A Political Message from Ben

I had to record this hilarious conversation I had with Ben this morning. I had the Today Show on in the background while I was doing all my morning stuff and a Barack Obama commercial came on. Ben came up to me and this was our conversation:

Ben: "Hey that's the guy who approves!"

Me: "What? That's Barack Obama. Do you know who he is?"

Ben: "Yeah, he approves commercials."

Me: At this point I started laughing and said, "Yes, he does approve of a lot of commercials we've been watching lately, hu?! But his name is Barack Obama and he's running for president. Next Tuesday we get to see if he or the other guy who approves commercials, John McCain, is going to be the next president."

Ben: "I like that guy who approves!"

Well, I guess Ben has thrown his hat in for Obama. Hee hee!:)

Recipe Blog

A new blogging hobby of mine is surfing recipe blogs. I love them. Just this week I made some really great wheat dinner rolls and lentil soup from recipes that I've found over the blogs. So in true recipe crazedness I have started my own recipe blog called "A Bear in the Kitchen". Check it out!:)

Fall Break

This week has been fall break around here, meaning Sophie and Ben have been home from school and preschool all week. We're all surviving and at good moments having fun. But. Nina has decided this week to really let her voice be heard and very loudly yells/shrieks "STOP IT!!!" almost all day long. I guess that's what you get when your 9 and 4 year olds (who are probably a bit deaf by now with all the ear piercing Nina screams) constantly take toys from the 2 year old. Adrian says this is all about growing up and teasing and all that, but I say why willing inflict the constant "STOP IT"s on all of us, just leave Nina alone!! Yes, that is what I say pretty much all day.

But it hasn't been all bad. Sophie had a fun playdate yesterday, we all got our flu shots (well that wasn't exactly good, but there was much less crying than I thought there would be), we went and walked around the mall one day, we had Sonic's 1/2 price "happy hour" cherry-lime aids 3 days in a row, and I took the kids to vote early with me. Colorado has lovely early voting places and since I was the only one voting at the time with probably 10 volunteers starved for something to do my kids were very well taken care of while I voted. The volunteers brought them stickers and crayons and coloring pages and talked to them about what they are going to be for Halloween. It was really a very enjoyable experience and I even had a nice "why we vote" conversation with the kids on the ride home. Yay for America and our democratic process!! Then tomorrow hopefully we will have another playdate.(Here's a pic of the kids with the pictures they colored while I voted.)

So aside from all the "stop it"s fall break has been nice. I even found time to finish my book club book for the month, Rebecca, which I enjoyed immensely and is a great Halloween time sort of read! I highly recommend it! I also have Hitchcock's Rebecca and I'm going to watch it really soon - I've heard great things about the movie. But off I go now to watch my favorite Thursday night shows.

Water Goes With Everything

Adrian and I got a babysitter on Friday night and went to dinner and a movie - it was lovely! We went to Ghost Town which I thought was really funny, though it was just us and 4 other people in the theater so obviously it hasn't been the most successful movie. I think Ricky Gervais is hilarious - I love his particular dry and uncomfortable brand of humor.

But the funniest part actually happened at dinner at fabulous PF Chang's. We had a most memorable waiter - he had great spiky hair and started off by saying, "I'm going to bring you guys out some ice water first. I think ice water is so refreshing and is the perfect pallet cleanser. It tends to go with pretty much any dish - spicy, sweet, or savory. How does that sound?" We told him ice waters would be great and then waited until he was gone to have a chuckle. Yes, isn't it strange how water goes with everything??!!:) Oh, it was great and honestly you probably had to have heard him to get the full effect - it was as if he was the first one to think of ice water as an accompaniment to food! And as a side note later in the evening sadly our waiter dumped my very refreshing ice water all over the table. I actually felt really bad for him because he was so embarrassed. It must be hard to be a waiter in that situation. But dinner was not a bust at all, we had the most wonderful Mongolian beef and Sichuan asparagus!! SO good! And it was wonderful to get out. We are so happy to have found a really nice babysitter who lives only 4 doors down, so we don't even have to pick her up or take her home. Nice!

Couch Potato Thursday Nights

Just as an update we did enjoy Eleventh Hour last night. I must admit it wasn't the best pilot I've ever seen, but I think as a series it could be nice. I guess future episodes will tell. I always enjoyed the weekly weird hunts of X-Files and that's what this show seems to be. I was a little miffed that Rufus wasn't using his natural accent, which is awesome, but instead seemed to be pulling an American or country of unknown origin accent. But his voice is still cool no matter what so I'm okay.

