Crimes of Fashion

Crimes of Fashion is a great ABC Family Original Movie starring Kaley Cuoco. It is an entertaining movie if you're bored and looking for something chick-flicky. 

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

Oh, Lindsay Lohan. Your Disney movies are gold. 

Lindsay plays this dramatic teen who has lots of angst and lies a lot. Megan Fox is in this movie playing the mean girl and I just love that every time she pops up on the screen she has a theme song playing. It makes me feel like I desperately need one so people know I mean business when I walk into a room. 

Celeste in the City

I watched Celeste in the City, which was a TV movie on ABC Family. This was not my first time seeing this movie but I forgot how much I liked it. 

First, I need to say how much I love the cast. I'm a huge Roswell fan, and Majandra Delfino is awesome. I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer so seeing Nicholas Brendon in this role was funny. I also love Ethan Embry from Empire Records and Sweet Home Alabama (and a ton of other great movies, of course) so I was happy to see him have the romantic interest's role. 

The story was cute. There are lots of those "girl-gets-makeover" movies where suddenly, after taking out their ponytail and taking off their glasses, everything turns out right. I don't mind seeing 100 different versions of the same story, though. (see Cinderella)

Brave New Girl

Next up is an ABC Family original, "Brave New Girl". 

Britney Spears had something to do with the movie and the novel it was based on. It was about a girl who goes to a performing arts school after her brother dies and we watch her struggle to get used to her life there. 

Around the World in 80 Days

The Kid was much too busy to watch our next movie with us, which was fine because it wasn't super entertaining for his age (or ours.. really). 

Some parts were funny, and I did like a lot of the cast, but the movie overall was certainly not the best and most entertaining for a family movie. There are many others to spend your valuable time watching. But I don't care - I am loving this Disney mission and glad to have another one under my belt.

The kid has been learning some geography. We started with a map of the United States. He is learning all of the states and their locations. Each time he gets one right, he gets the M&M that was sitting on that state. He likes that part! 

America's Heart and Soul

We had the opportunity to watch this fantastic documentary called America's Heart and Soul. It was so interesting and eye-opening. 

The documentary shows the lives of different people in different situations living all across the United States. It is amazing to see how other people live in your own country. The lives of the people in the documentary seemed so different from my own, yet we all had something in common - living in the United States. It was really cool and definitely educational. 

I just happened to be traveling that weekend to Connecticut for a bridal shower so I took the boys with me and we explored Hartford and some places outside Hartford, including this pretty pond we walked around. CT is only a couple of states away but it seemed like a different world!