Movie Night... & Underpants!!!

A while back I took the boys to Movie Night at church where they were showing a Veggie Tales movie, The League of Incredible Vegetables. Lydia stayed home because she hadn't napped that day and she was in desparate need of an early bedtime.The boys did great, enjoying the fun that was set up for all of the kids, and most importantly the popcorn!

And then, for a little fun, the diaper-wearing kids got a break and tried out some underpants for a few minutes.

Landscape Makeover

The landscapers blew in and blew out in one day, and gave the front of our house an extreme home makeover. Maybe it wasn't extreme, but getting rid of those oversized, half-dieing plants was a big step. The new landscaping will look better and better as time goes by and the trees mature.Last evening was the second annual small group movie under the stars. We watched Cool Runnings and had somewhat of a Jamaica-themed evening. At least the Red Stripe was on sale.And a fruit fly landed in my water the other day.

Atlas Shrugged Movie Trailer and Previews

While the sources of the two books couldn't be more different, the release of Atlas Shrugged, pt. 1 is my most anticipated movie release since Passion of the Christ. Here's the trailer, a scene sample and a behind the scenes feature. The movie is due on April 15. (Interesting choice of days, huh?)Can't. Wait.

Jack-O-Lanterns

Lincoln and I prepped our Jack-O-Lanterns yesterday! It's going to be a fun Halloween this weekend!
On a separate note, Cory's feature film, Color, premiers on November 4, 6:30pm, at the Akron Art Museum. I'm looking forward to it.Lux Davis is a tetrachromat. Lux Davis is the sole heir to a design empire. Lux Davis is hiding. Lux Davis witnessed a murder. Lux Davis has been found.

Cory's films

I've got a couple of videos for you today. Some of you know my buddy Cory Sheldon. He and I go way back. If you were at our wedding, you saw Cory, as he was one of my groomsmen (and his dad, Rod, officiated our wedding). He's got loads of talent when it comes to visual communications, movies, and computer animation. The first one here is a project that he and a couple of guys took on for the Akron Film Festival. They entered the 48-hour Challenge, drawing and accepting the following criteria:

• The film must be entered within 48 hours of receiving the subject
• Subject: Action
• Film must include a ping pong ball & a Hot Pocket
• Film must include the line, "I found it in the Erie Canal."
• No more than $200 could be spent on the particular project

This was the result (plus, you'll notice a particularly powerful debut performance by an actor portraying a young doctor):


The next piece here is a trailer that Cory just finished for a film that's been in the works for a while. I'm not sure when the release date is, but whenever it is, I'll be there.
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Tuesday at the zoo

Jenn and Laura took a trip to the zoo today. Jenn's trip to Mary (our nurse midwife) yesterday was good, no bad news, but Jenn's word to describe the progress that we were looking for was, "Nothin'." So we're waiting. It's times like this that illustrate very powerfully how not in control we are of our circumstances.  So Lincoln's got to come sometime, right?  Apparently God and Lincoln have another schedule.

So I saw Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed on Saturday evening.  EXCELLENT movie.  I wrote my thoughts about it at XEKE.com.  I won't go into all of the details here, but it is well worth your time and your money to see it.  (If for no other reason than to financially support a movie with JudeoChristian sympathies rather than secular/humanist/etc. messages.)  I don't know that the movie will change anybody's mind, but it does get plenty of issues on the table that were not going to be exposed any other way.  Go see it.

Beautiful weekend

The weekend is here, and we finally have beautiful weather in northeast Ohio.  I hear it's supposed to rain a little later today, but that's okay, the plants can use it.

Jenn's mother arrived on Wednesday afternoon, and the ladies have been working at a good pace to get the house cleaner than I thought it could get, and they've made a couple of great things in the kitchen, including a fruity, coconutty muffin that could be described as dessert-like.  They also finished up the shopping that needed to be done before Lincoln's arrival (no, not yet!).  So things are in order.

So while Laura's with us, Dave and Haley are holding the fort down in Phoenix.  I've even heard that Haley has already planned some recipes.  We're eagerly anticipating pictures!!!

We certainly thought we'd be busy with other things this weekend, but if not, we'll find other things to do.  I'm looking forward to seeing Ben Stein's new movie, Expelled.

Of course, I haven't seen it yet, but I ran across this review today from the Boston Globe that I thought was hilarious.  They argue that too much screen time was given to intelligent-design proponents and not enough time to secularists and humanists (my words, not theirs).  Funny how the God-deniers don't provide equal time in the trillions of student-hours in the classroom (science classrooms in America X hours of science teaching per day X years that Darwinism/Secularism has been exclusively taught = incalculable numbers of hours), but they do want equal time in a 2 hour movie that they've already decided is bunk anyway.

So you can see that I'll be entering the theater with a bias, but who won't?