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.