Mamma Mia!

I saw Mamma Mia! (the movie) with my mamma last week... 1st of all, I loved it. It was so much fun and ABBA music is just great. I mean the movie doesn't compare to seeing the play live, as I got to do in London with the Hibbard family.

Anyway, watching Mamma Mia! made me think...they should make more musicals based on one bands music. I know they've done a Queen musical (We Will Rock You...saw that one in London too), a Beatles musical (Across the Universe), and a Billy Joel musical (Movin' Out...haven't seen it).

Here are some of my suggestions for bands that should have their own musical.

#1. The Cars ...how much fun would that be? I love The Cars
#2. 'N SYNC (I don't REALLY think that this would be that good, but I felt like if I didn't put it, I would be letting go of a piece of me)
#3. Spice Girls (oh wait...there was Spiceworld...my bad)
#4. Michael Jackson (I'm actually surprised there hasn't been one of these...maybe there is and I don't know about it)
#5. Bob Marley (for my husband)

Can you think of some other ones that would be fun?

My favorite thing...

I just realized that I never blogged about this little gem. (or much of anything...i know). Anyway...I've watched this video at least 20 times...and you need to watch it. She's my favorite. I mean I'm a little embarrassed for her... All I've got to say is that I'm so glad I didn't have access to a digital video recorder that was easy to operate. When I was a kid...this is what our family camcorder looked like.

I'm just glad that youtube didn't exist when I was a kid...cuz I would be JUST like this little girl. I mean...me and my friends had a choreographed ROLLER SKATE dance to Diamonds and Pearls by Prince. Now that would be embarrassing because I totally would have broadcast it on youtube. In fact I know my mom has videos of me dancing to Paula Abdul... So...doglover199709....I feel you. Please watch her...over and over. She'll warm your heart. Be sure to note her use of flickering lights, props, awesome beanbag jumps, kicks, and her belly.

Dragons totally belong in your living room

I painted this today. Maybe it's a good thing we don't have TV. I actually do something on my day off.

fortnight

On Sunday Jared and I went to Ikea and bought a dining table. (and a coffee table).

On Monday, we had Alyssa over for dinner...and I wanted to have it set up before dinner...but that didn't really happen...but I'm pretty sure Alyssa had a great time regardless. She decided to use the boxes from the table to make a fort. Here's how it turned out:

Our family picture in front of the fort.


And complete with a green roof. We have to do our part to protect the environment.

After dinner I finally got the table assembled. Here it is:

I should mention that we didn't have enough money to actually purchase chairs...they're expensive...so we have some dumb plastic chairs stolen from the boys house...which I'm sure are stolen from somewhere else... We've decided that we're going to make a bench...and then buy one chair a month until we have a full set. But this works for now. So we can finally have people over for dinner. Kaleigh, Ali, and Chase came over on Wednesday for dinner and were the first people to eat at our table. Very fun!

So let me know if you want to come over for dinner!

yup.

3 times.

Kitchen Decor

Today, I spent my time making this: a lovely robot painting that will hang in our kitchen.


I also watched the majority of season 3 of Grey's Anatomy...and cried twice. But I just started the last episode...so it very well might become three times.

Queen of Baby Showers

Courtney had her baby shower on Monday night...at that baby shower, I defended my title of "Queen of Baby Showers"...meaning I won the "activity" for the second time in a row.

At Sue's baby shower, I blew everyone out of the water by forming more words out of the letters in Giovanni's name than anyone else. (all those crossword puzzles and scrabble games paid off)

On Monday, Annie and I used our superior creativity to design a onesie for baby Rutenbar. I wish I had taken a picture of our winning design. But it said "Birth Control is a FRAUD". Which, of course is funny. So we won.

With all the pregnant people around here, I will probably have another opportunity to defend my title.

Don't get any ideas. There is no superstition about winning the game at a baby shower and being the next to get pregnant. Believe me, I checked. But, apparently there is a superstition that whoever gives the 3rd gift that's opened is the next to have a baby. Unless you live in Oregon...then it's the 7th gift.

So therefore, I'm not pregnant.