Marti the Magician

Some photos from Debbie's camera. Yes.... cheesy. It's my hat and wand, but not the entire ensemble... ;)
Marietta still hasn't figured it out. HA!

Happy Birthday Uncle Cody!

Suzy and I made some magic wands to help celebrate Uncle Cody's Birthday. I laughed so hard when she said, "That's a great idea! Because Uncle Cody is a real Magi-hackson." I'm sure she didn't really say Michael Jackson and I know it was meant to be toddler speak for magician. However, it sure made me laugh!


Suzy wanted sprinkles on hers.
I thought they turned out great. Debbie and Cody thought it was "sweet".

My favorite part was that I was able to pull out some of my old magic stuff. It was fun to entertain the pro. I think Suzy may finally be old enough to understand object permanence well enough to make it worth while. I used my disappearing / reappearing box to present the wands to Cody and Suzy actually "got" it and thought it was "amazing." I may have to dust off some of the ol' magic tricks from way back in the "Marti the Magician" days....

(I hesitated so long to bring out the tricks for my own kids because of a really traumatic/comical toddler birthday party when I was in my prime. I made an egg disappear and the kid was not impressed. Why? It had nothing to do with my skill or abilities. He simply wasn't impressed because as he said, "You just used an invisible egg, that's all." Because to a toddler, invisible is highly unimpressive..... I should have only done the balloon animals. THOSE were impressive....)

Close to Home

You may have heard that a plane hit an office building here in Austin this morning. It hit pretty close to "home". Rob used to work close to this area, but he is now on the main campus. The plane actually hit next door to our church. The building complex has three sister buildings. Our church uses Echelon III for our adult Sunday Schools. Echelon II is between Echelon III and our church children's building. Several of my friends were there assembling crafts and such for our Sunday School children's classes. Pretty scary. Praise God, all but one person is accounted for at this time. Our prayers are with the family of the missing worker, the family of the pilot, emergency workers, and those who have been tramatized today.

The news is reporting that the pilot was heading for the IRS office housed in this building. He had a teenage daughter and a wife. He apparently set his own home ablaze before intentionally crashing into this building. The FBI is currently investigating.

This is our church.
This is our children's building.
Our Church parking lot.
Although I am not positive, as these stones are pretty common in this area, but this could possibly be the side yard of our Children's play yard.

Photos from a news website...

Feeling the Love and a Juice Box

So.... here's a big photo for you. Something is wrong with my yahoo account and so I haven't received comments on the blog since April. Nothing like a one way conversation, right? Basically, I figured no one was reading here anymore so I started to just upload the smaller photos. Per chance, I opened up some settings and found 62 unread comments! FUN! So... since you DO care, I will start making the photos bigger. I feel so loved again. ;)

Here's a start.... Andy's first juice box at Nate's birthday party. I think he liked it.

Great Wolf Lodge

Happy Valentine's Day 2010

Awkwardly Zesty

When we were dating, I asked Rob to describe me in one word. His word? "Zesty". I promptly sent him some saltines. Yup, I'm sure THAT is what impressed him. ;)

Anyhow, I'm flipping through some photos I took today of Suzy's little dance recital. I'll post more later. I think this one will be very cute if I can edit it correctly.
This one made me just chuckle and chuckle. Then, I had to laugh harder when Rob's reaction was....
"Ah, yes. She's just like you. Really pretty, but a little awkward."
What?

A Poo-Chi must see

My Poo-Chi loves you. In case you haven't seen it yet, this is hysterical!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a2DQC-ghio

Spice

Just some fun with the Rice Vermacilli packaging over-wrap

Name this Caption

Leave your favorite caption in the comments. ;)

Art

Suzy and Andy LOVE to do crafts. I found this great easel at the neighborhood garage sale and didn’t know really where to put it. So, I just decided to make a “craft area” in the kitchen. One of the best things I have done. I brought down an old cabinet and now have all of the supplies I need very handy. Rebekah gave Suzy this water doodle mat for her birthday and it is definitely on the list of all time favorite things in our home.

We Still Love Our Colts

We were so very sad to see our boy Peyton throw that pick 6..... ;)But we are still, and probably will be for a long time.... Indianapolis Colts Fans!
Rob married into it and he's a good sport about it. He does, however, tease me mercilessly about how I can't name any of the other players. Honest? I was shocked to know that "Smith, Jones, Johnson, and Brown" didn't get me too far. Plus, I have no idea what the intro sentence to this blog means. I'm simply restating something Rob said Peyton did incorrectly. Oh well, I guess I really am in it for the commercials. That, plus Peyton seems like such a great guy. No, I don't really know him super personally, but he spoke "real nice" with some of my kids back in the Midwest and up there, folks just talk all sweet about him all the time. Plus, I know someone who knows someone.... Ha!

Bring It ON!

WE ARE READY!!

More to post later.... After the win, of course. ;)

Andy's Second Haircut

Since the first haircut was just a trim, we went all out for the second one. He loved it.

Random iPhone photos from January

This photo had to be taken. It proves that I have the best YMCA ever. All the balloons had Andy on complete happy drive.

One of Suzy’s favorite things to do is to ask Papop and Grammy to take her to Red Robin. The best part is the car. I work very hard to suppress the ick factor.


I love how Andy carries his blankie everywhere I will let him.

Suzy takes her big sister role very seriously. She tries to teach Andy all kinds of things. Some things I wish he weren’t ready for yet.


I am at a loss for words for captions here.

I love that I had my iPhone near by for this shot. This is such a regular occurrence around here. My sweet, sour, spicy Suzy. I love to laugh with you.

Distracted

It's a good thing it was a good sermon. This was very distracting for me a few rows up at church. Sweet friend, sweet babe. Sweet iPhone. ;)

My little helpers

(Below are the same words from the page. I'm making a compromise of not uploading separately from my year book while also not requiring others (ahem... my sister) to squint to read the words.)


My friend, Tsh, is writing a book and asked if I would take some photos of how to fold a fitted sheet. When I was finished, Suzy wanted to take some photos of bunny taking a nap.

A highlight twice a day around here is dog feeding. Both kids scamper quickly to help. On their own, they worked out that Suzy is in charge of Nala, and Andy is in charge of Katie. I laugh because it is so fitting in regards to the personalities.

Glitter dough

Suzy's new trick

Suzy was so proud of herself. She can climb up to the bar and jump off. All By Herself. I must admit, I was pretty proud of her as well. ;)