Our New House.....

A few of my out-of-town relatives have requested pictures of our new house. Sorry it took so long... if I'm going to post pictures of my house on the internet it's got to be very nearly spotless, which doesn't happen very often! 

It's 3 beds, 2 baths... about 4200 sq feet.

Front of the house: it's got a pretty high daylight basement because we're so close to the river.

Master bath: tub and shower

Another view of Master Bath

Master Bedroom: yes, our TV is giant... it's called compromise!

Master, again

Kitchen

Kitchen, again

Dining room off of the kitchen. My pans are still in boxes because there's not quite enough storage. I ordered this Amish made pantry but it takes 6 weeks to make!

Great Room

Another view...

Basement: it has a walk-out to the backyard. It's only 50% finished so we have room to grow.

More basement and yes, another large TV. Luke likes his TV's huge!

Logan's room, he just woke up from his nap

Logan's bathroom

Loft area on the second floor

The Twilight Movie....

I'll try not to put any spoilers in here but if you don't want to hear anything about the movie, don't read any farther!!! 

So, I went to see the midnight showing of the Twilight movie with my friends on Thursday night. I thought it was OK, maybe 6 or 7 out of 10 with quite a few points taken away for extreme cheesiness. I thought Robert Pattinson did a good job with the Edward character... it seems to me he looks better on film than in a photograph! I thought the story seemed a bit rushed and I didn't like the way the vampire speed was portrayed. I also thought they ruined the meadow scene. I pictured it differently. I would have liked to have seen more of Alice and I thought Jasper was just plain weird. Whatever!! I guess the movie is never better than the book because Hollywood can't reproduce what's in our imaginations. 

All in all, they stuck to the book.... even including actual passages from the book as dialogue. I would watch it again and I'm planning on buying it when it comes out. What did everyone else think?

--- I read an article today that the studio is in talks to make New Moon with Robert and Kristin in the same roles but maybe not using the same director. Hopefully the Twilight movies will be like the Harry Potter movies... each movie getting successively better!  

Tagged....

I was tagged by Brooke Prothero to list 6 random things about myself.

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1. I have an incredible weakness for shoes and purses. I really have to control myself so it doesn't get out of hand. I have a 1 purse every 6 months rule and I try not to go into shoe stores too often!

2. I have this weird symptom left over from my pregnancy.... I dry-heave when I brush my teeth. I have to really concentrate when I brush my back teeth and tongue not to vomit! I started when I was pregnant with Logan and it hasn't gone away. :-(

3. I suspect I'm a little OCD about cleaning. I'm not one of those people who has to have everything in it's place (who can be with a 2-year-old???), but I do need to have things clean and organized or I feel out of sorts. Honestly, I get this strange pleasure from cleaning... it makes me feel better.. almost peaceful. I know, I'm weird.

4. Like Brooke, I'm not really good at things that involve style. My usual uniform is jeans and a tee-shirt. I don't know how to do my hair... it's usually straight down or up in a ponytail. I have no idea how to apply make-up so it looks good. You know those girls that you see... their faces look like they stepped right out a makeup ad??? I desperately wish I could do that! I can't decorate my house. I'll go to Hobby Lobby or Tai Pan with these big ideas, then I get there and I can't make a decision, get frustrated, and leave without buying anything. 

5. I like to cook. I think it's fun to pour over recipe books to try to find new things to do in the kitchen.

6. I love to travel. I'm always excited to go any new place. I would love to travel across Europe. It's my dream when I'm old to buy one of those huge RV's and travel across the US and Canada.

Halloween Festivities.....

Logan was Spiderman for Halloween this year (obviously). He loved walking around in his costume and shooting his webs at people. We only went to relatives houses but he was all about yelling "Trick-or-Treat!" when they opened the door. The only thing was, he wanted to eat all the candy immediately. We had a lot of fun... I think next year we'll be ready to trick-or-treating for real.

Shooting his webs.

I realize I cut the pumpkins off. Oh well, I can't do anything about it now!

Logan thought it was great fun carving pumpkins. He also loves hamming it up for the camera, if you couldn't tell!