Hunger Games

This post is mainly for Beth because I am sure she will fall dead when she finds out that I read The Hunger Games in a week and a half (probably would have had it read quicker than that if we weren't moving that week as well).  My last book (a loner from her) took me nearly 7 maybe more months to get through.  I'm not a reader by nature like my mother and sister, but I really wish I was.  I love a good book and I'm trying to make the effort to read more, especially while we are in NC with no TV.  Let's just say The Hunger Games Trilogy has captivated me.  I'm already to Part II in the second book, Catching Fire.  I am absolutely loving the story line and can't wait to see where the rest of the story takes me.  I haven't seen the movie yet, but am making plans to see it this weekend.  If you are looking for a good read join me in my obsession.

Heaven Is For Real

If you want to be blessed and give your faith an extra boost, I seriously suggest you read this book.

Radical

This book is challenging me to my core. I can't wait to see what God is going to do.

I've never been what I would call a bookworm, but I do enjoy a good book. And when I say a good book I mean that it has to be good. I'm not one of those people who have to finish it even if I don't like it. I've been known to put it down a hundred pages into it if I don't like it. That being said (as if you really cared so much), I recently finished these two books. I read The Last Song earlier, and then went to the movie (the book was better of course). Yesterday I finished Firefly Lane, and it was wonderful. A good story about life, and being a stay-at-home mom I especially enjoyed that story within the story. If you're looking for summer read I would definitely suggest these for your reading pleasure.

Family Worship

We have been reading this book for our small group at church, and all I have to say is WOW! We are only about halfway through the book and it has already challenged me in so many ways about how I parent as a Christian. I'll keep all my nuggets of knowledge for another post once I finish the book, but I wanted to share something we've started in our family. Part of the book talks about family worship. Family worship is basically just what is says - time during the day when the family worships the Creator together. We do ours in the evening for about 10 minutes. We read a devotion, a passage or story from scripture, pray, and sing songs. It has been a challenged to do this every night because of our schedules sometimes, but realizing the importance of it we try to schedule everything else around it. Our favorite part of family worship is the music. Thanks to some friends we've found these awesome songs from Seeds Family Worship. The videos are lots of fun, the tunes are catchy but not annoying as other children music can be, and best of all it is straight scripture. Be sure to check out their website. They've got lots of great tools and ideas for teaching little ones the Bible. Here's a video of one of our favorites so far. Hope you enjoy! Be sure to scroll down and turn our blog music off before you start the video :)

Finally!

I finally finished it!

New Moon was a HUGE disappointment for me. I really enjoyed reading Twilight, so I was SO looking forward to reading New Moon. It was just too slow for me. My sister Amy got me real excited about it too because she loved it. I kept waiting to fall in love with Jacob, and it just never happened. I started reading it around Thanksgiving, and just now finished it! I can't believe it took me that long, but I was so bored through most of it that I would have to read a chapter at a time. There was no Edward, and Bella was really getting on my nerves. I was on page 480 before I was like "This is getting good." At least the last 80 pages or so weren't bad. I actually started enjoying it a little then. I will say that at least the last chapter got me looking forward to the next installment. I think I will enjoy Eclipse much better, but I'm not holding my breath after this disappointment.

TWILIGHT!

Rachel holding our tickets!

The line...

Our place in line...Waiting....

and waiting....

...and waiting. We were there an hour early! Last night Beth, Amy, Rachel, Mom, Aunt Denise and myself all went to see TWILIGHT! We have all been obsessed with the books and have been looking forward to the movie for weeks. Rachel bought our tickets like a month ago, and we've been waiting ever since! We all went to dinner beforehand, but ALL we talked about was TWILIGHT and EDWARD! We started a line to get into the movie to make sure no one was in before us. As soon as the doors opened, we RAN, yes RAN to get the best seats in the house! There was so much excitement in the theater, and here's what happened when the lights went down for the movie to begin...

The movie was good, but I will say that you should read the book before you see the movie in order to understand everything. I thought they left a few key things out of the movie, and they made a few scenes a little cheesy for my taste. However, Edward was handsome and did not disappoint any expectations. When he appeared on screen the first time the place went CRAZY! I mean he sparkles! Overall, we had a FANTASTIC time, and I think we are all looking forward to the New Moon movie.

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Twilight Fever

Well, I was feeling a little left out. Not because I haven't read Twilight, but because I haven't written a post about it...until now. Let me start by saying that I'm always up for a good book, but that is the problem. It MUST be good, or I will quit reading it even if I'm already half way through. I can't tell you how many books I've started and never finished because they just didn't hold my interest. Besides the topic of vampires was a complete turn-off. I mean, really, how could that ever be interesting? Jessica, Rachel, Rebecca, & Beth were all reading it, so I decided to bite the bullet and read it too. I LOVE IT! I can't wait to read the others, and I'm so excited about the movie. See you all on November 21st!