movies and July 4th...

so in the last week i have seen 3 movies in the theater.

last sunday we took the girls to see ratatouille. it was great; fun, sweet and a wonderful message. we all enjoyed it. not that we'd have expected any less from pixar and disney.


the girls left the next morning (at 5am) for montana. they went with my parents who took ALL 8 grandkids to visit my mother's brother and his family for the 4th.
from all accounts it sounds like they had a fablous time, hiking, swimming, watching fireworks and just playing. since they were with my parents pretty much no pictures were taken, so i'll just have to try and imagine it all.
i was also informed by kial that she was never reminded to brush her teeth, so that never happened either. gone 5 days and she didn't brush her teeth the whole time. she actually commented to me how nice it felt to brush them when she got home...hmmm. i am not sure WHY a 12 year old kid needs reminding to remove the sweaters and food from her teeth, but there you go.

with the girls gone we decided to see live free or diehard on tuesday night. we got to the theater, got up to the front, requested our tickets and they had JUST sold out. i knew i should have used fandango, but for some reason i didn't. so we went to dick's got cheeseburgers and rented a few movies for jas.
we went back wednesday morning (after buying the tickets on fandango) and watched and really enjoyed the movie. it was just fun, no thinking required, just action and a little humor. i really liked justin long, who was the dorky side-kick, he was hilarious.


after the movie jas and i putzed around until it was time to meet up with jason's cute (because jas REALLY cares that he's cute) work buddy chris and his darling girlfriend sarah for dinner at my new FAVORITE pizza place, tutta bella. if you haven't tried it you should and if you have you know.

then we proceeded to a "secret location" where we watched the fireworks with chris, sarah, dylan, allison and wes; all great people from jason's work. the view was awesome and we had no problems with parking or the drive home.

but my FAVORITE thing all week was the movie transformers. yeah, i know i am totally dipping into super dork territory, but it was SO COOL! the graphics were amazing, the characters were awesome and the movie itself was really well done. in my opinion it was the perfect action flick; fast paced, interesting and FILLED with humor. i may even need to go see it again. it's ok, call me a dork...i can take it.


now i just have to pace my self until tuesday night when we are all going to a 12:02am showing of the movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

yep, i already fandango'd those tickets!