Another show we watched last night on our Thursday night of complete couch-potatoness was Life on Mars. I had seen the British version of this show on BBC America once and was intrigued by the concept, but never really watched it again. Well last night's American pilot of the series was really really good. Thank goodness for our DVR because we were able to record both The Eleventh Hour and Life on Mars since they play at the same time. The funniest thing though was seeing Lisa Bonet!! When she came on the screen I kept saying look it's Lisa Bonet! I hadn't seen her since the Cosby Show!

So it seems like Thursday is now our favorite TV night! We have 3 shows - The Office (Meredith!! Oh last night was horribly awesome!!), The Eleventh Hour and Life on Mars - fun for us. What did you guys think of the shows last night??

I hope this show is good!!

So my favorite actor since Tim Curry, Rufus Sewell, is going to be in a new TV series called The Eleventh Hour and it starts tomorrow. (I say "since Tim Curry" not because Tim isn't around anymore, but he's kind of turned his focus to voice work. Which is totally great cause I get to hear him as the librarian in Higgley Town Heroes while watching with the kids. I still love you Tim Curry!!) Anyway, I so hope Eleventh Hour is good. It is suppose to be something between X-Files and CSI... Hmm, might be promising. I just hope it's not gory. I think I need a new show, because House is getting a bit depressing and other than that and The Office it seems like all I watch are reality and cooking shows... Okay, really I don't "need" a new show, but having a show to look forward to, especially one that Adrian can get into as well, is fun to me. I remember how Adrian and I used to look forward to X-Files every week and it was nice to snuggle with my hubby while we both watched something we enjoyed rather than one of us enduring the others favorites. (Hence, my loathing of SciFi Fridays and Adrian's loathing of John and Kate Plus 8 Mondays.:)) Well wish us luck, maybe it will be like recapturing those X-Files nights of yore.

On a side note, Rufus Sewell has been growing on me ever since I saw ShakespeaRe-Told: Taming of the Shrew - have you seen that?? I loved it and laughed through the whole thing. Rufus plays Petruchio and Moaning Myrtle plays Katherina! It really is awesome and hopefully I'm going to be getting it for Christmas (hint hint Adrian). I'm sure even if you haven't seen Taming of the Shrew you know Rufus. He was Seth in Cold Comfort Farm, the bad guy in A Knight's Tale (*sad sigh* Heath Ledger was so cute in that) and lots of parts in British made series and movies like BBC/A&E's Troy and Charles II. He's also been in lots of big movies lately like The Illusionist and Tristan and Isolde. He's usually the bad guy actually, but man he has a cool voice and crazy wide eyes. I like my actors quirky!:)

Tristan and Isolde BTW just happens to be Adrian and my perfect actor-match-movie because it has of course Rufus in it, but also Adrian's favorite actress Sophia Myles. I did not realize Adrian really liked this actress until about 6 months ago when I was going through TV shows and movies that Adrian had saved on our DVR and seriously 4 or 5 of them starred this actress. So funny and I deservedly teased him a lot. (I only had one or two movies at most starring Collin Firth so I had every right to tease him!:)) Sophia Myles was even on Dr. Who so really she is the perfect actress crush for Adrian! We both laughed about it the other night when we watched Tristan and Isolde together and there they both were. As a note, I am completely fine with Adrian liking this chick, to me she is better than Angelina Jolie who used to be his favorite!

Wow, well this post all about Eleventh Hour got all tangenty didn't it??! Funny how far a train of thought can go. Now you all know a little more about me and Adrian than you probably wanted to! Oh well, if not that, what are blogs for??

Donny's Biggest Little Fan

Last year when Nina was just a wee little thing I posted this. Well it turns out our Nina is still a huge Donny Osmond fan!! Tonight, while Adrian's at the Priesthood session of conference, I was watching the Pioneer Day Celebration that was rebroadcast on BYU-TV and Nina spent almost the whole show glued to the TV. She seriously does not usually have this kind of attention span and I am convinced it is because Donny Osmond and the Osmond family hosted the event. Whenever Donny was on the screen she stood right next to the TV and swayed to the music. It was hilarious and I just had to post about it! I don't know if she is the future Osmond fan club director or if I will someday be able to use this post as blackmail.. Either way it is definitely worth remembering!:)