Friday, December 05, 2008
Kid Adventure
The same weekend as the boys did man camp, the kids got out in the canoe and went on an adventure chasing coots. They had lots of fun together and learned how to work as a team to get the canoe to go where they wanted it to go. It was fun to listen to them laugh!
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Hair Cuts All Around!
If I can ever get the boys to stop for a minute in front of the camera, you can see their buzzes. Until then, you just get some pics of Kenz and I. Kenzie and I love Gould's Exchange...we can both get a haircut for under $30! Pre-haircut we both had hair a few inches past our shoulders.
And the last pic you will see I was bringin back the headband with the hair poof. Anyone remember this awesome look?
And the last pic you will see I was bringin back the headband with the hair poof. Anyone remember this awesome look?
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Monday, November 03, 2008
Funny Pics of Crazy Times
Well, we joined the world of Mac last week, so now we can i-chat with family and friends. It is dangerous to leave Kenzie and I alone together for too long as we always find things to get into. We discovered Photo Booth on the Mac and John called right in the middle of the craziness. We were laughing so hard at ourselves and the silly pictures we made that he could not get a word in! Hope you enjoy these...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Seven Random Facts...Hmmm...
My friend Whitney tagged me in the random fact game. So, here are seven random facts about me...
1. I do not like change, really just when it comes to people. When people leave my life, through job change or a move it is very hard for me...even if they are just moving down the road...Matthew!
2. I hate laundry!!! I will put off washing clothes for weeks...and search through my closet desperately for clean clothes to avoid the dreaded laundry day. The only problem is there are three other people in the house who depend on me to wash and fold their laundry...how did this happen!?! (there is a huge pile of laundry taking up the entire bed in our guest room right now...and I'm blogging instead...can we say denial!)
3. Running is my weight reducer and stress reliever. I cannot think straight if I have not hit the pavement for at least 30 minutes and I do not like the way I feel when I am not running on a regular basis.
4. I have a hard time spending money on myself. Don't get me wrong, I love to get things. I used to go to Target and pick things out that I liked, put them in my basket and over the course of the next thirty minutes, slowly put every single item back. When I go shop, I usually get something for everyone else. John has to encourage me to buy stuff for myself. Really, I do not like to shop! It gives me a headache.
5. We haven't had to pay for hardly any of the furniture or decor in our house. Between both my grandmothers and my mom, we pretty much have acquired a full house of stuff and I would venture to guess that we have actually purchased about 1% of it.
6. I do not like trying new things. I like to learn new things, I just do not like to try them by myself...you might be thinking one cannot happen without the other. You would be right! It is the initial fear of failure that usually produces anxiety, and hence my fear of trying something new all by myself! If someone is with me, the fear never comes into the picture.
7. I'm a neat freak. I want everything in its place all the time! God has a huge sense of humor though and placed me in a house with a husband and kids, so I've had to grow in this area quite a bit over the last two years! You may be wondering how this goes along with the huge pile of laundry. I just close the guest room door so I do not have to look at the huge pile of laundry (right now my back is to the laundry), because I hate laundry more than disorder!
So here are the rules:
*Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
*Tell seven random facts about yourself on your blog
* Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs
*Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog
I'm going to be breaking the rules slightly...shocker! Most of the friends I know who have blogs have already done something similar to this, so my tag list is sadly going to be nonexistent! If, however, you read my blog and have not done this before, please feel free to do so!
1. I do not like change, really just when it comes to people. When people leave my life, through job change or a move it is very hard for me...even if they are just moving down the road...Matthew!
2. I hate laundry!!! I will put off washing clothes for weeks...and search through my closet desperately for clean clothes to avoid the dreaded laundry day. The only problem is there are three other people in the house who depend on me to wash and fold their laundry...how did this happen!?! (there is a huge pile of laundry taking up the entire bed in our guest room right now...and I'm blogging instead...can we say denial!)
3. Running is my weight reducer and stress reliever. I cannot think straight if I have not hit the pavement for at least 30 minutes and I do not like the way I feel when I am not running on a regular basis.
