Books and Projects

Hey guys...I have been reading some more...I guess I really just don't seem to stop. First let me tell you guys that I added a few little things to our blog...I know a few people who actually look at our blog and our book reviews so I figured I would make it easy for people to buy them if they wanted. Anyway...that is what all this crazy advertizage stuff is. Without further ado...

A week or so ago I read the 3rd installment in the Robert Langdon Trilogy. The Lost Symbol was just as exciting as the first two books. I haven't read a book like this in a long time...so to say that I felt like I was being chased or should be chasing something for about a week would be putting my feelings mildly. So. The Lost Symbol is another loosely "religious" based book where Langdon is forced to look inside his beliefs of whether or not there is a higher power out there. Of course the Masons are involved...there is a crazy bad guy...and I mean this literally. I am terrified to see what this guy will look like in the movie. And more importantly there is a girl for Langdon to be almost sweet on.

It takes place in DC. So like the other two books you will be wanting to take a detailed tour all over Washington when you are through with it. I highly recommend it like I do his other books. Enjoy!

After that I read Time Traveler's Wife, a) because Danni recommended it and b) because I wanted to read it before I saw the movie...I will let you guys look at her review...but basically you will WANT to read this. I cried. I laughed. And it was perfect.

Lastly, I read Metro Girl. This is another title by Janet Evanovich and basically I have decided that she is my favorite author. If I were to have been reading this book outloud...I would have embarrassed myself. Seriously. I can't tell you how many times I laughed out loud. Enough to make Maddi jump in my arms every five minutes.

Metro Girl is about "Barney" a fake blonde from up north who is going to go search for her "missing" brother in Florida. Barney was raised in a garage and watching NASCAR with her family...so when she gets to Florida she is surprised to find out that a big hunky NASCAR driver is also looking for her brother because brother, Wild Bill, stole his boat. The story moves on from there with funny twists and turns. There are great sidekick characters that had me rolling and the bad guys were fantastic. I can't say enough about this book. If you like Stephanie Plum you will love Barney too. There is a companion book to this that I want called Motor Mouth and I will let y'all know when that is read as well. Ok then. That's all for now. Miss you girls....and here's the link as well :)

Ketchup :)

ello ladies! so this is just a hi howareya! and i have been reading a few titles that y'all have suggested. just a few titles that i have enjoyed lately...well the 4th Vamp Acad book came out and it was fantastic...danni is now reading those, and soon i will be sending them out to val...kris if you are interested...steal them from her :)...val was also amazing enough to send me the Lovely Bones and Baby Proof...very good if y'all haven't read them yet (danni, kris, and kellianne)......and danni gave me this book

it's called Lovehamptons...and it was cute and fun and i really liked it. it's about a woman who goes through a 2 year funk after her boyfriend surprisingly dumps her...and her closest friends have an intervention and set her up in a singles house in the Hamptons that she goes to every weekend of that summer. she also gets made over by a reality tv show...and really it's just fun. read it.

k the next book i read was Naughty Neighbor, by Janet Evanovich. Also fun...short...it took me 3 hrs to read it. And since I know how much y'all like stephanie plum (or atleast i do) y'all would enjoy this too!! the funny woman character .........(going off on a minor tangent.....i can't remember the characters names for any of these books...at all! i'm ashamed, but i have been breezing through books left and right and all i can remember is plot lines. sorry. kthxbi).........as i was saying the funny woman character shares a duplex like place in d.c. with a man she has never met...yet each are annoyed witheachother because of what they hear through eachothers walls. well when they finally come face to face there is obvious attraction that they keep hidden...i'm sure you know where this story is going...anyway, she works for a congressman and is fired when they think she keeps company with this man....the man who has uncovered some secret that a few politician are trying to cover up....so yeah, it's about them figuring out what is being kept hidden behind the curtain.

lastly the Shack. great book. covers alot of ground over how Christians view the trinity. it's more than that...i don't know really how to explain it without either taking it lightly or not doing it justice....and so you know, it's a fictional story...it isn't a "how to be a christian" book...it has scandal, sorrow, fellowship....ya know what...just go buy it.

so yeah i was trying to read another story but i think i'm just going to go back to new moon. :/

A new Vampire series

yo-ho! (said in a pirat-ey tone) I have read more books...it's amazing what breast feeding gives you time to do (yes it just typed that out loud). anyway i finished that other charlaine harris series (which is great (and what's with all of my words in parenthesis?)). anyway...here is another series. yes it involves vampires...and yes the covers of the book look like some cheesy teenage romance...(which it kind of is) but it is way good!! one of my pitcher's mom's gave me the book and i just ran with it...reading each in a day or two.

