Dinner with the siblings

Brady is working for the bills yo. He aint cheap either, those are $20's. His parents seem to think he is awesome and special and i guess worht those bills. I aint seen nothing special. He just drools a lot. Just playing, cool kid.

Apparently he is using the 20's to buy some dinner. Kid can put it away.

He doesn't even know me. he is going to get stolen by a stranger. Way to go Jonny, teach him to love everyone. You know what this kids safe word is gonna be when he goes to school. "Hey kid, want some candy", Way to be super dad brother.

They look cute now, but Brady can run and Emily will just cute you to death.

So i got to be the lucky one to sit next to Emily and she liked me food more than i did apparently.

GQ Jonny

See Jason is an awesome brother. We will see how awesome he is after this hike. He could be responsible for killing dad. Jason could be the dad killer. We will see how that goes.

Disneyland

Tori and Jaclyn decided that they would argue on the way up to Disneyland. It was pretty funny cause they just decided to yell louder and louder at each other. Neither made sense, so it made the time fly.

Still arguing. Yeah it went on for a bit.

On Big Thunder Mountain. It didn't derail and we didn't die (which i think is a good thing)

The Magic Kingdom, still the happiest place on earth.

The graduate, Im not sure if Mickey ever graduated anything, but Jaclyn did.

Both 2008 graduates, High School and College.

Tori and Jaclyn on the Matterhorn, There was some screaming involed and I think a Yeti

Matterhorn Mountain

Lex and Me

What a shocker, Tori found time at Disneyland, the happiest frickin' place on earth, to read a book. It was in line for Splash Mountain, she didn't want to go. She said we would get soaked. Well we did get soaked, but that is beside the point.

Flume: an amusement park ride in which passengers are carried in a boatlike or loglike conveyance through a narrow, water-filled chute or over a water slide.

That is just an awesome word.



Space Mountain, she didn't wine about this ride



So here is the situation, The evil emporer Zurg and his group of evil machines have stolen all of the galaxies batteries. This is a bad situation. We must help the little green aliens get the batteries back and stick to his evil emporerness. I owned at this game. Sweet ride

Goofy, just wanted a break and I think he was a little ticked that he wasn't allowed to ride the rockets.

Hanging with the Bloomfields

Yeah Tori will probably be pissed I put this on but i couldn't help it. She was snoring too. Whatever she got the couch, I had the floor i will post all the embarrassing pictures i want to.
Lara, I was able to snap the picture before she was. She's like the little sister i never had. (sorry Tori) Just kidding but she is pretty cool. Ok so funny story, She asked if I wanted to play Guitar Hero. I was like ok lets play. She said are you sure? I said yeah. She jumped off the couch and said. "I am gonna pwn you." (no i didn't spell that wrong) Yeah and she actually did. Kid kicked my butt
This was like the 5th shot, we had to get it just right apparently
Yeah this kid didn't even remember that he ratted me out for jumping off the roof into the pool. Revenge buddy, I know where you sleep.
Blake and his girlfriend, They apparently had a great prom together. She is really nice and she wasn't scared away by Jason, Jon, and I so she is a keeper.

Jon pretty much got slammed on Mario Kart. He tried though. A for effort

The Incredible Hulk

Theatrical Release Date: 06/13/08

This one looks pretty good. I mean you can’t do much worse than the last disaster that they called The Hulk. I won’t get into that because it will just cause tears. They look like they will make it well and portray this superhero with awesomeness. I’m not really all that convinced about Edward Norton yet. He just doesn’t scream “superhero”. Of course Robert Downey Jr. didn’t either but he ended up being frickin’ awesome in Iron Man.
They finally have a bad guy suitable enough for the Hulk. Abomination looks like he will give them a run for their money and provide plenty of action and entertainment. I will be at the midnight for this one I think. This movie and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening come out the same day so that will be a tough one.

