meet the faulkners

thanks faithful readers!  we hit a new high today of 248 hits today…nice…now if only 248 people would leave a comment so i’d know it just isn’t my mom checking the site 200 times a day scouring for new deacon pics…

at clayton’s office again just praying that the comcast overlords will take pity on me and come before saturday so we can have phone/cable/internet again.  you’d think they’d be tired of me calling everyday asking about cancellations and rush orders, but they don’t tire of it…

i am busy planning a fun summer schedule for deacon and i.  i’m thinking little gym on mondays, swim lessons on tuesdays, library storytime on wednesdays, maybe houston highlights on thursdays and the friday can be whatever.  all i know is that i can not watch the wiggles for 8 hours a day for the next 6-8 weeks.  i bought deacon a fun shirt to wear on friday (the 4th!) when we go to one of three different celebration opportunities…the shirt says ‘mom’s little sparkler’ which is funny b/c last year on the 4th he wore a little onesie that said ‘mom’s little firecracker’….i think i’ve started a tradition!

no we haven’t been crushed by moving boxes.  we just don’t have internet at home yet, so that is why the news of our arrival here in h-town has taken so long.  we built a great box fort in our new place and hopefully will get unpacked today and on with life.  besides an ant problem, our new apartment is fun!

back to unpacking!

last post in fort worth, tx. movers will be here in about 7 hours to load us up and then we head south. it is a weird feeling to be so sad to leave something behind but so excited at what is ahead.

clayton is packing this computer as i’m typing, so farewell fort worth!!!!

found the ethiopia olympic coke cans at target in lake worth, tx!!! i only mention it because people keep finding our blog by searching for ethiopia olympic coke cans…so, check the stores now!

we were at target for supplies and stuff and i walked by the endcap with all the coke on it. i wasn’t even going to look at the cans b/c i checked this endcap about 2 weeks ago (and i checked every case last time! yeah, like 20+ cases..). but i thought to myself ‘i’ll just check one and if it isn’t ethiopia, i’ll give up. and i checked the case and it was ethiopia! i kind of screamed like i just won a small lottery!

so, there you have it. i’d take a pic of us with a can, but packing does not lend itself to my cuteness…so maybe tomorrow!

sorry for no post in long time…we are now nomads in houston. clayton got back on wed. and we’ve been preparing for the move down here in houston. we are living out of our suitcases, but i think we have an apartment lined up for next week when we make the final move down here. it is a nice apartment complex with a work out room (while we may never work out there, i think i burn calories just typing the word ‘work out room’), a sweet pool (time to get tan) and a nice new home with no yardwork required!! love it! also, it is less than one mile from clayton’s new gig at covenant lutheran church.

i’ve been wikipediaing lutheranism to try and figure out the differences from baptist. i still don’t understand what makes the 2 denoms different. any ideas?

i’ve got tons of great pics and stories from just the past 4 days, but my camera cord is in fort worth. i’ll try and post them on monday or tuesday when we get back to fort worth.

deacon says happy father’s day!!

has everyone seen the new coke cans for the olympics? they have made different coke cans for many countries. this past case i had was for russia. then on the box i saw this…

i know it is backwards but the little word says ethiopia and that is coca-cola in amharic. is it dorky to get really excited about my new mission to find and own the ethiopian coke cans???? because i am excited!

in sugar land apple store…not paris as the pic suggests…will give update on life tomorrow!!!!

today we went to my friend ferrah’s home for a little swt girlfriend get-together/shower for seana and jason. it was super fun to see the girls and their families. ferrah does the best shower throwing around! it was a lobster club theme…from the friends tv show where phoebe says ’see…he’s her lobster’. it was so fun…i didn’t get enough pictures b/c deacon was busy throwing my phone in the trash and tongue kissing their dog.

and we also got hawaii gifts from clayton’s parents and there was a little fish squirter in the box for deacon…he does not like this fish. actually, he wants the fish to die. he won’t touch the fish and when you show the fish to him he shakes his head ‘no’ and this afternoon he tried to kill the fish with his shoe. he seriously beat this fish down with his shoe…it was hilarious. but i don’t know why he hates this fish so much? he also didn’t want to play with any of the plastic lobsters at ferrah’s today…funny.

this is just possibly the most brilliant idea i’ve heard. ever. seriously, it is what the internet and our money should be used for. check it out.

teach a man to fish.