Anyway let me give you the rundown. Rose is the main character. She is snarky, sarcastic, and kind of a badass (i'm assuming only week look at this site b/c i just cussed and i don't want to offend others...but really its the only way to describe rose (i really did try to think of another word)). k so she is a guardian in training and in real life for her bff who is a vampire princess...there is really more to it than that but it takes a fourth of a book to explain it...so i would rather y'all read it for yourself. so yeah...i have the books. danni has the 1st but i may steal it back to send to val...and whatnot b/c i gave danni a grip of books that she can read instead :)

Vamp Academy is book 1. Frostbite book 2. Shadow Kiss is 3 and...the 4th comes out in 14 days (i'm excited (really))!

Grave Sight

omigosh...so i read this book...

really, an actual book with pages binded together...it wasn't on a computer screen and it didn't have pictures like all the books i read to Jaxon. so yeah. this book is called GRAVE SIGHT. it is by the beloved Charlaine Harris, who also writes the A-mazing True Blood Series. And this is just as fun.

So here's the dish...Harper Connelly was struck by lightning when she was younger and was given a gift...or a curse, however you figure. Anyway, she can sense when she is around a dead corpse...and not only can she sense that but she can also see their last moments of life. She has turned her gift into her job, and basically people call on her to find missing bodies...or to see maybe what had killed a person.

of course it's not so simple...people think she's evil, or a freak...and it seems like these are all going to be the murder mystery type. It's fun, cute, quirky. i read this book in 2 days...yes i am a stay at home mom who does practically nothing...but still. easy reads, and totally fun. pick it up. i already started book 2, grave surprise...

i love how sometimes i decide to capitalize and other times i don't...it happens when i constantly email and text from a phone instead of this keyboard. anyway, love you guys and miss you. BCB fa life!

I'm Finally Done

Yes it has been 4 entire months but I am finally done with all 16 books of the Stephanie Plum series. I have no idea how JD possibly finished all these books in just a few weeks (or was it one week?). I have no clue either way. I do have to say, I really liked the way things are going but I wish Stephanie would make up her damn mind already. If you read the in-between series there is another hunk that comes into play, as if hot Morelli and super sexy Ranger isn't enough. Yikes!!! there's just to many options. 

Any way these are the books that have been on my night stand for the last 4 months. I think I should get some kind of reward for powering through and finishing them. But then JD should get a gold star for finishing them so quickly. So what's on ya'lls night stands? Anything worth reading? What to expect when expecting, (I hope :)  is being read by Danny and maybe what to expect when expecting part 2! I can't wait for the new babies!!!! 

Miss and love you guys!!!!

If You Give A Mouse A Cookie

Yes, I am recommending a children's book. I love this children's book and one of my friends just gave it to little Jolee along with a couple of cute outfits. So naturally, I sat in Bryan's lap last night and read it to him and Jolee since she can hear us now. And technically this is the first book she has ever had read to her.

Nicholas Sparks by far is one of the best authors for romance; his love stories are phenomenal and also heart wrenching. Again and again I find myself crying my eyes out after reading his novels. They're so amazing and so real because they leave you with real life situations that otherwise would not be thought about. I just got done with his novel The Choice and boy was it a good one! The main character Travis Parker has everything a man could want; a good job, loyal friends a great home in a small town and good surroundings. He doesn't have any real need in being in a relationship because he thinks it may cramp his lifestyle. This is until he meets his new neighbor, Gabby, a red head who is aggravated by Travis' free lifestyle. Needless to say an amazing love begins to unfold which leads them to some important choices that need to be made. Quite frankly Travis is the man of my dreams. He's adventurous, athletic and loves the outdoors and apparently he's hot too, that alone should get you to read this great book. Definitely a great love story like all of Sparks' others.