Potter Report

For starters, let me grace you with my official report of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. It was great! They followed the book really close in this one. There were only a few added scenes that they changed up a bit and the end was different in it's own way. I love, love, LOVE the way they portrayed Snape in this one. But I'm a Snape fan to the end. He's one of my favorite characters. But it also helps when he is played by an amazing actor. (Alan Rickman is so fantastic) You go to this movie and the first two hours were just awesome! Best Potter flick by far. Then the end comes and it kind of...well...was anti-climatic. Don't worry. I won't disclose anything major for all of you that have yet to read the books or see the movies. Though, if you haven't read them or seen the movies yet and are over the age of ten, then chances are that you never will. I am a firm believer in not ruining movies/books for people. But it was well worth the visit to the movie theater. It was filled with really wonderful character development and quite a few funny scenes. The kids have really grown into their characters. I'm pumped to see the next movie. It was great to get out again and spend some quality time with Josh. In fact, the kids had so much fun with Grandma and Grandpa that Alex has been asking to go back again. Woo-hoo!! I'll be taking much advantage of this phase. I am desperately needing another viewing of Transformers 2 in the next two weeks. And by the way, I still stand by my movie advice for everyone. Seriously, if you are going to only see one movie in the theater this year then see Transformers 2. You can see Harry Potter on your own TV and not lose the effect, but you can NOT see Transformers for the first time on a TV. You just won't understand the grand super-wonderfulness of it all. (Was that too geeky again? Oh well.)

Next, we had an incredibly productive weekend for a change. Usually, our weekends just float by with nothing to report of interest. Though I don't suppose much of it is really that interesting, it is still more so than my normal weekends.

We spent the rest of the weekend doing some things to improve the old house. We hope to sell it in the next year or two and move on up to another house with at least three bedrooms. How much longer can I house a boy and girl in the same room? I don't know when it becomes socially unacceptable. I have been attempting to get the siding on one side of the house replaced where it molded and rotted through. Turns out we have termites too. Greeeaaat. Guess I'll be buying termite killer in the next week as well. Yuck. Stupid worthless bugs...grumble grumble. I'll also be spending my weekends painting the house and deck. I decided to change our accent color from maroon to hunter green. I got a good chunk of the deck painted and did some landscaping too (thanks for the wood chips Sean and Mandy!). Free landscape material is AWESOME! I got limestone rocks from my Mom who has loads of them from years ago when they dug the lagoon and free wood chips from my friends who own a super wood chipper. Can't go wrong with free, right?

So anyways, the siding is done and the painting has commenced. It's starting to come together. I am hoping that it will help us with the selling of the house in the end. I look forward to having a bigger place one day. The kids had a blast helping outside. Alex helped me spread the wood chips and Abby helped by eating some. Naturally. I hope to post some pictures tomorrow. I would have done weekly winners but I don't think I pulled my camera out but once the entire week. Bad photo mama!