She's not a baby anymore :(

What once was little, now is big! So big we sent her off to Kindergarten today. I am so proud of myself I didn't cry, but it was sad when I had to leave her in her classroom sitting on the rug like such a big girl. I was for-warned today while I was doing her hair, Lorin told me "Mother dont even cry, you're not a cry baby" I didnt think she was suppose to get like that till at least 3rd or 4th grade. Our day started at quarter to 7AM. Even tho Lorin is in afternoon kindergarten she had to get up and get dressed as fast as possible. That was not what I had in mind when I told Mike we had to get Lorin on a continuous schedule for school. So we are not making a habit of that.

















We met Lorins friend at the school and we were so early that noone else was there. Not even the teacher. So after taking a million pictures of the kids, the family, the girls, Lorin in front of her playground, Lorin in front of her classroom, Lorin in front of the office, Lorin in front of the school(you get it). It was finally time for her to wait in line with her class and go inside. She was so excited she ran inside and didnt even say goodbye. we had to follow her in and get a hug and kiss. Then more pictures of her in her classroom and then I let her be. We left her sitting on the colorful rug with her class and her teaching reading them books.










But of course the pictures were not over. I'm jumping for joy because she gets to ride the bus home from school everyday. There is only one bus at our school and it has only one stop and that is a couple houses away from ours. So Lorin and her friend Avi get to ride home together. So of course being the nerdy stalker moms that we are, we had to meet them at the bus stop and take pictures of them coming off the bus. Lorin was so mad at me because she wanted to be able to walk home all by herself.






When she got home she had everything to give me and for me to sign. Her school doesnt mess around. On the first day, they started fundraisers, took their school pictures and had back to school night.

Smores and Shores

Last weekend we had our ward camp out at Cherry Hill. We've never been there before so we were totally unaware of what to expect. When you think of camping, you think up in the mountains, in the middle of nowhere. When you think of a water park you think in the valley, where it's nice and hot and busy. It was great camping, we set up tents on the green grass, there were bathrooms with showers only 50 feet away. The only bummer, no fire pits allowed. So one of our friends brought their fire tire and we hooked it up to propane for the kids to have smore's. The ward provided the dinner, which was really good and we were on our own for breakfast. So what do you do when you're not out in the middle of nowhere and there aren't fire pits for cooking? You go to IHOP, of course. It was a yummy breakfast, they did such a good job.







After we packed up all the tents and air mattresses, we headed over to the water park. It was so much fun. Christian is usually not too fond of water, but he loved it here. It was so funny to watch a 16 or 17 year old lifeguard chastise Christian for walking up the slides the wrong way (Christian would slide down and then walk up again and every time the lifeguard would tell him not to walk up the slides and so Christian would just do it again). We know he is going to be our rebellious one. And we are so in for it. Lorin loved the lazy pool. It was about 3 feet deep and she loved running in it because you went super fast. Kaki's favorite part was sitting on the shallow end of the kiddie pool and watching Christian army crawl through the water.

While Daddy's away Mommy will play....

....movies that is. Mike has been traveling quite a bit these past couple of months. But these last couple trips I decided to watch movies at night to unwind after I put the kids to bed. So if I wasn't watching Olympics, I would put on a movie and veg with my ice cream bar. We have a membership with Blockbuster so a movie would come in the mail and after I watch it I take the movie into the store and get another one and then in the next day or two another movie would come. So with these movies keep coming in the mail I had nothing else to do but to watch them, right? A couple of them I liked but most were definitely not buy worthy!! So here is a break down of movies I would suggest and ones that I would maybe watch once and ones that are not rent worthy.



Penelope was real cute. I rented this one because I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Reese Witherspoon. And I really like Christina Ricci and James McAvoy is pretty darn hot(love him in Becoming Jane, that is definitely buy worthy) For starters, there is a great Twilight preview on it. And I mean great! But anyway, back to Penelope. It was cute. The story line was cute. The way it was done reminded me of Mulan Rouge, because it was real quirky, in a good way. I think Christian Ricci did a good job, and Reese Witherspoon was really good. Not a normal role for Reese, but she comes in more towards the end. The story line started kind of slow, but when it picked up it was really cute. This movie I would suggest watching once, it isn't on my buy list thou.



