RIP little camera

So Katie has been wanting to wear a swimsuit that her cousin gave her OVER her clothes. She even went to go pick up my nephew at the bus stop with it on because she had a major meltdown when I suggested she take it off before going outside. It is super cute though, and I finally got a picture of it with my little old camera. Here it is. My poor girl is the color of Bubblicious gum! I took a few more pictures, and the color is weird and they're really dark. I think it's time to retire my little Canon Powershot. I do have my nice camera still, but it's so huge, it was nice having the little one I could take with me everywhere. So goodbye little camera, I'll miss you!

Catching up

Here are a few easter pics. I was a bad mom and didn't get any of the girls in their easter dresses, but oh well!

The girls about to start the egg hunt in the back yard

Katie finding and egg!

Aimee found one too!

Looking cute.
My beautiful niece Kristen. (All my nieces are beautiful, but this happened to be a really good picture!)
The girls.
These are of Katie opening her basket on easter morning. She loved that sucker. So much that nothing else held her attention.
She was also really excited about her chocolate bunny (made by Great Grammy)

And now I really have to go to bed!

My not so fun day

Soooo, Thursday morning, I woke up and my back was killing me. I took some ibuprofen and tried to go back to sleep, but it was still hurting pretty bad. I took more an hour later, and it still didn't help. I tried walking around, laying down, and then an ice pack. That finally made it feel better, so off to work I went. It got progressively worse all day, and I couldn't find any medicine at my sister's house. I didn't want to snoop all around to find some, so when we picked up my nephew from the bus stop I asked a neighbor for some. I downed 4 ibuprofen, and it still hurt like a mother. I started feeling nauseated too and I was worried I might not be able to drive home, but I did, and Jon put Katie to bed and I lay on the floor alternating ice packs and heating pads. My mom has had back pain a lot, so I had asked her for advice, (which was the hot and cold) and I now have so much sympathy for the back pain. It probably would have helped more then huh! Anyway, still getting worse, I got an awesome blessing, and I felt a tiny bit better. So I got up to turn off our halogen lamp, and the head fell down on my arm, and gave me a burn. Then a little while later I started throwing up. Over and over. We finally decided it was time for the ER, so Jon's mom came over so we could go. It is SO NICE having them right next door. So I got an IV in with some Zofran and Morphine, (and a huge bag of fluid since I was dehydrated too) and eventually started to feel a bit better. But the nurse happened to put the IV tape right on top of the burn on my arm. It was okay until she ripped the tape off, and holy crap that hurt. They sent me home with some vicodin, but I could only take it if I wasn't nursing Aimee. So we tried to get her to take a bottle, and apparently she will now not drink from a bottle. So I took some aleve and tried to sleep on the floor. I felt better and better as the night went on, and I woke up this morning feeling so much better. So that was my long painful day.
Sorry for the downer post, but I wanted to get it all out!

I'm a slacker

Well, I really was going to print these out and mail them out. I even made two versions, and printed them at Costco, to see which I liked better, and that's where it ended. And Aimee is almost three months old, and I'm not anticipating getting any less busy! So you get the web version. If you want a real one, let me know, and I'll mail you one. (but only if you ask nicely! And possibly bribe me) So with out further ado,

Announcing:

Thanks Aunt Kim!

We finally got them away from Katie long enough to put them on Aimee! We all love them, thank you!

Katie's inappropriate comment

I don't know whether to be totally horrified, laugh hysterically, or just pray we don't get struck by lightning from the sacrilegious-ness of it. Katie saw this picture of Keith Urban:


Then she said, "That Jesus Christ!"

New name!

I was tired of our blog's look, and I wanted to have a name other than our last name. So (after much thought, and some really bad ideas) I came up with the night owls! We all like to stay up late, except poor Aimee, who likes to go to bed and wake up (relatively) early.

Update time

Aimee is two months old now! She's a happy girl, and smiles all the time. We are loving it! Katie got a stomach flu about a week ago, and she very kindly shared it with her sister. So Aimee spent Valentine's day puking everything she ate. Poor little thing, she was so mellow all day. So we finally called the on call dr because she hadn't really kept anything down, and they told us to take her to the ER since she's so little. Anyway, they checked her out and she wasn't dehydrated yet, so they sent us home. She's been fine since then. Oh, and they weighed her, and she was 12 pounds! I guess she's getting enough to eat :) Here's the cutie!
I'm one of those moms that thinks it's fun to dress her kids alike. It's probably dorky, but it's also so cute! I pledge to stop when they're old enough to complain about it!Katie has been cracking us up recently. We went to the store and all the old ladies were saying hi to her, and she didn't say anything, so a couple of them asked her if she was being shy. Well on our way home she was talking to her little toy dog, and she said, "Hi doggy! You being shy?" Then today I told her Daddy was coming home soon, and she said, "Yea, best friend!" So cute!

