Turner Fall Montage 2009 at OneTrueMedia.com

We hope you enjoy this montage of our latest adventures with Jack!

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What did you say?

So, look at this picture and say what animal this is aloud.

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This picture is from the Winter 2010 issue of

Tennessee Home and Farm magazine,

an excellent periodical published by the

Tennessee Farm Bureau insurance company.

If you use Farm Bureau as your insurance carrier,

you've received this issue just this week.

They've recently concluded their state-wide photo contest.

This picture was the 2nd runner up in the

"Things on a Fencepost" category.

I showed this picture to Jack the other night, and I said:

"Jack what is this?" and he answered,

"That's a turkey!" to which his mother gently corrected him,

"No, that's a hen."

BOO!

This video is from a few nights before Halloween, when I put on Jack's Spiderman mask and really scared him with it. When I took off the mask, he "got it" and realized it was just a game, and then he got into it himself.

Watch our 2 1/2 year old trying to scare his Mommy and Daddy. It's hilarious!

Feed the fish!

Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and click your mouse to feed the fish. Isn't that cool?!

Burks Fall Festival Fun For All

The annual fall festival at Burks UMC was a load of fun on Sunday the 25th. They had several Inflatables (Leslie tells me it's wrong to call them "blow-up things") and Jack was just big enough to get on a few of them this year. We got his face painted and had a big time. Mamaw and Papaw were also on hand to share in the festivities. See the big slide in the background of the 1st pic? We went down that thing 10 times. I let the boy slide down by himself the last two times! We all had a great time.

Florida lives up to expectations...

After moving 3 times this summer (if you know us, you know this already), we have been soooo looking forward to a vacation. So, we all put our collective heads together and picked out a beach house and started saving up our pennies and quarters.


Well, the rental company called and told us the house we rented was struck by lightening and caught on fire- sustaining some fire, water, and smoke damage. Seriously.

So, we put our collective heads together again, picked a new house and continued saving up and looking forward to relaxing. As evidenced above, we ate well throughout the week. We had some inclement weather, but God gave us ample time to relax on the beach. We rode bikes and watched movies, and even almost came to blows over a friendly game of Pictionary.



Here are some pics of our week:

Aunt Emmy and Jack horsing around.

Jack gnawing on an ear of corn.

The mandatory family beach pic.

So, the vacation was nice and relaxing, but sadly regular life beckoned us back.

Thanks to the Lamans for the DVD player- it was a great distractor on the road for Jack.

Life in the new house continues to be chaotic but good. Finding time to do things around the house is a huge challenge. We're still trying to get our routine togther and get pictures on the wall. Oh well, God is good and these are good problems to have!

There's more to come later.

There's a new post at...

http://www.turnerfamilytimes.wordpress.com/

Kreative Blogger

So, it looks like our friend Heidi over at Trace's Place, has nominated us for something we've never heard of, but we're honored to be mentioned: the Kreativ Blogger Award.

I don't know that it's anything official, but it's sweet to be mentioned.
Also, I'll pass along two nominations:
The Beard Report, and The Corder Family. Both blogs are imaginative and bring smiles to my face!

Here's the logo for the award, and it's a little feminine for my taste, but whatever, I suppose when you boil it down, blogging is just electronic scrapbooking!

And now here's the seven things you don't know about me (Sean not Leslie):

1.)      I have a sizable comic book collection, around 3500 issues. This makes me a huge nerd, but I don't care! I also have an online comic subscription, which makes me a double nerd.

2.)     I once scored a 291 out of 300 on the US Army physical fitness test. That's not world class or anything, but for an average guy, it's pretty good. And yes, I was in the US Air Force, but we worked with the Army so we had to do some of their stuff. It's push-ups, sit-ups, and a two mile run. Plus I did 18 pull-ups. I'm no where close to that stuff now. Big frown.

3.)     I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

4.)     I want to be the best Dad ever. I am not the best yet, but I am working on it. Jack and I do fun stuff a lot, but he's still a momma's boy, and the degree of our funness will increase as he gets older.

