Daddy woke up early this morning to go to an auto body shop - one of the incidents from last week that isn't written here was a car accident. Its isn't much to write about: someone dropping their child off at the church accidentally hit our car. She came into the church after that, and after a time found out who's car it was and we set things up for today. So Daddy got an estimate on the repairs, and after that went to get an oil change and tires rotated, the usual stuff. We're about to take another trip south, so it's good to get that part out of the way. The funny thing is that I was back by 9:00 am, and everyone was still asleep in the house!
While there waiting, Daddy even completely finished one of his messages for Superflix II, a message based on the movie "Trolls." It should be pretty fun!
Today's temperatures were astoundingly hot. You could sense that much inside, where it was safer from the elements - but this really reminds us of how blessed we were with the weather during Summer Xtreme. There is such a thing as being too hot to be outside, just as there is a problem with being out there during a rainstorm. Fortunately, neither interfered with us, and we're grateful for that.
We were a little more productive with this day, as indicated above. We went out to Mal-Mart, and took care of a little bit of grocery shopping, but also got all of Madison's back-to-school list taken care of already. Yes, it's still June. But August is now when school starts, and back-to-school advertising actually starts in ...July? What's up with that? Still, we took care of it in June, because things get busy just prior to school starting, and it's during those weeks that we have Madison in art camp.
While we were in Wal-Mart, we heard the rumble of thunder while deep inside the store. You know it has to be loud to hear anything outside inside the store. The weird thing is that when we went inside the store, not that long before, it didn't look like rain or anything out there. Sure, there were clouds, but you know the look of an approaching storm. Especially one that is as fierce as this one turned out to be. We looked out the exit of the Wal-Mart, and realized the best play was to do some more shopping and wait it out. So that's what we did: Madison got a few more clothing options for the upcoming vacation, as well as something to wear for school. We got a few movies for the upcoming "Superflix II" series, just some movies to check out. Meanwhile, the cracks of thunder were intense outside. It was amazing hearing such a violent storm outside, while everyone was just casually shopping inside.
Before the storm came, we went to the movies and saw "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" together. This was Madison's first Jurassic movie in the theater, and since Daddy previewed it on Friday, it was determined to be okay to see here. Although Madison has seen 3 out of 4 of the previous movies, it's still good to check and see if they're safe ahead of time, given that you're pretty certain a few people in this movie are going to be dinosaur food. And in fact, a few people were.
This movie has mixed reviews, but we liked it. In fact, the front row of college kids (and Daddy) on Friday really liked it too. For one, it was daring for the writers to actually leave the islands of Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna. It could be argued that this was done in "The Lost World," but that end part was just silly. With this movie, we see a bit more of what Ian Malcolm was warning about when he said, "Genetic power has been unleashed. You cannot put it back into the box." In essence, we see a good part of the story not on one of those islands. Meaning: the dinosaurs aren't isolated on an island anymore. It was a fun movie, and not terribly gory as it could have been. In fact, many of the fatal dinosaur attacks are done after the camera pans away, or as the camera is focusing on something else in the foreground. It's fairly obvious from the beginning who is going to be dinosaur food, which is to say, everyone gets what is coming to them, for the most part. There is one interesting conversation going on about Maisie, one where we all suspect she's either part raptor, or perhaps her DNA is a part of the velociraptor Blue's genetic make-up. These are the conversations Mommy, Madison and Daddy had when we were coming home. Daddy loved the scene at the end with the dinosaur sneaking into the bedroom, as it was so reminiscent of an early Steven Spielberg movie.
Anyway, dinosaurs still rule the earth in a way. Madison was very excited to see the movie, and really enjoyed it. I get the critical reaction to it, but a lot of people are still enjoying the movie anyway, and it certainly brings up a lot of questions to be answered in the next movie.
We got home later today and had our pizza. The pizza kitchen was open! Mommy makes the same kind of pizza for Madison over and over again, and it's the only one that Madison really likes. She scarfs it down though - we had to get on to her about eating speeds, as she tends to devour things rapidly. Maybe she was inspired by the dinosaur movie. Mommy and Daddy shared a gluten-free pizza together, and the three of us had a nice moment there. Daddy was pretty tired though, perhaps because of the cumulative effect of Summer Xtreme? Not sure.
Regardless, we read a little more from the "X-Men" comics (we started issue #3, where the gold team has to go rescue the blue team from Asteroid M). We also watched one of the movies we got at Wal-Mart. Yes, I know it sounds like that's all we do is watch movies, but we were doing homework for this new series, and the movie "Sherlock Gnomes" had just come out on Blu-Ray. And as much as I wanted to be able to use this movie, I was unable to see much in it to preach off of. There is a message about focusing on each other versus focusing on all the work you need to do. It's a sort of Mary/Martha thing, about focusing on what is really important. But that was about it, and even as I type this out here, I'm trying to make it work into a message, and perhaps it just isn't meant to be. It was a decent movie, but like with the last three sequels we've seen lately - it's not as good as the original.
