Eat, Pray, Love Review

My sister asked me how I was liking Eat, Pray, Love because she didn't like it and had to put it down. I just finished it and I must say that I loved it! I admit, there is a bit of language - a bit at the beginning and a bit at the end - but it didn't bother me because it wasn't a lot. I think what I liked about the book was that I could totally put myself in the author's shoes. (It's sort of an autobiography.) The author starts out miserable and wants out of her marriage (not where I relate) and ends up going on an amazing year long journey to find herself and to find God. She doesn't find God in the traditional sense that we in Utah are accustomed to, but she finds what she needs and I can relate to it. So many times I found myself laughing out loud in bed at 1 am because of some thought the author had and I was going "Oh my heck! I've thought that same thing but it sounds SO funny reading it!" I really didn't want the book to end and now I'm curious as to how the ending really ended (not giving it away). So, now I am going to wait for my mom to read the book & then I'm going to make her go see the movie with me!

Speaking of books gone movie: Trav rented Percy Jackson for me to watch last night. I really liked it, but I was disappointed at what they chose to leave out of the movie. I'm not sure how they'll go about doing a movie for #2 now. Guess we'll have to wait and see. My mother in law did finally finish number three though so now I can add that to my currently reading list! Good thing I don't have a "Waiting on my bookshelf" list or I'd be embarrassed!

Brad Paisley Concert

We took the kids to see Brad Paisley in concert on Friday, Sept. 24. It was a surprise - we didn't tell them where we were going until we picked them up from school & were on the road. They were super excited. The concert was at USANA and we actually got to see/hear Josh Thompson, Easton Corban, Steel Magnolia, Justin Moore, Darius Rucker & Brad Paisley. Brad Paisley didn't come on until 9 pm (we were there at 3:50 b/c the gates opened at 4) but he played for 2 hours. Travis thought this concert of his was better than the one we went to in 08. Nash ended up falling asleep on a blanket at 10:30. Samantha cried b/c she could feel the bass in her chest & "it hurt". I told her it wasn't even that loud! She should stand next to the speakers! We had the pleasure of sitting next to a group of obnoxious 20 somethings that got so drunk I wanted to smack them all. One girl totally face planted - the kids & I laughed at that. There were SO many guys wearing their pants tucked into their cowboy boots I wanted to just walk up and ask them if they were trying to look stupid. Seriously? Tucking pants into cowboy boots. Wow - you don't stick out like a sore thumb now do you? We saw lots of "interesting" people too. I was surprised at the age range of people there. I saw older couples (like my grandparents) clear up to kids younger than mine. I guess everybody loves Brad Paisley! Caleb got to spend the night at Grandpa Scott & Grandma Kris' house while we went. It was his first sleep over without his siblings. Good thing he had grandpa to shadow!