Favorite Five: The Twilight Movie!

He, He, Hello? Is there anything else going on today? I didn't think so. I am super excited to see this movie (are you surprised I didn't go at midnight Jammie???). It's going to be a GNO (girl's night out!) with my motha, aunt, cousins, grandma, and sister-in-laws! Dinner first (this is always a requirement) then tickets to the 7:30 show. Can I just say God Bless Larry H. Miller and his reserved seat idea! Brilliant! I want to hear your favorite five things about the movie! No bummers please, I don't care if you hated it, I am completely planning on loving it so don't bring me down! You can bash it on your own blog, we will only have positive things to say here. Comment on my twilight friends!

My Favorite Five Things about Twilight (if I can limit it to just five!)

1. When they ("the Cullens") walked into the lunchroom and Alice looked for Bella, plus I agree with Natilie, that was the best entrance EVER!!!

2. First glimpse of Edward. Holy moly, he is HOT! I hope all you naysayers changed your minds about him. He was an excellent Edward. Loved his lips, loved the way he spoke, loved loved loved the way he looked in his suit for the prom. Oh my!

3. The first kiss! Bring it on.

4. When they went to school together for the first time and Bells says everyone is staring and Edward says not that kid, oh wait he just looked. Ha, there were a lot of funny lines.

5. When they are at the prom dancing alone, and he dips her back, goes for her neck and asks "is this what you want?" YES!!!, TAKE ME NOW EDWARD!!!!

I loved it! It was so great and I can't wait to see it again (we had a few who couldn't make it with us, so we WILL be going again for their sake!). Just for the fun of it, here are 5 things I needed more of.

1. Alice. I thought she was perfect, loved her in the baseball game, but she needed more screen time. She needed to be friends with Bella by the end of the movie and dress her up for prom. Can't wait to see more of her.

2. Bella screaming for Edward to suck the venom out. IT BURNS EDWARD!!! SAVE ME!!! Instead she just twitched.

3. Jacob. He is a cutie. I know he will dominate the next movie, but I could have standed a bit more of him and hello-where were his friends?

4. Emmett. He was hilarious and not so bad looking either.

5. The movie to be longer and just magically continue on into New Moon. I could have sat there for hours!

Favorite Five: Music, so in love with my music

Recently I have been accused of being a little excited over all things Twilight. Since I am not feeling the love from the people for the soundtrack, I thought I would push some of my other favorite music on to you and see how you respond. Here are my five favorite albums according to the play count on iTunes. Please leave yours in the comments!

1. Raising Sand by Alison Krauss and Robert Plant
2. Introducing Joss Stone by Joss Stone
3. Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy by The Refreshments
4. Foiled by Blue October
5. The Diary of Alicia Keys by Alicia Keys

and some bonus material for all you music lovers:
Like Vines by The Hush Sound
The Walking Wounded by Bayside
Justified AND/OR FutureSex/LoveSounds both by Justin Timberlake (don't judge me!)

Favorite Five: A few of my Favorite Things, right now

Watching Oprah's guest appearance on 30 Rock last night inspired my list of favorite things. Who doesn't love to watch Oprah's Favorite Things show and scream with delight along with the teary-eyed audience as they receive these great items. I won't be giving any of my things away, but you can still scream with delight at the computer screen since you're blessed enough to hear about them!

1. 3 Entertainment Weekly collector's covers of Twilight. This one is especially yummy!

you can see the other 2 covers and read more here!

2. Our new individual popcorn bowls. Got them at The Dollar Spot!

3. Making this cream cheese braid, and then eating all of it. I know, just call me Betty. I went to a bread making class and loved it! Easiest recipe, and if I can do it, anyone can.

4. Have I mentioned that I am loving the Twilight Soundtrack? Oh, I have? Well I am still loving it(listening as I type!). You should get it from iTunes because you get more tracks.

5. The fact that I am going scrapbooking tonight! A couple of hours spent with the girls, laughing, gossiping, and eating. Maybe a few pages done, but that's not the important stuff. My wonderful husband at home with my darling children and me out taking a break. Looking at pictures of my family when they are happy and not saying anything, remembering how much I love them and want to be a good wife and mom. This enough should cause peace to come to this country, no matter who our president may be. Hope your night is just as great!

Favorite Five: Halloween Activities

With Halloween fast approaching, there are always a few things I feel like we need to do to put us in the true spirit! Here are our favorite Halloween activities.

1. Watch The Nightmare before Christmas. It is spooktacular! When we went to Disneyland, it was October and the Haunted Mansion was all decked out for Jack Skellington. The kids and I loved it. Josh, not so much. He wanted the original.

2. Pick out and finally purchase costumes. So far, we have Optimus Prime and Boba Fett. Not sure what the kids are going to be.

3. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. This was the first year we went to this and I think it will become a yearly event. This particular show is over, but I think Lehi City puts one on, so there may be other showings, catch one if you can!

4. Pick out pumpkins and plan how to carve them.

5. Drive by our favorite Halloween House. Here is the address, 629 North 690 West American Fork. Enter that into Google Maps, you can even see the street view which shows a lot of the decorations. This house is great, it has two hearses, a graveyard, and almost every blow up halloween item available. You can get out of your car and walk around the yard. Spooky!

On our list of things to do are: take pictures of kids in costumes BEFORE Halloween night, carve pumpkins and roast seeds, make and eat pumpkin faces (check recipe blog soon for this family favorite!), host McCarrel Family Halloween Party, go to Witch's Night Out (also girl's night out) at Gardner Village, and watch some scary movies*!

*This family recommends Hocus Pocus, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, The Haunted Mansion, Ghostbusters, The Adventures of Icabod & Mr. Toad and Corpse Bride for scary movies!

Favorite Five: Fall Treats

First I just wanted to thank everyone for all the kind words about my grandma. It was so nice and very much appreciated.
Next I'd like to introduce you to Favorite Five Friday, she's a cousin to Top Five Friday. She's currently calls the beautiful Cache Valley home and I think she might be a republican, but don't give her too bad of a time about that. She's a pretty nice gal, considering who she's married to.

It was a little hard to qualify things as "Top Five", so I thought Favorite Five would bring a wider topic of things. Today's Favorite Five is Fall Treats. It will serve two purposes. I will tell you about my favorite fall treats (duh) and then to get the recipes, you'll have to visit the recipe blog I started. Then you'll have to sign up to contribute to said blog because I know you need something else to do and your hiding all your good recipes from me and that's not nice.

1. Easy Pumpkin Cake

2. Banana Bread

3. Pumpkin Muffins

4. Peach Pie

5. Pretzel Hugs

Please share your favorite's in the comments!