Details: Memoir of Christine Hall's life and lessons learned by changing. Christine's Grandmother's death brings the family together one last time at the old family farm. What is discovered there while the family sorts, and cleans and cleans out the farm is priceless. Settled in the Amish country side Christine and her family take the time to say good bye to old dear Amish friends, who were dear sweet friends to their Grandmother. The gift that is given and shared for years to come will never be forgotten.
My Review: This was a book club book for the month of May. I read this very short book in 3 days. I bought it from Amazon for $4, for my Kindle. Its the most amazing book ever. It opens your eyes to lessons you learn from the most unusual things, people, and circumstances. I highly recommend this book to everyone. There is a Facebook page just for this book as well, which is fun to check out because Christine is always doing book signings. Best Part: Christine Hall has a website directly attributed to this book, and through this website, anyone can buy a package of Moon flower seeds for $4. What an amazing author. Not only does she tell you her wonderful experiences with her Moon flower, but she allows you the chance to experience the joy in your own back yard.
Pros: short book with lots of lessons, not preachy, not religious, pure every day life lessons to be learned and appreciated.
Are you geeking out as much as we are that Avengers the Movie was totally awesome?!!! "Avengers assemble, always we will fight as one til the battle's won...assembled we are strong." Did you hear the music in your mind and sing along with that?!!! OMG!! Totally need to own this movie. My husband and I went to see this in the theater first, then because we loved it that much, we did something we never ever EVER do. We went back with our kids while it was still in theaters. Granted, we went to the $2 showing, but it was so worth it! Our kids were so enthralled, their action figures, their toys were alive and on the big screen. See as a family we loved watching all the animated Avenger themed shows on Netflix, so this was huge. Favorite Super Hero... 2012's big movie of the year starring: Robert Downy Jr., Chris Evens, Christ Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, and more major actors and actresses. Based off the Marvel Cartoon The Avengers. Available to be seen in 3D and regular when it came to the theater. A large group of super natural creatures, super humans, some even resurrected from death, scientists and a God come together to try and save the world from destruction. Lies, and betrayals, lost love, and pride are on the bad guys side against the super heroes. Freaks of nature, science experiments gone wrong, wielders of lightning, electricity, and the biggest serving of courage give the Avengers something special. Okay, so if you have followed any of the other Marvel movies: Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, and Thor you know these faces, you've come to love those handsome actors, those sexy actresses, and hate their sworn enemies as much as they do. Now with their combined powers they must save the world, the world of New York, because let's be honest, there are only a handful of cities movie makers enjoy trashing. I love seeing Ironman strut his fancy tech and smart brains, with his clever banter with Bruce Banner aboard the Helicarrier. Thor's love-hate relationship with Loki is especially funny. But let's be honest the coolest scenes always involved the Hulk! Except the first scene, which still scares my youngest, so we have to cover his eyes and ears.
Best movie of the Year... in my opinion! We've been waiting for this movie to come out since the beginning of the Introductory movies: Iron Man 1 and 2, Hulk, Thor, and Captain America. Our boys were just as excited as my husband and myself. On Netflix you can find a cartoon series of the Avengers, and many other individual full length movies about Thor as a child, Iron man series (adult, teenager, avenger), Hulk, The Ultimate Avengers, etc. So after months of watching these Netflix movies with our boys they were VERY ready to go to the big movie theater to watch the REAL AVENGERS!!! We saw it in 3D, which was only good because we had a digital screen, and dolby surround system in the specific room. Surprisingly, none of us go sick, which is one reason we don't watch in 3D, but again, totally worth it in my opinion. Amazing acting, great plot, well known cool actors and actresses, sweet special effects and fight scenes. This is on our to buy list. Some things we found that we didn't like in the movie come from our avid prep. In the cartoon series by Stan Lee, they have more Avenger characters than what was in this movie. So when 2 characters where introduced in a way, I was very disappointed. Scarlett and Jeremy are amazing characters in the movie, but no one really knew who they were in the movie. There should have been a separate movie with Jeremy Renner and Scarlett Johansson displaying their characters, skills, and why they work for SHIELD. I hope to see more individual character movies coming out, because it helps us as normal people live in that fantasy world that much more. Bring on Ant Man and Wasp, Black Panther etc!
