38...

You heard me right folks....

only (drum roll please)

38

hours left to go!!!!

This next week is my last week of free labor...everyone tells me "wow, that went by really fast." Hummm, no...no it did NOT. It was 600 long hours spent in a windowless office (otherwise known as the Tornado Shelter at work. That's what the sign on my office door says). I did meet some great people at the DARS south Austin field office. I learned ALOT! But now it is time to come back home and do my most important job...CEO of Zanes-Gordon Inc.

Easter...

Easter this year carried on our fun tradition of "The Great Hunt." We had TONS of kids and TONS of eggs...it looked like the Easter Bunny dumped ALL it's eggs on the lawn we had so many eggs. We LOVE our friends the Appels, so happy we got to spend time with you guys. Many of us are on the move and so this will be one of our last times to get together. Good times with good friends, how blessed are we.

Party Hardy...

First, you bake the cake...
then you make some yummy food...

add a big o' pile a kids...

light the candles...and it's party time!

Make a wish...

Birthday snuggles...

Teaching Elliot the fine art of RIPING open presents...

Princess happens...

enjoying the show...

Lexi...the happiest baby EVER

the Carlson MEN...

Hot mommas...between the three of us we have eight kiddos (Jessy has 50% of them living in her house)!

And that is how we party!!

2...

Today is April 11, 2009...Elliot is 2....
2 cute...
2 smart...
2 cool...
2 sweet...
2 much fun!

My state's bigger than yours....

So the boy from Alaska came to visit the boy from Texas... it's been quite a while since we saw him last...
we cruised around town...

showed him the sights...

the boys went to a concert together....

the girls now know who exactly who crazy "uncle Andrew" is...

Newt remembers why it's good to have friends...

we laughed....alot....

it's funny to be around someone who knows so much of your history. I don't remember life without Andrew, and yet I haven't seen him in four years, our lives are light years apart in details, but being around him some how feels like home, it feels natural and right. And yes Andrew, your state IS bigger than ours!

In a word....

Blessed

Loved

Sassy

So I'm just sit'n there....

So I'm just sit'n there in my big plastic lawn chair with my husband by my side, enjoying the lovely evening, watching the girls play in the yard... when I hear a sound that after almost 11 years of marriage I know can be only one thing...
....my husband farting....

I LOSE it, laughing so hard I start to cry, trying very hard not to pee my pants.

He claims that it was all planned, that he set it up, that it was on purpose...I believe none of it.

People, they don't call him "Tooter" for NOTHING!

Race...

On your mark.... get set....
GOOOO!!!!

Okay, so maybe I was a little too competitive...

maybe I shouldn't have tripped the two year old.

She's such a trooper,

just dusts herself off, and away she goes!