Movie Review: Black Swan

Last night Brett and I decided to go and check out a movie. We had both been wanting to see the Black Swan movie, and as it was cheap movie night we thought it would be the perfect way to spend a night before we both took off for Christmas.

The movie looked a little out there, but I love dancing, and the movie had gotten some really good reviews so I was really looking forward to seeing it.



I have to say that this is the worst movie I have ever seen. It is weird, creepy, and just messed up. The only good thing about it was about 5 minutes of the dancing, and the rest.... well lets just say it was not good.

Please save your money and go see another movie this holiday season. You will be thankful you did!

Christmas Card Time!

I was flipping through some of my favorite websites last week when I came across this photo.

The Kardashian family always does an extravagant Christmas card photo. This photo was the winning image for Christmas 2010. Personally, my favorite is Khloe in the pink dress in the middle.

If my family did Christmas cards like this, I might just get into the holiday spirit really fast!

Item of the Week #14

Now I know that Item of the Week is usually clothing, but for a bit we are going to be featuring house items as well...

Another discovery that I had at Welsh's was this mirror. I was afraid to look to see how much this mirror was, and if it wasn't so large, and my sister didn't live in the US, it would have probably been under the tree for her this year.

However, I do love this piece. I think it would look great in a bathroom (2 of them actually over double sinks) or in a hallway or foyer.

Natalie

Our other Checkers consignment this year is RJY Natalie. 

We purchased Natalie's dam from the Checker's sale in 2008. Natalie was the calf inside her at the time. She has turned out to be a really great bred heifer.

Natalie is out of the popular sire On Target, that has done some tremendous things for the Simmental breed. Although this is our only On Target daughter, you can see the influence this bull has had within the breed.

Natalie will sell as lot 50 in the Checkers sale on Saturday. The sale starts at 2:00PM. For more information check out our website or the Checkers cataloge.

Sexy Money

This weekend is the highly anticipated Checkers sale. Our family was part of this sale for the first 10 years, and are now making our return to the sale.

Each year there is some of the highest quality red and black Simmental cattle to sell all year available here. Checkers has come to be one of the premier events of the Simmental breed.

This year I am selling one of my own animals in the sale. SLY Sexy Money 119W sells as lot 49 this year.

Sexy Money is a red bred heifer. She is sired by our out cross herdsire Redman, and backed by the Ruffles cow family on the dams side.

For more details on this female please check out the farm's website

Oh The Italians

So I am a sucker for a good pizza. A few weeks ago we wanted to venture out to the newest pizza place in our area, Famoso.

 

Famoso is authentic Italian pizza. Each franchise owner goes to Naples to learn how to make pizza. These pizza's are to die for. They only come in 1 size, and there are so many different flavors to chose from. The best part, is they are actually pretty healthy for you!

The other night we decided to try the margarita pizza. Not only did it taste amazing, but it was only $11! I can say that this may become one of my new guilty pleasures.

Festival of Trees

A few weeks ago my good friend Shaun and I headed out to the Festival of Trees. The Festival of Trees is put on by the University Hospital Foundation. Each year they raise over a million dollars to put into medical care and research.

I have not been to the Festival since we were little kids. Since I am trying to get more into the Christmas Spirit this year, I thought it would be a really fun idea to go. There are lots of really neat Christmas displays.

 

This table was one of my favorites. It was a table made out of slabs of wood, but then beautifully decorated for the wintertime.

There was also a Gingerbread House competition, and cake competition. These are a few of my favorites that were there.

And finally there were amazing Christmas trees! You could buy some of them to take home after the festival. Most of them were $300-$500 to buy. I loved the ones that were a little bit out of the ordinary.

This one had a present on the top

This was a super cool tree shaped as a dress!