Crazy Weekend

I have to say that I tend to get really homesick for Florida & all my FL friends on the weekends.  I miss just going out to lunch with a girl friend.  Or going to the beach a reading a book.  Utah's landscape just doesn't offer the things I want...the ocean, sand, hot sunny weather, and crazy amounts of outdoor shopping and activites. 

I started to get really down on Friday and it continued over to saturday.  I kept telling Shawn "I'M GOING STIR CRAZY!"  And without a car, I can't just get up and go visit my mom & dad whenever I want to.  :(

BUT, Shawn's friends...who have became my friends...saved the day on Saturday night.  :)  Travis, Dom, Nick, and Rodney all came over to hang out.  After a few hours of much needed fun for me, we decided to go to Oscars (a local pool hall & club).  OHHHH MY GOODNESS!  I had so much fun!  Shawn, Rodney, & I all had a dance off.  lol.  Needless to say it was a blast and much needed break from my homesickness... 

I can't even start to explain to you how lucky I am to have an amazing boyfriend who has awesome friends.  And thank god for Tamina...she is my P.I.C. for life.  :)

MOVIE REVIEW

Date Night
*****  Hands down, funniest movie I have seen in a LONG time!  Steve Carrel & Tina Fey are HILARIOUS together!  :)  Besides all of the humor the message in the movie is adorable.  GO SEE IT! 

Hippity Hoppity...Easter's on its way

Actually it's already passed.  But it was such a good one I just had to blog about it! 

To start off the Easter festivities I decided to buy massive amounts of candy.  Because massive amounts of candy is totally on my diet.  Anway-Shawn's sister Bree had a birthday back in March but all of our schedules were too busy to get together for her actual bday.  So instead, Shawn's mom, Diana, had us all over for dinner the evening before easter.  It was delish!  Diana made home made mashed potatoes, stuffing, a HUGE turkey lurkey, corn, and rolls.  I really wanted to stuff my face with like 3rd's but I kept my manners in check!  lol

Then Easter Sunday morning I decided I needed to clean my house from top to bottom.  IDK why I decided to do that but I did and it took me a few hours.  After working up a sweat I got ready to head over to Mom & Dad's for Easter Sunday dinner.  I haven't been out there to see them in over a month!!, so I was very excited to get going. 

Mom made ham, funneral potatoes, salad, steamed asparagus, and rolls.  OH MY, I didn't mind my manners at Mom & Dad's!  I am pretty sure I had 4th's!  ;)  Once we were all stuffed, we all (Mom, Dad, Shawn, Jordan, Julie, & the kiddos's) layed around the house trying to let the food settle.  I brought over the game Catch Phrase (my ALL time fav game).  Mom & dad had never played before so I figured it'd be fun.  We had SOO much fun playing guys against girls that we ended up playing round after round after round (about 2 hours!).  I also brought desert...ice cream cupcakes from cold stone.  Yummy! 

Needless to say, I had a great Easter weekend with Shawn's fam and my fam. 

Not NOBODY, Not NOHOW! ~Cowardly Lion

If you didn't get the title of my blog then you are not a die hard Wizard of Oz fan!  :)  

So I have been in love or obsessed (you chose) since I was a little kid with the Wizard of Oz.  My mom & dad had a VHS copy that they recorded from T.V. and I remember watching that movie over and over and over again.  In school I took film analysis and we had to analyze this movie.  I was a little scared b/c I thought it might ruin the fantasy I had built up around this movie that one day I could live Somewhere over the Rainbow.  [What?  Just because I am 25 years old doesn't mean I can't still pretend!!  All you boring people that stopped pretending once it wasn't cool anymore should be ashamed of yourselves!!!!  ;)]  Anyway, back to my story...Picking apart the Wizard of Oz and all it's cast only gave me a bigger appreciation for the movie.  I couldn't believe how mean Judy Garland was treated.  And all the other crazy stuff that happend on and off the screen!  Once I moved out onto my own I realized I needed my own copy of the Wizard of Oz...so I bought it...on VHS. 

That's been about 8 years ago and my VHS player is long gone to VHS player heaven. I needed to upgrade to DVD, and I finally did it...last week I bought Wizard of Oz on DVD!!!!  OHHHHH man I was so excited.  Even though I saw Shawn secretly rolling his eyes at me, I kinda jumped in the air and squeeled with excitment.  (It takes a VERY patient man to be my boyfriend!)  Anyway-I knew Shawn didn't really want to watch the movie so when he had plans to go out with his friends to a concert I decided to stay home and watch the movie AND drink out of the Wizard of Oz mug Shawn got me for Christmas.  OMG-it was just as awesome as I remembered!  I am sooo going to be that pushy Aunt that makes all of my nieces and nephews watch that movie!  REGARDLESS OF AGE...Jansen.... lol

So overall my Wizard of Oz on DVD experience has been a great one! Except for the part about me having this song stuck in my head NON STOP for the past week!

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Dorothy: It really was no miracle. What happened was just this...
Dorothy: [singing] The wind began to switch / The house, to pitch / And suddenly the hinges started to unhitch / Just then the Witch / To satisfy an itch / Went flying on her broomstick, thumbing for a hitch!

Munchkin: And, oh, what happened then was rich!
Munchkins: [singing] The house began to pitch / The kitchen took a slich / It landed on the Wicked Witch in the middle of a ditch / Which was not a happy situation for the Wicked Witch!

The underlined bolded part of the song is the main line that finds it's way back into my head and the words seem to spill out of my mouth over and over.  I hope they find their way stuck into your head as well.  :)  LOVE YA'LL

APRIL BIRITHDAY

April 24th-WILL!  I hope you have a wonderful birthday!  I love you and miss you so much!