Three years of Feelin' Good

Birds flying high You know how I feelSun in the sky You know how I feel

Reeds driftin' on by You know how I feelIt's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life For me..And I'm feeling good Fish in the sea You know how I feel River running free You know how I feelBlossom in the trees You know how I feel
It's a new dawn

It's a new day It's a new life For me... And I'm feeling good
Dragonfly out in the sun You know what I mean, don't you know
Butterflies all out having fun You know what I mean Sleep in peace When, the this day is doneAnd this old world Is a new world And a bold world For me...
Stars when you shine You know how I feelScent of the pine You know how I feel yeah,
freedom is mine When you know how I feel It's a new dawn

It's a new day

It's a new life For me...free, free loving you...

Feeling good

Lyrics by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse

Redone beautifully by MUSE

Tomorrow we are off to Flagstaff for his graduation. Sigh.

homemade birthday gifts

Whenever a birthday rolls around I try and think of a gift I could make for them, rather than buy. On Saturday it was my nieces birthday and she loves to draw and she wanted a "Diamond Party". None of really knew what that meant, but this is what I came up with. I thought it turned out pretty cute. The rinstones on the colored pencils was actually an idea I saw on Etsy. Got to love Etsy.


Now she can carry her colors where ever she goes. It closes with a snap, I realized that is hard to see in the pictures.

Wolverine

My brother and sister went and waited in line almost all day and night to get tickets for the premiere of Wolverine that they were having in Tempe. Each person got 2 tickets and I think they were like #10 in line. Anyway Connie gave me the other ticket so I got to go with her. She came over before hand to do my hair. Doesn't it look great.

And Connie just looked lovely. Once we got to the theater we met up with our brothers Eric and Ryan then got our wrist bands. We walked around forever trying to figure out where to go. No one knew anything - that was kinda frustrating. Here we are walking in the massive crowd.

Here we are dressed up for the show. We didn't get there early enough to get close to the stage and see the stars arrive. But we were able to get close to the red carpet and watch as they made their way down to the theater. While waiting for the stars I started taking some photos after the first picture I glanced down at the camera to look at the picture and became extremely confused and thought, "what is going on with my hair?" Then I realized it was the poster behind me. We all laughed for some time over that. Then we took another photo this time it is Mimi's hair.
Here are the stars I saw, or took pictures of as they walked down the red carpet. To see more you can go to Connie's blog.

Here is Alice Cooper
Ryan Reynolds was the first star to make it down the red carpet.
Mimi pointed out how it looks like the woman in the picture is crying, I think she is just sad to watch him walk on by.

The Director Gavin Hood (above)


Liev Schreiber who plays Sabretooth came by and was very nice, I even got him to sign Connie's little note pad.

Here is Hugh coming down the carpet..see how he was surrounded by people

Going down the red carpet
And he was gone...

I did a lot of walking without my shoes because although they do not hurt, I can't walk very fast in them. By the end of the night my feet were disgusting.



I really enjoyed the movie - I think I liked it better than the X-Men movies. On Connie's blog she puts songs on to go along with her posts. When I went to her blog and heard the X-Men cartoon theme song play I got all sorts of nostalgic. I was taken back to Saturday mornings on my childhood living room floor. The younger half of my family would watch it together and we each has our own characters.

Ryan was Wolverine - Mark was Beast - Connie was Storm - I was Rouge - Eric was Cyclopes and on commercial breaks we would have wrestling matches. I always won:)

If you want to see more pictures and hear the music, you should go to Connie's blog.