Back in the saddle again

So today was the first day back to school for the big boys.  Both Joe and Tom seemed really excited to be heading back to school.  I know I was pretty excited too!  I celebrated by getting a new hair cut.  This is the first cut I've had since I've moved and it was long overdue. 

It feels so much lighter now that all the extra hair is gone.  Today was just sorta a standard, get errands done sorta day. 
In other news:
Tom has lost his first tooth! 

He was a tiny bit freaked out about it.  The tooth fairy gave him 50 cents.  He was very excited about getting money for a tooth.  The tooth next to it is losse as well, but I think it will be a while before that comes out. 

We spent some time at a local beach on last Friday.  We got to see both dolphins and whales!  How incredibly cool is that! 

I went to my very first Tupperware party on Saturday morning.  Somehow I managed, at age 31, to be the oldest person there.  Not very typical for me to be the oldest in the room.  I didn't buy much as I felt like all of it could be bought somewhere else for a whole lot cheaper!  I did get a couple of things though.  Hopefully, they'll be worth the money spent. 

Other than that, not a whole lot going on.  Jay is going to a poker game on Friday and will be staying over.  Drink Driving is very enforced here so poker games are overnight activities.  I am going to a scrapbooking retreat in two weeks, all by myself.  I am both excited and nervous. 
Talking about being nervous, I noticed that when I am nervous lately, I have developed a nervous laugh.  Maybe I have always had it and am just now noticing it.  I tend to get nervous around people that I don't know at all.  I went to the movies yesterday with Aleeya and a large group of ladies from her church.  I felt like kicking myself because I can hear me doing my little nervous laugh, but can't seem to stop doing it.  We went and saw Eat, Pray, Love.  I feel like I need to read the book just so I can understand all the stuff I missed in the movie.  Of course, everyone that I know that has read the book didn't really like it. 

Oceans movie review

So yesterday (Earth Day), we went to see the new movie Oceans. Joe has been asking to see this movie for months. Here are my thoughts on the movie.
Visually, this movie was great. Lots of very cool things to see. While we have seen many shows about ocean creatures, there were some things we'd never seen before. Couldn't be happier about the visual aspect.
Content and sound: It was loud at times. Very loud. The musical score they chose was great, but so loud. My kids did complain. Probably not the movie's fault, but the theater's fault. Or maybe the fault should be split. Who knows. Just personally, we thought it was way too loud. The verbal content that DisneyNature chose to include was light. There were comments about some things, but not about others. I was expecting more info like what each animal they pictured was and what it does or eats, etc. Very light on content in that sense. They gave a few new facts about some stuff, but it was really just a narrative about oceans in general while showing the ocean life.
Joe seemed to think it was about 20 minutes too long. At least, about 20 minutes from the end, he started asking when it was going to be done. And kept asking. Tom's only complaint was that it was too loud at times and scared him because it was so loud. Sam, well, poor Sam feel asleep about 1 hour and 10 minutes into it. He slept on my lap for the last 30 minutes. He still wasn't feeling 100%, and apparently it caught up with him.
Now, I would recommend this as a DVD rental for sure, but it's only in theaters. In our area, it is only at Arundel Mills, Columbia and someplace in Baltimore. So, we had to cough up for $40 for our 5 tickets. No candy, popcorn or sodas for us. Too expensive just for the movie. I probably would go ahead and recommend it as a fun day out activity simply because so few G rated movies are actually suitable for little kids. Be warned, a few animals do get eaten during the movie, but no blood is shown. Just a matter of fact, circle of life sort of thing. Oddly enough, there was a disclaimer at the end of the movie saying that no animal was harmed during the making of this film. Jay and I both wondered if how animals being eaten are not harmed.