HMMM, this one on so many levels was just wrong. I have to tell you a little about it for you to know why I think it was so wrong. It starts out about a girl(Abigail Breslin, way cute girl) at school and they just had a class on sex ed. Well come on, she's like 11. Why are they giving those classes to 11 year olds. So she goes home to her dad(who is going through a divorce) and is curious about sex and male organs and accident children. That is so disturbing. To keep hearing an 11 year old talk about sex. Maybe because I don't have an 11 year old, maybe that's really how they are. Don't know. So then she asks him to tell her his story about his dating different women. So he does, and it flashes back and that's what the story is about. His different girl friends. Then he gets to the one that is Abigails mom and the movies comes back to current time. So after his divorce is final his daughter is encouraging him to go back to one of the ex girlfriends in the story. So he does. Well it just didn't leave me with that happy feel good feeling at the end. I know not all movies are suppose to but I usually like the ones that do and am not to fond of the ones that don't. Then it goes back to, would you tell your 11 year old daughter all the women you slept with before you dated her mom. HMMM I don't think I would, but again I don't have an 11 so I don't know for sure. So I don't think it was really rent worthy. It was lucky I didn't turn if off in the middle of it. I was just really hoping he would end up with his wife. I know stupid thing to hope for.





YAAA, so this movie had a really good story line. It was so cool to think about all the things you could do if you could jump from place to place. Christian Hayden is in it, and who didn't love him in Star Wars. And the lady is Rachel Bilsen and she is way cute. But they were the only cute parts about the movie. Who ever directed this, did such a part job putting it together. Christian Hayden could have found a better way to make his money then robbing a bank. That was pretty lame and predictable. And then they throw in this cult leader who's job is to hunt down "Jumpers" and kill them. They could have taken it to so many better places but they didn't. So it was kinda lame. I'll watch it once but that's about it.



This one reminded me to much of Ground Hog Day. After 30 mins we kept seeing the same scene over and over and over. It's about a Secret Service Agent, Denis Quiad, who was really shaky and jumpy because he had taken a bullet for the president last year. But he was back on president duty and they are in Spain for a meeting and his job is to protect the president. Well there is an assassination attempt and then a kidnapping attempt of the president. But it shows the same scene over and over and over again from the view points of different characters they keep introducing. So it was a lot like Ground Hogs day. This one we almost did turn off because it was so monotonous.



This movie was pretty good. It is based on a true story of King Henry the 8th. I probably learned about him in world history years ago in high school, but I dont remember anything about him. So it was really interesting. Again a little disturbing, all the concubines he had, but that's how life really was back then. I really like Scarlett Johansson and I thought she did a really good job. And I really like Natalie Portman and she also did a really good job. The extra features on this were really interesting to learn more about King Henry the 8th and the fact that he did father the children of two sisters. And he had his first wife beheaded. And the fact that it is because of the character Natalie Portman plays that England broke off from the Catholic Church and started their own Church of England. So this movie I would recommend watching.


Well, this movie was really really slow. I'm trying to think if there was anything good about it. It did leave me with that happy feel good feeling at the end. But it was just really slow. Hard to keep up with too, at some times. I like Kate Bosworth, she's always cute. But really it was just OK.






This movie was cute, it reminded me of Bridge To Teribithia, with all it's mystical creatures. It has Freddie Highmore, the kid from Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. He did a Parent Trap thing, where he played twins, he did a good job. I would watch this one again. I think it was to scary for Lorin so I wouldn't let her watch it. But it was still good.






K, I saved the best for last. This movie was sooo cute. If you can't tell by now, I love watching movies with actors/actresses that I know and like. A movie can be killed by the actor in it. Like, Tom Cruise, lately he just gets on my nerves. So I wont watch anything he has done. Well I wont pay money to watch it. I'm not a big fan of Hilary Swank. I know a lot of people thinks she's great, but she just annoys me. So I haven't rented PS I Love You. I kinda want to tho, because I love Gerard Butler. Anyway, Nims Island has a great cast. Abigail Brislin, she is such a cute and really good actress. She is so good for her age, and in this movie she did a little bit of a "Cast Away" thing where she had to hold her own for a while and she did really good. I also Love Jodie Foster, she can do no wrong in my book. She has always been one of my favorites. And it has Gerard Butler after Phantom of the Operah he won a huge spot in my favorites book. Lorin loves this movie too, I cant tell you how many times she's seen it and she now walks around with her Dora backpack, a jump rope, and her keilidascope saying she's an adventurer like Nim. This movie is absolutely buy worthy. When we have to take it back to Blockbuster we'll be buying it from Walmart!!


