilates 3. Put together my bookcase I bought 2 days ago 4. Find time for a half hour rest 5. Get my thursday thirteen up! 6. Go to dinner group tonight! 7. Watch So you think you can dance after dinner group (gotta love the DVR) 8. Take a shower! 9. Read to my kids 10. Eat 11. Put away the 10 loads of laundry I folded last night 12. Read a chapter in my book (I'm almost done with the Barbara Walters biography) 13. Go to bed at a reasonable hour Wish me luck!

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You know the saying....

That you don't really appreciate something until you no longer have it (or something like that).

Well, that is how I felt about our AC! Sunday night about 9pm our AC just died. It went to kick on and nothing. Stuart went out and tinkered with it a little and just couldn't get it to work. Great. Luckily we have ceiling fans in most of our rooms, so we kicked those on and went to bed.

Monday predicted a high of 97 degrees. Lovely. The AC guys came out Monday and said the blower motor was broken. They can't get the part in and install it until the next day. Yesterday it got SO hot. Our house was pretty much miserable. None of us slept well last night. Jack was up from about 12-2:30 in the morning. He and I rocked in the living room because he just couldn't get comfortable.

It is now fixed though. They got the part in it today about lunch time. It feel SOOO nice after 36 hours of no AC!

Makes me really appreciate those people who live without it. I really don't know how they survive!

Movies

This past week or so I have watched quite a few movies. I liked them all! So, I thought that I'd give a quick line or 2 on each of them. I am by no means qualified enough to write a review on them. So, without further ado....

P.S. I Love You
I really loved this movie. I watched this one alone, curled up in my recliner with a hanky. Perfect. I could not have watched this movie with anyone. I started crying within 5 minutes of it starting and continued to cry through the entire movie. It was sweet, sappy, romantic, funny, heartbreaking all at the same time. I thought whoever wrote it did a fantastic job. Could I watch this movie again. No way. I already know what is going to happen next and I just couldn't sit down and cry over it again. I would really recommend it to anyone, just watch it alone. ha!

27 Dresses
Very Cute! Definatly a chick flick. I didn't watch this one with Stuart either. I am really not sure if he'd like it, but I think he could endure it. It had lots of just fun things in it. I can't see a female not liking this movie. I'm really not a fan of Katherine Hiegl, but she did a good job in this one. Would I watch it again? Definatly!

Over Her Dead Body
This movie was ok. This one I got Stuart to actually watch it with me. We both had some good laughs in it, but over all, I give it just an OK. I think it might be because i'm not a fan of Eva Longoria. I don't know. It was cute, charming at time, some good jokes, but very predictable. Would I watch it again? Probably not -unless it comes on cable when I can't sleep.

Mad Money
I would give this one another OK. Well, maybe a bit better then okay. But not fabulous. It was very hard to believe. It wasn't predictable really, but sometimes you just are thinking to yourself "yeah right". On the other hand, it was quite entertaining. It held my attention and I had a few laughs. Would I watch it again? Probably.

Last but not least. Iron Man.
This movie was AWESOME! I went into it really not wanting to see it. I like action movies, but they are not my favorite. Let me just tell you though - I am so glad that I saw it. Robert Downey Jr. did a fantastic job in this flick. He looked good, acted good. He just fit the part. There were some parts that were a tad cheesy, but nothing you couldn't over look. I wonder if there will be a sequel. Would I see it again? You betcha!

Dear Jack

It's time for another installment of Dear Jack.

Dear Jack,

I really understand that you like chapstick. Especially Brooke's vast variety of tasty chapstick. But come on Buddy.


Love,

Mom