Misha

I'm so glad you are commenting now...maybe you will be starting a blog next.  You're on your way!!  I don't think John would mind:)

Ankle..

I want to thank all of you who responded to my picture with sympathy. But really, I am ok!  It looks a lot worse than it feels, so I suppose that's a good thing.  I'm going to church tomorrow, so, in order to cancel out the ugliness of my bruised foot, I decided to put some pretty nail polish on my toes.  I don't really think it worked though, it still looks pretty bad:)  Oh well!!

For those of you who don't know what happened, here's the story.......

I was having a great Driskell-McNeill tennis match and I went for a ball that was obviously way too out of reach....and....(OUCH) rolled my ankle.  I did it good to, none of this wimpy stuff!! That was on Monday, and today it's doing much, much better.  It just looks really bad!!

Well, I've got to go to bed now, I hope everyone is doing great!!  Thanks again for responding!!

 

Wordless Wednesday (Tabitha's idea:)..Sorry, it's a little graphic and, yes, that's my foot!!

Random Pictures

Here are some random pictures taken throughout the week....

This is Nate and his friend Cole (or "Cold" as Carter says).  His is one month to the day younger than Nate.  I got the opportunity to watch him for a couple of hours and boy did we have fun.  He is such a great little boy!!!!

Here's Nate with is special slippers on.  The Dillehay's got him these for his birthday.  He loves them....Thanks again Dillehay's!!

Carter loves to play with his blocks.  However, the only bad thing about these blocks is that he will take them out, play with them for 3 minutes, and leave them spread throughout the downstairs.  But in his defense, he has gotten better about putting them away:)

Here's Carter in his renovated (well, more rearranged than anything) playroom.  I spent 2 hours today cleaning, organizing, and rearranging while the boys played.  However, many of the toys that I was trying to organize somehow became the coolest toy that shouldn't be put away. So, without stating the obvious, Carter wasn't too big into me touching and rearranging his stuff.  Thought he did love it after I was finished.  Kids are so funny!!

5 Things That Make Me Smile...

So, Tabitha has challenged her fellow bloggers to upload pictures of 5 things around their house that make them smile.  This project was easy, except for the fact that their are too many things to choose from.  Here they are...I hope you enjoy!!

1.  As many of you know, Carter has a nose fetish.  I know it's strange, but it always makes me smile when I see him go after Nate's nose.  He puts his thumb in his mouth and rubs Nate's (or Bear Bear's) nose.  Every time he does it Nate turns away.  I guess I would too!!  :)

2.  My wonderful husband hanging out with his boys.  Please also take note of the mess surrounding them.  That's pretty normal these days!!

3.  Enough Said!!

4.  These are Carter's figurines for his train set.  He has labeled them as "Mommy and Daddy."  They do everything together; ride the train, get run over by the train, and kiss.  Please note the coffee and laptop in "Daddy's" hands....how appropriate!!

 

5.  Ok, so Jeremy may get upset at me for posting a picture of his office, but this does in fact makes me smile.  This is a picture of controlled chaos.  His desk is always loaded with work.  I appreciate all that he does so much.  He is the hardest worker I know and every time I step foot in his office, I am reminded of how grateful I am to have such a wonderful husband.

I love you, baby!!

Well, I hope you all enjoyed my pictures and I look forward to seeing everyone else's top 5!!

Happy Mother's Day!!

First of all, I wanted to say Happy Mother's Day to my Mom!!  You are such a wonderful women.  Thank you for always being there for me and my family.  Thank you for your help, support, encouragement, and wisdom.  It truly is appreciated!!!  I LOVE YOU!!

Secondly, I want to say Happy Mother's Day to all of my Wonderful lady friends out there.  You all are truly wonderful mothers.  I really mean that!!  You all deserve to be recognized on this day!!!  Relax....

Post from Dad Driskell

Dad Driskell signing on here...want to make that clear, because Kelly said if it is a bad post, then she wouldn't want to be blamed for it.



Just wanted to say Happy Mother's Day to all of you mothers out there, but especially to my wife. She does so much in our family and for our family. So we are very blessed. I want her to enjoy this weekend and she needs to go to Kohls right now (to take some time off from the boys) and instead, she is still trying to be super mom and stay home with us.



So, I'm letting all of you faithful blog readers that she is a little stubborn (in a good way). So if you want her to go and take some time to relax, please post a quick note saying "go take some time off and enjoy"
I HAVE CREATED A USERNAME AND PASSWORD for you so you don't even have to make one:
USERNAME: driskell_jeremy@hotmail.com
Password: blogpword
Thanks
Jeremy

Starting School Again...

Ok, so my posts may begin to be a little less frequent now.  I'm starting my online course and it seems to already be taking up a lot of time.  As if I had a lot to begin with:)  

I'm sitting here at 6:30 in the morning, getting ready for work, and I'm looking at Nate playing with his bottle (who knew how much fun a bottle could be).  I'm enjoying watching him then, BAM!! I start thinking of everything I should be doing.  Why can't I just enjoy every moment without all of a sudden thinking of how I can be more productive.  That devil is so mean!!  So, your probably thinking "Well, then why is she posting on her blog when she should be enjoying her son?"  Good question; and I really don't know why.  I guess I just really enjoy sharing these little moments with my computer (and all of you of course:).  Anyway, I'm sure you all understand what I'm talking about. Sometimes it so hard to enjoy those small things in life when your so busy.  The devil really tries to squeeze into every part of life, doesn't he?!

Off to work; thanks for reading!!

P.S.  Everyone please take a look at the newest blogger addition.....The Hasting Blog.  They just moved to Florida from Illinois....Yeah!!  

Myrtle Beach

Well, we just got back from our trip up to Myrtle Beach, SC to see my grandfather.  Thankfully, we also got the chance to get together with my aunt and uncle too (they were visiting from NJ). This was the first time that my extended family got to see the boys, so needless to say, we had a wonderful time.

The pictures here are from the Ripley's Aquarium.  The boys loved to see all of the different fish. But the sharks were the biggest hit of the day. Carter loved them and Nate had a smile on his face almost the whole time we were going through the water exhibit.  Well, we didn't actually go through, we went under:)  Anyway, it was really great because there was a conveyer that took us through the large aquarium, where we were able to see the fish swim above and around us.  It was really neat. Honestly, I really think this was Carter's favorite part. He was really intrigued by this conveyer; we had to keep reminding him to look at all of the sharks instead of the conveyer.  I have to admit though, I really enjoyed it too (I just tried to hide it a little better:)

Carter and Mommy

(Please note the "smile" Carter has in each of these pictures...It's his new thing!!)

     

                                                                           

  

This was Carter riding the pirate ship at the amusement park (don't worry, it wasn't full size). He loved riding all of the rides; at least the ones he could.  I had a lot of fun too because I was able to "supervise" Carter and ride on some of the rides with him.  It's fun to act like a kid again sometimes!!