Rainy Friday!

Well, I watched "Nights in Rodanthe" last night, and it was really, really good! The scenery made me want to go to the beach and the love story made me want to hug my hunny! Like all of Nicholas Sparks' books, there was quite a story plot to make me sob yet again! I'll have to get the book and see exactly how great the story really is! The books are always better! If you love a good story and a good cry, read Mr. Sparks book "The Notebook". Boy.............I've never cried so much as with that one!!! Anyway.................It's raining today. We have to take the car to get it worked on later this afternoon, so hopefully it will be a good day! Everyone have a GREAT Friday!!!!!

More Changes to my blog!!!

O.k.! I took the music off of the blog.........no complaints.....it just got on MY nerves!!! :o) That's the way it goes! However.....now we all know that it can be done, huh? We're all still attempting to get over whatever it is that we have. I'm calling it a Cold, but I think it's something else. My dentist wouldn't work on me yesterday due to it! Just prolonging the inevitable. Getting ready to put the filthy little people in the bath-tub. Hope that they cooperate and don't try to "clean mommy" again tonight!!! :o) That's always fun. I rented "Nights in Rodanthe" and hope to watch it later after the kids get to bed. Hope that it'll be good!! I love Nicholas Sparks books, so I hope that this will be good too!

First bloody wound for Mackie!

This evening, the boys were playing underneath our dining room table and Mackie popped out crying and rubbing the back of his head. He's forever bumping his head on the table, so I didn't think anything about it until he turned around and I saw the RED in his curly blonde hair! Completely the over-reactor, I picked him up and rushed him to Mark in our bedroom and said "HIS HEAD IS BLEEDING!!!!!" Mark, ever the sane one in this family said to set him under the light in the kitchen. We did and found out that it was only a little puncture from one of the screws under the table. It stopped bleeding, and all was saved!!! I ended the event by getting out the camera......Mark looked at me and said "You're not putting this on the blog, are you?" To which I smiled and said "Uh-huh!"

This is Mackie at the scene of the crime...(note the table behind the small child with m&m stains on his cherubic face (well, maybe not too angelic at the moment, huh?))

And this is the bloody wound that was inflicted on my little person by the horrid table in our dining room! We should throw the thing out in the yard!!!!!

Saving your pictures!!!!!!!!

In between chasing children around the last few days, I've been frantically trying to get ALL of my pictures (from 2007-now) saved to something other than my computer! Our computer has been acting weird (we think it MAY be due to FaceBook, but are not sure). It keeps freezing up and being REALLY slow and then it'll be fine and dandy. So.................I thought that I would put them all onto CD's, but our burner is also acting up! I just knew they were all going to be lost!

So.....my back-up plan has become Walmart.com. At least, if the computer does crash, they'll be safe there. Mark mentioned getting thumb drives and putting them onto those and then put them in the safe, or someone else's safe in case something horrible happens to the house.

So............my point to all of this is...................ARE YOUR PICTURES SAFE???????? Do you have a back-up plan in case you lose your "originals". If you are like me, your pictures are your most valuable possessions (things, that is). So...........PLEASE put them onto something else as a back-up so that you'll know you've got them in case something happens!!!

Changes to the blog!!!

Hey everyone!!!

First of all.....I've not been posting much the last few days....so I've got some catching up to do!!!

As you may already have noticed, I added a Playlist for your listening enjoyment! The player is at the bottom of the blog posts, so just scroll down and switch songs or pause the music if you want to!!! Let me know if this addition causes the blog to pull up any slower than usual. One of my friends has DSL at work, but told me that she usually can't pull up the blog for some reason...it just freezes up her computer. So............let me know if it is messing with your system, and I'll take something off!!! E-mail me at parlierfamily@hotmail.com if it's a problem!!!

I've added my "March" color Scheme for the Irish in all of us! I like green! Reminds me of SPRING and stuff growing!!!

O.k.! That's it for now!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Today is the Day of LOVE!!! And Mark is working.....so we spent yesterday like it was Valentine's Day! We left the kids with Nana and Paw-Paw, and went out on the town! To Applebee's and to Wal-Mart!!! Whoo hoo! Wal-Mart!!! After that, we went to ASU to see a Hypnotist who was preforming his yearly show for the campus. It was really interesting to see about 20 people act completely insane! :o)

Anyway.....like I said, we did our Valentine stuff yesterday, so here are some pictures!!!

Creston got Chocolate and Mackie got a "woosh-woosh".

I meant to take the following picture BEFORE our "Date", but we ran out of time, so this one was taken last night aroung 11:15ish! I was happy that everyone was actually looking at the camera and smiling!

Here are some pictures of the Valentines I made for the Grandparents and also for our family....(got a creative streak all of a sudden! I've not been quite so crafty in a long time!!)

I left room to attach a picture of the boys that we took especially to attach to this, but Wal-Mart didn't get my on-line order, so we'll have to wait another few days to get the pictures!

I'm hoping that Mark can make a frame for this and we'll hang it on the wall...!!!

I love my little Valentines! All three of them!!!

Underwear Boy and Jammie Warrior!!!

They protect their room from invaders who threaten to come in and make things CLEAN!!!

Creston the Jammie Warrior!!! (shield in hand!)

((not sure where his sword is!)

Mackie, the Underwear Boy!!! Ready to Potty-Train with the best of them!

(I was doing laundry this morning and Mackie grabbed Creston's underwear and said "SHORTS!!" I said "Do you want to put them on?" he said "eeehhh!!!!" (which means YES in Mack-ese). We got them on and he found another pair. I said "Want these on your head?" He said "eeeeeeHHH!!!!" So.......here you have it!!! My fearless boys ready for battle.....after a quick photo op., and a swig of milk!

Take that!!!!

Then, they decide that battling unseen forces isn't much fun, so they opt for the ever popular Brother tackle Brother routine! Underwear Boy has control for the moment...

Jammie Warrior quickly squiggles his way out of Underwear Boy's hold and gives him a kick to the old head......(Good Lord!)

He's alright! U-Boy does his Happy Dance! Now he squeals with excitement!

Now he just trots around the room happy as a clam that he's got drawers on his head!

Yaaawn! This protecting our room is a tough job.....but somebody's gotta do it! NAP TIME!!!

And it snowed....yet.....Again!!!

Here's what our day looked like here on the Mountain! I decided to take a few shots of the snow coming our was from Tennessee! All of these pictures are looking towards Holston Mountain and the Butler area.

Blue skies & few clouds this morning...BEAUTIFUL start to the day!

Just a few hours later....Overcast!

Flurries starting!!

And......Snow!!!

We've probably got 3-4" now (at about 10:45pm). Supposed to do a lot tonight! We'll see how correct the weather people are this time!!!

Back again...

I've not felt much like blogging this past week...I thought that I'd better get back to it, though, or I'd be backed up all over again like a few weeks ago!

I'm in the process of trying to find a Valentine picture for my blog to be a bit more festive. Several of my friends use blog design sites to change their backgrounds with the seasons, so I might try to do that at some point in the next day or two....just scared that my whole blog will be zapped into nothingness!!!

Anyway....we're all doing fine...just getting back into the swing of things. My mom and Ron are still in town...think they'll be here till at least Wednesday. She's been trying to help tie up the loose ends with some of Grandma's things before she goes back out on the road. It's just hard on everyone.

Please continue to pray for my Aunt Corvana. She lost her Husband in November, now she's lost her Mother too. She needs a lot of thoughts coming her way.

Hope to post some things from the last few days on here sometime today...Mark has to work on "building" a Fire Class on his Power Point, so I'm not sure how much computer time I'll get.

Everyone take care and I'll post again soon!!

Paw-Paw's 74th Birthday Party!!!

Well, my children have a Groundhog for a Grandfather......:o) He was born on Groundhog's day, so we always pick on him about that!!!!!!

We all went to eat lunch at Golden Corrall for his brithday dinner this afternoon, and then had Mack and Dorothy come up tonight to watch some of the SuperBowl and eat cake & Chips/Dip.

Yummy Lemon Cake and Cheese Dip!! Sweet and Salty!!! (You would think that this was Creston's Party! Look at that grin!)

Here's Creston's......oopsie.....Paw-Paw's cake! Where's Paw-Paw???????

Here's Creston aggravated because Paw-Paw blew out his own candles and didn't let Creston do it!!! Mark re-lit them so Creston could blow them out too!

Sometimes, Creston will smile like this and although it looks completely goofy, I think it's cute!!!

This is our attempt at getting a "group" picture....notice Mackie is getting down no matter what!

This is as good a Photo Op. we got!!! Creston with a chip in his mouth and looking like a jigalo with his pajamas unbuttoned!!!

Happy Birthday Paw-Paw!!!!!

Ava's First Birthday!!!

Today, we went to the First Birthday Party for Ava Renee Zoellner!!! Her parents are Heather and Jay Zoellner!!! She is Mark's third cousin, but there's so many of us related up here, we just like to call it cousins and end it at that!!!! She is an absolute doll-baby!!!! Soooo pretty!!!! Here's a little slide-show of the pictures that I took!

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