4. I have a hard time spending money on myself. Don't get me wrong, I love to get things. I used to go to Target and pick things out that I liked, put them in my basket and over the course of the next thirty minutes, slowly put every single item back. When I go shop, I usually get something for everyone else. John has to encourage me to buy stuff for myself. Really, I do not like to shop! It gives me a headache.
5. We haven't had to pay for hardly any of the furniture or decor in our house. Between both my grandmothers and my mom, we pretty much have acquired a full house of stuff and I would venture to guess that we have actually purchased about 1% of it.
6. I do not like trying new things. I like to learn new things, I just do not like to try them by myself...you might be thinking one cannot happen without the other. You would be right! It is the initial fear of failure that usually produces anxiety, and hence my fear of trying something new all by myself! If someone is with me, the fear never comes into the picture.
7. I'm a neat freak. I want everything in its place all the time! God has a huge sense of humor though and placed me in a house with a husband and kids, so I've had to grow in this area quite a bit over the last two years! You may be wondering how this goes along with the huge pile of laundry. I just close the guest room door so I do not have to look at the huge pile of laundry (right now my back is to the laundry), because I hate laundry more than disorder!
So here are the rules:
*Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
*Tell seven random facts about yourself on your blog
* Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs
*Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog
I'm going to be breaking the rules slightly...shocker! Most of the friends I know who have blogs have already done something similar to this, so my tag list is sadly going to be nonexistent! If, however, you read my blog and have not done this before, please feel free to do so!
Monday, October 27, 2008
Annual Pumpkin Carving Party
It should probably be called the Annual Peanut Butter Ball Party, because that and fun with friends are the true reasons for the party each year! Some only come for the Peanut Butter Balls, but I'm ok with that. This proved to be a hit yet again. I'll try to post some pictures of all of our pumpkins later! Here you can see Mason and Kenzie hard at work on theirs.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Fun Weekend!
We had a fun weekend hanging out with my parentals and Stephen, Cecilia and Emi. Emi is just too cute!!! I love my little niece! The weekend started with a very fun dinner at Stephen and Cecilia's where the kids watched TV while we all caught up on life. Kenzie came wandering out to the porch and said "are we ever going to leave, it's like 10:06 or something!?!" We arrived home from dinner to find my folks getting ready for bed...but they came out and visited with us for a while, keeping us all up past our bedtimes. Saturday began with a walk around the neighborhood. The boys went golfing and Mom, Kenz and I shopped, and met with our wedding photographer. Yes, we have been married for almost 2.5 years, and still do not have our wedding album! Well, that meeting started at 2 and we thought it would last an hour tops...we left there just in time to rush to the house and make dinner. Three hours of staring at picture layouts I tell ya, that was THE longest meeting, but we left there feeling very accomplished. Sunday we went to church and out to lunch at one of our favorite Mexican restaurants, Don Panchos. We had fun trying on costumes in Gracie's attic where we found Kenzie a Halloween costume. We had a fun dinner with everyone at Gracie and Doc's house Sunday night. Sadly, we had to come home early this morning because John had several meetings for work. And the highlight of my day today was getting to have lunch with one of my favorite people in the whole world, Brooke! And now it is time for bed! Hope you had a great weekend too!
Friday, October 10, 2008
What Is That Noise?!?
This morning as Kenzie and I were just settling in to school, we began to hear a noise. It sounded much like a small dog yapping just outside the window in the back yard. Kenzie and I discussed what it could be very briefly. My curiosity finally got the best of me and as I walked out toward the front door of our house, I must have startled the yapping animal. The next thing I knew, I heard the rapid fluttering of wings as the bird dive bombed me (flashbacks from my childhood of being chased by a bird around a friends bedroom)...thus began the screaming! For some reason,that didn't seem to really help the situation. Before I could figure out where it was, it was in the air again. It flew into the kitchen, where I proceeded to keep a safe distance in the hallway. John was kind enough to come down stairs, where he calmly opened the kitchen window to let that birdie free. I'm pretty sure if Kenzie and I had been here by ourselves, there would have been lots more screaming and bird poop in our house!!! Thank goodness John is working at home!
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Nemo Marlin Felkins is Dead...
