Please take the time to enjoy yourself and those around you and most of all, please have a safe holiday

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Crystal and Dan

Sometimes we think so much alike it’s scary. Dan and I both bought each other netbooks for Christmas. Dan bought me one and said that he got it in pink so that he wouldn’t be tempted to keep it for himself. Well little did he know he had one right under the tree “in black”. We had a great Christmas and hope everyone else’s was just as filled with fun family memories.

Dan & Crystal ~

When one of the little boys Crystal was shooting replied to Santa after being asked what he wanted for Christmas, he replied… “a Nintendo DS and my family”. Crystal’s heart nearly broke in half.

Over 2500 children and their families attended the event and included sponsors like St. Louis Rams, St. Louis Bar Foundation, and St. Louis Bar Association,  Catholic Charities, Foster and Adoptive Care Coalition, First Book, Grace Hill-PATCH, and Midwest Litigation Services.

There was so much for the kids to do including  a book corner, and inflatable rock climbing wall, St. Louis Rams cheerleaders, music, and even getting to play catch on the field with some of the Rams players and awesome presents!

After we finished shooting all the kids, we packed up all the gear, we took a stroll around the football field before heading out. All I can say is WOW! The field looks a LOT smaller on TV!

We can’t wait to do it again next year.

We met so many really great people and had a blast. We even had a chance to meet some other really neat vendors.

Thanks again for everyone who stopped by the booth and chatted with us. We would like to offer a special gift to any bride that books from seeing us at the show. We will take off an additional $100 off your package (excluding the basic custom package). Make sure you keep you official Colortouch flier you received when we met you! or if you registered for the raffle that will work too!

Stay tunned to the blog for the winner of the dinner for two from Mama Campisi’s. We had a great time at the show and hope you all did too. Give us a call so we can chat about all of the details!

Both Mike and Jeff are super-friendly and professional. Nothing is missed by these guys. They even emptied the waste basket in our bathroom while they were cleaning a small rug. Talk about above and beyond!

If you live in the St. Louis area and have a need for carpet, duct,  or furniture cleaning, then please give them a call. We give them the Colortouch seal of approval.

I want to preface this review with some simple self-analysis. My genetic make-up has predestined me to being a man. Yup, I’m a guy. And being a “guy”, I tend to enjoy more guy-type movies, but I am a sensitive “guy” can appreciate a good movie no matter what genre… even the occasional chick-flick/romantic comedy. With that said…

Last night, Crystal and I went to see Revolutionary Road. We received free passes from Scott over at wearemoviegeeks.com to the sneak preview at the Des Peres theater.

Scott and wearemoviegeeks.com are awesome!. The movie, however, wasn’t.

Revolutionary Road is based on a novel that I haven’t read, so I’m not going to make comparisons to the book since I haven’t read it, but based on the movie, I don’t think I’m going to run to Barnes & Noble tonight to buy a copy. The story revolved around a young couple who become disillusioned in the hum-drum “average” lives and yearn for changes.

That’s it.

Not a single car chase. No aliens threatening earths existence. No monsters devouring tourists in Japan. No adrenalin pumping gun battles. Nothing to interest a “guy” like me. Right up Crys’s alley? Nope. She was bored to tears also.

Leo D’s performance was pretty good, and I’m not even a real Decaprio fan. But Kate Winslet’s performance was wooden and mechanical when she wasn’t doing a heavily emotional scene. Many of her line deliveries made me feel like an I was watching an eighth graders performance. Even the love-making scenes were unsatisfying (for everyone on screen and off).

There were a couple of bright moments in the film that made me sit up in my seat instead of scrunching down into a movie-theater-sleeping-position. Michael Shannon’s performance of the insane son of the couples realtor was entertaining and fun. For a moment, I forgot I wanted to pull my brain out through my eye-sockets with a pair of rusty pliers.

Then his two scenes were done and I remembered where I was… and I contemplated suicide. After this experience, I’m going to stick to my guy movies with exlosions, space ships, and gun-blazing car chases.

I think I might have come to the reason I didn’t care for Revolutionary Road. I like to have fun. I am a fun person, and really enjoy doing fun things adn watching fun movies. The story in this movie is not meant be fun. It is meant to be a look into the souls of semi-realistic people and to portay their feelings and emotions. It’s not a “guy” movie.

Crystal isn’t a “guy” however, and she wasn’t enchanted by this movie either. We both give this movie a thumbs down. Now, to pop in my DVD of Caddyshack and get back to good, old-fashioned escapism fun!