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!

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!

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!

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!
 
 
 

Kenzie and Curler Fun!

 

Soccer Pics

 
 
 
 

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?