What to expect when you're expecting

What to expect when you’re expecting

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So last night we went out on a family date. This doesn’t happen very often since my parent work and then they don’t want to go out or there isn’t anything showing all of us want to watch. So last night it was a tossup between: What to expect... and Madagascar. But since our local cinema we usually go to have a special on Wednesdays if you are a club member we thought maybe we should go and see Madagascar, since it will be much cheaper. But alas their system was down so no cheap 3D movies for the van Heerden family. Since we had some Wednesday Spur special tickets I ended up paying only for 2 of the 4 tickets. Score!

The movie was very funny. I especially liked Cameron Diaz and Anna Kendrick. I liked her in Twilight Saga, but in this movie she really showed she can be in big roles. Elizabeth Banks was also amazing. She got to play the lady that everything goes wrong with. She gets all the symptoms, and she has a terrible meltdown at a conference. It was incredibly funny.

There is also a gang of boys in the movie which gets the dads ready for fatherhood. They walk in a park and gives advice, and share secrets about what they have done wrong with their children. I loved the scene where they walk and try and look cool.

I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone. In my book it gets a solid 4 out of 5 stars.

Here is a link to watch the trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=golwpEwgEWI

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlIp5COqqGM

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Movie Night

Saturday Night is Movie Night

I don’t know if other people have the same problem, so here goes.

At our house we have a lot of DVD’s and I mean a lot. We collected them over the years and every Saturday evening when there is nothing on television, as it usually happens we have a BIG fight about what to watch, since each one in the family has their favourites.

So a couple of months ago we came up with the brilliant idea. Each one picks two of the movies they really want to watch, write them on a piece of paper, throw them in a bowl, on shakes the bowl and draws the winning movie. This way no one can say they never get to watch their movies. Sometimes if we are in the mood on a Sunday we will draw another movie from the remaining ballots.

Our Ballots

This is what you look like when you don't win

And this is what you look like if you do



Excuse the washing lines, it was pouring outside and Saturdays are our washing days. What do you guys do when you can’t choose?

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Snow White and the Huntsman

Snow White and the Huntsman

So over the weekend I caved in and went to see Snow White and the Huntsman.

I thought it was great, my sister did not. I loved Kirsten Steward in this movie; it was as if the role was written for her. Charlize Theron was great as the evil queen. And of course her being an ex-South African also helps J

Kirsten's signature look

The evil Queen

The actors really pulled you into the movie; they submerged you into the story and made you want to help fight the evil queen, cry when one of the dwarves died.

The evil queen has a curse on her where she can stay young forever; all she needs to do is take the youth of young beautiful woman. She marries the Snow Whites father and kills him on their wedding night. She then makes it look like an attack on the castle, and hides Snow White in the dungeon. After the queen ‘takes’ another beautiful girls youth, she turns to her mirror and asks the age old question “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?” the mirror then replies that on this day there is one other who is fairest of them all, and that she will either be the queens downfall or the key to eternal youth.

Snow White then escapes after the queen’s brother goes to fetch her, she goes into the dark forest and the queen sends an expert of the Dark forest to get her.

The adventures in this movie is really capturing and definitely worth it.

And of course it helps that the Huntsman is super cute ;)

You can see the trailer here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgfYBJoPFFw

The last song that plays while the credits are rolling is from Florence and the Machine, Breath of life. It is one of the best songs, the tune plays in my head the whole time enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROtBbOcdFxo

Catch up

Catch up

I know I haven’t blogged in a long time, so here is a quick recap of what has been going on around here.

We went bowling a couple of Sundays ago (to be exact my dad’s birthday) At first I was really sceptical, our family do not do games very well, I could already picture my sister sulking, my dad mad as hell and me trying to keep everyone happy. Well my feeling was almost right. On Sundays this place has a special, instead of paying R40 you pay R25 on Sundays, but you need to buy two games. This works out great. Since the first one is more a warm up game, and getting the feel. Since this was our first time we played.

It was really entertaining, my dad loved it. He really got in the groove and thrashed us. I think it’s his new favourite past time.





My Dad proud after a strike





The people in the next lane took her ball





My mom is a good sport, she was way behind

And somehow, someone snapped one of me J

At our Bible study group we played the Bible Knowledge game. With this I realised I need to read my Bible from start to end. Luckily we had a guy on our team who really knew the Bible so at least we didn’t come last J

We are in the middle of one of the coldest winters Bloemfontein has seen in a while, and this morning we woke up to rain, and I don’t mean the drizzling kind. The raining-so-hard-getting-soaked-from-one-drop kind. I love rain. The only thing about the rainy weather is my leg is giving me trouble. I am not sure if it’s the weather or if I need to go see my doctor. Will give it another of couple of days

This is our part of our back garden, its all mud this morningJ

We also had a masked ball a couple of weeks ago. But that deserves a post of its own.

