Movie Title

I remember seeing a movie a long time ago and I can't remember the name. It is about a woman who moves into an apartment complex named the La Fontana (or something like that). The owner of it is going to tear it down to build some big building and she is really upset about it. The owner of the complex happens to be writing a book about her life with the help of a ghost writer and that fits into the story somehow too. The main character smokes, but wants to stop and she falls in love with an architect who designs really weird nightclubs.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I remember loving the movie, but I don't remember the name. If you can remember it, PLEASE tell me what the name is.
Thanks

1930's Husband

Drew commented what his score was as a 1930's wife was, so I thought I'd take the husband's test, this is my results:

154 As a 1930s husband, I am Very Superior Take the test!

Kind of scary that I'm a better husband than wife...
Karl just took the test and he is also a 154 on the husband scale, and a 83 on the wife scale. I think this shows that Karl and I are pretty well matched, neither of us is domineering, but instead we're both thoughtful to each other and do things to make the other person's life easier. I sure am lucky.

Happy Pioneer Day!

Today has been a pretty good day. The little boys and I went to see the Spanish Fork Parade, which was the first parade I've seen since I was in High School. WE went with Karl's stepmom, Margaret. Kaleb had lots of fun running into the street to get the candy that was thrown to him and the other kids.
When the parade was over we went to the carnival in downtown Spanish Fork. I was hoping for something that kids could do, and was disappointed. So we got our faces painted and then went to Margaret's house for lunch.

After lunch we went to the cemetery and dropped off some flowers at Karl's dad's grave. Today is his birthday so we thought that would be appropriate.
Then we took Karl some lunch and came home and went swimming. Here are some pictures we took earlier this week.

Facebook

I am a member of facebook. This is an online way to keep in touch with people. The nice thing about it is that people can only see your information if you say they are your friend. Here is a funny video about it, most of it is jokes you would only get if you've been on facebook, so if you have; I hope you enjoy it. If you haven't, try it out. The only thing I really don't like about it is the emails they send you when you add extra applications to your profile. You can avoid these by unchecking the box that gives them permission to send you emails. Anyway, hope to see you there soon... www.facebook.com



By the way, add challenge sudoku so I can play against friends!

Family Picture

1930's Wife

I just took a quiz on "What kind of 1930's wife would you be". This is how I scored:

74 As a 1930s wife, I am Superior Take the test!

I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not...

Primary Class

I teach the CTR 4 primary class in my ward and it has been a crazy endeavor. At first I was excited to be out of nursery, but then I realized I got one of the hardest ages. Most weeks I'm so exhausted after church that I go home and take a nap (the only one I usually get in a week). We recently had a training on keeping your class reverent and it helped me tremendously.
This week was one of the best weeks I've had in this class. My co-teacher wasn't there, so Karl came in to help me. The kids were extra wiggly because sharing time seemed longer than normal, and it's hard for 4 year olds to sit still for that long.
I taught about being thankful. First we talked about the 10 lepers (only 1 went back to say thank you). We had talked about them last week when we discussed gratitute and I think that helped. Then we talked about the importance of letting people know are thankful for what they do. Then we colored Thank you cards for the Bishop, Primary President, Primary Chorister and Library worker, as well as a card for each of them to take home to their moms that said thanks to them. When we were done coloring we talked about some of the things we are thankful to have and then made them out of playdough.
While we didn't cover all of the material in the lesson I felt like the kids enjoyed being in Primary and they all knew what the lesson was about at the end (which isn't always the case). I think I'll have to find more ways to make the lessons hands on, because I think that really helped.

Recent Acquisitions

I have had a great weekend. It started on Wednesday, because Karl had a few days vacation he had to take this month so we had a 5 day weekend. As he was leaving work on Tuesday Karl's boss told him he was getting a bonus to help him enjoy his weekend more, how's that for cool. The bonus, along with the money we had saved made us decide not to wait to buy a TV. Karl did a bunch of research on brands and styles but we couldn't quite make a decision on which one we wanted.
On Wednesday we drove to Ikea to buy a table to put the new TV on, but ended up deciding to re-purpose our new bookcase instead. We also went to Boondocks which is a gaming place similar to Trafalga (but a lot bigger). Karl and Kaleb rode on the go-carts and then we all played in the arcade for awhile.
Thursday we spent awhile at my mom's house while she was getting Comcast installed. Then we went to do in-person pricing on TV's. We didn't find anything at Walmart that we really loved, so on to RC Willey. Karl fell in love with one of the TV's and was taking forever talking about pros and cons with the salesman, so I took the boys on a walk around the store. I found a couch that I loved, but didn't think Karl would like, but I showed him anyway. We put it on hold and decided to come back the next day when there was no sales tax and the couch would be 20% off.
So early the next day we cleaned out the living room, and gave our entertainment center and old TV to our upstairs neighbor (she was thrilled). Karl took our couch over to his mom and then our neighbor watched our boys while we went to pick up our couch and TV.
The couch almost didn't fit in our van, we finally got it to by moving up the driver's seat as it would go. Our van is awesome! Getting the stuff inside our house was a bit of a pain, the couch took 4 adults to move, but it looks wonderful.
This is what our living room looks like now: