The Beloved Puddle

Water, our most precious resource. Cities are built around it, it supports our crops, allows us to dig oil wells 5000 below the surface so we can pollute the entire planet, it cools us off, it quenches our thirst (as long as you add sugar and carbonation). It also amazes us in waterfalls, glaciers, icebergs, mighty rivers, and novelty fish tank aquariums. But most importantly, it's always a lot of fun. Have a look!

There are two types of people in the world. Puddle people and non-puddle people. I guess this shows which one we are. And we're proud of it!

Sneak Peak Inside

It's now been 3 weeks that we've been in our new house and we are loving every minute of it. We're not quite there yet (wherever there is), but I have a feeling that we're getting closer. At least we are at the point where most everything is presentable, some of the time. So we thought we'd share a few pics of the place we call home. The kitchen is definately Jacque's favorite part of the house. Now she has so much space she can make 4 peanut butter and jellys side by side without having to use the microwave as extra space. Now that's high class livin!

A slightly larger view of the kitchen that shows the feeding (at least in theory) area as well. This is where we put Connor every night and he refuses to eat his dinner and always asks for icecream or cookies instead.

The living room, AKA football worship room, whenever we can get past these next few boring months of only baseball. At least we have the World Cup so there is something to talk about besides boring ball.

Just in case we ever get too bored then this is where we come. Nothing gets the blood pumping like a few games of full contact ping pong war. If only I didn't have to sleep on the couch afterwards, I'd say it's the perfect sport.

I know it looks like curtains, but those are actually steel plates put in place to protect the wondows from shattering during our ping pong wars. I guess that's what happens when you play with a metal spiked ball.

This is the door to our backyard where we keep the tigers, dinosaurs, man eating plants, and a few little bunny rabbits. Can you guess which ones are Jacque's?

Our master bedroom is another aspect we like. It's huge!! So big, that we don't have anything to put in there to fill it up. Minor detail.

This is the opposite view in the master bedroom. We put some bookshelves in there so people will think that we read lots of books. I for one, am an avid reader, as long as there's more pictures than words on the page!

This is Arianna's room. We told her she could decorate it herself and gave her a hammer, some nails and a bunch of other stuff but so far she hasn't tried to do anything with them. Girls, go figure.

This is Connor's room, where all of his master plans and mischevious ideas are born up through the night and then he implements them the following day.

And last but not least, here's the guest bedroom/ whatever else we can't find a place for stuff it in here room. If you ever wanna come stay with us just let us know. We'll give you a good rate. *Breakfast not included. All local taxes apply. 500% gratuity demanded.

Ketchup Time...

...Or is it catch up time. Now that I'm in the South I really can't tell anymore, they run all their words together anyways. Sorry no pics of the inside of the house yet, although we've made more progress than BP has, we're still not quite ready. But we do have some pics that we can share with all of you (our adoring fans). Hopefully these pics will help make up for my delays in posting recently. You decide...

Little Man and Precious have recently decided that they enjoy eating together. Either that or they're secretly telling inside jokes about their mom and dad.

Connor has also decided to brach out and try some water sports action. He likes to pretend the big floaty ball is a ticking time bomb and he has to defuse it before it blows everyone to smithereens. Kids... what will they think of next?!

Afterwards, he attempted to eat all the snacks in the boating shop. Apparently 23 Swiss Cake Rolls is one too many.

With the watersports craze over and done, Little Man next decided to pick up the delicious game of Ping Pong. We think he's trying to revive the X-treme pong wars of 2007-08 at the now long gone and sorely missed Davenport Institute of Broken Ping Pong Paddles and Fist Fights.
For his first opponent he chose grandma. He thought it best to start small and work his way up the charts. Kinda like Rocky Balboa, only with a small white ball and no overly cheesy one liners.

The game was going well until grandma decided to try to use her "wisdom and experience" to bend the rules.

"What do you mean that ball was in?? It missed by a mile!!" Fortunately, Little Man had Arianna in his corner to call grannie on her shots. There's no messing with her, that's for sure!

After the little incident Connor decided to quit taking it easy on his opponent. "Here Grandma Honey, let me show you how it's done! You can call me the bus driver cuz I'm gonna take you to school. And just remember, the first lesson's free, just for you!"

Apparently, Ping Pong is a pretty tough and grueling sport, as neither Connor nor Arianna lasted very long after the match ended.

Perhaps, we'll have to remember this for future reference.

Salvation At Last!!

We did it!! After what seemed like an endless torment and the bank trying to dip us in honey and stick on a fire ant hill we finally prevailed and got our house. We moved in last week, but haven't had internet until now to post any pics. All you get to see for now is the outside, as the inside is still a big mess of stuff. But we're gettin there....