Thursday's class inspired me

(my little brother and I. I think that may have been an Easter dress)

After last week's class on Home Videos I decided to watch some home videos this weekend while I was home all alone.

It was so much fun pulling out the old tapes. I had to find an old VCR hidden in the basement, and then figure out how on earth to connect the ancient machine to the TV. But, the effort was worth it!

Even though I watched them by myself, at some points I was laughing so hard, I cried. Sadly, I realized that some of the tapes are deteriorating.

This led me to my new goal: To transfer the VHS tapes onto DVD's. Then the brilliant idea struck me: I could do this as Christmas gifts for my whole family!

So, first things first. Does anybody have any idea how to transfer VHS to DVD?!

How embarrassing would this be?!?

The video Dr. Coyne shared in class this past week of her proposal caught on tape reminded me of this proposal video and that didn't come away with a happy ending.

Poor guy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtPkxzHKLpk

I finally figured out how to post videos!

So, now that I figured it out and realized how incredibly simple it is, I feel kind of sheepish. :) I couldn't find the upload video button before.

Now I am a blog video uploading machine! And because a proud wife has to brag just a little, here's video of my husband pole vaulting.

We finally saw it!

My husband and I have been eagerly wanting to see the movie Blindside ever since we saw the first preview.
And last night our dream finally came true! (We've been waiting for it to go to the Dollar Theater)

I absolutely loved it! I love feel-good inspirational movies.

p.s. I think I might have a girl crush on Sandra Bullock with blonde hair. She looked awesome

GPS saves the day!

This past weekend I went to southern California for a track meet. We stayed in Irvine and we didn't know the area at all.
Thanks to GPS though, we were able to navigate our way to our hotel, restaurants, the Newport Beach temple, and the track.

An Extraordinary Movie!

I went to a movie this week for the first time in months. My husband and I needed a break from school, work, and track, so we decided to spend a relaxing night at the Dollar Theater.

We saw Extraordinary Measures, which is based on a true story. Harrison Ford, Keri Russel, and Brandon Fraiser star in the film. I wasn't expecting much going into the movie, but I was very pleasantly surprised by how great this movie was.

The film had a fabulous message and portrayed a healthy, functional, loving family (which is definitely not the norm in the media these day). I give this movie thumbs up!

I guess I don't watch very sexually explicit shows

For the sexual content assignment I expected to get much higher numbers of sexual messages in the media. But, the TV shows I watched contained very little, if any sexual messages.
This is probably due to the type of shows I watched.

Well, that's good news to me!

I am extremely ashamed to admit...

that I watched the ENTIRE 3 hour season finale of the Bachelor.

I don't even know why I did it. I haven't watched that show at all this season. Maybe it was because I was mourning the loss of the Olympics.

The show sucked me in. I got so worked up over the results of the show too. Tenley was adorable and captured Jake's family's hearts, and mine. But of course, the Bachelor picked the trashy girl with the boob implants who all the other girls hated.

For the past 2 days I have been upset over the results of the show. But then I realized, the Bachelor himself is a dope, and it's probably best for Tenley the adorable girl to not be stuck with him.

Besides, Vienna and Jake will probably break up soon anyway.

Now that the Olympics are over...

I don't know what to do with myself.