Lazy Days and Lazy Nights

It's hot and I'm tired. (long whine) I let Anthony's Pizza cook dinner tonight! I did do a couple of loads of laundry... well actually Haven did most of the work because she's trying to earn money for the fest on Friday. What can I say? It's hot and I'm tired!


But I'm really proud of this layout. Rob and I worked on it together for the last two hours. It's going to be an information poster for his ski retreat in January. (They have to start advertising now so people can plan.) Anyway, Rob just has to add the details. But for this I learned how to adjust the shadows where I want them, and where the light is coming from, and I learned how to fade the edge of the photo into the background. And I used an effect on the snowflake paper to make it look grungy. I'm so proud!

Dang

Well Brandon... Spain won.

Hancock

We just got to see this movie three days before it's official opening for FREE sponsored by Sony... I think. It was a little unclear who sponsored the viewing but they were giving away Sony products before it started. Anyway, this was some kind of special thing they worked out for the military movie theaters. So, cool!

The movie was pretty clever. Drunken superhero befriends publicist... Jason Bateman again... Is he making a comeback? The story is clever, it was well acted, and the script was entertaining. My only complaint was that I would have liked them to handle the "why's" a little more in depth. Can we say sequel?

Death by children's play!

Ok, maybe "death" is a little overdramatic...

Haven just finished two weeks of Theatre Camp at the theatre on base. She has such a good time! Their group did a play called "Circus 4 Us Kids" and they were so cute! There were little little ones through ten year olds. You could tell the director (in the middle) was really great with the kids and they loved her. My favorite part of the play was when Haven played the "Mysterious Miss Madeline."

Haven: Om....

Ring Master: I want my palm read.

Haven: You want your palm red?

Ring Master: Yes I want my palm read.

Haven: Are you SURE you want your palm red?

Ring Master: YES, I'm sure I want my palm read.

Haven: Hey, what's that? (smearing red paint on the ring master's hand)

Your palm is now red.

European Cup update

Hey Brandon (Margaret W's hubby), your team is gonna be battling my team Sunday night! They just beat Russia 0-3!

Good game guys!

Well, Germany won last night, but I think what's cooler is to see two countries come together and actually support each other. I don't know how widespread it is, if it's only here in the south, or if it's as real as it looks... but this car says it all. (Turkish flag left, German flag right)

It's so funny...

Man, I have laughed so hard today. Corinnea told this HISTERICAL story about her animals and their interesting personalities, Jenny P had a great story about Emily's inquisitive nature, and one of the other blogs I read posted about her kids understanding of time. So, in the spirit of "funny stories about our kids day"... here's how our day ended:

Me: Let's say our prayers.
Ethan: God can't hear me.
Me: Yes he can.
Ethan: But I can't hear him. He doesn't talk to me with his mouth.
Me: When Jesus lives in your heart (yeah, trying to explain that to a kid... challenging) you learn to hear him.
Ethan: (alarmed) Jesus can't live in my heart! He'll break it! He's too big!
Me: But He sends the Holy Spirit to live in your heart and he talks to you in your mind. (Treading on dangerously complicated topics here)
Ethan: He can't talk to me in my head! He'll make my head bleed!

Oh my. I eventually convinced him that life with Jesus was a GOOD thing, but wow it was tricky there for a few minutes! Now he's decided to try to fly to Heaven in an airplane, which actually dissolved into a whine about going on the airplane to see PawPaw. So cute!