I am busy with a very nice book at the moment; it’s called A World without Heroes by Brandon Mull. It’s not one of my types of books that I usually read, a friend suggested it. And now I can’t put it down.

I wish you all a wonderful weekend

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Autumn Crayon Art

Crayon Art

I have finally finished something I saw on Pintrest, these crayon art has been really pretty and I really wanted to test it out, but just never got to it. So I pushed through and got myself some supplies. I wanted to make a Autumn canvas since we are in Winter here in South Africa.

I got a large square canvas for R54, a couple of boxes of crayons for about R14 a box and some glue sticks for my glue gun which was R20 for about 10.

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Some crayon packs

My trusty glue gun

Leave I decided on

Of course I had to atleast test if the crayons will actually melt, with my luck I would have bought the non melting type :)

testing

I then proceeded by glueing all the crayons onto my canvas, this was probably the only thing that really took some time. Since I had to decide how the colours would work best and had to fight with our puppy who wanted to play at that exact moment

All glued-up

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I then proceeded by glueing all the crayons onto my canvas, this was probably the only thing that really took some time. Since I had to decide how the colours would work best and had to fight with our puppy who wanted to play at that exact moment

I then traced the picture lightly onto the canvas and filled it with prestick. I used small pieces since I wasn't sure if the prestick would also melt. I then used my hairdryer on high heat and medium strenght blowing.

All melted with the little white prestick

 I then pulled off the prestick and used a permanent marker to colour in the picture

And the result is this beautiful autumn art

Finished product

The Book Thief

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

I have recently finished reading a wonderful book, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. When I first saw the book at our local book shop I didn’t like the cover, so I must admit I do judge a book by its cover. When everyone in Book club agreed to read this book at first I was very sceptical, thinking I won’t like it. Then I opened the book...

It is set during World War 2 in Nazi Germany; Markus Zusak novel is told by Death, he remembers one girl that stood out over the years. The then tells the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster child living in a small town outside of Munich. Liesel travels with her mother and brother to their new foster family. On the journey her brother dies and they bury him in a small town she doesn’t even know the name. She then steals her first book, the gravedigger’s handbook. She arrives on Himmel Street where she is handed to her new mother and father.

She has terrible nightmares about her brother, and wakes up screaming, Hans her foster father then comforts her in the nights by sitting with her until she falls asleep again. After a couple of nights he decides they might as well do something productive with the waking hours and he starts to teach her how to read using the gravedigger’s handbook. This starts her love for books, and she starts stealing books, the second book she steals is from a bon fire made by the Hitler Youth burning books that belonged to Jews.

She shares her books with her neighbours during bombing raids as well to a Jewish man, hiding in their basement. The book is a wonderful twist on the usual World War 2 books, by using Death as the Narrator. There are a couple of quotes from the book that I love.  

“So much good, so much evil. Just add water.”

“I am haunted by Humans”

This was one of my favourite books and just proofs; don’t judge a book by its cover.

Do yourself a favour, go read it, if you don’t want to buy the book yet, download the Ebook and read it

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Long Time No Blog

Long Long Time no Blog

Hey all, so I haven’t blogged in a long time so I have a lot to catch you guys up on my life, which surprise, surprise there isn’t that much to catch you up on.

Last week I was sick. I hate love autumn since this is when all the trees turn the prettiest shade of yellows, oranges and browns, our garden is a mess with all the leaves everywhere, since my mom hates raking it all up, it also serves as insulation for the plants in the winter time.

So my first month at the gym past and I lost 5kg! I know this isn’t that much but for me it is. It is just that one step closer to my goal weight. I must say the sessions at the gym aren’t getting any easier since it is resistance training. But I enjoy it.

Last week we went to see Pirates band of misfits. I loved it, the animation is done beautifully and the story line is also very good. I was really impressed that Hugh Grant stars in it. I always love all his movies.

The next movie I am looking out for is The Vow, Has anyone else seen it? The previews seem really good and I am a big Rachel McAdams fan so can’t wait. I should just remember a box of tissues. My friends and I went to watch the Notebook many years ago, we didn’t realise what the movie was really about and did not have any tissues between us. Needless to say we were a sight for sore eyes.

I am almost done with my current book The Book Thief, we are reading it for book club, and it is really good I will give you a complete review as soon as I am done. So far I can tell you one thing; this book is worth the read.

Last week at work we were switched to a new network and to my horror one of my favourite blogs is now blocked, I almost cried. I have read this blog since I discovered blogs, and love reading about this family. Check out http://www.itsgoodtobequeen.net/. Luckily most of my other favourites are still viewable at work. Or I might have died J would have been really funny if my own blog was blocked.

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