Turner Times

Cheat Post!

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:08:00 +0000

Happy Birthday Ellie

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:25:00 +0000

Ellie had her 2nd birthday this week. Lot's of celebrating has been going on. Last Sunday we went to my parents to have a family birthday dinner. She was very spoiled! She got a unicorn stick horse, pom-poms, a very cute outfit, a cool Princess ride, some play dishes and food, coloring book, crayons, a Nemo key remote, and I made cupcakes. After Uncle Steve and Auntie Sue (Soups) built her Princess ride (THANK YOU!!!!) the kids had fun with it, and Ally liked pushing Ellie around on her new ride. It was a fun time.

A few days later she got a surprise birthday gift from her Grandpa Hodges, who she hasn't even met yet! He got her the cutest little dolly, some cute hoodies, jeans, hat and gloves. He also sent some pictures of where he is living and some of him too. I haven't seen him since I graduated high school, so that was cool. We would love to go visit him some day, so Brian and Ellie can meet him and we can see Georgia.

For her Birthday on Thursday, her Gram called her and left a singing telegram from her and her preschool kids. So cute! Her Auntie Cameron called and left a message too. Thanks! We get to see our Chico family for Thanksgiving so we are very excited about that. She also got a kitchen set from mommy and papa, and papa got her a new video, "Up", some Sponge Bob (bum-bum) sweatbands, a cool, green sock monkey, and a balloon. She also got a new doggy stuffed animal from Sasheen, who came with a name, Rocky. Sasheen has babysat Ellie a few times and she has a tiny doggy named Rocky. Ellie sometimes says, "Sheen, Rocky go?" Like, where is Rocky, when am I going to see Sasheen again?" First thing this morning when she saw the doggy, she said, "I wanna Rocky." Then she wanted to play kitchen. She loves it. Plus she got some more play food for it too.

Lucky Girl!

Halloween Fun

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:29:00 +0000

This video is dark, but little Nemo is still a cutie!

Photo and video at www.OneTrueMedia.com

More Halloween pictures below!

Halloween Night

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:42:00 +0000

Grammy and Grandpy came over to join us for some trick and treating. Ellie was so cute in her little Nemo outfit, and it kept her pretty warm too. She was so tickled that people kept giving her candy! A few houses she thought were, "scawy" but she usually was brave enough to go get the "can-ey" anyway. After awhile Papa and Grandpy headed for home, while the girls stayed out a bit longer. When we got to our street Ellie was done and just wanted to be carried, until we got to the next house then she wanted down.

After the trick or treating we got home, passed out a bit of candy, and headed for dinner with Grammy and Grandpy. At Chili's, Ellie got a coupon for a free dinner as a treat! It was a fun Halloween night.

VOTE For Ellie!!!

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:39:00 +0000

Please go to this site:

http://www.kosy.com/pages/disney_on_ice/

and vote for Ellie, #215!

I love Fall!

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:10:00 +0000

Pumpkin Time!

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:48:00 +0000

Last night we carved our pumpkins. Ellie did a most of the face work, and Brian did most of the carving. I cleaned two of them out, one was given to us already cleaned out! I also carved the little one, and even roasted pumpkin seeds. Then we went outside to do a candlelit pumpkin preview. I think Ellie had fun, after we blew out the candles and started going back inside, she said, "I want again." She didn't quite understand that we had to wait one more night.

Before we went inside, we saw a deer in the street, tried getting a picture but it was too dark. Later that night, that same deer must have had a hankering for a midnight snack. One of our pumpkin lids is gone, and one is munched on, and another pumpkin face has been munched on too. I wasn't sure if deer ate pumpkins, otherwise we would have brought them inside last night. Oh well, hope it was tasty!

Fun Times!

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:41:00 +0000

Choppin' Broccoli.....or zucchini

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:08:00 +0000

Ellie is starting to be a little bit of a helper. Its either that, or she just loves being under foot, and constantly in the way! Gram had the cutest apron for her, and then she put her to work chopping the zucchini for dinner. She mostly liked stabbing the zucchini, so eventually I took over, but it was cute while it lasted!

Playin' in the sand

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:51:00 +0000

Ellie's Gram and Grandpa bought her a sand turtle, and she been able to play in it a few times while we've been here. At first she wasn't so sure about it. She hesitated, even when Grandpa went in it to show her how. After a few minutes though, she had a lot of fun. They brought her out lots of fun stuff to play in the sand with. She even had a Ronald McDonald ready for Halloween, dressed as Frankenstein!

I was off to Paradise to watch a movie, so later that night she took me out to show her sand turtle. She really wasn't happy when I told her it was time to go inside for a bath though.

