What I'm doing for Christmas

I'm so excited for the Christmas season! I've probably been listening to Christmas music for about two months now. The same C.D. over and over again. I'm also starting to watch Christmas movies. I've already taken out all the decorations for Christmas and lit up the tree. We usually bake a birthday cake for Jesus...and eat it for Him. My Aunt is coming over to our house from L.A. to celebrate with us too. We may also have a man over who is an Afghan who works for the U.S. military over as well.

I've also been helping out at my church a lot with children's day care why their parents are in church. Last Sunday, I asked the kids what was most important about Christmas and what it was all about. And, of course, every single kid's answer was: PRESENTS! I asked what else besides presents, hoping that at least one would say Jesus. But instead I got : SANTA! And one kid actually said," Watching
Elf "! A couple days after Christmas, my family and I are heading up to San Francisco to see my Aunt and Uncle. Were also going to visit my Grandma and Grandpa. I am so excited for Christmas, and the food.

What I did over Thanksgiving...

Over Thanksgiving, I had family and friends come down to celebrate with us. Besides my Mom,Dad, Brother, and I, we invited thirteen other people over. Most of these people were either Chaplains, or Chaplain wives. A couple of the women who came over had their husbands deployed in Afghanistan and had no where else to go. The food was great because everyone brought a couple dishes, so there was a lot of variety. Later on that night, after all the guests had left, my cousins came to our house and slept over. My nine year old cousin and I pretty much just laid on the bed, and watched Psych, for hours. All while eating pie, of course!

The next day, my family and my other cousin  went to see Ender's Game. I wanted to see it too, but I really wanted to hang out with my little cousin, so I went to her cheer practice instead. Worst mistake ever. She didn't want to see the movie because she didn't want to see anything scary. I t was freezing in the gym, and I was the only person visiting so I was all alone, for two hours, with nothing to do. When her cheer practice ended, we drove back to my cousin's house where my brother and my other cousin joined us. Then we all drove to Panera Bread for dinner. From there, we walked until we got to the Apple Store. According to my cousins, they usually give out a bunch of free stuff like notepads, pens, magnets, things like that. But we were to late, so we went  to a couple other stores and left. The rest of my break was pretty lazy. I just watched Psych, ate, and did home work.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

A couple of years ago, I started reading this really good book called, The Invention of Hugo Cabret. It's about an orphan boy who is a clock keeper as well as a thief, who lives in the walls of a Parisian train station, where he steals to survive.One day he is caught by a bitter old man at the toy booth of the train station, who discovers his secrets.A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, and a hidden message from Hugo's dead father, form a wonderful story, worth reading.But of course, the movies not that great. It could have been worse, but I didn't like it at all, and the kid who played Hugo, kind of creeped me out. As usual, the book was better, but the movie wasn't horrible.I did like how they added  a few scenes though. In the book, it will talk about a mean character, for instance, the inspector. But in the movie, it explains why he's so mean, and they elaborate his back ground, as well as many other characters and scenes.

The Tail of Despereaux, Beautiful Creatures, Percy Jackson

I love reading books, and then watching movies based on that book, but the thing that bothers me the most is when the two are really different. They say that the book is usually better than the movie, but occasionally, they're pretty much the same. Personally, I like when the book and movie are the same. One of the movies that I have seen that I didn't like even though I liked the book, was The Tail of Despereaux. I remember listening to that book, as well as loving it when I was a little kid. Years later a movie based on that book came out and I was so excited to see! The beginning was okay, but I didn't like the rest of it at all. There were things in the movie that weren't even remotely similar to the book, as well as some things that were completely made up and were not even in the movie. Another book that wasn't like it's movie was Beautiful Creatures. I had seen the movie while on a plane, and i thought it was pretty good. That is, until I read the books. They were very different and had a lot of missing characters in the movie that I wish would have been included. The first two books of the Percy Jackson  series were made into movies. I  loved the books, but the movies were horrible. Actually, the movies wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't read the books because they're so much better. They missed key scenes and replaced them with scenes that had one thing similar and everything else different. I get that movies can't fit all the information, but the first movie was pretty much nothing like the book.