We're the MckSickies

Brendan started getting the sniffles Saturday and then Sunday-Tuesday, he was a little sickie! Monday, he didn't even get out of bed and Sunday he actually ate soup! Yesterday he started feeling much better BUT then I started feeling bad! So now I'm a little sickie!

Seems like everyone is getting sick! Luckily, this is only a stuffed nose, sneezes, and a little congestion. This is a flu free zone and we want to keep it that way! Let's hope we all get these germs out of here!

Saturday, Brendan and I are going to a Halloween party at our friends, Justin and Janet's. They usually throw the annual Halloween Party. Saturday, we went and finished buying all of the necessities for our costume. We'll reveal what we are after the party. Brendan wants to secretive about it!

I'm not sure if we are going to be able to pass out candy this year. Halloween falls on the same night as the party. I like passing out candy. However, I don't like it when kids reach their little hands into the candy bowl. I think that's rude. This isn't a take what you want kind of deal. This is me being nice and giving out candy. How much candy? Well, that's up to me! If you're too old to go trick or treating...you probably won't get much from me. If you're not dressed up- not much candy is going into your pumpkin.

I'm not into the scary portion of Halloween. My nerves can't take it! I'm not able to watch scary movies either. I'm a scaredy cat and I'll be the first to admit it!

I am quite ready for the Holidays. Can you believe how fast Thanksgiving and Christmas are approaching? I'm ready to wake up and watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and eat fried chicken! Last year, I was sick..or was that Christmas? I just remember not being able to eat like I wanted! It had to be after Christmas because that's when we went to Ohio for the 1st time.

I wonder how the holidays will go with us being married now! Before, it wasn't a big deal if we didn't spend the holidays together. But now we're MARRIED and this will be our first holiday as hubby and wife and we have to be together. Ohhh, I need an ornament for our first Christmas! Where can I get one of those? Anyone know?

We haven't carved a pumpkin yet. What's the rules for that? Is that just a Halloween thing or is it a fall thing? If it's just a Halloween thing then we're running out of time! I also want to go to a corn maze. I gave Brendan the option of Dracula, the ballet (which is awesome..I've seen it 3 times) or the maze. You can pretty much guess his answer- The Maze.

Hopefully, I will have great pictures for you with pumpkin carvings and Halloween costumes soon!

P.S.

I updated the settings on the blog. I didn't know it was clicked on registered users can only comment. It's now open to anyone. That's it forreal! :o)

A simpler way!

As far as me posting any more wedding pictures....I'm not going to! Take that! he hee Reasons - Well, it takes so long, and 2- we have a lot of favorites! So therefore, I have created an account where you can see all of our professional pictures! I tried creating a snapfish account but for some reason, it keeps me listed from the UK and I've tried and tried to fix it as did Brendan...even creating new Email accounts but we had no luck! I don't usually go through snapfish anyways so I thought I'd see if my Shutterfly account offered something where we could display our pictures. I can see how this can become a great way for our families to see us and eventually our little family! The website is easy to remember: http://thetaltys.shutterfly.com/ I'm pretty sure you can add photos as well. I'm still working on trying to figure it out. I'll still add some photos to the site...like our Halloween costumes ( if we ever pull it all together!) and what not. I'll inform you on our blog if there is a new album on the shutterfly account. I hope you don't have to be a member to add photos. Well, that's all I've got for now!

Can you believe how fast this year has flown?! This time last year, I was counting down our wedding! Brendan and I went to a wedding this past Saturday. My friend, Emily made a gorgeous bride! I just love weddings!! It made us reflect on how intimate and personal our day was for us and how grateful we are to our amazing families and friends!


Congratulations to the new Langley's!



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Almost 4 months since we said "I do"

More to come. These are just a few of our favorites prior to, during, and right after the ceremony.

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!