We read from "The Austere Academy" again tonight, and said our prayers. It was a nice day together. The temperature outside is cooler after the storms - that's one good thing. I'm not sure how much it rained at our house, actually. It seems the rougher parts of the storm avoided this neighborhood - again. But we did get rain, and it did cool down, and in the end all was well - we have much to be thankful for in our prayers.
While there waiting, Daddy even completely finished one of his messages for Superflix II, a message based on the movie "Trolls." It should be pretty fun!
Today's temperatures were astoundingly hot. You could sense that much inside, where it was safer from the elements - but this really reminds us of how blessed we were with the weather during Summer Xtreme. There is such a thing as being too hot to be outside, just as there is a problem with being out there during a rainstorm. Fortunately, neither interfered with us, and we're grateful for that.
We were a little more productive with this day, as indicated above. We went out to Mal-Mart, and took care of a little bit of grocery shopping, but also got all of Madison's back-to-school list taken care of already. Yes, it's still June. But August is now when school starts, and back-to-school advertising actually starts in ...July? What's up with that? Still, we took care of it in June, because things get busy just prior to school starting, and it's during those weeks that we have Madison in art camp.
While we were in Wal-Mart, we heard the rumble of thunder while deep inside the store. You know it has to be loud to hear anything outside inside the store. The weird thing is that when we went inside the store, not that long before, it didn't look like rain or anything out there. Sure, there were clouds, but you know the look of an approaching storm. Especially one that is as fierce as this one turned out to be. We looked out the exit of the Wal-Mart, and realized the best play was to do some more shopping and wait it out. So that's what we did: Madison got a few more clothing options for the upcoming vacation, as well as something to wear for school. We got a few movies for the upcoming "Superflix II" series, just some movies to check out. Meanwhile, the cracks of thunder were intense outside. It was amazing hearing such a violent storm outside, while everyone was just casually shopping inside.
Before the storm came, we went to the movies and saw "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" together. This was Madison's first Jurassic movie in the theater, and since Daddy previewed it on Friday, it was determined to be okay to see here. Although Madison has seen 3 out of 4 of the previous movies, it's still good to check and see if they're safe ahead of time, given that you're pretty certain a few people in this movie are going to be dinosaur food. And in fact, a few people were.
This movie has mixed reviews, but we liked it. In fact, the front row of college kids (and Daddy) on Friday really liked it too. For one, it was daring for the writers to actually leave the islands of Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna. It could be argued that this was done in "The Lost World," but that end part was just silly. With this movie, we see a bit more of what Ian Malcolm was warning about when he said, "Genetic power has been unleashed. You cannot put it back into the box." In essence, we see a good part of the story not on one of those islands. Meaning: the dinosaurs aren't isolated on an island anymore. It was a fun movie, and not terribly gory as it could have been. In fact, many of the fatal dinosaur attacks are done after the camera pans away, or as the camera is focusing on something else in the foreground. It's fairly obvious from the beginning who is going to be dinosaur food, which is to say, everyone gets what is coming to them, for the most part. There is one interesting conversation going on about Maisie, one where we all suspect she's either part raptor, or perhaps her DNA is a part of the velociraptor Blue's genetic make-up. These are the conversations Mommy, Madison and Daddy had when we were coming home. Daddy loved the scene at the end with the dinosaur sneaking into the bedroom, as it was so reminiscent of an early Steven Spielberg movie.
Anyway, dinosaurs still rule the earth in a way. Madison was very excited to see the movie, and really enjoyed it. I get the critical reaction to it, but a lot of people are still enjoying the movie anyway, and it certainly brings up a lot of questions to be answered in the next movie.
We got home later today and had our pizza. The pizza kitchen was open! Mommy makes the same kind of pizza for Madison over and over again, and it's the only one that Madison really likes. She scarfs it down though - we had to get on to her about eating speeds, as she tends to devour things rapidly. Maybe she was inspired by the dinosaur movie. Mommy and Daddy shared a gluten-free pizza together, and the three of us had a nice moment there. Daddy was pretty tired though, perhaps because of the cumulative effect of Summer Xtreme? Not sure.
Regardless, we read a little more from the "X-Men" comics (we started issue #3, where the gold team has to go rescue the blue team from Asteroid M). We also watched one of the movies we got at Wal-Mart. Yes, I know it sounds like that's all we do is watch movies, but we were doing homework for this new series, and the movie "Sherlock Gnomes" had just come out on Blu-Ray. And as much as I wanted to be able to use this movie, I was unable to see much in it to preach off of. There is a message about focusing on each other versus focusing on all the work you need to do. It's a sort of Mary/Martha thing, about focusing on what is really important. But that was about it, and even as I type this out here, I'm trying to make it work into a message, and perhaps it just isn't meant to be. It was a decent movie, but like with the last three sequels we've seen lately - it's not as good as the original.
We read from "The Austere Academy" again tonight, and said our prayers. It was a nice day together. The temperature outside is cooler after the storms - that's one good thing. I'm not sure how much it rained at our house, actually. It seems the rougher parts of the storm avoided this neighborhood - again. But we did get rain, and it did cool down, and in the end all was well - we have much to be thankful for in our prayers.
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