Muggle

I also made a Harry Potter shirt that will be unveiled at the premier...

Cooking Club

So Lindsey and I decided we should have a cooking club. We are going to try and do it every week and I'm really excited about it. This week we made lasagna and it was delicious.

My cousin Isaac has learned that he takes pictures or he gets his picture taken. So he photographed the cooking part for us. Here we all are hard at work:

We made the noodles. They were delicious.

Ben is our official stirrer.

Kudos to Isaac; I think this is a very good picture.

The Name of the Wind

I recently read "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss. It was recommended to me by my uncle and I loved it. It is a fantasy series, and may be my third favorite of all time (after Wheel of Time and Harry Potter). There are three books total and the third one hasn't come out yet. I am halfway through the second one so we will see if it holds up, but so far I am loving it. It is told by a point of view that doesn't allow for down time so the whole story is continuously moving and never slow. The main character is very full of himself, but he is awesome so he has a right to be. The girl is a complete moron and I kind of hate her, however that is pretty common for fantasy series and there are other cool girls that make up for it. Also, the books are made out of different paper than normal and the pages are really smooth so holding it for long periods of time doesn't dry your hands out! I was really excited.

All in all a very good read that I recommend; I have it for anyone to borrow (unless you are stupid and have a Kindle).

His & Her Diary

This is funny because it's true.

Her Diary:

Tonight, I thought my husband was acting weird. We had made plans to meet at a nice restaurant for dinner. I was shopping with my friends all day long, so I thought he was upset at the fact that I was a bit late, but he made no comment on it. Conversation wasn't flowing, so I suggested that we go somewhere quiet so we could talk. He agreed, but he didn't say much I asked him what was wrong; He said, 'Nothing.' I asked him if it was my fault that he was upset. He said he wasn't upset, that it had nothing to do with me, and not to worry about it. On the way home, I told him that I loved him. He smiled slightly, and kept driving. I can't explain his behavior I don't know why he didn't say, 'I love you, too.' When we got home, I felt as if I had lost him completely, as if he wanted nothing to do with me anymore. He just sat there quietly, and watched TV. He continued to seem distant and absent. Finally, with silence all around us, I decided to go to bed. About 15 minutes later, he came to bed. But I still felt that he was distracted, and his thoughts were somewhere else. He fell asleep - I cried. I don't know what to do. I'm almost sure that his thoughts are with someone else. My life is a disaster.

His Diary:

Boat wouldn't start, can't figure out why.

Death In The Family

I recently planted a garden (when things start to grow I am going to post pictures), and unfortunately one of my cucumber plants that I transplanted has already died. Sad day.

I pointed out the dead plant:

Fun In The Sun

Here is some of my last two days- it has been so nice outside! I have had my cousins over and we have just been playing outside a lot. I finally got a small sunburn... success!

This is me blowing bubbles. It was way fun, and after Isaac and I had fun with the photo editor.

Sidewalk chalk= so much fun. This is my creation that I was very proud of. This is about the extent of my artistic skills.

Running through the sprinker! I donned my swimsuit for the first time this year. This is Megan and Sophia. Sophia's swimsuit is the cutest ruffly thing I have ever seen.

Isaac's sweet sunglasses on an adorable little girl:

Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies. Alliteration.

This is my cousin Isaac. He is staying with us this week, and it has been tons of fun. He says "yup" a lot, and likes pretending to shoot birds out the window too.

What a doll!! This is a really good picture; one of the better ones I've taken for sure. It doesn't hurt that Sophia is the subject either.

Sometimes I am a horrible person. Sometimes I sympathize with children who have the same extreme fixations/ loves/ manias as I do. It got my arm broken once (driving fast), but luckily this time it only resulted in a beautiful lint fire and a happy toddler. I was very close at hand and ready to take a match (I've done it before), so don't fret. Phin and pyromania:

I love my family. This is my Aunt Rachel fending off Isaac. Surprise attack! This was a definite high point in my life.

My grandma, in her typical position.

Sometimes my cousin Megan grabs Ben's hair and sings the "flower gleam and glow" song (from Tangled) because he said he had magic hair that would heal her. Did I mention I love my family?

Lots of my little cousins playing in the yard. I really really love how Nathaniel is off doing something random and the girls are all circled up.

Sometimes Nathaniel trash talks Isaac all up in his face. Haha.

Nathaniel is the cutest. I really really love him. He is always ganged up on by the girls and gets mad, so we just play. He is so realistic and mature and slightly intense haha. When we were driving in the car and their conversation was as follows:

Megan: "Oh my gosh... are we there yet... we have been driving for like three hours...."

Nathaniel: "We have not! It's been like a few minutes!"

Their conversations are my favorite because Megan is a drama queen galore and Nathaniel is the realistic anti-drama queen. Another conversation while they were playing something random went like this:

Nathaniel: "Hurry! Hurry! Hey come grab this!"

Megan: "No... I don't think I want to.."

Nathaniel: "Do you want your head blown off by a pistol?!!"

Hahahaha I love them.

Sophia is constantly posing for me. I really love it.

Another very good picture from today's bubble festivities:

Nathaniel getting into their game and being very intense:

Isaac loves this picture of himself. It was actually pretty funny when I was editing it. "Look at that stud!"

Nathaniel was always at the forefront of the bubble chasing:

Phin loved the bubbles almost as much as he loved the fire:

Phin's pure joy:

Megan:

Nathaniel at the front again haha:

Isaac in intense concentration:

Taking pictures of bubbles is so much fun.

Nathaniel was very very proud of his house:

Poor Sophia got in Nathaniel's way haha.

I really struggled blowing this bubble haha, hence the intense concentration.

I like this a lot.

Way Too Invested

So last night I had a stress dream. I dreamed that it was June 14 and I had gotten the date for the new Harry Potter movie wrong so the premier was that night instead of in a month. It was like seven o'clock that night. I hadn't bought tickets so I got online and did, but I got too many and no one could come because Christian was training at the movie theater for Iron Man 2 and everyone else ignored my texts and then I forgot my sisters. And all this was happening five minutes before the movie was starting, so we were so late (I hate being late to movies; it gives me anxiety. I don't know why). I was so stressed. Then I woke up sick to my stomach stressed and freaking out.

All in all, I'd say I am way to invested/ excited/ worried about this whole Harry Potter Premier thing.

P.S. Notice I'm not "fully invested" :P