My Rating
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Details: 1-4 players, ages 3 and up. Elephantastic pyramids. Juggling fun! Make by Blue Orange educational toys. Who will build the most amazing, crazy and tipsy topsy pyramid of elephants, clowns, bears and lions? Everyone is wooden, and high quality.
My Reivew: We love these types of toys, we've played with a few from the Orem Public Library's PERC center. This one is the most fun we've had. My kids love the little wooden elephants and the bears. Its fun to learn about gravity, balancing, math and problem solving.
Pros: wooden toys, simple directions, easy to play.
Details: 200 recipes for crock pots. This is new as of 2010, so it contains fun new exciting popular crock pot recipes. Contents include: 10 beverages, 13 dips and fondues, 37 soups/stews/sides, 13 pasta recipes, 41 poultry, 31 beef recipes, 30 pork recipes, 24 desserts and bread recipes.
Information: My Mother-in-law bought this for me back in April 2011, I didn't get a crock pot until September 2011. I love this cook book, I never knew how many types of things we could cook in a crock pot. But I love the lasagna recipe, the cake recipes, the sweet and sour chicken and the stir-fry chicken recipes. My family eats lots of rice, chicken, ground turkey, and pasta. So being able to throw dinner into the crock pot in the morning or even the night before helps with my crazy small kitchen and my crazy life with my two very energetic kids. Now here's some cool information. You can buy this book at Sea Gull Books, Desseret Book Store, for around $13. Or you can go online to amazon.com and buy it for $11, or get the Kindle copy for $5. For those of you who love Kindle books, and love cook books this is a great buy and its totally worth it!
Pure Protein 100% whey protein shake: frosty chocolate flavored
Details: Eat good, look Great! 140 calories, 0 trans fat, 2 grams sugar. 25 gram premium protein: supports lean muscle and strength, helps maintain a healthy immune system. This is to be used as a food supplement only, not to reduce weight. 32 oz bottle of powdered chocolate whey. This is a delicious fast acting protein powder that provides all of the essential amino acids needed to help support lean muscle, energy, vitality, and strength. Provides gold standard cross flow When protein sources including Microfiltered whey protein isolate and ultra-filtered whey protein concentrate. 7 different options of how to use this whey protein.
Information: I have been using this for 1 month. In 6 years of trying different whey, soy, and other protein, weight-loss shakes, this is the best flavored and easiest powder to use. I used to have to blend in bananas, frozen yogurt, berries, and all kinds of things into the other shakes that I've tried, but this I mix with water and drink it with nothing else blended into the mixture. I love it! I have already lost 3 pounds, and kept it off. Even with all the junk food, candy, sweets and ice cream that I ate during the holidays. I drink this for my breakfast, and then have a Fiber One 90 calorie brownie two hours later as a snack before lunch. This holds me over, and keeps me from being hungry until lunch time, where I eat a smaller portioned amount of food. I try to eat a peanut butter, banana tortilla sandwich, or celery and peanut butter with steamed veggies, and drink tons of water. I highly recommend this as a great whey protein shake. This can help you loose weight, because it gives you lots of energy and stimulates your metabolism, but I also combine it with exercising to equal the amount of no less than 500 calories burned a day. I use an elliptical, and I lift weights, do jumping jacks, and have a whole system of exercising I got from Pinterest.com. ( click on system to see my pinterest board for fitness ) I eat 6 small meals a day, and drink 16 cups of water or more a day. I try to limit the amount of bread, sugar, and starches that I eat. I also only eat chicken and turkey and tuna as meat. On weekends I will allow myself to have a small amount of beef, like a burger. I eat tons of steamed vegetables, and try to eat lots of fruit, but that doesn't always happen. If you love to add fruits in your smoothies and shakes click on this link to get some of the best recipes that I've found.
by Stephanie Ashcraft and Janet Eyring
