Movie Review - The Hunger Games

Yay for Kellie to get me a ticket to the movie the day before it came out at 8:00pm! I just don't know if I could do a midnight showing these days. It was very much worth the $13 ticket.

So The Hunger Games is another book-turned-movie franchise. It is just getting it start at the end of the Twilight era. I am a total Twi-hard, mind you. I loved the books and tolerated the acting in the rediculously cheesy film adapations. The only thing that Twilight and The Hunger Games have in common is the girl caught between two dudes problem. I will take this moment to voice my side on team Peeta. I can argue my point later. Jennifer Lawrence plays the PERFECT Katniss. And Willow Shields as Prim surprised me. She has such a small role in this film, but she totally made me cry! Luckily Sarah brought tissues since she cried while reading the book. I cannot rave enough about the emotions that these two young ladies portrayed. Every character that was cast totally fits the character descriptions in the book. Too bad Cato had to die, He's a stone fox.I wish that there could've been a little more attention to the relationship between Peeta and Katniss going back to the burned bread, but that's just for the sake of those who haven't read the books. It leaves a few holes. Having read the books, it all made sense to me. I thought it was filmed very tastefully, considering the muderous content. A few of the scenes were very shaky and made me sick to watch, but it's better than seeing it clearly, I guess.

Can't wait to see it again and again. 4.5 stars

Future Cosmetologist?

We have been pretty good about keeping our scissors on top of the fridge to prevent the inevitable self-hair cut, but I didn't think about my hair scissors in the bathroom. Well, Phoenix was left unattende for just long enough to find them and begin her career in cosmetology. She got the side realy good, (like so close, I'm just glad she didn't cut her head) and she got to her bangs:She also got into my (hot pink) nail polish and painted her nails, her shirt and her carpet.... The very same day, when I got hom from work, Phoenix told me she needed to go to the bathroom and she used my bathroom. After about 2 minutes of it being too quiet, I busted in and caught her with my eye shadow. Seriously, is she a 3-year old or what?

Considering that it took 3 years for her hair to come in at all, I'm sure the hack job would take a long time to catch up to her current length. So I deliberated and decided to get her a cute little pixie cut. The stylest advised me to dress her in pink and make sure I style her hair because at her age, she might get mistaken for a boy. Well, she got that alot of the time with her "longer" hair if it wasn't fixed into a pony or adorned with a flower. I think it looks so cute You can see where her bangs are still a little choppy in this one:

I'm just hoping that it doesn't take 3 self hair cuts to get it out of her system like it did for her cousin.

Phoenix has been asked to give the scripture in Sharing time on Sunday. Her scripture is Alma 37:35. Kasey sat down with her to practice it. He will have to help her on Sunday because she is in junior primary and I teach senior primary, so I will be in with my class.