Paranormal Activity 3

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I love scary movies! Especially around Halloween...when I got to be too old to trick or treat (sadness) I would have movie marathons of the Halloween movies with friends (the ones that weren't chicken at least...ha ha).



I loved being scared in the first two PAs and loved it again in the third installment. Even discussing what we had just seen, my aunt, her friend and I kept getting chills. Word to the wise...this movie is not for anyone who gets freaked out easily, especially if you couldn't watch the commercials.

If you are in the mood to be scared in a good suspenseful way, I would recommend renting the movie 1408. It has to be my favorite scary/suspenseful movie ever...the ending is gooooood.

Katy Ski Jam 2011

What a beautiful weekend! This past Saturday was the 2011 Katy Ski Jam. Elizabeth and I headed out there Saturday afternoon/evening to enjoy the exhibition (aka lots of tricks) and we actually got to see some of the competition (they were running a little behind). The ski jam wasn't as action packed as we had hoped, but we still enjoyed ourselves and took plenty of pictures. Enjoy!

The huge house we got to stare at for a few hours...can you say jealous!

Open Pro Men Slalom Quarter Finals...race around the buoys

Awesome water spray!

Exhibition time! Wake board tricks!

This pictures relaxes me...the reeds are so peaceful looking

Swivel Ski...this was awesome and definitely takes some talent to do a turn on a ski

Barefoot skier flying high

Skier jumping off the ramp

Double backwards barefoot skiers

Awesome sunset!!

Double barefoot skiers

Chair ski...he did 6 flips in a row!!!!

6 barefoot skiers plus an extra one on the left standing on the others legs

As the sun went down, they turned on the lights for the finals

I want to give a special shout out to Elizabeth who took 99% of these photos!!! Thanks chica!!!

Banana Muffins

So I haven't baked anything in a while and really wanted to make cupcakes, but didn't have everything to make the pink lemonade or pink velvet ones that I wanted so banana muffins it was. Plus, I like making things the boyfriend enjoys eating (that way I don't eat them all!)

I got the recipe from Ramshackle Glam (minus the chocolate chips) and instead of making a loaf I decided to make muffins (easier to transport to work and half the baking time). I originally set the timer for 20 minutes, but they weren't done after that so I guesstimated the rest...I would say 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean or almost clean.

Mmmmmm...so good! It was so hard to take these pictures without devouring it the second it came out of oven. The smell alone makes you hungry.

Real Steel

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GOOD MOVIE! Good acting, good story line, just good overall. This movie has everything in it...it tugs at your emotions, gives you some good action and makes you laugh all at the same time. This movie really is for everyone...ha ha

Decorated Gift Bag

My friend had a party recently for her daughter's first birthday! Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend, but I sent her gift with a trusted amiga.

The gift bag was just plain pink so I decided to jazz it up a bit...plus a one year old can't exactly read a card (but of course I made a card anyways). The butterfly and the M were both cut out using the Wall Decor & More Cricut cartridge. The pink tulle bow was just another way to make it even more girly (plus I have A LOT of pink tulle since I never got around to making my tutu).

The checkered paper with the M was attached using one pop-up circle on each corner. To make the butterfly look like it was flying off, I doubled the pop-up circles on top of each other. Yay for 3-d stuff without the glasses!

A funny conversation occurred when I was telling Barrett about decorating the bag:

Me: The bag I decorated last night is really cute
B: You decorated a bag?
Me: Yeah...I wasn't going to make a card. What one year old knows how to read?
B: (laughing)
Me: Well I actually did make a card because I had to put the gift receipt somewhere
B: (still laughing) So you DID make a card...did you write in it?
Me: Yeah...I had to put something. Plus it's really for her mom, but I did decorate it with a stenciled M on the front
B: (laughing even harder) You remind me of a Larry the Cable Guy joke

And that my friends is hopefully the one and only time I will get compared to Larry the Cable Guy. The way Barrett told me the joke was hilarious...you should have been there!

Painted Pottery

We all probably went to a paint your own pottery place way back in the day, but why did we ever stop??? Painting pottery is so much fun. Around Christmas last year, my friend hosted a paint your own ornament party and we had so much fun we went back a few months ago for a birthday celebration.

This time instead of an ornament, I painted a plate. I had seen a few items on display that had a splatter design that I thought was really cool so of course I had to do some splattering myself. To get the splatter look you take a toothbrush, dip it in the paint and run your fingers over the bristles. Easy enough right??? WELL if you have long nails (like moi) watch out because the paint will drip and you'll have a big ol' blob on your pottery. Since there was no way of covering that up, I decided to make blobs everywhere with my nails (talk about some dirty nails). I think the blobs add more character to the plate.

What am I going to do with the plate??? Who knows...maybe I'll set a candle on it in my future beach themed bathroom (one can dream right), but as for now I have an autographed baseball sitting on top of it, while the plate itself, is sitting on top of notebooks and random papers...ha ha

Has anyone else painted pottery lately?

Ides of March

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If you like politics and watching the happenings of what goes on behind the scenes of a campaign, then this movie is for you. It wasn't a bad movie, just not my cup of tea. It was pretty slow to start and then it starts getting interesting, but never really picks up. The ending leaves you saying "What?!?!" or "Really?!?!" (I'm pretty sure everyone in the theatre said one of those if not others)

Overall, what I got out of this movie is that politics/politicians are corrupt and use blackmail for anything and everything just to get ahead in the business. But of course who doesn't know that already?!?!

BTW the movie poster below is my favorite, but of course its super small and when I blow it up it just gets blurry...



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