Slackers!

I've not been doing a great job keeping up with our blog! My apologies!

My oh my oh summer came and it went too quickly. Yesterday marked our 100th day of being married folks! As well as my Dad's birthday! And it marked exactly 5 years to the day that we met! This is only known b/c it happened to be on my Dad's Bday! :o) Yep, so now we're old married people! hehee

I'm 2 - 0 in cooking this week! Monday, I made chicken and dumplings which I was soooo excited about because I've never made this before and really wanted it to be good! As wonderful as my husband is, he can also be brutally honest when it comes to my cooking/baking. What can I say? He's my guinea pig! Fortunately, my chicken and dumplings passed the hubs meter! We both enjoyed the meal. Of course he had a few suggestions! haha Last night I made baked ham, steamed veggies, toasted baguette, and scalloped potatoes! Go me! I'm a little home maker! I can toot my own horn every once in a while! :o) Now, tonight's menu is baked parmesan. Hopefully that will turn out just as good! You know, that was actually the first meal I had when I went to meet the parents! Brendan's parents that is! When Brendan came home with me for the first time, we were having a good ole' southern fish fry. haha Way to welcome him into the family! Nothing like greasy fish fryin' to say welcome to the clan!

This weekend we are headed to Florence. I've been doing better with my homesickness. I knew it was just an adjustment and that I'd get used to it! But I am excited about going home. Almost as much as I am about this awesome weather! Perfect day to relax outside in the hammock and read. Which I did for about an hour today. The new book I am reading it called The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Just made it to Chapter 3 and I've already cried. It's about this 14 year old girl who was murdered..she's telling the story from "her heaven" and looking down on Earth. Interesting.

Today, I set out to make a fall centerpiece for our dining room table. Tooting my own horn here again.. I think I did an okay job! We'll see what the hub says when he gets home. Speaking of being crafty, I've started my scrap booking of our wedding. That takes some time. I can't toot my horn here. Can't even give it a little squeak. I need work in this department. Unfortunately, scrap booking is not cheap and so it's going to take time for me to get this done! I've completed about 5 pages though! They don't look the greatest, but hopefully they'll get better as I go along!

Well, I think that's all for now. I'll try to do better with updates. Can you believe October begins tomorrow! I've got to get to work on my Halloween Costume. I can't tell you just yet what I'm going to be! I'm putting it together myself. Last year, I put my lady bug costume together myself and even painted the polka dots on my red tights. But didn't realize the paint would go through and so when I took the tights off after painting polka dots, I had polka dotted legs that had to sit in the tub and be scrubbed off. tsk tsk!

Recapping our long wknd

Us at the Indians Game!! My very first MLB game! It was so much fun. Unfortunately, the Indians could not pull off a win for me. We were also able to see the airshow which was awesome and incredibly loud! I also tried stadium mustard thanks for Uncle Jim's "you can't come here and not have stadium mustard" comment. OMG, delicious! Uncle Jim was nice enough to buy us some to take back to good ole' South Carolina! Thank you SOO SOO much Uncle Jim for spending the day with us and taking us to the game. It was well worth the 10 hour drive!

So we got into Southern Ohio Saturday at around 1 am. Boy, were we tired! We got up the next morning and went to see Grandma and Grandpa Clark! We had a lovely day and then headed to the game!

After the game, we headed over to some of my wonderful new in laws! Almost the whole gang came over and we ate yummy pizza ( after eating more than my fair share of food at the game!) I can't wait to try pizza on the grill myself. Aunt Colleen and Uncle Tony were excellent hosts and we enjoyed our time with them. Especially at breakfast where they had Brendan and I cracking up! I need to hang out more with Aunt Maureen and maybe some of her cooking skills will rub off on me! hahaa She's a great cook! Thanks for such a great evening!

Sunday- basically our last day- went by entirely too fast! We stayed at Grandma and Grandpa's. We also got to see Uncle Steve and Tina which was a real treat! I've had such great visits to Ohio and am looking forward to returning for more visits. Maybe next time, there will be lots of snow! :o) I'm not sure when our next visit will be but hopefully it won't be too long.

I'm still on the prowl for a permanent teaching postion. Keep your fingers and toes and eyes and legs and arms crossed that something will eventually open up for me! hehee

Thanks again for making our short visit a great one!! We love you!

Sharing our FUTURE little ones

Those of you may not know this about me but I absolutely LOVE to dance and shake my "money maker". I have young parents and growing up with young parents, I was always around music and dancing and then when I was old enough, I danced and competed in many competitions. I also cheered as a little Jenn all the way up to big Jenn. So dancing is something that I do a lot whether it's while I'm out or just getting ready!

So when I saw this video via my "other mother", Gina, I immediately thought..THESE are my future kids. It's so funny. What's even funnier, we had video (not too sure) but I KNOW we have pictures of my younger brother, Kevin, dancing and singing when he was about this age to the country song" I got to thank mama for the cookin', daddy for the whoopin', the devil for the trouble that I get into. I've got to give credit, where credit is due. I thank the bank for the money, Thank God for you" Don't know the actual name of the song as you can tell...BUT he really got into it and it had us all rolling. We were very tempted to send it in to America's Funniest Home Videos.

Anywho, make sure your volume is up! Just think in a few years, I could be posting up our little Talty bunch "getting low". haha Enjoy!

Ohio Bound!

Swine Flu has showed it's ugly face at the school. The school where I work that is! NICE! Also, strep and the flu is going around. SANITIZE everything! It's kind of scary. Also, this week a 12 year old boy died of swine flu. He also had other medical problems but the COD was swine flu. So scary, so say a prayer for us all. This year is supposed to be pretty bad with the flu going around. I think it's probably a must to get the vaccination this year. YUCK. Shots are never fun!

After much indecisiveness, we have decided to make the trip to Ohio this coming Friday! We are worried that we will be way too tired for work Tuesday but I told my dear, sweet husband that if we have the opportunity to go, we need to! Also, we are going to my first ever MLB game! Which is a reason to shop! :o) I messaged Delayne and asked her what in the world should I pack as far as the weather is concerned. She said it changes from cold to warm. So.....everything? hahaha


Tomorrow Carolina football kicks off! Go Gamecocks! I really hope this season is a great one! USC has been a little dissappointing for the past ummm..... (yea, it's that much) years. I would love to go to a game this year. I haven't been since college. I've been to the game..just not in! :o)


So we are Ohio Bound and I can hardly wait! Not looking forward to the extremely long drive but looking forward to everything else!