Losing LOST

This blog post is dedicated to LOST. If you don't like the show or you have never seen it, this entire post will mean nothing to you.

So, I'm going through withdrawals now that it's over for the season. Can you believe it's not coming back until JANUARY??? I don't know if I can last that long. I kind of wish I had waited to watch this show until it was all done, and then I could have just watched the entire show in one sitting. Well, I would have to get up for food, and sleep once in a while, but it could be done. In fact, that is what I did for the first 2 seasons (well, not exactly that, but it was close). Garrett and I were introduced to LOST when Mike bought the first season on DVD on a whim, and we borrowed it from him and we were hooked. We watched it with Emma and John and we would watch like 3 or 4 episodes at a time. And I remember being so glad that we had waited for the DVDs and we didn't have to wait a week between each cliffhanging episode! So that was fun. But this season has been rough. It's been my first season to watch it "Live", and I must say that it's hard to wait each week. But it's fun to be on the same page as everyone else in the world.

So... that twist at the end where the flashback was actually a flash forward was SO cool! I am glad to know that they get off the island. Well, at least Kate and Jack do. Who knows who else does. Maybe they made a deal? Maybe that's why Jack is so depressed, because he feels guilty? And why are Kate and Jack not together?? And can they change the future? Because it makes me sad that Jack's life is so crummy once he leaves the island. Kinda makes me hope he doesn't leave it, now. The creators of lost have said that the show will end in 2010, so there are 3 more seasons. But at the end of this season, they were in contact with someone who was supposedly coming to rescue them. Will they really leave the island, or will some of them leave? I do hope that we will see some more of their lives post-island. I would like to see their homecomings and how they try to get back to normal life. I'm sure they won't have them leaving the island yet, but I do hope they will do it eventually and let us see all that. Or at least show it in some more flash-forwards. And who was in the casket?? Online I saw a close-up of that newspaper article that Jack had, and it looked like the person is a man, and from New York, and the named started with J. John Locke? James Sawyer? Hmm... a mystery. One that I was not happy with.

And Charlie. I will miss him! I have liked him since the beginning and I am very sad to see him go. I was really hoping Desmond would die instead, just because I like Charlie more, but I guess it wasn't meant to be. Too bad for Evangeline Lilly (the actress who plays Kate). She and Dominic Monaghan (Charlie) are dating in real life. Oh, and I am getting sick of Locke. I was kinda hoping he was dead. He's been getting on my nerves this season. But I'm really happy that so many of the Others are now gone.

Ok, that's my LOST blog. Let me know your guesses and ideas for what is to come! Woot woot!

Splish Splash!

We are having a great time in Savannah so far, and we are staying very busy! Mom and Dad Woodbury are in the middle of several home improvement projects that Garrett and I have been helping with. I have been busy priming and painting wood for a new fence, and Garrett has been taking apart the deck so they can put a new one down. It's been hot and humid, but we're surviving. Unfortunately, I can only paint when Abby is down for a nap, which is usually anywhere from noon to 4, the hottest part of the day, but that's ok. We just want to get it all done before the heat gets unbearable.

We took Abby in the pool today and she really seemed to like it! She was so cute with her little hat. Garrett's mom bought her some sunglasses too but we can't find them anywhere! We'll have to take some pictures with those once we find them.

So summer has kicked off and we're staying busy and having fun.

Summer begins!

I can't believe Melinda got voted off American Idol! I knew I should have voted. I really wanted it to come between her and Blake in the final, and then I wanted her to win. I'm not really a fan of Jordan... but whatever. And, speaking of TV shows, LOST is being absolutely crazy. I can't wait until the season finale next week. I hear there are some deaths, and *SPOILER ALERT* I also hear that certain people we may think are dead really aren't (which I'm not too excited about, but whatev).

We have been busy since Garrett finished school on Monday. Yes, we have been sleeping in, which has been great, but we've also been getting a lot done once we get up! Yesterday we took a trip to Lowe's and bought some shelves for Abby's room to put her stuffed animals in. They used to be at the bottom of her crib but she just started scooting all around in it, so we wanted to get them out of the way. We also got some fertilizer and grass seed for some bare spots in the front yard. Then we had a BBQ with some friends for dinner, which was fun! Then today we spent a few hours in the front lawn. The previous owners of the house cut down a big tree in front but they left the stump and the grass all around it is dead. The stump is also pretty dried out and dead, so Garrett chopped a lot of it out with a pick-axe. It was so hot out but we survived... hopefully Garrett's back won't give him too much trouble tomorrow. And then tomorrow we plan to repaint the office and get our passports, which alone could take the entire day. That'll cost a nice $300 because we have to get them expidited... but hey, it means we're going to Mexico, right?