Also, there was a lunar eclipse tonight, it was cool! It reminded me that we just watched In the Shadow of the Moon. It's a documentary about the Apollo missions and it was so good. The guys are all old now, and one of them was so funny and cute. Anyway, it's a PG, so nothing bad in it.

I was singing "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam" to Katie about 20 min ago. She went to go play with a baby, and she was having a hard time getting the bib off. She starts whining, and says "Jesus wants it off!"
That totally made my day. That, and the fact that it's nap time!

Movies!

In an attempt to show that I do have interests outside of my kids, and I'm not always in mommy-mode, I'm going to write about the best movies of last year. Just a warning, there are a lot, and we do watch rated R movies.

Jon and I are movie people. To be truthful, I didn't used to be. Jon has converted me into one. We aren't the see every movie that comes out people, we are in quest of great movies. We check a couple of movie review sites, one of them being Rotten Tomatoes. It gives each movie a percentage rating, based on critic reviews. We don't watch movies that don't get above a certain percentage, thus weeding out many terrible time-wasters.

Now, on to the my picks for the best movies! (P.S. I know I use the word movie too much, but I hate calling it a "film" or a "picture". It's just too movie-nerdy.)

The Documentary Trilogy

We saw Sicko, Maxed Out, and No End in Sight all in a row. What a depressing view of America. I love our country, but there is so much that is wrong with it. Sicko is about how our healthcare system is irreparably broken, and that Canada, France and the U.K. have national health care, and it's awesome. Now before you totally discount Sicko because it's a Michael Moore movie, let me say, I dislike Michael Moore. He gives you a sensationalistic one-sided view, and he's just annoying. But, the fact that these things are happening in our country is just incredibly sad. I definitely don't believe the government should be in control of health care, but there needs to be a change. Maxed Out is about credit card debt, and showed how evil big banks and credit card companies are. It didn't focus on how people got into debt, but just how impossible it is to get out. It's amazing (after watching Sicko and Maxed Out) how so many bills in congress are the result of large corporations. They have too much money. The last (and best) documentary was No End in Sight. It was about the Iraq war, and how badly we botched it up. It was very well done, and I'd recommend it to anyone. It was very good at just presenting the facts, with minimum spin. Our leaders were so wrong, and I just had no idea.

Best Documentary of All Time

Try not to laugh when I tell you what it is: The King of Kong. It's about the world of competitive arcade games. I was not excited when Jon told me about it, I thought it would be the nerdiest movie ever. I can't even tell you how right I was. It's like Best in Show for video games, but it's REAL! And so much better. Please watch it. Pay attention to the nervous, sweaty, Brian Kuh. And the incredibly egotistic Billy Mitchell who is so stuck in the 80s. His mullet is outstanding. And the borderline autistic Steve Wiebe who won't stop playing even when his kid needs help in the bathroom.

Ratatouille

It needs it's own heading becuase it was that good. It's fun to have a kid movie that is equally entertaining for the adult who has to watch it 15 times in a row. Animated movies have come a long way. And Kudos to a movie that made a rat likable. I didn't think it was possible.

Others

Hot Fuzz, Waitress, The Bourne Ultimatum, and The Lives of Others were all so good, all in different ways.

The Best Picture Nominees

They are five awesome movies. I've only seen four of them, but Jon has seen all five, so I'm going with his opinion. I'm not going to recommend you see them because four of the five are rated R, and the one that isn't, I think should have been. I'll just give a brief overview:
Atonement: I loved it, the story was so compelling, and the acting and cinematography were great.
Juno: So funny and cute. I just loved Ellen Page and how weird she was. Also, Jason Bateman was such a likable jerk.
No Country for Old Men: the one I haven't seen. Jon thinks it's the best.
Michael Clayton: This was intense, and so well done. George Clooney surprised me with how good he was, and Tilda Swinton was awesome, so unlikable!
There Will Be Blood: My pick for the best movie of the year. I didn't enjoy it the most, but I think it was the best. Daniel Day-Lewis was beyond incredible, and if he doesn't get Best Actor there's something wrong with the world. Paul Dano was so amazing, I loved every minute he was in the movie. It's a dark movie, but I could go on and on about how great it was. Nearly every character is just morally bankrupt, but still a story worth telling.

Overview

Here's my top 10 for 2007
10. Waitress
9. The Bourne Ultimatum
8. The Lives of Others
7. Hot Fuzz
6. Juno
5. Michael Clayton
4. King of Kong
3. Atonement
2. Ratatouille
1. There Will Be Blood


It's sad that this post has taken all day to write. Not constantly becuase there are babies that need to be fed, changed, and entertained, but all my free time. I could have written that in about 20 min about four years ago. But that was before my kids sucked out all my brain cells. Thanks for reading if you've gotten this far, and don't feel like you have to agree with me. If you've seen any of these tell me what you thought, and if you think I missed some good ones, let me know!