A few things...well more than a few

First of all, I want to say Congratulations to my bff on the birth of her baby boy!

I love you Kristy-pooh and am so glad you and your sweet baby are doing well.

Okay so no blogging in a while equals lots of catching up, I'll start with stuff I like and then go into SOME of the stuff that we did.

I just got this beautiful bracelet in the mail

I bought on etsy. The store is called

Telee Couture; she's really has some beautiful things!

My new favorite thing is my nike plus/ipod.
It tracks my calories, time, distance and other stuff, all while I listen to (don't judge) my new favorite workout song by Madona and J.Temberlake

My friend Farrah
took this way cute pictures of my kiddo's.This is what Mr. Ian's head looked like without the band aid 2 days after he fell down the steps at the in-laws home.
Oski does this now every time the camera is pointed in his directions, there is no sound when he makes this face either.

I burned the Crap out of my legs, it took 3 weeks to heal.
For my b-day my sweet hubby took us on a surprise little vacation to the great wolf lodge.
Anyway, I put sun screen on the whole family and my top half but thought no, I don't need to do my legs, I'll be in the pool the whole time. So this is what I learned, sitting on the lounge chair while holding a sleeping baby for 2 hours will burn my pasty white self.
It was very PAINFUL!!!!

Josh was in his schools talent show; he and his best friend did the s.n.l. sole man....It was a HOOT!!

I've seen more than enough of this face lately...seriously it's everyday with the drama!!!!

I just wanted to balance out the last pic with a happier one!!!

Gordon's sister got married and I made the cakes. The cake decided to break in half so we made one out of rice crispy treats (I iced it, you couldn't tell it wasn't the real thing).
Gordons Aunt and Grandma, part of the many family members that came to visit.

It's all because of my hubby that I was able to handle the last few weeks.
Thanks baby!

That's all folks

What the kids are saying....

Dad: Ian it's your turn to pick 3 songs for family night.

Ian: O.K. I got it!
We will rock you,
I am a child of God,
and
He has sent me here.

I am sick of being sick...

We've all been sick, and it's been an annoying aliment! There have been: come and go fevers, a little throwing-up, a lot of snot and even more coughs. We are now at the recovery stage, were we are still tired but not actual sick; Ella and Josh came home from school the first day back in a week and went right to bed...well Ella didn't actually make it to bed!
The point of my sorry post is:
1. To give Allyson something to read.
2. Explain my lack of blogging.
3. To get a little sympathy and maybe some gifts.

Have a great week and stay away from sick people!

I was trying to get him to laugh...it didn't work.
Ian is really sick but as soon as I point a camara at him he did this.
My poor little baby, it hurt me to have him so sick.
She slept for a good45 min.

Toys

What happened to the simple toys? The ones that you don't have to practically cut your hand off trying to remove them from the package or the simple Lego set that just builds houses or castles...basically anything that's square; not a freaky fish or some strange alien/robot thing that would quite frankly give me nightmares if I were 7.

I'm just sayin...

Week in Review

We have had a crazy few day's, there have been: A school holiday performance, 2 class party's, 3 family Christmas party's, my aunts 50th birthday party, our own Christmas celebration, and tonight we will have our annual boxing day party with friends.

It's been a good Christmas...but I am sure TIRED!!!

family Pic's

I thought the crazy was over...it's not!

I wanted to put something new, so these are our family Christmas pic's and I love them.

Enjoy!

I really wanted to send this one out but I went for the nice family pose to match my cards.

The year of the Pecans.

Six and a half years ago when we first moved into this house I was very irritated by the neighbor's pecan trees. Every fall they would drop massive amounts of pecans on our yard, and terrible gobs of gunk would drop out of them onto our cars and stain them horribly. I still hate the way they stain the cars, but I must admit that I have come to love those trees.

I first started to love them three years ago when I first realized that I could pick up the pecans from off the yard and put them into my mouth (after shelling them first of course). They were the most delicious pecans ever, and I LOVE pecans! That year I gathered lot's of pecans and made pecan pie, pecan bars, pecan cookies, and added pecans to nearly everything else I ate. It was wonderful.

Unfortunately the last couple of years have been too dry for the poor trees and no pecans have dropped. This hasn't stopped the nasty car-staining stuff from dropping though. The good news is that with all the rain that we've had this summer the trees are back to their old selves again and there is a pecan explosion underway in my yard!

I am in full squirrel mode now, and I've got my family on nut-patrol as well. We snatch-up every pecan that dares fall on our side of the fence and we've even gone out hunting for more trees we can harvest from. One thing is for certain:

MORE PECANS = MORE HAPPINESS

This Morning I had to switch to our huge bowl, and it's already overflowing.

Ian Mark

I don't know if this will be cute or funny to anyone else but I thought it equally funny and cute so I am sharing it any way...

This morning while I was drying Ian off from his bath he said “don’t look down, look up." I asked "Why?" To which he replied "cause I don't want you to see my peanuts!" (for those of you that don't know Ian he speaks very quickly and his head bobs from side to side while he's talking)

Now my questions are: 1.Why is it when he says peanuts it seriously makes me laugh?
2. What is it about Ian Mark that makes me do almost anything he wants or when he does something wrong it's hard for me to hold back the laughter?

This child has got me!

My Children Prove The Greatness Of My Wife!

Hello all, this is Gordon. Typically I do not make posts on Clinesville. I leave that to Coren because she is better at it than I am and she's prettier than me. Tonight I was watching the kids while Coren attended a Parent-Teacher Conference (yippie!) and I caught a glimpse of exactly what kind of crazy that she is exposed to on a daily basis. I thought it would be wise to share that with the world so she can reap massive sympathy from abroad... it's also funny.

So as you can see, my children are certifiable. I am sure this is from my influence and not Coren's because Coren is an angel and also quite prettier than me. Please comment in excess with praises for she who is so great to endure such crazy... and is also prettier than me.

School Update

They Loved School!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They haven't told me much but they both say they had a great time. Josh even had a girl ask him for his phone number.

You know what, I am ready for them to go back tomorrow (they are already driving me crazy).