The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis - Book Review

The exact order that these books go in, to be honest, I'm not quite sure which is exactly the 'correct' order. However. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe I think is the first book you should read because it just seems to make sense to do it that way.
This book is the first book in Publication order. The publication order is The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Trader, The Silver Chair, The Horse and His Boy, The Magician's Nephew, and The Last Battle.
The CHRONOLOGICAL order is The Magician's Nephew, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Horse and His Boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Trader, The Silver Chair, and The Last Battle.
So I guess it just depends on which you prefer.

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 When Lucy, Peter, Susan, and Edmund got sent away from Lodon during the war due to the air-raids, they landed in a home with an old Professor and his housekeeper in a very large home that the house keeper often took people through on tours. One day, when the four children were playing a game of hide-and-seek Lucy found a room with a wardrobe inside, she got inside the wardrobe to hide and stumbled upon a completely different world, Narnia. A place that nobody believed her that existed when she came back to tell her brothers and sister about. Soon they discover the world themselves and go an quite an adventure while they are there, becoming friends with a Lion, and a  run in with a cold hearted Witch.




Oh.My.Goodness. C.S. Lewis is amazing.  Have you ever read one of those books that when you finish it, you close the cover, smile, and just sigh and take a moment to absorb it all?
That was this book.
The story was written wonderfully. I love how at the end the time that they were there was taken into consideration and the way the spoke was much more 'formal' than what they had spoke from in the beginning. I also loved all the fantasy aspect with the different creatures, and Aslan.
Some of the chapters have really cool illustrations in them too.

It's just a really wonderful book, for anyone at any age, it's just a wonderful world to get lost in.

Disney Challenge: Day 30

Favorite Happy Ending?



Tangled, again, is definitely up there.
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Gluten Free Friday: Nature's Path Organic Gluten Free Summer Berries Granola - Review

I know, I know, it's not Friday. It's Saturday. With the Holidays coming my mind has been a bit everywhere and I had forgot to write up my review, my apologies!

This is my ultimate favorite granola, ever. I've been getting this for probably a year, or just over. It's the closest thing I've found to 'normal tasting' granola.

Each serving of Nature's Path Organic Summer Berries Granola has 2g of Fiber, 16g of Whole Grains, and 3g of Protein.

  

Ingredients: 

Gluten free rolled oats*, evaporated cane juice*, sunflower oil*, yogurt chips* (sugar*, palm kernel oil*, non-fat milk powder*, lactic acid, soy lecithin*, salt, vanilla*), rice starch*, freeze-dried blueberries*, freeze-dried berry blend* (freeze-dried strawberries*, freeze-dried raspberries*), sea salt, natural flavor, tocopherols (Vitamin E). *Organic. Contains soy and dairy. Produced in a facility that uses tree nuts and peanuts. Vegetarian.













My favorite part about this granola is that 1) it's crunchy. I've had other GF granolas that were too soft for my personal liking. 2) The greek yogurt chips. I think they taste a lot like white chocolate. And 3)  The freeze dried berries. I looove freeze dried berries SO MUCH.
I prefer my granola just  plain as a snack, and I plan on having it ontop of yogurt. You could easily use it for a trail mix, or a topping (on yogurt, or smoothies). Or whatever your heart desires.

This granola comes in other flavors too: A Honey Almond, and a Vanilla Cranberry.

Disney Challenge: Day 29

Favorite Overall Moment?


Oh I hate these sorta questions, lol. I still really enjoy Crush and Squirt's 'high-five'.
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Disney Challenge: Day 28

Favorite Sequal?



Cinderella II!!!!!!!!! Oh my gosh, my favorite.
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Disney Challenge: Day 27

Best Wardrobe?


I feel like this is a very similar one to the favorite outfit. I'm going to say Belle, which I think was the same as in the other.
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Disney Challenge: Day 26

Most Magical Moment?



Cinderella's transformation is one of my favorites[:
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Disney Challenge: Day 25

Favorite Lyrics?


Hakuna Matata deffinitly is at the top of the list[:
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City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare - Review

"The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She’s training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And—most importantly of all—she can finally call Jace her boyfriend.

But nothing comes without a price.

Someone is murdering Shadowhunters, provoking tensions between Downworlders and Shadowhunters that could lead to a second, bloody war. Clary’s best friend, Simon, can’t help her—his mother just found out that he’s a vampire, and now he’s homeless. When Jace begins to pull away from her without explaining why, Clary is forced to delve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare: she herself has set in motion a terrible chain of events that could lead to her losing everything she loves. Even Jace."  -- Goodreads

Oooooh how this series completely ruins my life.
I'm going to admit, this is probably my least favorite book(that I've read so far) of the series because  I feel like some of it was slow, and I don't like all the tossing and turning of POV's with chapters. BUT there were parts that completely had me absorbed and I think it took me like 3-5 hours, give or take, to read it all in one sitting. I like to wait to read these books because I want to read them all in one go, no distractions, or interruptions, just me, the characters, and the pages.
I'm not gonna say much about the book in case if anyone reading this hasn't read the book. (spoilers are a pain, I understand -.-).
To sum it all up, this was a good book, not my favorite, certain parts were far more interesting than others. My love for the series still remains. Or should I say life?

Disney Challenge: Day 24

Favorite Parent?



Rapunzel's . They look so happy.
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Disney Challenge: Day 23

Favorite Dance Scene?


