A Post for the Movie Lover in me

So, anyone who knows me even a little bit knows that right under the surface there resides a first class lover of all things cinematic... buttery popcorn, milk duds, theatre seats, the dimming of the lights...ok, so maybe i don't love previews...but ahhhh...give me a good movie and for 2 hours (give or take) life is fabulous. I am sure that this love of movies was bred while I worked behind the concession counter at a movie theatre~ and it probably grew bigger than life when I learned how to run a projection machine. For the time that it lasted, there was nothing better in this world to me than those moments right before the movie began when I would dim the lights and turn the machine on and see the movie hit the screen! I loved every second of it.

For no real reason this morning, I was thinking of all the great movies I have seen. You know the kind that I am talking about, those movies that you could watch again and again because they spoke to some part of your life, or they are just that great that you have to see them again. Maybe get one more chance to relive that moment... So, I have compiled a list. A list of must see movies. You don't have to see them , and if you see them you don't have to like them...but These are my must see movies. The ones that I have loved time and again.

Shannon's Must See Movie List

1~American Flyers
2~Beauty and the Beast
3~Braveheart
4~The Breakfast Club
5~A Bug's Life
6~Coach Carter
7~Chronicles of Narnia~The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
8~ Dead Poets Society
9~Eight Below
10~End of the Spear
11~Facing the Giants
12~Finding Forrester
13~Hoosiers
14~Invincible
15~Kate & Leopold
16~The Last Samurai
17~Lean on Me
18~Notting Hill
19~Rocky Balboa
20~The Ron Clark Story
21~Scent of a Woman
22~Titanic

A fun filled July

This last month has been a whirl-wind of fun! We have seen a bunch of movies {and yes, you should go see Walle, Indiana Jones, and if you are an adult you should see The Dark Knight}, gone bowling, been to Tonkawa Falls, had a huge family water balloon fight and read some great books...and the month is not even over yet. Mikey and Lissi are leaving tomorrow to go spend the week with Brent's parents~ and I am sending them with cameras! So, when they get back we will be putting up some of the pics that they take. AND, Brent and I are leaving on Wednesday to go to Las Vegas...Vegas, Baby!! Woo Hoo..

Some of our friends decided that we needed a trip for our 10 year anniversary~ and they are sending us to the place that we most wanted to go. I cannot wait to leave. We are tremendously blessed. And it is going to be a blast.

And with that, I am going to let the pics tell the rest of the story:



Brent trying to decide if he should continue to lift weights at the YMCA~ or if he should switch to curling the kids instead... lol

Mikey getting a little love from his friend Jen.

Madison and Tate.

Mikey and Maddy at Tonkawa Falls.

We spent three hours at the bowling alley letting Brent beat us all!!!

Giving a few pointers...

Lissi-loo rolling a strike.

4th of July on top of the Wells Fargo parking garage.