Cutest Elmo Video Ever

This year at Sundance, they showed a documentary called Being Elmo. It is about the puppeteer behind Elmo. I hope this gets a wider release because I would love to see it. This video happened at a Q&A session for the film. I will admit, I got a bit teary. Enjoy!

Favorite Movies of 2010

Movie Critic Time! I do this every year so I am posting my favorite movies of 2010. I will say, 2010 was not as epic as I thought it would be. I hope 2011 is a lot better! The list is in no particular order.

Favorites

• Inception- I love movies that make me think and this is a movie that you have to think about it the whole time. Also, the scene that Joseph Gordon Levitt is fighting with the guy as the hallway is rotating is just pure awesomeness.
• Harry Potter 7: Part One- I have to say that I was very happy with this film. Deathly Hallows is my favorite book and I was not disappointed. I loved the part when the trio goes to the Ministry under Polyjuice Potion. Those actors were awesome. Very excited for Part 2!
• How To Train Your Dragon- I want a pet dragon, preferably a Night Fury named Toothless! I am just going to steal him from Hiccup. Loved, loved this movie.
• Eclipse- If I have to explain myself, you do not know me well :)
• Tangled- Loved the animation and Pascal is awesome! You can see my full review on the Bragging Mommy (I write reviews there by the way).
• Tron: Legacy- I am a Tron nerd and was so happy as I watched this. I love the music by Daft Punk, light cycles, disk battles, and Olivia Wilde was awesome as Quorra. My review for this in also on the Bragging Mommy.
• Easy A- I laughed so hard but then I felt guilty! Sort of raunchy but so funny!
• Despicable Me- I laughed really hard and probably drove the other Cinema employees nuts at the midnight show! Sorry guys! The minions are my favorite.
• Toy Story 3- I bawled!!! Loud. Ask Russell. To this day I will still argue, Woody is cooler than Buzz.
• A-Team: Explosions are cool :)

Worst

• Last Airbender- I am still angry! This was a disgrace.
• Gulliver's Travels- I did not even finish this. I walked out because it was so stupid. I sat through Land of the Lost with Will Ferrell and that was really dumb. Walking out of this should tell you something.
• Vampires Suck- This was a waste of 90 minutes of my life. I had hope that this Twilight spoof would be funny, it wasn't. The members in the audience at my showing were more funny.

Looking forward to hopefully a year of awesome movies! What am I most excited for? Pirates 4, Harry Potter (going to be epic), Cars 2, and Breaking Dawn 1 (I am really worried about this one). What are you excited for?

Florida Trip 2010

Over fall recess, my family went to Orlando, Florida. We spent most of the time at Disney World. One of the days though, Russell and I went to Universal Studios to experience The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. It was so much fun! Some of my favorite parts were:

Magic Kingdom- I love Magic Kingdom since I am such a little kid at heart. I love all the little kid and classic rides. Pirates of the Caribbean, The Haunted Mansion, and Peter Pan's Flight are always some of my favorites. I was really sad though, It's A Small World was being refurbished and of course it reopened the week after we left! I was sad.

Blizzard Beach- Russell, Megan, and I went to this awesome water park in Disney World. It has a snow theme. Blizzard Beach is known for having the highest water slide in the world. It is called Summit Plummit. I have to say it is one of the most fun and most exciting things I have ever done. It was definitely a rush!

The Food- We went to some really good restaurants and had some of the most amazing food. My favorite was the Wave restaurant inside the Contemporary Resort (where we stayed). The dessert was amazing (there is a picture of it in the slideshow at the end of the post).

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter- I am such a Harry Potter fan and totally nerded out big time while I was there. They had everything, it was just perfect. One of the rides is inside the Hogwarts Castle. Walking through the line in the castle is just a ride in itself. The portraits talk, you see Dumbledore in his office, the trio in Defense Against the Dark Arts, mandrakes, the Fat Lady, etc. It was just plain awesome. Universal has some amazing technology that really makes the magic come to life. I also got my own wand. The wand that would have 'chosen' me was really ugly so I bought Ginny Weasley's wand. I love it!

I had a blast in Florida, I am dying to go again already! Thanks Mom and Dad!


Here is a slideshow of some of my fun pictures! Enjoy!

Family Tuacahn Trip

Last weekend, my family went down to Tuacahn in St. George. This has become a family tradition the last few years. We went and saw Tarzan on Friday and Cats on Saturday. Both of these shows were a lot of fun but not as good as Aida was last year. Tarzan was great because the guy that placed Tarzan was very, very nice to look at! I loved the music in Cats but the storyline was really weird. It was fun to spend some time together as a family.

On Saturday, we went to this really cool restaurant called the Anasazi Grill. It was so fun because you actually grill your own steak. It comes out with a really hot rock and you cook your steak. It was awesome!! Sorry, no pictures but if you are in St. George, I recommend it! Here are some of the fun pictures:

The siblings

The cool advertising at Tuacahn. I love how they put the posters on the stairs!