5.)     I want to be the best husband I can be to Leslie. God knows she deserves better than me, but I'm working on it.

6.)     I pluck the gray hairs out of my beard when no one is around. I won't admit to this in person though, and you won't be able to prove it, because you won't see any. Ha!

7.)     I like having a career that helps people. 

7a.)   My celebrity crush is Sandra Lee. Nice. Yes Leslie knows about it!

8.)     Not part of the above list, but I soon plan to move our blog to http://www.wordpress.com/, because when I update the blog on blogger, the formatting limits drive me absolute stark-raving nuts. Let me get an Amen from the congregation!

Fun Times @ Destin 2009

We were headed down to the beach today, and Jack says,
"I need to put on my baby soup!" He was trying to say, "bathing suit."

Right now, he's running up and down the hallway, taking orders from everyone in the living room as to what they want him to pick up at the grocery. He takes the order for water, eggs, bananas or whater and runs down the hall to grammy (she's the grocery store) then runs back down the hall to hand us our imaginary items. He's also suggested for us that we need sausage and broccoli.
I think he's advanced.

Boy - 2yrs old has opinion...details below!

Yesterday, I went to get Jack out of the bed, and he says,
"Good Morning" then he says, "I want pizza for breakfast." Wow.

When getting dressed, he always asks for a red shirt

as red seems to be his favorite color.

Today, I went to get him and he says, "It's Jacks birthday!"
Now actually, his birthday was 3 months ago, but isn't that funny? Wow. How great is that!

Here are some pics from Jack's cousin
Daxon's 7 year old birthday party:

Here, Jack and I calculate what speed he will reach when I let go!

     In this pic Jack is getted bounced,
but he didn't fall too many times.

Here's a nice pic of Jack watching the other children to

see if he can copy whatever mischief they're creating.

In this picture, there is a man at our house working on the floor.

You can see where Curious George is if you look closely.

"Jack, what'cha doing?"

"I'm watching that man Daddy."

Jack watching hard, and our guy, working hard.

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Finally, I bought these 'magic pills' at the Learning Express toy store.

You put them in warm/ hot water and they turn into
 animals in about 4-5 minutes!

Below is what the wild animal pack looks like 'hatched'.

An ostrich, rhinoceros, gazelle, lion, monkey, and hippopotamus.

We're looking forward to seeing what the sea life
pills look like this coming week.

I love having little boy and the stuff that comes along with.
It's great fun.

Rainy Sundays can still be fun...

Jack gives Mommy a spaghetti kiss at dinner!

Daddy's jealous!

All smiles after the kiss.

A quick pic of Jack in his tunnel.

Short Stories

So tonight, Jack and I were eating dinner and the phone rang... I said, "Who is it?" and he says with anticipation..."Emmie?"

Later during dinner, Jack finished eating his oranges and they left a little puddle of juice on his plate. He picked up the plate, spilling all the juice onto the table, of course. So I say, "Jack we don't do that." with a serious look on my face. Then he smacks his left hand down right in the juice! I grabbed his hand with a smile and admonished him to not do that again, but before I could blink my eyes... smack! Down came the right hand with a big grin! Man o man, he is fun!

No updates in a while so...

Here are some of Jack to catch everyone up on the summer....


Jack's Papaw built him a super custom workbench for his birthday,
and Jack was kind of excited about it.

Jack with Meredith and David at Mere's 2yr b-day party.
If you've never been to Imagination Station,
you should go; it's great fun.

Jack's Aunt Emmie is all ears.

Mommie knitted this hat.
Not necessarily for Jack, but it fits and looks good too.

Air Jack. That's two feet off the ground ladies and gents!
He did this about 35 times that day. Crazy!

Latest pic of the Turner Estate

You know it might be a bad day when...