I really like Cinderella's, but I also like Ariel's and The Beauty and the Beast.
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Disney Challenge: Day 22

Bravest Heroine?


Mulan, hands down. She's one tough cookie.


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Gluten Free Friday: Brach's Swirly Fish Gummi Candy Review

A while ago my mom had found some Brach's candies at a local outlet store, she let me pick out one that I wanted. I picked the Fish & Swirls. 1) because it was fish. 2) because it was blue raspberry flavored gummies, too.

These were really good. On the package it doesn't say that they are gluten free, but after looking at the ingredients nothing seemed to contain any gluten/wheat.

      








 
The flavors included: Blue Raspberry & Cherry, Lime & Lemon, and Orange & Pineapple. There were three different fish shapes. My favorite being the starfish.

They were a little tough to chew, but they tasted sooo good!
I've tried looking these up online and the only place I can find that sells them is this site but they are only fish shaped, not the star fish and everything.

I do hope Brach's makes this one of their more 'usual' candies, and this wasn't one that was going out of stock or anything. These were really good, and if I ever see them out I'll probably pick up another bag!

Disney Challenge: Day 21

Favorite quote?


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Disney Challenge: Day 20

Funniest Moment?


Ummmmm, maybe when Rapunzel's big conflict?

Disney Challenge: Day 19

Favorite Soundtrack


Euu, I like this question. Lol.

Lilo & Stitch was one of my favorites, along with The Jungle Book!!!!
Okay I'm stopping there.

Making 'Christmas Cookies' Already!

These are the photos I was talking about from yesterday[:

My fail of a photo to show the first snow of the year.

 

 Exciting news: I got my permit!! I didn't get it when I was 16 because I wanted no parts of driving, but now that I'm older, there's stuff I wanna do, and I need my license to do so.

After getting my permit, I was starving, so we stopped at McD's and I got a parfait. Seriously, you guys, yummy.

 We did a good bit of running around, we had walked around the mall a lot before hand waiting for the DMV to open and none of the stores we needed to go to opened until an hour after the DMV. After the mall, we went to Staples, and Joann Fabrics.
On the way home, we stopped at Sheetz.

 Gas station selfie! I'm kidding... that's not a thing, as far as I'm aware...

My Grandma also has me making Christmas cookies, well nut rolls, that got turned into cookies, and then cinnamon rolls. It was a huge recipe, oh my gosh....

I can't wait for Christmas, but don't worry I will spare you all of the Christmas posts until after Thanksgiving, one holiday at a time, blah blah blah. I feel like since it's November it should be free to  be excited for Christmas, but at the same time... Thanksgiving. It's just first world problems, that's all.

But really I'm already thinking about what to put on my Christmas List :P

Disney Challenge: Day 18

Favorite Name


How do you pick a favorite name!?! h goodness....

I'm just going to go with Balu cause I've wanted to name like 50 of my creatures on FFS Balu.

Recycling & Tufted Titmouse

Hello hello hello!

It's currently 37 degrees and raining outside right now, it had been a mix of that and snow not even an hour ago. It's supposed to drop down to 15 tonight.
We had our first snow on the 13th, it laid just barley on the ground, but the next morning it was looking like winter[:

I feel like we skipped fall though. I should have gotten more pictures but it just didn't happen. I'm trying to make up for the lack of 'flannel-weather' yeah, it's not really working.
Side Note: These two(the top and bottom picture) really shouldn't be in this post, it should be in the next, I have a few photos from last week I want to get up, but these just made it in the bundle).

I have a hard time photographing blueberry smoothies in these cups, I should really just transfer it to a different cup and take a photo,  I couldn't wait! I had just done a workout and was starving.
It's half a packet of Carnation Instant Breakfast in Vanilla, a cup of frozen blueberries, and a cup of  original almond milk.

Mom put a feeder up near the window, we've been getting 4 Tufted Titmice in the yard and eating.

Also, we had cans that needed recycled and we took them to get that done before going to the mall. JCPenney's was having a big sale and I was in need of new jeans mine have gotten too big and I found two pairs for 20 bucks, each were $38 originally! Woohoo!

Disney Challenge: Day 17

Favorite Eyes?


Cinderella's[:
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Disney Challenge: Day 16

Favorite Singing Voice?


Cinderella, hands down.
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Disney Challenge: Day 15

Favorite Romantic Moment



Hmmmm, maybe the dance?
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Gluten Free Friday: Arrowhead Mills Organic Gluten Free Sprouted Corn Flakes

Hello! It's time for another GF review.

Cereal. I  LOOOVE cereal....so much. I wanted to make a gf version of raisin bran and found these flakes and got the raisins... I ate it all plain. It's soooo good, it reminds me a lot of the raisin bran flakes, sweet, crunchy, flat out yummy. Tastes amazing with almond milk. It's practically all I've been eating for the past 3 days, I'm so healthy, I know.

Ingredients: Organic sprouted whole grain corn flour, organic whole grain brown rice flour, organic pear juice concentrate, organic white sorghum flour, sea salt, mixed tocopherols (Vitamin E) & ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) [to preserve freshness]


 I'm not able to tell you the price difference, it's been a while ago since I got the cereal that I don't remember, nor can I find the price listed on Arrowhead Mills' website, but I can tell you that it is well worth it.

Disney Challenge: Day 14

Favorite Villain? 



 Oh gosh, Scar, maybe? Or Hook? He was funny.

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