root canal tuesday

I'm obsessed with this book I'm reading, so I have to make this post fast so I can get back to it. FYI- it's "The Help." Love it love it love it.

Okay so I went to the dentist today because a week ago I got a couple fillings and they have caused me occasional bouts of excruciating pain since that great and dreadful day. The dentist, who is hilarious and mysteriously very tan, made me a bet as I settled into that great and dreadful dentist chair that I would need a root canal. After he checked out some x-rays he shouted Hooray- he won the bet. Then he pulled on his powdered rubber gloves, and revved up the drill. Um what? Dr. Pinnegar, you can't be serious, you want to give me a root canal right NOW? "Yes sirree let's send those wimpy tooth nerves to nerve heaven." I must have been so in shock that he called my tooth nerves wimpy that I let him do it. So, today I got my first root canal. And a large prescription of Loratab.

I got PUNKED at work! Check it out

We had a work party (holiday themed) just a couple weeks ago.... Check out me winning a 27' screen MAC!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfSENy-xyok


It's on Youtube and you HAVE to see it. Punked me SO bad! Aubrey thought I looked like an idiot!

freezing stuff

I'm pretty excited right now. I made some delicious vegetarian chili about 2 weeks ago and had a TON leftover. Generally in this situation I would throw out the leftovers because I HATE leftovers, which is very wasteful and selfish of me because all those starving children in Africa could have eaten my very delicious leftovers, and given the option I would be glad to send it to them if I had an address to send it to, but the fact is I don't, so that means mr. trash can gets to eat my delicious leftovers and geez, he probably doesn't even appreciate them as much as someone with a stomach and tastebuds would. Anyway, the point is 2 weeks ago, after I realized I had enough leftover chili to feed a family of 4 for a week, I thought twice about my wasteful habits and decided to freeze it. For the first time in my life, I froze my leftovers. So then today, after a long day at school I came home and skeptically pulled those delicious leftovers out of the freezer, popped them in the microwave for a few minutes, and hallelujah! They are delicious! I would go so far to say they are even more delicious than 2 weeks ago. What a beautiful discovery that will save the Hartmans much future time and money. My mother would be so proud.

so great.

I seriously love this show SO much, I had to write a blog about it. It's ridiculously fun watching him consume a weeks worth of calories in just one sitting. Burgers, pizzas, cold cut sandwiches, milkshakes, chili dogs, ribs, pancakes, burritos, spicy chicken wings, fried chicken, fish sandwiches... its all so nastily delicious. Watching it makes me hungry for everything unhealthy in the world. It is so strangely satisfying for me to sit here on my couch, starving from this torturous crash diet, living vicariously through Adam as he conquers 10,000 calories of fried food. As we speak I am watching a marathon of episodes I have saved on our tivo...I gotta go text Hunter to bring me home something fried and greasy. Yum.

Hunter's celebrity twin

I mean am I totally wrong here? Or do you see it?

our movies 2009

Hunter and I watch a lot of movies. I mean A LOT. One of our favorite things to do is go to the movie theater across the street (in the summer time we walk), fill up our refillable High School Musical popcorn bucket for $1, and kick back and escape into the big screen for a couple hours. Afterward we always love to discuss everything about the movie for the rest of the night, what we loved and hated about it, and give it a score 1-10. In 2009 we sometimes went to the theater so often that upon looking up show-times in hopes of hitting the movies, there was none we hadn't yet seen. So are you getting the picture here? We love movies.

Something fun that my uncle B. does every January is send out a list of his top 10 movies of the previous year. Hunter and I decided to do the same this year! So here are our Top 10 Movies of 2009 Lists. Keep in mind that we don't watch R-rated movies (unless on our wonderful clearplay) so these are probably considered incomplete in the REAL film world, but we thoroughly enjoy the film industry without the ever-increasingly-shmucky movies.

Aubrey's List
10. The Proposal- I mean it's no Oscar-winner or whatever, but it was a sincerely entertaining chick-flick that didn't bug the heck out of me. That's an accomplishment.
9. State of Play- We actually didn't even know about this movie until we randomly checked it out in Redbox. The plot line feels familiar (not totally unique) but the acting was great and Ben Affleck is in it, who is Hunter's celebrity twin.
8. Hannah Montana the Movie- Hahaha. Okay I sincerely love this movie. Stop judging me. "Caterpillar in the tree, oh I wonder what you'll be..." Yeah also my Beehives and I performed the Ho-Down Throw-Down for our ward talent show, so I know that entire dance.
7. Sherlock Holmes- Quick, witty, and Jude Law. Amen.
6. The Princess and the Frog- IT'S A NEW DISNEY PRINCESS!
5. Taken- I love a movie where the protaganist is always a step ahead.
4. The Blind Side- Sandra made it into my list twice! Love her.
3. Easy Virtue- The costuming, the cinematography, the smart, witty, confident, fabulous leading female. I watched this movie 3 times in 2 days. Yum.
2. Avatar- This is the #1 grossing film in the history of movies. I scoffed at every preview and ended up being sucked into watching this with my family over break. During the movie I was so enthralled that after drinking 44 oz of Mr. Pibb, I literally could not last another second without a restroom break and literally lept over a metal railing, sprinted to the restroom, and sprinted back as to not miss a second of my adventure to the land of the Na-vi.
1. Bright Star- The life of my favorite poet John Keats. A beautiful, beautiful, beautiful movie. Just so beautiful in every way.

Hunter's List
10. The Proposal- I sincerely enjoyed this comedy. If you haven't seen it check it out.
9. Sherlock Holmes- Robert Downey Jr. is great in this movie, I loved the story. One of those movies you'll have to see more than once to catch it all. LOVE the music
8. Ice Age- Dawn of the Dinosaurs- Could not believe how much I liked this movie. Def the best of the three ICe Ages
7. Taken- suspenseful intense movie
6. State of Play- Clever, had me on the end of my seat the whole movie
5. The Princess and the Frog- Great Disney movie. Impressed with the storyline and LOVED the firefly Ray
4. UP- Great Pixar production
3. Avatar- Didn't have any interest in this movie until I saw it and flew through 2 1/2 hours. Story, production, directing all were great
2. The Blindside- I had to fight to not put this at number one. Maybe because of my love of sports maybe because it's a true story, maybe because Sandra Bullock was AMAZING .
1. Everybody's Fine- VERY REAL movie. I thought the acting was phenomenal and I thought the story line seemed very real. Felt for a few minutes that I had actually seen into someone else's life. If you haven't seen it, check it out.

So there you have it. A look into the movie taste of a&h. Let us know if you love/hate any of the movies we listed, we are always interested in having a great discussion about film.

Council conference 2010

The Evans family reunion has officially gone from stale to stellar!!! The last three years we haven't done anything big, just roamed from various homes in Northern Virginia eating jell-o and playing the Evans family Olympics. Little did I know, all this time they were saving pennies in a jar to rent THIS mamma-jamma!

The only question is, how-ever will they decide who gets to sleep in THIS pretty little room? Hmmm?