The Strangers

Yeah so um… got my heart going, and made me a little scared of the dark. It was done really well. If you are interested in a movie that will give you the creeps but not gross you out, this is the movie for you. It does have the typical, “you idiot don’t go in that room” moments, but surprisingly not to many. Its premise is a couple go out to his family home almost in the middle of nowhere. They are not in a happy mood seen as she just said no to his marriage proposal. Anyway, they are having an awkward night when someone beats on the door and asks if “Tamara” is home. You can’t see her face but her voice is enough to freak you out. Then throughout the rest of the movie, these three strangers, start to taunt and terrorize the couple by beating on the doors and windows, smashing up their car and only means of escape, and destroying any means of communication.
This goes on for pretty much the whole movie until the end when they finally decide to attack. I won’t ruin it, but it is pretty good and messes with your head.
For all those LDS members out their, (you know who you are) they represent us in the movie too. Pretty poorly though. Two young boys maybe 14 or 15 are walking up the road with white shirts, black slacks, backpacks, and bikes. They are the ones who stumble on the scene of the previous night. They are holding Christian Living pamphlets which initially led me to believe, “hey, maybe they aren’t Mormon.” Nope wrong in the credits, it has them listed as Mormon boy #1 and Mormon boy #2. Oh well doesn’t make them look like idiots.Anyway, the movie is good if you are in for a scare, but I would recommend sleeping with the blinds closed and don’t buy a house out in the middle of nowhere. 3.5 of 5 on the awesomeness scale.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Ok, this movie didn’t blow me away, but I really didn’t expect it to. I am not a huge fan of George Lucas but I am of Steven Spielberg. I feel like Lucas relies too much on what his ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) has done in the past to make his movies. To me it doesn’t seem like they have expanded much of their technology or CGI work since their Star Wars days. They still rely hugely on models, which are obvious in the movie. They hide their special effects with bright light in your eyes or other things to distract you. Whereas somehow when Spielberg did Transformers there was nothing hidden, the special effects were in your face and flawless.
The actors did pretty well. They didn’t hide Harrison Ford’s age and they didn’t need to. He pulled it off and sold it. Even his reaction with the woman from the first movie, they were able to bring her back successfully and make that relationship work. Shia Lebeouf, I don’t really know what to say about him. I really like him in all his other movies; he is funny and talented but for some reason this part didn’t go so well. 50’s greaser is not in his range I guess.
So the Indiana Jones movies have always had events in them that are far fetched and hold a yeah right feel to them. But they were always able to make you believe it could happen. In Temple of Doom, they made me believe a man could rip out another man’s heart just by saying “Kalima”; I even tried it a few times on Jon. This one though, the climactic end scene does make you believe, but it’s the little stuff like climbing into a lead lined fridge to survive a nuclear blast and then being thrown about 8 miles in that same fridge and just rolling out of it, that makes you think, What the snap were these guys smoking when they thought that up.
As for the overall storyline, in my opinion, blah and way too far fetched. The other movies pushed the limits and made it believable, this one doesn’t even know where the limits are and then takes you to la la land. It is adventurous; it has its humorous moments, and it does keep you interested, but not enough for me to say this was a great movie. I am kind of disappointed in the fact that I have to spend another 8 bucks to take my nephew to it, waste of time though. I will give it a 3 out of 5 on the Awesomeness scale because of Ford and that they tried.

Prince Caspian

This movie kept you entertained. It wasn’t edge of your seat, what’s gonna happen next, type of action but I think it was better than the first. To me in the first one the action/ fighting sequences were more defensive and didn’t really entertain. In this one you see Peter and Edmund more and more running up to a person kicking them in the chest and then punching them in the head. It was crazy cool like that.
Susan even stood out more with her Bow and Arrow skills, actually using them is a good thing. Lucy was more on the cute and funny side of the movie being the only one that could see Aslan for a while and setting off to find him. The special effects are phenomenal and the only flaw I would say would be with the centaurs. When they walk or run, it doesn’t seem to flow or look right like it did in the first.
The actor who plays Prince Caspian does really well and he provides humor and a sense of daring. Peter seems to be in conflict with this during the whole of the movie. The two best characters by far would have to be Reepicheep and the Dwarf. Their subtle humor carries you through the dramatic parts where there isn’t much of anything flashy. All in all a great movie and perfect for the family. 4 out of 5 on the awesomeness scale

Burn Notice

Season 1
DVD Release 06/17/08

Like MacGyver was for Jason’s generation, Burn Notice is for mine. This show is great, it was the cleverness of MacGyver but he is actually willing to use a gun and kill people. The main character, Michael Westen, is a highly trained spy who gets “burned” for no apparent reason. He is now stuck in Miami with people trying to kill him, pulling off odd jobs for money, and trying to figure out why he was burned in the first place. It’s clever its funny it’s sexy it’s awesome. I recommend buying it. I just got hooked and have been watching the first season and I can’t wait for the next season

Tom Clancy's HAWX

Tom Clancy’s HAWX
Video Game Releases Fall 2008

The opening quote on this preview is “Yea though I fly through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for I am 30,000 feet and climbing”. That really doesn’t make a lot of sense unless you look at it as come and get me death I dare ya. This though is definitely a sweet looking game. Tom Clancy’s last masterpiece that I absolutely loved was the Ghost Recon Games. Beyond great. If you look closely at this one, he incorporates the same characters into the game play. The men on the ground are the same characters in the GRAW story and they blend well in this one.
I’m recommending this for Jon, I think you will like it. If you want though, I will buy it and play it and then tell you if you should be all over it. Just watch the preview though. It looks frickin amazing.

Halo Wars

Halo Wars
Video Game Release Date 10/01/08

OHHHHHHH YEAHHHHHHH!!! The first Real Time Strategy Halo Game, this is going to take on the Command and Conquer type game play and finally make it so that instead of controlling just one character (Master Chief) you get to control an entire UNSC Army. The game takes place before the three Halo games and shows the initial battle between the UNSC and Covenant forces. Before we became allies, we blew the hell out of each other. In the Halo games, Master Chief is the last surviving Spartan Soldier. In this game, you have an entire legion of Spartan soldiers. I can only imagine what damage can be done with this kind of ability.
Of course, because Chief is the last surviving Spartan, that leads me to believe that all the Spartans in this game get annihilated. Oh well that should be fun to watch at least. The game is releasing sooner than I thought it would and that excites me. While this won’t be one that I sit in line for, it will definitely be one I will grab the day it comes out. Lookin forward to it.