So this is what I've been filling my evenings with the last couple weeks. You've probably seen these already when they were in theatres. But us Ceser's like to wait till they come out on DVD so we can relax at home while the kids are upstairs sleeping. I have no problems with diffences in points of views. So feel free to leave you're own oppinion if you thought differently. :)

FYI-Twilighters

So I rented Penelope to watch tonight cause it looked really cute. And much to my pleasant surprise, at the begining there is a never before sneak preview to Twilight the movie. It was really good. I had to watch it again. So I would recommend getting Penelope, even if not to watch it, just for the cool Twilight preview. :)

So Allison, and Kara did this and I thought their's fit them perfectly. So I wanted to try it and see how well it fit me. Ya it was ok. I dont know if I'm that independant, but Mike thinks so. I was really impressed, while I was answering the questions Mike was sitting next to me and he would guess what I was going to answer and he got almost all of them right. He knows me well.

You Are Jasmine!

Independent and adventurous. You don't want much; just to break out of the guilded cage society has put you in and experience life to the fullest. Following orders isn't really one of your strong points, and you would rather live a life of poverty than being forced into something that you hate.

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You Are Jasmine!

Independent and adventurous. You don't want much; just to break out of the guilded cage society has put you in and experience life to the fullest. Following orders isn't really one of your strong points, and you would rather live a life of poverty than being forced into something that you hate.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

Family Pics

We are so bad, we havent taken professional family pictures for almost 2 years. I know thats horrible. So we had some taken while all my family was visiting. My friend Michelle Hilton took them. She did such a good job!! They all turned out so cute. We went to Murray Park and had a picnic after. I dont know what it is tho, when it comes to picture time the kids never want to cooperate. They're fine before and after, but for that 20 seconds that they have to say cheese its the end of the world. Owell, They still turned out really cute.

Breaking Dawn- Does contain spoilers

So my copy of Breaking Dawn didnt come in the mail by friday, that's when they promised it would come. So they gave me a refund and I went to B&N and sure enough there was this huge stack of them just sitting right in the entrance of the store. So I got my book Friday night, and I just finished it tonight. It took me a little longer than I expected to read it and I have to say I was so disappointed when I finished it. Not because I was sad it was over, but because I was actually realived it was over. Belive it or not I actually even put the book down( I know, I can hear some of you gasping) to go play Xbox with mike. I could not do that with the other 3. They had me completely sucked in, I think my children got neglected a little the first time i read them.

I mean Holy Cow BD was so freakin long and I dont feel it accomplished that much. I mean yes, everything I wanted to happen, happened:

Bella became a Vamp and ended up being able to spend the rest of forever with Edward. They got married, shoot, they even got pregers and had a mixed breed child. But, what the crap is that?!!! What is a mixed breed? really, how do vamps reproduce? I mean if Edward cant even create tears because he has no fluids in him then well, what?! And then they get married, which I was really excited for, but that was in chapter 3, what the heck were the other 36 chapters for. That's all I needed. Oh the time it would have saved me if that would have been it. Well that and maybe a chapter or two on her change. And the WORST part, what the heck, it's just gross and disgusting for Jacob to imprint on a baby that's just one day old. I dont care how much Stephanie Meyer tries to explain how non-romantic it is. It's just sick and wrong, I mean for crying out loud, he gives her a promise bracelet for her first christmas. That's just sick and wrong. And wwwhhhyyyy Rosalee? She is so annoying. Cant she just go away? I dont want to keep reading about her.

Where's Alice? Shoot, where's Edward? And why do I have to read 10 chapters from Jacob's perspective? The wolves and vamps are suppose to be immortal enemies, why do they hang out all day? Where is the fight scene I was waiting for? I mean they have super powers for a reason. How gross is it that Edward had to chew through the babies womb for the baby to be delieverd. Do you see where I'm going with this? Did these things not annoy you either?

