There are movies that i watch over and over for the '
moment'. Like, in
Practical Magic with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman (totally lame movie, btw, don't bother if you haven't seen it)...but there is a moment where Sandra's character gets a spell put on her to find her true love at an exact moment. When that moment comes, she looks up from her gardening where she has been mucking about, all dirty and everything, rubber boots, cut off jean shorts......she just gets up and starts to walk, then run down the street....towards the sweet veggie salesguy who also, looks up from his veggie box, sees her running towards him....and then BOOM - she jumps in his arms and they kiss and its amazing.
Another movie moment off the top of my head that i love love, is from
The Mirror has Two Faces with Barbrea Streisand and Jeff Bridges. It's the very last scene (so i have to endure sort of a dumb movie for this specific moment) - but he realizes he loves her very much and wakes up her whole building telling her that he was wrong and doesn't care that she is beautiful, but he wants to be married to her, and she says 'you ARE married to me'....and then....THE DANCE! That beautiful dance in the street where they twirl eachother around and kiss on the hood of cars and bryan adams in playing in the background and i LOVE IT!!
And the reason i am talking about moments is the movie i watched and rewound again a couple times to watch the moment again...was
August Rush. This little beautiful boy is trying to find his parents and believes it will be the music that he creates that will bring them back to him. The very last scene, he is conducting the NY Philharmonic in Central Park who is playing his creation. And at the end of this beautiful song, his parents, who are coming from different directions (one being a cellest, the other a rock star) end up at the front of the crowd having found eachother on their way to the front, being drawn by the music of their son. And at that last moment, they are watching him and he suddenly feels it!! He smiles as he turns around to see them staring proudly at him.....it's all so beautiful!! i cry and cry......crying partly for myself because i often don't notice all the beautiful things my sons do.
And i am realizing this about myself in the last few dreary grey days.....i am often lonely and sad during these rainy days, but i need to stay focused that this too will change very soon and i can't miss the moments that get thrown my way, because apparently, i am a woman who LOVES moments.......but they are so easy to miss, aren't they?
So, Chris, also being of the imaginative mind, set to work doing up the plans and dimensions on the computer and put in a whole pile of late nights to create the costume. I only grabbed a shot of this process on the last night when i helped a little painting WALL-E's tires.
Finished Product!! Note the compartment that comes out to collect the candy!
We headed to Mike and Lauras....
but we went to their new house for dinner and trick or treating in their neighborhood afterwards. Here is Elliot below doing his famous "MORE" sign for more candy and the sad little face he used ALL night on anyone who would make eye contact with him to unwrap any candy he would be chewing on...he chewed on alot of wrappers last night!
We headed over to Jenny and Trents. See pics below..... Trent said Jenny was a bar wench, but she denied it....i actually can't remember what she was supposed to be, but definatly something alot more wholesome than a bar wench!! But she made the whole costume, that talented woman!! Isn't she cute??
Marg and Gordon were there too providing much comfort for little Elliot who couldn't get many people to comply with his demands for MORE candy....
Cousins arriving at the door at Jenny and Trents: WALL-E, a ghose, a troll and a lion!
Cousins playing in the jeep that Trent is rebuilding from the ground up--its pretty amazing..the kids loved it and asked 'when the jeep gets on the road, do they have to wear helmets to ride in it??' good question eh? i think isaacs face is like "only sissie's wear helmets, i want to DRIVE!!"
Action packed Sword Fight
HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2008!! 
Here are some shots that totally warm my heart of my two boys as they become eachothers best friends--isaac is the best big brother i could ever hope for elliot.
When they find him, he normally has something to show them, give them or hear something that Isaac is dying to tell him!
Isaac and i on our maiden voyage to make cookies together in the camp kitchen....our friend and master of many trades (Arleigh) said that cookies taste the best cooked in a convection oven....and she was right - they were awesome gingersnaps! Isaacs job was to roll them in the sugar and put them on the tray. He did pretty good, he withheld from licking his fingers after every roll...but he said he found that part hard - self restraint IS hard my little one!
Chris played field hockey this morning in victoria and came home with a huge jar of tinkertoys....me being a girl and a mom, just saw a bunch of sticks that i will have to pick up--but he swears that as an inventive little boy, he LOVED this--and isaac, granted, is also in a very inventive and imaginative stage right now. Watching the 3 of them play with these toys this morning was so sweet and exciting for all of them!
Kari is due in the next few weeks, so i was proud of her sense of adventure for traveling so far from home! Its always so good to see my friends, and to have more than one friend in my home at the same time totally thrills me!! And to have the visit happen during some momentous times for everyone is even cooler: Steph is getting her health back after fighting for over 2 years to get it back, Kari is about to have another baby, Jennie-Lynn just had a beautiful baby (grr, no pics of mommy, but one shot of Andy with Leilani), Court took on the position of Head Cook this weekend for the first time and did amazing...so it was pretty great to have these women back in my house at the same time....loved it!