Leslie goes to fix her oatmeal (like she does every day) and it turns out like this:

The House

Well, we've been in the house for a little over 3 weeks now, and we are settled in. I hung mirrors in the master bath last night, and only had to hang each one twice to get them right! We haven't had success with picking out rugs for that bathroom yet, and we've bought and returned about 12, so wish us luck with that. We did the same with the mirrors, and that's a fiasco that we were happy to bring to an end.

The grass is growing great with all the rain and the irrigation system (wow). I've mowed twice so far, and it's a nice feeling.

Turns out we're not the only Blue house on the street anymore, someone has built one up the road from us, but it is a lighter shade, and not as handsome as our Evening Blue.

To finish things off, here's a picture of Jack, outside looking in!

Jack's Two Year Photo Shoot

Jack had his 2 year-old photo shoot with Aunt Emily estprints.com and they turned out pretty nice. Here's the link to the album: http://picasaweb.google.com/TurnerFamilyTimes/JackTwoYearsOld?feat=directlink

And here's one that we took at of Jack and Mommy at Jack's friend Meredith's b-day party.

What a great day!

We had a little party on Saturday to celebrate Jack's 2nd birthday,

and it was great. Thanks again to everyone who came.

Here are some pics from the day.

Elmo was very tasty.

Jack is about to leap into action.

Jack gets a kiss from a pretty girl.

Jack gets another kiss from a different pretty girl!

A lot of Turners on the couch. We missed you Gavin- you would have made the picture complete. Get well soon!

Happy 2nd Birthday Jack

GrammyPatti made some delicious brownies
and Jack blew out his candle like a pro on Thursday night.
It seems like we just had him yesterday but here he is,
a big bouncing 33lb bowling ball of a boy.
He is so great and well loved by all his family.

Here we see Jack making his approach.

In this view, we see Jack using the 'no-hands' technique.


I don't know what a sugar-rush looks like in your child, but here's our version!

He would've eaten the candle too,
if we would have stopped taking it away from him.

**Major Announcement**

NO, Leslie is not pregnant! You're all so crazy!

JACK PEE-PEE'D IN THE POTTY TODAY

Here are the pics to prove it.

Latest House Picture

Well, here she is. The garage door is on, the concrete is poured, the siding is complete (despite that piece above the window) and the hardwood floors are in. Carpet and a few other details like the sod and appliances will come soon, and gosh...then we'll be IN!

By the way, call Kelly at Pratt if you're thinking about building a house.
Dude,the Pratt operation is a well-oiled house-building machine.

More good stuff...

Sesame Street: Feist sings "1,2,3,4"

A couple more funny Jack videos to watch.

Here, he plays a great secretary...

He's perfected the broad jump before he's even two years old!

Has your child ever been excited to eat?

I'm sure they have. Jack usually is.

Baa Baa Black Sheep

As read by Jack Turner...

He's saying "Cocksley, Cocksley..."
or at least that's what it sounds like, and he's using a British accent!

Here's another version...

Jack and the beanstalk.

Just kidding! It's actually "Jack and the magic ball."
And this little story happened not that long ago
at a place very very near.
Namely, the Creative Discovery Museum.
You know I'm going to get a lot of mileage out of that whole
"Jack and the...fill in the blank" and I'm looking forward to it!

Congratulations to the Lamberts!

Congratulations to our friends Nick and Jennifer!
Do you see what is in the picture?

That's right folks! TWO!
The lucky Mom is looking forward birthing
these babies in the spring of 2010,
please keep them in your prayers.

The very latest pics of the house!!!!

Jack loves the new cabinets!

Enjoy the slideshow...

Turner House as of June 21st

This is the house as it looks now. The yard has been leveled and all of the major holes have been filled in. The back yard was a major jungle of gotcha-vines and weeds, but now looks almost ready for grass seed. The siding is a little more blue than we expected, and a little less slate/grayish, but it's growing on us.

Jack surveys the back yard.
Garden tub in the master. The tile looks nice, and will look even better when it's clean.
Formal dining room with the moldings in and partially completed paint.
Shower in master bath. Looks good so far, we can't wait for the finished product. There is something big done almost every day.