The things I did love tho, The wedding, Bella's new fast car, Bella's new found strength. I'm glad Jacob found someone to imprint with. And Kath, I know you were disappointed by Bella's power, but that was kinda cool that she was able to let Edward hear her thoughts now. I'm happy Bella was able to have a baby of her own. It was cool learning about all the different talents the other vamps had. And I am happy for Stephanie Meyers success. She seems like a really nice person, she was just trying to make everyone happy and so I dont think it stayed true to the story.

I cant say I'm that excited to read it again. Beside's the fact that it would be such a huge commitment because the book is so long, I just need to get over the annoyed feeling that I have right now before I could start reading even the preface again. I still would recommend books 1-3 anyday. Book 4 is completely at will.

FUMMING

OOOHHHHH IM SO MADDDDDD!!!!! I'm NEVER ordering a book on amazon AGAIN! What the heck it's been almost a week and with how big this book is you'd think they would make it a point to get you the book on openeing day or the day after. But NOOOOO, ask me if I've even gotten the book yet, NOOOO!! Just dont ask me how upset I am about this, because people are finished with it already and I haven't even been able to hold it. I told my self friday night, "no I'm not going to walmart where I know there's going to be a million of them sitting there. I'll just wait till sat, mon at the latest, to get my book. Then on saturday when I was at walmart and there was still a million of them, I told myself "no, i can wait" Ok its freakin wed night and NOOOOO BOOOOKKKKKK. Worst part is now walmart is SOLD OUT. Oh Amazon is going to hear it from me. My sister ordered it from amazon too and she got it on tuesday. What the heck!!! So by the time i've read it you'll all have talked to everyone and be done with talking about it and I'll have no one to talk to. :(

PS

You know the day before your family comes to visit, you spend the day cleaning everything. Washing, scrubbing, vacuming, organizing. So that was "us" on friday. I come up from the basement, where I had been getting all the beds ready, to find this...

The CuTeSt Niecey in the world!!!

This weekend my littlest niece got blessed. So what a better reason than that then to get all the cousins and aunts and uncles together for some good ole fun!! This is the first for my little sis and her hubby so it was a big thing for all of us. It's so much fun to watch my sister go through what I went through when I had my first and know that I'm not the only one that stresses about the feeding, sleeping, pooping.

Laura and Ms BB and all the girly cousins(most anyway, just missing one)

Mike throwing his signs again. I think the young men are starting to influence him as much as he's influencing them. My older sister and her hubby drove down from Washington. I love having sisters. I never really thought about it before but I'm so glad that Lorin got a little sister because there's nothing in the world that comes close to the relationship sisters have. My sisters are like my bests friends x 10.

And of course it would be no Ceser party without Karaoke!! It's such a fun thing to do as a family and the kids love it. They sang all the Disney princess songs and then sang them again. My mom taught us all to love to sing when we were little. She has such a beautiful voice, so when we were young we would always sing as a family in church, roadshows, talent shows. I wish I had her talent to sing because she has such a great and powerful voice.

We had a surprise birthday for my brother, I'm not gonna tell you how old he is because he would probably kill me(not that he's THAT old). We got him good too, he was way surprised!!

All the cousins(minus 3) we made them all these tie dye shirts with their numbers on them. and then lined them up. Dave we're missing your 3, 6, and 8.

Amy made the girly's matching outfits and they were so cute. Lorin LOVES her cousins. She has so much fun with them. I'm so glad that she is really close to them, even though we don't live close she has so many memories of them. It's so funny cause Mike and I always joke that when we're visiting them or they're visiting us we never see Lorin. She is just off with her cousins playing something or imagining something or creating something. And every so often we see her for a quick second then she's off with her cousins again.
Kaki and her cousin, Ava, are one week apart and they are 9 and 10. They had so much fun together crawling around and playing with toys.

Grandpa being silly at the park!! We've had a couple calls from concerned neighbors wondering if one of us got injured or paralyzed because of the new ramp in front of our house. And thanks so much for your care and concern, but we had my brother in law make it for my step dads visit. About two years ago he had a spinal cord injury and slowly has been getting his motor functions back. He's still in a wheelchair but is progressing and getting stronger. We all pray that he will be able to walk again. Until then the kids love to get rides from him on his wheelchair, and Christians favorite part is the horn.