The Oscars

I love the Oscars. I love the Red Carpet. I love all that star power in one room. And I love... Oscar parties.

Each year I try to see a majority of the movies that have been nominated so I can have an opinion on what I want to win on Oscar night... and I hope you don't all judge me when I say that I like to print out ballots for whoever watches the Oscars with me to make things more fun and interesting. It's a tradition in my family!

This weekend Kevin and I saw The Fighter on Friday night and The Kings Speech on Sunday night.

I'm sorry... but The Fighter kicked The Kings Speech's butt.

Both were awesome movies... and I'm sure The Kings Speech will clean up on Oscar night, butttt in my humble opinion The Fighter was better.

Here is a full list for the categories and their nominations. I've seen 6 of the 10 movies nominated for Best Picture (side note: Black Swan scarred me for life. It was AWFUL). The only movie that I haven't seen yet that I would like to see before the Oscars is True Grit... luckily I have time to get back to the movie theater.

Anyway, print out the list above. Mark your favorites and ones that you think will win.

Example: my favorite movie for this year - The Fighter. The movie I think will win: The Kings Speech.

It's fun! I promise.

WILEY

Kevin and I have been toying with the idea of getting a dog since the day I moved out to San Diego. We both love dogs but it seemed like there were a million reasons not go through with it... Who would watch him when we wanted to go back home? Would I be able to handle him alone while Kevin is deployed? Would we be able to handle the financial responsibility and time commitment that a dog required? We continuously weighed the pros and cons but could never talk ourselves out of getting one completely.
One Saturday morning back in early November we got up early and decided to grab a coffee and go for a walk on the beach. We had walked about a half mile down the beach when we started to see a bunch of dogs running around. We discovered that there was this incredible dog beach and these dogs were just having a blast running around, playing with each other, and swimming in the ocean. We hung out there for a little and watched the dogs play and on our walk back we just knew that we had to get one of our own to bring to this beach. I mean... we live so closely to it... it seemed silly NOT to get a dog.
We knew exactly what kind we wanted - a Wheaten Terrier - I needed a hypoallergenic dog and Kevin refused to get a little girly dog... it was the perfect breed for us.
We met with a breeder shortly after and were told we could pick up our puppy right after Christmas. The day we got back from being home in New York (and stuck in JFK for 2 days) we drove up to pick up our puppy. The name we ended up choosing was Wiley... actually, his full name is Bob Wiley after my favorite movie of ALL TIME... What About Bob?
Wiley is such an awesome puppy. He's so much fun and brings so much life to our home. Here are some pictures of the little guy...

Wiley after his first walk in the rain



Oh yea, sorry for deleting the blog. I had no idea so many people enjoyed reading it. I promise I won't do it again!