Tom Cruise on Home Teaching

Such a Tragedy..but Forgiveness was there

I snapped this of Gary tonight. It was in the Taylor's home. Their son Hunter had his farewell today at church.. he's leaving for two years as a missionary to Mexico ....the family had a dinner party afterward and Bishop House was one of the honored guests...now I ask ya, how many of you have a 59-year old hubby that is this cute?

The Hunger Games Trilogy Review

I read the first 30 pages and was not happy with the theme....a survivalist kid-killing-kid story..why would I want to read it? But picked it up after my friend urged me on... and WAS HOOKED.. here's a brief review: As negative Utopias go, Suzanne Collins has created a dilly. The United States is gone. North America has become Panem, a TV-dominated dictatorship run from a city called the Capitol. The rest of Panem is divided into 12 Districts (the former 13th had the bad judgment to revolt and no longer exists). The yearly highlight in this nightmare world is the Hunger Games, a bloodthirsty reality TV show in which 24 teenagers chosen by lottery — two from each District — fight each other in a desolate environment called the ''arena.'' The winner gets a life of ease; the losers get death. The only ''unspoken rule'' is that you can't eat the dead contestants. Let's see the makers of the movie version try to get a PG-13 on this baby. Our heroine is Katniss Everdeen (lame name, cool kid), a resident of District 12, which used to be Appalachia. She lives in a desperately poor mining community called the Seam, and when her little sister's name is chosen as one of the contestants in the upcoming Hunger Games, Katniss volunteers to take her place. A gutsy decision, given the fact that District 12 hasn't produced a Hunger Games winner in 30 years or so, making them the Chicago Cubs of the postapocalypse world. Complicating her already desperate situation is her growing affection for the other District 12 contestant, a clueless baker's son named Peeta Mellark. Further complicating her situation is her sorta-crush on her 18-year-old hunting partner, Gale. Gale isn't clueless; Gale is smoldering. Says so right on page 14. The love triangle is fairly standard teen-read stuff; what 16-year-old girl wouldn't like to have two interesting guys to choose from? The rest of The Hunger Games, however, is a violent, jarring speed-rap of a novel --a la Stephen King

Mockingjay trailer

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games, and Catching Fire....

The best books of the year..... bone chilling theme, terrifying, awful.... but ... I couldn't put it down... the 3rd book, Mockingjay comes out next week...

Playing Doctor

taken from Melissa's blog.... and if you want to see the e-coli cake... go to: http://fowlersflowers.blogspot.com/


The girls are always creating scenarios. "Let's plan circus in our backyard", "Let's plan a parade for the neighborhood", "Let's do a fashion show". "Let's empty out all of the cabinets and make it into our play fort". All of these sentences translate to one thing "Let's make a gigantic mess and then leave it for Mommy to clean up." I have a love/hate relationship with these scenarios. I've been putting the smack down on the clean-up aspect and that has helped. I do love that they entertain and organize themselves rather than plopping down in front of the TV.


Here they are playing Doctor's Office. They created a waiting area with magazines and puzzles, a hospital bed, an X-Ray machine (turning the lights on and off in front of the mirror) and an OR. Kami did an H&P on me and gave me "antibiotics" with a real syringe. I ended up needing open heart surgery to which Macy performed. Kami diagnosed Steve with a broken leg after looking at his X-Ray.

Julia Child's Roasted Chicken - Roast Chicken Recipe

I always try to cook something extra good for Sunday's dinner since Gary doesn't get home till about 4:00 pm and hasn't eaten anything since the night before. Although Bishop House says it doesn't matter what I fix since he's starving by that time....which of course defeats the purpose of making it really special... hummmm... here's a basic chicken dinner that is so good and so flavorful.. Julia Child's recipe.

This is the Manti Temple where Gary and I were married 35 years ago today. LOOOOOVVVVE it!

August 15, 1975

Wedding Day for me... 35 years ago... Best Day!

Double Rainbow

Isn't this beautiful? I grabbed my camera and ran outside while it was still raining....and sunshining....

Christian

Christian is on the porch lookin' all cool