What a success! Our 11 months of hard work paid off this past weekend at the first annual Women Walking with God Conference. Around 650 women from 10+ states came to Wichita for the two-day conference. Grandma Betty and her friend Teresa Martin came down from Topeka. The speakers were so talented – we all [...]
Charlie Chaplin was born this day in 1889. I grew up watching his films at Grandma Betty’s house and fell in love with Modern Times (1936). This truly is one of the best comedies of all time! I won’t write a review, but I will share some of my favorite scenes. I thought it was [...]
On Saturday we went to see the traveling Titanic Exhibit at Exploration Place. When we purchased our admission we were given boarding passes of actual Titanic passengers. Ryan was Mr. Paul Edvin Andreasson, a 20-year old from Smaland, Sweden. He was a 3rd class passenger traveling to Chicago. The boarding pass read “Paul was traveling [...]
About a month ago, I was reading the news and came across an article about a movie version of the hit broadway musical, Mamma Mia!, and I decided to send an e-mail to Dad, Sean, and Sam about it: I just read in this morning’s IMDb news that they are working on a film version [...]
Last weekend my family went to see Night at the Museum. We liked the movie and thought it was cute. The movie became real to us tonight when we were looking at photos of Ryan’s mom Julie’s trip to NYC. She and Sean visited the Natural History Museum and had taken pictures of things that [...]
Samantha and I braved opening night and saw Casino Royale tonight. We’re both fans of the Bond series, and while we had our doubts about Daniel Craig as the new Bond, we’d heard great things from critics AND fans (that never happens!). I knew things were different from the outset–the film starts out in a [...]
I don’t fancy myself much of a TV critic, but I watched the pilot episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip tonight on TiVo and I thought I’d share my opinions.Studio 60 is the newest drama from the production team that put together The West Wing. Since I was a long time fan (though [...]