A European at Heart

You Belong in Rome

You're a big city soul with a small town heart Which is why you're attracted to the romance of Rome Strolling down picture perfect streets, cappuccino in hand And gorgeous Italian people - could life get any better?

What City Do You Belong In?

Bee Movie

Tonight was a big night in the Burnham home. After much deliberation, we decided to take Mackenzee to her very first movie. It's a big deal! Landon went to his first movie when he turned 2, but he also sat still all the way through Toy Story at home, so I knew there wouldn't be a problem. Mackenzee can't sit through a 30 minute Dora episode! Anyway...Jaysen wanted to give it a go, so we went for it. We took two cars, just in case....better to be prepared than to throw all of that money in the garbage by having ALL of us go home if she didn't make it. I also made sure to buy the JUMBO popcorn. I was hoping that even if she didn't watch the movie, that the huge tub of butter would keep her busy. ;0)

As far as the movie goes...it was ok. I won't be buying it. It wasn't bad, it was just really slow. And the plot was a bit much for kids I think. The bees suing the humans....kids don't even know what that means. And pollination? What 8 year old understands that? But that is the movie. No bees working...no pollination...no flowers....you get the idea. There were some funny lines in there to get Landon laughing. Like poop-water (the guy got toilet water splashed on him when he tried to flush the bee down the toilet).....yeah. Little boy humor...sigh. But, it didn't grab Kenzee's attention. We made it through the movie, thanks to the popcorn, and two drinks (yes, she drank both of them almost all by herself). But, she moved around a lot. My daughter does not sit still. And yes, Landon and her had to fight a couple of times in the middle of the movie over a drink, or the tub of popcorn. Sigh. But at least we made it!

Honestly, I wouldn't spend your money on this movie unless it was a matinee...dollar theatre even. Better yet, wait till it comes out on Netflix! It's too bad that it was Kenzee's first movie, and it was such a dud!

Piano Man

Landon is becoming quite the little pianist. He is having such fun with it too! This last week he was given a new book of Christmas songs to learn and the first song he was given was Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. He made me sing that song while he played it over and over and over again. And though I do love hearing him play....I needed a moment of silence. ;0) So, bath time it was! After both he and Kenzee had been taken care of I went about my business and left them to play with eachother before I made it be bedtime. (Side note: No jammies for Kenzee until it is ABSOLUTELY necessary! She thinks it's bedtime RIGHT THEN if we put them on her! Sigh.) Anyway...not two seconds later, I'm hearing Rudolph again! But this time it was a duet. Can I just tell you how beautiful the music sounded? (HA!) But it was too cute not to snap a picture. Mackenzee was playing and singing along to whatever song she thought they were playing and Landon was just ever so diligently playing his first Christmas song of the year. He's even improvising. You know the echo in the song?

Rudolph the red nosed reindeer (reindeer)

He's adding that into the music. Although he's having a hard time figuring out the notes for "like a light bulb". ;0)

As a side here....I just realized yesterday that Thanksgiving was in one week. Are you kidding me? It's not time for that yet! And, as we all know, Thanksgiving is always one month from Christmas. So, we're about 5 weeks from Christmas! That's insane. Not that I'm not almost done with my shopping. Most of you already know that I start shopping in September. But, I'm not ready for the holiday. It's come around too soon. I don't feel Christmasy. Even with listening to my Josh Groban CD yesterday. Sigh. I told Jaysen that next Friday was Christmas tree day (I always put it out the day after Thanksgiving because honestly, as long as it takes to get it all put together....I'm not having it up for only a week!) His eyes started bulging. I don't think he realized that we were so close either.

So....get ready people! Ready or not....here it comes!

Thankful-Josh Groban

Everyone needs to have this CD in their collection. Josh Groban just came out with his Christmas CD "Noel" and it's amazing! It's almost like the songs we've heard for years were never sung right. He has such an amazing voice. This song is called "Thankful". Check it out!

Celebrity Look Alikes!

My sister in law told me about this website and the fun stuff that you can do as far as face recognition goes. So, I did a little playing around with it this morning instead of the things I was really supposed to be doing! You should go and check it out!



This one was kind of a disappointment. She looks equally like us? Sigh. No bragging rights on either side! ;0)




And, though I know it's not realistic, I did one of Landon with Jaysen and I as well. Partly to make sure they didn't say that every child looked equally like mom and dad, and partly out of pure curiosity. Check out the results!



Even better! I put Jaysen's picture in to see what kind of celebrity I was married to. I knew he was cute...but wow! Look who he looks like!

I've Gone Scrap Crazy!

So, this past weekend I did some serious scrapbooking and I thought I would share my pages with you! Sadly, I have oodles of pictures that still need attention, but at least a few were taken care of! I need to do this more often! As you will see, the journaling still needs to be done, so I guess none of these are "complete". Oh well!

Girls Night

We went to Hands On for Girls Night last night. I have never actually painted pottery before and I really enjoyed it. I could have stayed there for hours to be honest with you. Very relaxing, and it doesn't require a lot of thought. So, you could sit there and chat while you painted. I picked a Christmas tree and I'm so excited to get it back! We get to pick them up on Monday after they've baked them and glazed them and all of that good stuff. I think the girl that worked there thought I was wierd though. I painted the tree green, and then put a white wash finish on it to make it look "snowy" I guess. ;0) And it turned out cute! Trunk brown...you get the idea. Well, it needs ornaments right? I asked for gold paint as I thought of putting a gold garland around the tree, but they don't carry gold or even silver. The best they had was a butterscotch color. Not good enough for me! ;0) So, I just picked red. So, there are little red circles all over my tree. I thought it turned out cute. The Christmas colors I use in my house are green, red, brown (tan) and gold. Classic colors of Christmas right? So, I was trying to keep along those lines with my pottery piece. Well, the lady came to check on us and she wanted to know if I wanted more colors. I told her I didn't need anymore because I was finished. She had this look on her face like "Are you kidding me?" She said, "That's the only color of ornaments your putting on it?" So, I said, "Yes....I'm a plain person." She was speechless. Literally. It took her a second and she said, "Oh. I'm sorry, I've just never heard that phrase before." I just told her that with me, less is more. She just walked away. My tree is cute dangit! I'll post a picture of it when I get it back. There is nothing wrong with one color of ornament! ;0)

Anyway...I'll definitely be going back.

And....to top off girls night...we went out to Tomatos for food afterwards. We finished up painting by 6:45 and honestly, none of us wanted to go back home quite yet. So, we went for it!

All in all a fun night!