For those of you who have seen our one and only surviving family fish, he is no more. Yesterday John was trying to feed him and for the first time in his short life, he did not fly to the surface and nibble on John's hand. He just stayed near the bottom of the tank acting mopey. He was good at sulking when we first got him a year ago, but had snapped out of it after about two weeks and enjoyed swimming all over the tank. We have had trouble keeping any other fish alive, so, my brother nicknamed him Killer, implying that Nemo somehow killed our other fish. If you saw him you would laugh because he was so tiny in comparison to all the other fish friends we bought for him. I think he was so saddened by this nickname and knew he could not overcome it, and that is what killed him.
On another note tank note, we found out yesterday that for whatever reason, many long fish like two we've had make an effort to jump out of the tank...like ours did! We named Matthew's fish Sandairy (poor fish), because right after we put him in the tank, he came flying out onto the carpet, which is the only thing that saved him. Our other fish flew out onto tile and probably met his end quickly. At least now we know that is just in their nature! So there you have an update on aquarium life at the Felkins!
Salt water aquariums (ours is technically a reef tank) and fish are very cool, but in my experience, goldfish last much longer! That is unless you have a brother like I did who thought the fish were cold and dumped hot water in to warm them up, or thought the fish looked dry and poured in Oil of Olay for it's dry scaliness!
On another note tank note, we found out yesterday that for whatever reason, many long fish like two we've had make an effort to jump out of the tank...like ours did! We named Matthew's fish Sandairy (poor fish), because right after we put him in the tank, he came flying out onto the carpet, which is the only thing that saved him. Our other fish flew out onto tile and probably met his end quickly. At least now we know that is just in their nature! So there you have an update on aquarium life at the Felkins!
Salt water aquariums (ours is technically a reef tank) and fish are very cool, but in my experience, goldfish last much longer! That is unless you have a brother like I did who thought the fish were cold and dumped hot water in to warm them up, or thought the fish looked dry and poured in Oil of Olay for it's dry scaliness!
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Lake House Fish Pics
I painted some audition pictures of fish for my mom this week to put up at the lake house. They are a present, but since she does not know how to surf the internet, I figure I'm safe to post them on here! Shhhh...don't tell!
Monday, September 22, 2008
What's New...
It's been a while since I posted anything on here. I sometimes wonder what to post, like, what would I really enjoy reading if I were checking my blog. I came to the realization today that I simply enjoy reading what is going on with my friends, so I hope you feel the same way, and if not, find another blog to read because you're out of luck!
What have we been up to lately...
Well, John has been busy working and also doing home improvement projects in his spare time (meaning Saturday and Sunday). This weekend, before the craziness of soccer began, we quickly ran to Lowe's to pick up a few items we would need to install our two new doors. I say we, and what I really mean by that is John and his faithful cheerleader! I provided snacks, entertainment and the occasional "Is that supposed to be upside down?" comment, which John loved! Despite all the fun we had installing the doors, we are happy to say that they are in. Now if we could just get them to close, just kidding! My handy man, John, did a fabulous job! So, gone are the days of hearing the door shut and the never ending clang, clang, clang of swinging blinds. The new doors came with blinds built into the glass...what an amazing invention.
I'm gonna post some soccer pics from Mason's game on Saturday. His team won by one. Mason scored the winning goal! John and I are helping coach Kenzie's team and have been very frustrated with our performance thus far. We got slaughtered Saturday, like 5-0 and one of our goalies came up to me after the game and asked "Did we win?" Ummm...I think I laughed out loud as I answered her. We are encouraged to tell them that we tied, but when you play that bad, you need to hear the truth! Funny thing is, we played an aggression game during practice last week where the girls are put in teams of 3 and have to steal the ball from the other teams. Whoever has the most soccer balls at the end of the drill wins...and the girls got so aggressive that they just about clawed each others eyes out. BUT, during the GAME if a girl stole the ball from them or came up on the ball at the same time, they might as well have said, "no, no, you take it." I was heard screaming "Don't share the ball with her, steal it from her!!!" I get just a tad into our soccer games!
Last night we met with a couple to discuss life and adoption and were super encouraged by their story and openness to share it with us. John and I both felt like it was the best, most informative face to face meeting we have had about adoption thus far. We are also thankful to all of you who have offered thoughts/advice to us through facebook, email and our blog. It is a learning process, and we are encouraged by those who have gone before us!
