Movies

Here are movies we watched during holidays (12/19-1/2).

Once is a Irish musical film. I wanted to see this movie for along time. I heard about it back in Spring. It caught my eye early on since the main actress in the movie is from the Czech Republic and you can hear a few Czech phrases thoughout the movie. Overall we liked the movie a lot but I have to warn you there is a lot of swearing like in any other European movie. I am sure we will hear about this movie around Oscar time for its great music.



Hehehehe. Ok Shrek the Third had some good jokes in there. Much better then the Second one.















Again we are probably one of the last people who saw this one. We liked the first one a lot and didn't care for the second one and I believe I can say ocean's Thirteen is pretty much same as the Ocean Eleven.


We did see the last Pirate movie when it came out but it was time to see it again since it came out on DVD. I wrote earlier that both of us are big Jerry Bruckheimer fans so there is no surprise we like all three movies.









I am sure most of you saw Meet The Robinsons. I didn't go to the movies with the boys so it was a first time for me and I liked it a lot.





I liked Ratatouille a lot. Well I do like to cook but rats in my kitchen. Emma got inspired by this movie and was cooking in her little kitchen throughout the movie and after.






Star Wors Episode IV, V, VI


I am sure I am one of the last people on this planet who haven't seen Star Wars. We let the boys watch first three episodes over the summer and uncle Vit got the rest of the three episodes for Christmas. So we have seen them all. My favorite is Episode IV.





Sky Captain


This is one of the movies I've seen few times since my hubby fell asleep in the past. The film takes place in an "alternate" late 1930s where there is no sign of Germany preparing for war or that America is in the grip of an economic depression. The fantastic technology, a mixture of super-advanced science and early 20th century points to an alternate history. Over all I like this movie.

Hot Rod


Ok Vit just because you asked.

I am sure I am one of the few people who saw this movie and Fil's brother made sure we saw this Oscar worthy film this Christmas. Please don't go out to get this movie because you saw it on my blog. You have to know Fil,s brother to enjoy this type of movie.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

I wanted to congratulate the Carpenters on their successful court date on the 28th and on their travel arrangements. They are leaving in less then 3 weeks!!!!!! We are so excited for them. We also pray that the other AWAA families waiting for embassy appointments will be successful as well.

When it comes to our adoption process there is not much to report. As of December 18th our wait for our court date began (all AWAA families ahead of us finally had successful court dates) and we are praying that we will hear something soon. We are hoping we will get to travel by April but anything can happen. Some of you know that I already had to get my visa since I am not an American citizen and it will expire in April so it seems likely that I will have to apply for another one. Also Fil's parents and Vit are leaving for a vacation the second half of March so it looks like we will not be able to travel in March since they are the ones who would be watching our kiddos when we are gone. That means we will either make it before end of February or not until April. I know it looks like a long way off but it is still under one year since we started the whole adoption process which is well within the expected time frame AWAA states is typical for an Ethiopian adoption. Of course we would love to have our girl home as soon as possible but we also know from experience how difficult it is sometimes to deal with various government agencies in foreign countries. Sometimes it is hard to see other families moving much faster but we believe that our agency is doing everything they can to make sure all of the paperwork is in order. I am sure I will post any news as soon as we will get any. We are looking forward to the Carpenter's and other AWAA families upcoming trips and hoping for more pictures of Jordan.

One thing that I have learned from this adoption experience is never to set time frames for yourself. For example I thought for sure we would get referral by the end of summer and when it did not happen I was so disappointed and sad and mad. Since then we left everything in God's hands. We were hoping to travel before Christmas or at least know our court date by then and it still hasn't happened. We go through phases where we loose our patience and be become discouraged but we always come back to realizing we serve a sovereign God who is in charge of the entire process so any disappointment is shortly lived. Each time we have had a problem or question all we had to do was to write our adoption agency and they responded within a day with all answers we needed. We just hit a big bump in the whole process. Since we saw the first few AWAA families get through the adoption process so quickly we assumed that we would as well. But it had to hit a bump sometime and it happen to be us. We are looking forward bringing our girl home soon in the mean time our household stays busy with our three little ones.

We had a great holiday and in a way we are looking forward to a normal schedule. We got over 4 inches of snow this afternoon. December made it into the record books with the most snow ever recorded for NH (45 inches). Let's hope it will stay for a while so they boys can enjoy ski lessons starting next week.

Again Happy New Year to everyone.

Happy New Year

The Passion Tree

The "THE PASSION TREE" painting follows the story of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Each ornament illustrates an event in history. The red garland represents the crimson thread of Jesus Christ woven through the entire Bible. Jesus IS from eternity (before Creation) to eternity (after the end of all things), and this garland weaves through all history, showing His Story. The first twelve ornaments show events in the Old Testament and the last twelve illustrate events in the New Testament, and a star representing the glory of God crowns the tree. There are 33 candles, one for each of the years that Christ spent on earth in the form of a man. You can see a suggestion of Christ in each flame . The red ornaments down the center and across form a cross. The three largest ornaments represent the trinity: God the Father (#13) gave His gift, the Son (#15) who came to earth, and God the Spirit (#22) lives within believers today. Use this as an advent calendar, reading and studying one a day from December 1 through December 25.

National Treasure - Book of Secrets

We have watched so many movies over the holidays and I will go back and write about them however I wanted to post about this one since we just got back from the movie theatre (thanks Vit for watching the kids).

Both Fil and I love the first National Treasure movie. We have watched it many times. So you can imagine that we wanted to see the Book of Secrets. I wasn't so sure that I would like this movie since I loved the first one and I was afraid that I would be disappointed. We LOVED this one as well and if you like all Jerry Bruckheimer movies you will like this one as well. I will just leave you with a thought that I think there will be another one.

Snowman

We got a few more inches of snow this morning and since the kids spent most of the week indoors enjoying Christmas presents it was time to get out. As you can see it was the perfect snow for a snowman so here is the new guy who watches over our household. The kids, Fil, and his brother Vit had a good time playing outside. They spent almost 2 hours outside and came home only when they got hungry for lunch.
I was busy in the kitchen cooking lunch but as you can see they even had a snowball fight going on. Apparently Emma loved throwing snow. However, she got very mad if anybody threw a snowball at her.
And here is my girl posing for another picture.
In the afternoon my doctor sent us for for an x-ray of my ankle and since I haven't heard from anybody yet I am sure it is not broken. Hopefully it will start feeling better soon.

Today I spent the whole day by ....

.... lying on a sofa. I know it looks like I am being lazy but the truth is that I couldn't really get up. I was planing to run to the grocery store this morning and on my way down the stairs while holding Emma in my arms I miscalculated that I was at the bottom (I was not) and I twisted my ankle badly. Somehow I manage to put Emma down before I ended up on the floor in a lot of pain. So I spent the rest of the day with my leg up and on the sofa. I got to read (and finish) Fil's new book he got for Christmas by Clive Cussler The Chase (good book by the way). The boys went to a hockey game later in the day and I am waiting for tomorrow to go see doctor to make sure I only sprained the ankle. I will let you know how it went.

By the way the picture is from this Monday when Emma and I got an early present from the boys, Beautiful roses. We were both very excited and the boys managed to keep it a secret.