Avatar Review

Weell... As you can tell, I haven't blogged in ages, and for that I've probably bored a ton of people (So Sorry!!!!) I just haven't had time to get on the computer at all lately.

So the subject for today is....... Avatar! (In 3D!!)

I went up to Casper last week and watched it with my Nana, and we both loved it.

Pros =D : The animation was so realistic that you could almost say that the Nav'i (the tall blue people) where humans in costumes or something.
The 3D was just awesome. Period.
It was really action packed and so intense that I could hardly think to get the candy out, I was so engrossed in it.
The story line was pretty cool.

Cons =( : It was pretty environmentalist-y in subtle ways.
The natives of Pandora worshiped the "All Mother" or in a recognizable term, "Mother Earth".
Yes, there were some bad words. =/ Too bad.
Probably nothing you'd let your 3 or eight year old watch, for the intensiveness of it and all. (hence the rating of PG-13)

But the good definitely outweighed the bad in my humble opinion. I think it would be worth watching again. =D So I would have to give it a rating of **** (four) stars.


God Bless,
Brenna Dixon

Rise of the Dibor: Awesome book, sweet video

Drum roll please!

*Duuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh* And the winner of the Lord of the Rings Versus Chronicles of Narnia competition is...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Chronicles of Narnia!!!!!!!!!!!
*Confetti flies everywhere* Congratulations! You've just won a contest and didn't gain anything!! Yay for you!

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Thank you all who voted on the poll!

Happy New Year!

2009 was a great year, but it had its pitfalls (as many of you probably know) With the putting of Obama into office and his big hoopla health care bill, my spirits were dampened, to say the least. But as usual the good outweighs the bad.

A Recap of the Year~

On January first I joined a forum called the Dragons in our Midst Forum. It is a Christian forum run by a writer named Bryan Davis. There I have met many nice people and made good friends (such as Nathan Petrie).

On May 2nd I turned 13, therefore stepping into teenagerdom where I will be stuck for the next four and a half years. 'Twas a very momentous occasion for me. :)

On May 8th, my beautiful and youngest cousin Alexis Catherine Nielsen was born after a long and torturous wait (we were all anxious to find out if it was going to be a boy or a girl)

In June I went for the fourth year to the wonderful Camp Grace for a week. It was great to be reunited with all of my friends and to meet new ones as well.

Not wanting to go into Lusk for the eighth grade or going to Lance Creek when my best friend, Jessica, wasn't going to be there I decided to take up homeschooling again after about four years of country school. I chose to go with Switched on Schoolhouse by Alpha Omega Publications and it has been working great. Next year I will be attending Lusk High School.

In September during deer hunting season friends from down in Missouri and Oklahoma came up for the second year in a row and stayed at our house and hunted.
Also, I shot a four point mule deer this year, much nicer than my two pointer from last year.

Sometime during these months Garett brought home a new member to our family, Kimber (A.K.A Little Girl), a teddy bear hamster.

On November 5th my younger brother Garett turned 11.

I now stand at 5'9" and Garett at 5'4".

New Years Resolution~

This year I have decided I want to do these things:

Witness to my non-Christian friends.

Get up to 30,000 words written in The Alinar.

Read through the whole New Testament.

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Kind of short, but reasonable. Better than the one year when I wrote I would start a band and I didn't even know an intrument (besides a few keys on the piano) and niether did any of my friends. None of us could really sing either. =)



God Bless and Happy New Year,
Brenna Dixon

Long time no type

So... Merry Belated-Christmas!!!!! I hope you all had great ones. I was going to do this really cool special Christmas post but... the POWER WENT OFF!! Urg!! But anyways, Merry Christmas none the less.

The Christmas parties proceeded as usual this year, except for one due to terrible weather.

And guess what I got for Christmas? Well, at least one of the many awesome things. BOOKS!!
I received The Forgotten 3 by Elizabeth Harms, The Victor by Marlayne Giron, and Rise of the Dibor by Christopher Hopper.

I just finished reading The Victor and have to say that is was completely amazing! I truly loved it. Next on the list to start is Rise of the Dibor.

I (and my brother) also got a Wii Fit Plus board, which is way too awesome for words. And I got Pokemon Diamond so now... well, I'm just plain addicted to it. But wait, why am I carrying on about presents?

Twenty-ten is just around the corner (A.K.A 2010 or two thousand ten or any other way you like to say it). Who has a New Years Resolution? Not me. At least, not yet anyways. By the next post I will though, and I will have a recap of the 2009 year.

I'm now concluding this boring post of rambling about nothing in particular. Hopefully next time I'll have something more interesting to say.

***Reminder*** The LotR Vs. CoN poll will close in 7 days and the winner will be announced, so hurry up and vote!

God Bless,
Brenna

LotR Vs. CoN: FotR, TTT, RotK

Gandalf dies to save the Fellowship while on the bridge of Kaza Dum and rises again later as Gandalf the White.= Jesus dies and rises again to save us.

Aragorn is the coming king that is rejected by many, especially Denathor.= Christ's birth is prophesied and He is a king, which Herod rejects. Or Peter denying Jesus thrice.

Ring= sin or temptation

Frodo, an innocent hobbit, carries out the quest of destroying the Ring to save Middle Earth.= Jesus, who is completely pure and innocent, takes on the quest of coming to earth and dying to save everyone.


Not much on LotR as you can see, but there isn't much straight allegory.
So now that we've covered those, you can use what I've posted as something to think about when voting for your favorite series. :)

LotR VS. CoN Continued: I decided I'd get two birds with one stone today

The title pretty much says it all. I thought and thought, but I didn't see any Bible similarities in Prince Caspian, The Horse and His Boy, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, or The Silver Chair. So today I'll do The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and The Last Battle.

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe:
Edmund betrays his siblings to the White Witch= Judas betrays Jesus to the Roman people.

Aslan dies on the Stone Table so that Edmund doesn't have to= Jesus died on the cross so we wouldn't have to die and, well, stay dead. So we could instead go to Heaven when we die.

Aslan rises again= Jesus rises again in three days.

(Please tell me if I missed anything, it's been a loooong time since I read it)

The Last Battle:
Aslan hasn't been around Narnia in a really long time, and people begin to doubt. The Ape skins a lion and puts the skin on his donkey friend. Everyone thinks Aslan has come back and they do anything the donkey, who is being told what to say by the Ape, wants them to do.= The Anti-Christ.

Finally, Aslan comes back and destroys Narnia and creates a much, much better version. Lucy, Edmund, and Peter have died (Susan doesn't die, and she doesn't believe in Aslan anymore), and they go to Narnia.= The second coming of Christ. God destroys the heavens and earth and makes new ones. Believers go to Heaven.