BATMAN THE DARK KNIGHT

My wife wanted me to add somthing about our date on the 24th of July. Here it goes. Like she said we saw Mamma Mia. Which was pretty funny and good. My Dad also loves ABBA so I like the music too. I'm not going to talk about that movie. Im going to talk about the Darkest Movie I have seen in YEARS!!! Batman The Dark Knight. I thought it was awesome. Heath Ledger is probably the best Joker I have seen. Better then Jack Nicholas. If I had a vote who would get Best Actor he would get my vote. He was so real in his protral of the Joker. Just the way he played him as a Physco. I'll also get this DVD when it comes out. GO SEE IT!!!!

Movie Date

Last night Josh and I spent the night at the movies. It was fun! Since Brayden is with Jason for the weekend we went out instead of celebrating the 24th with fireworks. We went and saw 2 movies...Batman The Dark Knight, and MAMA MIA!
I thought Batman was awesome,Heath Ledger is amazing in it. Then about 30 minutes from the end...I was wishing it was over. This film definitely should have been rated R (just my opinion of course). Then we went to MAMA MIA!




I bet you can guess how I felt about it. It was so hard to control myself and not just jump up and start dancing with Meryl Streep. Such a cute show! It reminded me of my childhood :) My parents had all the ABBA music on 8 tracks (I think that is what they were called). And when I was little I had a best friend who lived across the street from us, her name was Blythe. We would spend hours each week dancing in the living room to ABBA. It would also be a blast to go to with the girls (you know who you are)...I just wish we could rent out a theatre so we could sing along and dance! I can't wait for it to come out on DVD...and don't worry, when it does I am sponsoring a MAMA MIA night over at my house!

The Trampoline

It started back in May....Brayden's first grade teacher did the card pulling discipline system. Everyday Brayden would come home with at least 1 card pulled (which is a warning - no big deal) but I didn't want him to be the ONLY one each day with his card pulled. You see Brayden loves to talk with his friends, and sometimes forgets about the listening part! So, we made a deal back around May 5th, that if Brayden could go thru the rest of the school year without any cards pulled we would get him a trampoline for the summer. (I know about 20 school days was definately pushing it). We talked it up, about how much fun it would be, all summer he could do the sprinkler under it and we could have sleepovers out there, etc...(Can you tell that me and Josh really wanted one too?) Well, Brayden made it 12 days -- with not even a warning! Yahoo! But then of course the next day he got a warning :( He came home and didn't want to tell us, he felt bad.

So for a few days we played it like he wasn't going to get one, and that was too bad for him kinda thing... then we decided to work out a deal. I absolutely dispise weeding our strawberry patch, there really are more weeds than strawberries it seems. So, after school got out we let Brayden know that if he was willing to do his chores that we give him, and in addition he would be incharge of the weeds in he strawberry patch -- we would get him a trampoline. (This is also in trade for his allowance). He was all for it and so were we!

We started looking for trampoline's during the first week of summer, and everywhere we went - sold out for 2-4 weeks. We could go online...and pay enormous amounts on shipping. So we were mentioning this to all our family members, and sweet Aunt Cortnie mentioned that she had a trampoline from when she was in junior high that was in storage that she would give to Brayden. Sweet!! So we attempted to dig it out of storage, and Josh brought it home. Then Josh went out of town, and Brayden and I started setting it up. Brayden was extatic! We couldn't finish, because we didn't find the springs...anyway long story short, Josh came home and finished setting it up. Here are pictures of cute Brayden, first scrubbing and getting it clean, then the boy enjoying his tramp the first night in his jammies. Thanks again Cortnie - we owe you!

Playing Catch Up!

Has it really been over a month since I last posted something!?! WOW! This summer has flown by...so over the next week I will attempt to catch all of you up. I would like to say I will post each day, but I won't cause that is impossible for my busy life. I will try hard though! The first part of the summer all we have done is play, play, play! (Good thing that is what summer is for huh?) We have had lots of fun! Now the second part should slow down and I can breathe. So, to start here are a few of my favorite pictures so far.



Family picture at Cortnie's Wedding - 6/12/08



Brayden having a blast in the backyard -- what a cute face!? :)



Hanging at Lagoon, part of the Brant family reunion this year.



My cute neice Sadie and I.



Josh & I celebrating 3 years of marriage!
This picture was taken at Snowbird.