I'M EXCITED!!

I know that lots of people didn't really like the Twilight movie for a number of reasons. The biggest complaint I've heard is that the special effects were just not very good.

Agreed, unfortunately there were some things about the movie that screamed "small budget" and it was a tad on the corny side - but those things didn't stop me from seeing it 5 (yes, five) times. I loved it. I loved seeing the characters come to life and I could have spent a lot more time "hanging out with the Cullens". The end of the movie always came way to quickly for me.

I've been excited to see how New Moon will be interpreted and am interested to find out if they have decided to put the necessary amount of money behind it to keep the "small budget" look out of it. Apparently I don't have to wait long - November 20, 2009! Yes - I will be there at the midnight showing just as excited as I was for Twilight. Hopefully it will be just as fun!

SPARE TIME

Another crazy week. Matt, Sean, Connor, and Kins back to school and back to work for Matt and me. So what do we do with our spare time? Not that we have much - but often Matt and I have very different ideas of relax time. I have a couple of "girls night out" groups that I get together with...a book club, movie night, and stitch club (Julee - stop laughing - I can sew a little!), and coming soon - bunco. Mostly it ends up being just a good excuse to have lots of fun girl talk time - but I really look forward to all of them and I am making some really cute things at stitch club.

Matt, on the other hand, will get up at 5am on a Saturday to drive to a frozen lake where he has to set up "camp", drill a hole in the ice, and stick a fishing pole into the hole - hoping that some fish is dumb enough to bite. I, obviously, don't get it!

This isn't to say that we don't have lots in common and one of our favorite ways to unwind is date night at the movies. That's our thing - movies. Not usually dinner and a movie - just a movie. We like comedies, action, drama, he's even seen Twilight with me twice - just no R-rated or horror. So, in the words of Daddy Warbucks - "Let's all go to the movies".

MATT'S NEW YEAR

Matt's new year is finding him embarking on new and exciting things. He started the next semester at school last Monday and is finding that he has a whole new set of challenging classes ahead of him. He did make it through Anatomy last semester and that was huge!

He just started a new job at the Intermountain Medical Center working in the Neuro-Rehab department. A good job where he gave them his school schedule and they come up with a work schedule that fits. Also, great insurance for our family - we use a lot of insurance (see the previous blog entry).

He totalled his car in December when he ran into the back of a trailer carrying heavy steel equipment that had stopped on the freeway (luckily there was no damage to the equipment or Matt). We were floored when the payout that we received on his 2001 Corolla was enough to pay off the remaining balance of our car loan, pay cash for a fairly decent used car (a Camry), and pay our portion of his tuition for this semester. Major blessings!

OK - NOW I'M GONNA START

Well, as you can see, I had great intentions of starting this blog nearly a year ago. Then April hit. April 2008 found us putting Connor in the hospital for a week due to pneumonia complicated by asthma, the next week a dear friend was killed in a freak accident, the next week Kinslee and Quinn were also hospitalized for a week with pneumonia complicated by asthma, and then Matt was layed off by Maxfield's after 5 years with them. By then I had forgotten my login name and password for my blog (which somehow just "came" to me about a month ago, hurray!).

So hopefully this explains a strange 10 month space between my first blog entry and this one. In some recent discussions about what good came from 2008 and some people's difficulty in finding anything good, I decided that the only way to truly find the good is to recount your daily blessings (yes, we get them EVERY day). My goal is to keep this up as somewhat of a journal for the Keddington family as a tangible reminder of everything we've been given. Should be interesting.

And, by the way, Allison and Trisha - I would have laughed at me too!

I'm gonna try it.

We're gonna try this and see how well I can keep up - good luck with that! It's so fun to see what others are doing - I might as well get onboard!