The Cowboy vs. the City Girl

November 15, 2009

Where the Wild Things Movie

All of us anxiously awaited for opening day of Where the Wild Things Are. Calvin makes us read this book every night, and I'm not sure who got more excited when one of the previews came on commercial, me or Calvin? I absolutely could not wait to take him, and even had my mom finish his Wolf suit so that he could wear it there. But to much of our disappointment, the movie lost Calvin after 20 minutes, so we spent the remainder of the show chasing him up and down the theater stairs, getting him ice cream, candy, or whatever else might appease him, and just trying to keep him quite instead of loudly saying that he "wanted to go home." Total bummer! Did I like the movie? I'm not sure. I wanted to love it. I will definitely be rewatching it without Calvin when it gets on video. I can say this much, the music and the cinematography were amazing.

November 14, 2009

Playschool at the Corn Maze

So Calvin's "playschool" took their first fieldtrip to the Corn Maze/Pumpkin Patch. The boys loved it, and sadly Calvin was the hardest to corral as usual.

Calvin, Dalton, Liam, and Logan

Toys...

So it cracks me up watching Calvin play lately, and noticing how more and more he is using his imagination. Or coming into a room, and not realize he had been there but find a setup like this:

First of all I had no idea he had that iceberg sheet, it came with something my sister bought him and there he has laid it all out and set up his animals and car. By the way the animal cards are also played with like figurines.

He has also been very into building towers and finding spots for all his figurines and toys, and then actually asks me to take a picture.

And now apparently he's into race tracks, and since he doesn't own one, had to build his own. He was driving his car up and down it. It was pretty dang cute.

November 10, 2009

Fatherhood 101: Movies

So last night I relented and let Will watch Calvin again. I come home and they both are intently watching Full-Metal Jacket. Seriously, Will? His argument: "It was the only movie he wanted to watch. Out of all the movies, he picked it out cause of the guns." Um, ya...still not okay.

November 7, 2009

GLove and Jason Mraz

Friday was Killers and Saturday was this luciousness, yummy yum yummdiddlicious :) I was hoping he would remember me from our little dance on stage back at Harrios in 2003, and invite me back on stage, or at least throw me his harmonica...but no such luck :( Some other chickadee in front row got it. Anyhow, he was as amazing as ever, his voice, his vibe, everything...So here is GLove for you to stare at.

Me and Meg

more GLove

Meg and Me Jaleese and Me

Now for Mrazypoo. And don't get me wrong, it's not that Mrazy isn't yummy, but him being the size of my pinkie docks him a few points. His voice though....wow, amazing! Loved him!

Dall, Hevynn, Helam, Hema, and Jaleese

A Killer Weekend!

Killers came to town, and of course I was eager to mark them off on my list of concert goals. It was a fabulous show, with fabulous company, and fabulous seats. Darron was able to get some seats in the suites. I had never sat in there before, but we had a great view, and our own manservant ;) Thanks to everyone that came!

November 1, 2009

Park City

For Labor day we went to Park City. The first thing I noticed as we are walking down Main Street is that even the moose statues have nicer jeans then you. I walked by and did a double take and said, is that Moose wearing True Religions? So I go back, and sure enough he is, check out the $310.00 price tag.

Calvin loved this bear statue, so we had to take his pic with it.

We stayed in the cutest Condo overlooking Main Street. Here is a view from our balcony.

Calvin loved the stuff at Park City Resort, a Dinosaur Gorilla slide was the ultimate in his book.

I have 5,000 pictures of Will waving at the Camera and not one of Calvin even looking in my direction.

Me and Calvin

Everyone coming down off the slides. We also did the zip line at Olympic Park. It was fun, but probably not worth the price. It didn't even make your stomach flip.

Jill, Bug, Calvin , Jaleese and Darron in the background.

Calvin watching the Labor Day Famous Park City ball race.

Here they come...

I loved these pictures, even with Calvin's chocolate face.

October 31, 2009

Meeting the Heimuli's

On Labor Day we went over to the Heimulli's for lunch to meet Dall's family. We had a great time listening to the extrodinarily talented bunch sing.

Hevynn and Dall

Pania, Lakei and Calvin

Dall and Hema