HOT DOGS

Matt has a strange obsession with hot dogs. We were playing a mind-reading game the other night and he asked what he was thinking about. I guessed hot dogs. He said that 50% of the time, that would be the right answer. WHAT THE HELL? I have no idea why he is so in love with hot dogs. Anyone?

The Countdown Begins...

I have officially put my classroom together, and all my stuff is in!
(Except my refrigerator) So now, the countdown begins...

6 days until I am back on contract...

12 days until I have students full-time...

Fishing with the Fischers

The Fischer boys love to fish more than anyone else I have ever met. So a couple weeks ago, Randy and Jenny brought the kids down to Salt Lake and we all went fishing together up at Butterfly Lake. We packed a bunch of food, sweatshirts, fishing gear, and all drove up. We spend a lot of time as a family, but this was the first time in a while that we were all together, except for Kamie who had to work. Everyone who fished caught something, which made it even more fun! Matt spent most of the night trying to catch a fish on Claire's little pink pole, he even went against parental wishes and put a real hook on her pole, and she caught a fish with it! Brad was a whiz, catching fish left and right. Even Jenna caught one on her very last cast of the night. Lots of fun!

Claire and her Uncle Matt

All the Fischer brothers

Matt with Claire's girlie pole

Goofy Claire

Brad with his big pole

Bees Game with the Roomies

Just before the 24th of July, Matt and I planned a night for my roommates and their husbands to get together. We went to the Bees game! Jenni and Jared came down from Logan (with Jenni being almost 30 weeks pregnant), and Jeana and Marc came up from Nephi (luckily the cherry harvest had not started yet). Lindsay and Tom were going to come too, but baby Olivia had just come a few days earlier and they weren't quite up to a Bees game with a four day old baby, which is understandable. Matt has been telling me how the Bees suck this year, but luckily they won the game we were at! Jared was so funny, he really wanted to catch a homerun ball, so he sat with his glove on the whole game, ready just in case! After the game, they had fireworks, which were awesome! We always love getting together with our friends, and they are always so great to come to Salt Lake from wherever they are! We love you guys!

Softball

Softball has always been such a dominant part of my life, and I cannot believe I am already where I am now. I have played rec softball, competitive softball, high school softball, and now adult co-ed softball. I have coached high school softball, and am now coaching my first competitive team! I am so excited. We are the Rampage, 12 and under, and I am so thrilled to be doing this! We have a tournament this weekend and I cannot wait! (Pictures to come...)

This is me on my first competitive softball team, the Earthquakes

It's Time for the TRUTH

Yes, I understand that many people have only read "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" once, when it came out in 2007, so when they saw the movie they were in awe. I get it. But don't call yourself a die-hard Harry Potter fan if you thought that the movie was good. I'm sorry but it's true.

The movie diverted from the book so drastically that it was almost a different story. You would think that people who read almost 800 pages of a book would care more about a movie- that would for sure guarantee millions of dollars in profits, by the way- being true to the text that they spent HOURS reading. Honestly, people.

And movie producers, let's talk. What was wrong with the original text? Hmmm...

Released globally in 93 countries, Deathly Hallows broke sales records as the fastest-selling book ever. It sold 15 million copies in the first 24 hours following its release, including more than 11 million in the U.S. and UK alone. The previous record, 9 million in its first day, had been held by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The novel has also been translated into over 120 languages, including Ukrainian, Swedish, and Hindi.

So these movie producers are saying that the book (fastest-selling book ever), was not good enough to make into a movie, so they had to change critical moments. Do you remember how much you paid for your Harry Potter #7 book? $34.99 compared to the $8.25 you spent on your movie ticket, meaning you obviously committed more to your book than to the movie, so I guess it makes sense that the movie is only one-fourth as good as the book. Maybe that also means that they only have to commit to one-fourth of the text, and only one-fourth of the important moments in the END of the book.

So, if you read the Harry Potter series, you read over 4,000 pages, spent at least 115 hours reading (that is how long the books are on CD), and at least 95 dollars buying the books (if you bought them in hardcover version, you definitely paid more, and if you bought them as a set after they all came out, you could have paid less). All I'm saying is that the Harry Potter fans cannot lower their standards. If a movie producer thinks they can take epic literature (that has changed children's literature, by the way) and make movies out of it, they at least have to be true to the biggest moments of the book, like good destroying evil. Just a thought.

Summer Babysitting

I have still been babysitting part-time this summer, and one day I had just the twins while Amy and Rod took the other three to Lagoon. We had a fun day together! We went out to Krispy Kreme to watch the donuts being made, and of course, get cool hats. The boys did not take those hats off the rest of the day! They kept telling people that they were the "Donut Man." After our donut adventure, we went swimming at the pool by my mom's house, had dinner and baths, and watched a movie. Definitely love summer.



The boys love Michael Jackson, and they can sing most of the words to "Thriller." At the end, they both just giggle during the scary laugh, and finally they figured out how to do a scary laugh. This video is really quiet, but funny...