The cool Cats set

Ok, here is some background about the next picture. My aunt and uncle used to live in Page, Arizona. When my cousin Liz was 8 years old and getting baptized, my family drove down for the baptism. On the way to the baptism, we stopped in Beaver, Utah. Megan and I sat in this huge rocking chair and took a picture. On the way to Tuacahn, we stopped for gas in Beaver and I found the same chair! This is a picture of me in that same chair (repainted) about 15 years later.

David Archuleta

In June, my Mom, Megan, and I drove up and went to a David Archuleta concert at BYU-I with Kimberly. It was pretty fun for me because just the week before, I heard David speak at my Stake Conference. I think David did a pretty good job. His opening act happened to be David Osmond (the son of Alan Osmond). David Osmond commented that the concert should have been called David-Squared. I thought that was pretty funny. David Archuleta later said that he wanted to be like David Osmond 'when he grew up.' More laughs! We were lucky enough to be some of the first people to hear some of David's new songs. I will say they are pretty good! The best part of the night though was his closing song. He sang Be Still My Soul. It was gorgeous. My mom and I think he needs to release a CD with him just singing the hymns. I would buy it! Here are some of the fun pictures from the night. Sorry for the poor quality, my camera was having issues. We were also told to not use flash photography.

The Girls minus Mom (she was the photographer and did not want to be pictured)

A few pictures of David. The one with the piano is when he sang Imagine. Love him singing that song!

My Eclipse Review

Ok, movie review time! I have seen Eclipse (several times) and I am now ready to review it! I have waited a few days to post this so if you have not seen it, stop reading!

I will start out by saying that I loved Eclipse! In my opinion, it is the best of the 3 so far. Here are my lists of pros and cons:

Pros

*I was swooning the whole time during this movie. The romance scenes between Edward and Bella were perfect. My romantic self was very pleased and I could not stop grinning. The meadow scene at the beginning and the bedroom scene with the proposal were awesome! I am so glad that the famous 'leg hitch' was in the movie!

*Robert Pattinson, thank you for being my perfect Edward Cullen! Just like I imagine him!

*Edward vs. Victoria was epic. Honestly, this is the scene that I was looking forward to the most in the movie. I was not disappointed. Edward totally kicked some major butt! There were a few differences between the book and the movie (Bella does not actually cut herself) but things needed to be changed from the medium of book to film.

*The Tent Scene was awesome! Rob and Taylor really pulled off this scene. Perfection!

*The line: "Doesn't he own a shirt?" :)

*Charlie trying really hard to give the sex talk. That scene was hilarious!

*Loved seeing the backgrounds of Rosalie and Jasper. I really felt bad for Jasper after he told his story. Having his ability to control and feel the emotions around you would really suck. Thinking about all the pain and sadness he has felt is so sad! Happy and perky Alice really is the perfect match for him. I just wish that now they could somehow tell more of the backgrounds of the other Cullens.

*The musical score by Howard Shore. At first, I did not think that it stood on its own. After watching the movie, I absolutely love it.

*The song Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever) by Muse. I am still totally in love with this song! The whole soundtrack overall is just plain awesome.

Cons

*I love Bryce Dallas Howard and I thought she did just ok as Victoria. She was a bit too sweet. Victoria needed to be more evil and animal like than what was portrayed in the movie. She needed to be scarier. I think Bryce finally hit it by the end of the fight scene but I needed her to be more evil and feral the whole movie.

*Kristen's wig had some issues especially in the fight training scene.

*The wolves looked cool but I feel they lost some of their personality from the second film. Jacob in wolf form did not have Jacob's eyes. The eyes on all of the wolves seemed sort of genetic to me except for Seth. Seth in wolf form was great.

Make sure to go and see Eclipse! Now my note to Summit Entertainment: please do not screw up Breaking Dawn. I can see so many things that can go wrong! Do not mess up!

PS: Skip The Last Airbender. Epic Fail is all I have to say. It has been awhile since I have been angry after watching a movie. The Cartoon is so awesome but the movie was horrible! They screwed up big time!

Memorial Day Adventure and Catch Up

My family had a fun adventure over Memorial Day weekend! My family got Utopia (really fast internet) and you have to put wiring in your home. My dad and Russell where moving around some of the wiring and in order to do this, Russell had to move wires around in the attic. There is a lot of insulation in the attic and it is hard to see the beams to walk on. I was working on my grades on the kitchen table when I hear a noise and look up. Russell had tripped and his foot/leg had come through the kitchen ceiling. It made a big hole! We spent the rest of the day fixing the hole and vacuuming up insulation. I am glad Russell did not get hurt! It is better to have a broken ceiling than a broken brother! This is going to be one fun family memory in years to come!

I finished school for the year and survived! It was a rough year but I was glad to have these students! They were some cute kids! I am looking forward to some fun for the summer!

I just finished the new Stephenie Meyer book, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. It was really good. I loved being able to read some of the events of the Twilight Saga through a different character's eyes. It was different to read the perspective of a true newborn vampire because we did not really get that experience with Bella. I recommend it! You can read it online for free starting on the 7th but I think it should be bought and put on the shelf next to the other Twilight books! All I have to say is that I cannot wait for Eclipse on the 30th!