Today, Mason is at school, John is hard at work upstairs. Yes, we do try to let him work. We have to fight the urge to go upstairs and be a big ole distraction to daddy, but most days he gets some work done. Kenz and I are finished with school for the day and listening to some of Brandon Heath's music...love it!!! My brother, Stephen, and I worked at Malibu (Young Life camp) with Brandon one summer in college. Honestly Stephen clued me in on this, as I would have otherwise never made the connection! Sometimes I wonder where in the world my mind has gone and then I remember that it went out the door as soon as I became a mom. I mean, how can we really be expected to remember our own schedules when we have to keep up with so many others?!? I can't remember my own name, much less what I am supposed to be doing...can you?
What have we been up to lately...
Well, John has been busy working and also doing home improvement projects in his spare time (meaning Saturday and Sunday). This weekend, before the craziness of soccer began, we quickly ran to Lowe's to pick up a few items we would need to install our two new doors. I say we, and what I really mean by that is John and his faithful cheerleader! I provided snacks, entertainment and the occasional "Is that supposed to be upside down?" comment, which John loved! Despite all the fun we had installing the doors, we are happy to say that they are in. Now if we could just get them to close, just kidding! My handy man, John, did a fabulous job! So, gone are the days of hearing the door shut and the never ending clang, clang, clang of swinging blinds. The new doors came with blinds built into the glass...what an amazing invention.
I'm gonna post some soccer pics from Mason's game on Saturday. His team won by one. Mason scored the winning goal! John and I are helping coach Kenzie's team and have been very frustrated with our performance thus far. We got slaughtered Saturday, like 5-0 and one of our goalies came up to me after the game and asked "Did we win?" Ummm...I think I laughed out loud as I answered her. We are encouraged to tell them that we tied, but when you play that bad, you need to hear the truth! Funny thing is, we played an aggression game during practice last week where the girls are put in teams of 3 and have to steal the ball from the other teams. Whoever has the most soccer balls at the end of the drill wins...and the girls got so aggressive that they just about clawed each others eyes out. BUT, during the GAME if a girl stole the ball from them or came up on the ball at the same time, they might as well have said, "no, no, you take it." I was heard screaming "Don't share the ball with her, steal it from her!!!" I get just a tad into our soccer games!
Last night we met with a couple to discuss life and adoption and were super encouraged by their story and openness to share it with us. John and I both felt like it was the best, most informative face to face meeting we have had about adoption thus far. We are also thankful to all of you who have offered thoughts/advice to us through facebook, email and our blog. It is a learning process, and we are encouraged by those who have gone before us!
Today, Mason is at school, John is hard at work upstairs. Yes, we do try to let him work. We have to fight the urge to go upstairs and be a big ole distraction to daddy, but most days he gets some work done. Kenz and I are finished with school for the day and listening to some of Brandon Heath's music...love it!!! My brother, Stephen, and I worked at Malibu (Young Life camp) with Brandon one summer in college. Honestly Stephen clued me in on this, as I would have otherwise never made the connection! Sometimes I wonder where in the world my mind has gone and then I remember that it went out the door as soon as I became a mom. I mean, how can we really be expected to remember our own schedules when we have to keep up with so many others?!? I can't remember my own name, much less what I am supposed to be doing...can you?
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Any Thoughts or Advice?
We are hoping to start the adoption process next week! Anyone have any thoughts or advice for us?!? Please share!
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Siblings, Smiling and Scheming...Oh My!
All smiles from Mason and Kenz.
Mason found some of the water weeds and if you can read his eyes, he is beginning to plan how to use those to harass his sister!
The plan is all coming together now...what you don't see is Mason chasing Kenzie with the water weed!
Mason found some of the water weeds and if you can read his eyes, he is beginning to plan how to use those to harass his sister!
The plan is all coming together now...what you don't see is Mason chasing Kenzie with the water weed!
Curfew Chasing Purple Martins!
Our dog, Curfew, will chase the birds at the lake for hours. The birds egg him on and swoop down right above his head, which often causes him to change direction. We really think he believes he will catch one, and we let him chase them because it helps to get the energy out. For those of you who have had the pleasure of meeting Curfew, you know it is hard to make a dent in his energy reserve!
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