My apologies...

Wow, so I am really bad about this whole blogging thing! I promise I will be better in the future. At least 2 a week, how does that sound? And hopefully that will be my minimum.

So yeah, after reading Emma's blog you can see that we had a GREAT time while I was out in Utah. It was so fun to see everyone and spend time with the fam! And it was especially exciting for Mom and Dad to spend time with the babies. Dad calls me now and asks how Abby is doing, so that's fun. They are so excited to see her again! Anyway, Utah was busy and awesome. I had all-you-can-eat sushi, watched Grey's Anatomy, hung out with family and friends, went to graduation, played with Franklin, got my hair highlighted, played with Christopher, annoyed John, went shopping, etc... all the things I had planned on doing! Thank goodness Abby is such a good little traveler. And what made it even nicer is that on my flight from SLC to Atlanta, I got to sit next to an empty seat, so Abby was in her carseat the whole flight! That was so relaxing, and she slept most of the time. So, it was very nice to be out there and have a little vacation. Although, if anyone in this house needs a vacation it's Garrett. But don't worry! His LAST test is tomorrow (Monday) and then he is DONE FOR THE SUMMER!!! And boy do we have plans for the summer...

This week we will be busy getting stuff done around the house and yard. We want to put some lattice down around the bottom of our deck (so you can't see underneath it), take out the massive stump in the backyard, get rid of the dilapidated swing set left by the previous owners (I had thought to keep it, but upon further inspection declaired it un-playable and unsafe), get a new mailbox (our mailman says ours is too low), mulch around some trees, perhaps, and I'm sure we'll find some other things to do. We also have to get our GA drivers licenses (we were supposed to do that within 30 days of moving here, oops). So yeah, we hope to do all that this week before we head to Savannah this weekend. Garrett is going to be working for his dad again this summer, when he can. As time goes on the summer keeps getting more and more packed with plans, so I'm not really sure how much working will actually go on. Oh, and we were also going to go to the aquarium in Atlanta this week... we've both been wanting to go and it's the biggest aquarium in the world! But then I was looking online and it costs $25 a person! So, we're going to save that trip for another time. Sometime this summer I want to go to a Braves game (ideally we'd go when they play the Red Sox, but that's the same week we will be at Tybee Island).

Oh and another thing I have to do ASAP is get some passports for Abby and myself because we are going to Mexico in July! It's going to be a girls' vacation (Garrett's mom and sisters and me) while the hubbies are out in southern UT on their annual dirtbike trip. I am excited! I've only ever left the country once before, to go to Canada, and it was fun but not all that exciting. All of a sudden Garrett's mom seems to be on this kick about going on family vacations and exotic trips. It's kind of funny that she wants to do it now, now that we have a baby and traveling is just such a hassle. But hey, I'm not about to complain. And in all honesty, Abby is just so fun and she's such a good baby that I'm not worried about it at all. We're going to Mazatlan... it's on the western coast of Mexico and we'll be staying at a resort there.

Also in July we are hopefully going up to Pennsylvania for a short week, and up to Palmyra to see the pageant and see my grandparents (my Grandpa is the president of the Palmyra Temple). I am SO excited for this trip, too! I LOVE Palmyra and I love my parents' place in PA, so it should be a great trip. I am excited to have Garrett visit Palmyra; he's never been there before. Although, I know he would enjoy the trip MUCH more if John was going to be there, Emma.... see what you can do!

Well, it's Mother's Day and it was been very relaxing. At church I got a little pot of marygolds, which was nice (but to be honest, I think marygolds smell like garbage). Abby was kind of fussy when we got home from Church but I put her down for a nap around 2:30 and she just woke up at 6:45... yeah, she loves to sleep. So it was a nice afternoon of reading and just hanging out with Garrett, who is studying for his last test. So... that's pretty much it right now. It's gotten really hot here but we haven't turned on the A/C yet... we're holding out until it's impossible. It's a game we like to play. A poor person's game, actually. Gotta love it! :)