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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Favorites!!!

On the way up to Nashville this past weekend, I came up with a fun activity to help pass the time... We play games a lot in the car....Would you Rather, The "Fun" 20 questions game, states and capitols, etc... This time I decided that Matthew and I were to name our Favorites. So here goes...for those of you that know us well, you may be surprised, or not at all!

Combined Favorite Movies
Tommy Boy
Dark Knight
Mama Mia
Love Actually
The Sting



Matthew's Favorite Movies
Forrest Gump
Dark Knight
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Star Trek VI (gross!)
Empire Strikes Back..I think you can see a trend :)

Andrea's Favorite Movies
Sound of Music
To Kill a Mockingbird
When Harry Met Sally
Remember the Titans




Favorite Combined Songs
Bones- The Killers
Read my Mind- The Killers
Reckless Abandon- Blink 182
Deeper than the Holler- Randy Travis
Online-Brad Paisley
Anything ABBA!


Matthew's Favorite Songs
Sweet Child of Mine- Guns and Roses
Thunderstruck- ACDC
The Boxer- Paul Simon
Since You've Been Gone- Kelly Clarkson
Higher and Higher- The Killers

Andrea's Favorite Songs
Ain't Goin Down till the Sun Comes Up- Garth Brooks
Believin- Journey
You Give Love a Bad Name- BonJovi
Joy to the World- 3 Dog Night
Anything Brad Paisley or Billy Joel!


Favorite Kid's Movies Combined
Lion King
Peter Pan
Toy Story
the Sandlot



Matthew's Favorite Kid's Movies
Jungle Book
Great Mouse Detective
Robin Hood
Sword and the Stone
Muppets Christmas Carol

Andrea's Favorite Kid's Movies
Robin Hood
Care Bears
Little Mermaid
Anastasia
The Parent Trap- the original of course!
Favorite TV shows Combined
Frasier
House
Office
Grey's Anatomy



Matthew
West Wing
Seinfeld
Dirty Jobs
Arrested Development

Andrea
Friends
Desperate Housewives
24
Home Improvement
Dawson's Creek....i know i know

Matthew's Favorite Books
Atlas Shrugged
Harry Potter
Spock's World
David Copperfield
Chronicles of Narnia


Andrea's Favorite Books
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Firm
Pride and Prejudice
Harry Potter
Crime and Punishment



That's all we could fit in on that trip, maybe we'll have a Favorites Part 2 later... the jury is still out for my last favorite movie and song... I'm just not ready to commit those spots yet :)


In other Hardison news.... Matthew passed his qualifier... he is now officially a doctoral candidate and I am so proud of him! He is of course relieved for it to be over....only 6 months now until the next committee meeting. Happy Thursday!


P.S. It's still my other half's turn to blog :)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

To Kill A Mockingbird is the finest movie and novel. Andrea's selection shows her keen intellect and good taste. I could not be prouder.
Chris or Dad or Nashville Dad (It is so confusing)

Laura K. said...

i'm cracking up on chris.
ann- love that you love journey. can't wait to show ashley. she DESPISES them and i LOVE to bolt any of their songs.
matt- sweet child of mine. well played.
(but i like cheryl crow's version, too)
glad yall updated. matt- get on it! i live for US communication
:)

Anonymous said...

Andrea,

Of course you need to say that your wonderful mom got you to love Sound of Music... we do know every word to every song...I still think of myself as Liesel!!

Much love,

Mom

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the info on your favorites. We agreed on several of your selections. (It certainly shows your good taste) Keep the blogs coming.

KY Mom and Dad

Ashley said...

since nate and i travel a lot i'm going to have to implement some of your game ideas...on a more exciting note...can i get a puppy blog????