I love the internet

So the internet is definitely an amazing form of communication! My fiance and I have been re-planning our honeymoon because the initial desire for a Caribbean cruise is not going to work out. Instead, we are going to South Padre Island! I was kind of stressing out about finding a place to go once the cruise wasn't an option anymore and thank goodness it takes me 5 seconds to look up a place and then feel better because we can look up where we can stay, google recommendations of tourist attractions to visit, and any other information we need. Ok, I am actually just posting this because I am really excited to go to the shore! And to get married!

Anyways, so the internet is a huge blessing and marvelous tool for wedding planning, but also a great tool for media and advertisers. It's so full of information, which can be good and bad. Living in this age, I really want to make sure when I have kids that I am the one telling them what they need to know before they go google it... and who knows if what they are reading is correct! It's crazy and cool to me how much the world communicates and speaks through the internet.

The Harlem Shake... I like turtles

So apparently this is a viral youtube video....? I still don't get why. I had heard of it, but saw it for the first time yesterday. My fiance was like, you HAVE to see it. He and his roommates laughed, but I am not impressed.
My fiance mentioned it because he has decided he wants to make a viral youtube video. After showing me the competition, I think it's got to be pretty easy to go viral. All you need to do is something completely random for 30 seconds. It's really interesting what the world finds entertaining.
Although, I do find the 20 second video of the boy who like turtles pretty hilarious.

Every MWF

Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, while I am eating lunch, I watch TLC's What Not To Wear. I must admit that I love the show. I just like to see the transformation that happens from start to finish. I also find the comments of Stacy and Clinton pretty hilarious. I like how the show focuses on expressing yourself and being confident in who you are, but in a fashionable way. They never try to change the person's body, but rather the way the person views their body. I think it's fun to see how much many people resist change, but in the end, you can tell how much they love the new look. I think this show is definitely a great show for standing up for the average American body and not saying that you need to look like a model to feel and look beautiful.

Wreck-it Ralph

On Friday I went to go see Wreck it Ralph in the Varsity theater.  It was a fun movie, especially watching it in the Varsity theater where everyone will laugh and have verbal responses to everything! It was a  funny movie and it was kind of cool that it was video game stylized. I loved the side story of Fix-it Felix and the warrior girl falling in love. That was hilarious. I liked the movie, but obviously it was made for kids to watch also. I thought it was a little scatterbrained for kids too young and the name calling all the time could easily repeated by young kids. But overall I thought it was cute and it had the sweet moral ending that every Disney film has.

It's GREAT except for...

I had a great Valentine's day! My fiance showed up at my door with a rose and a decorated poster that had a heart box of chocolates on it and the movie Just Like Heaven. It was SO sweet for him to buy that movie for me because I literally have been asking him if we could watch it for like a year now! I loved it when I saw it back in high school and I've wanted to re-watch it ever since.

We went out to eat where we went last year for Valentine's day at out favorite place ever! Applebee's (They have a two plates and an appetizer for $20 deal. It's awesome)! Then we went back to his apartment and watched the movie he got me. I'm still not over how cute it was for him to remember and get it for me! <3 <3 I laughed a lot and it was definitely an entertaining movie, but it was a little different than I remembered. I definitely did NOT remember at all the skanky-woman-neighbor side story!  The movie had more profanity and innuendos than I previously recalled. It was also a little corny overall... but I think I like the corn.
It was just way interesting for me that I had held this movie in my mind as one of my favorites even though I didn't remember half the stuff that was in it! Why do we remember all the good stuff about a movie or show, yet easily forget the parts that made us squirm inside, or even discount inappropriate parts? How often do we ignore the cockroach in the ice cream?

That's a kinda gross analogy (blek!), but I think it makes a good point.

Some of my favorite books

One of my most favorite books from elementary school to middle school was the book Holes by Louis Sachar. I first read the book in elementary school and it is one of the only novels that I’ve read twice. As I’ve gotten older, I haven’t read as many books for fun as I did as a kid. I have started a few books for fun, but never end up finishing them. I have been into more psychology, self-improvement type books of late and I was reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People over the summer. That’s probably one of my favorite books right now, but I haven’t finished it yet. The last book that I read for fun that I really enjoyed and read all the way through twice was the seventh Harry Potter book. I read this book originally in high school after reading the previous six books. I re-read my favorite one, the last one, right before the movie (part one) came out. I love all the Harry Potter books, but the seventh one is my favorite because it brings all the past stories together and somehow they all connect perfectly. I like this book too because it is the final battle between good and evil, and good prevails! I like the message of friendship, integrity, and bravery that this final book ends the whole series with.

This is the greatest season!

On Saturday and Sunday I attended my fiance's stake conference and Elder Bednar presided! It was a way cool experience to hear him speak in a non-General Conference setting and to feel his spirit. I even got to shake his and his wife's hands! Elder Bednar spoke with such authority and truth. In his Sunday talk he kept repeating, "this is the greatest season in the history of the restored church." He gave several reasons for this, including our ability to learn and spread the gospel through the great tools we have now in our homes like internet and media resources. Never has there been such a great time of connection and resources as there is now.

I was really glad to hear Bednar speak about preparing our future children. He declared that it is a parent's responsibility to teach and prepare children for baptism, to receive the priesthood, to go on missions and to make covenants in the temple. It's not the responsibility of church leaders. Preparation starts in the home.

When it comes to media, I think parental responsibility is very important. We need to teach our children the good and bad uses of media so they can be prepared to make wise choices throughout life.

<--- I got to shake his hand!!!! :D