Chico Ellie

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:22:00 +0000

Fun in the leaves!

Ellie and I are having fun visiting Brian's mom and dad in Chico. Jean hasn't been feeling great, but I think Ellie is a bit of some good medicine. Cameron and Matt came too, on Saturday, and stayed the night. We got to go to lunch with Grandpa Great too. It has been fun just hanging out and letting them have some Ellie time.

Putting Ellie to work!

Having fun with Mango!

Halloween Preview

noreply@blogger.com (Brian) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:08:00 +0000

I don't post here much but I wanted to share some of the pictures of Ellie in her costume. I hope you girls are having fun in Chico, love you.

Pumpkins

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:42:00 +0000

Last Saturday, Ellie and I, hung out with Allison and Max at a Pumpkin patch. The kids had fun, runnin' around, playin' in dirt, pickin' out pumpkins, goin' through the maze, and playin' on tractors. It was a great fall day.

First Haircut

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:39:00 +0000

O.K., the title is a little lie, I've given Ellie a bang trim a few times, so this wasn't her first haircut. But, last Saturday we took her to Cookie Cutters and she got more than just her bangs trimmed. The place was so cute, with little cars for them to sit in, Ellie went right to the little pink car without us even telling her to. Her hairdresser, Teresa, did a great job, and Ellie had fun watching a Princess Barbie DVD, she even gave Ellie a cute little up-do, a balloon, and a lolly-pop. Wish getting my haircut was as much fun!

Turner Theater

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:47:00 +0000

For the past four weeks we've been enjoying movie nights in our backyard, putting our projector to work on the back of our house. We did it once before, sometime in July, before we had a nice yard. We watched Twilight, while Brian's parents were visiting, and we invited my parents too. It was fun, we had popcorn, drinks and candy. Nobody could lay down because we only had dirt, rocks and weeds in our yard, but we did provide some chairs. More than half way through the movie, it started to drizzle, so movie night was moved inside.

Since then, the Turner Theater has had their Grand Re-Opening, and we have been enjoying our nice comfy yard. The first weekend I actually took some pictures that I never put up on the blog. I've been super busy with this new job. (Hopefully I'll get better at managing my time)

Movie Night - Austin Powers
September 11, 2009

Man - They sure do grow up fast!

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:04:00 +0000

Driving already!!

This morning on our way to swimming class, I went in the garage, put the bags in the car, and then remembered I needed my purse. I had left the passenger door opened, and was gone just a minute, and this is where she got to! How did she crawl over all those bags without getting stuck, or hurt?

Ol' Mother Hubbard went to her cupboard and found a naked el-bell.

Outside Fun Time!

New Barbie Bike

She can't really figure it out yet...but she loves putting stuff in the seat cubby hole.

Dinosaur Museum

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:59:00 +0000

Before I started back to work I took Ellie to Thanksgiving Point to visit the Dinosaur Museum. Fun time, although I think she'll enjoy it more when she is a little older. The water play area was too big for her to play in without me holding her. She still had fun playing in the wet sand, and of course she loved eating it too!

Little Mermaid

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:36:00 +0000

Ellie is so lucky to have so many cousins! Yesterday we went to my sister and brother-in-laws house for a BBQ Birthday celebration for my nephew Wyatt. Happy Birthday Wyatt!!! Ellie went in the pool, for a second, then played in the hot tub with her cousins for awhile longer. When it was time to go home, they let us take the girls old Little Mermaid table and chairs. Ellie had to play with them when we got home, then first thing this morning she dragged them downstairs so we could take them outside.

Thank You Auntie Bonnie & Uncle Brad!

Jen is officially a teacher!

noreply@blogger.com (Brian) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:56:00 +0000

Congratulations on surviving your first day teaching the 3rd grade! It took a lot of perseverance to get to this point. It would have been easy to quit along the way and there would have been some good excuses, but you did it and I am so proud of you.
This reminds me of my favorite poem and it seems fitting.

Robert Frost (1874–1963).

1. The Road Not Taken


TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Finally!!!

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:05:00 +0000

After many years in our house, finally this past summer we've been trying to get our backyard done, and it got done today! We still need to finish one more side to our fence, get some kind of deck covering, and many plants/trees/flowers/stuff, but other than that it looks great!

May 2009

August 19, 2009
This is how it ended up looking before we fired the first landscaper. Took him over a month to get this far! SO Frustrating!!!! The next guy fixed all the mistakes the other guy made, and still had it finished in two Saturdays!

Today!
Ellie really is happy about the yard, even though she looks pretty upset in that last photo. She was tired of us trying to make her sit still for a cute picture!

Sleepover Saturday

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:35:00 +0000

Ellie had her first slumber party over at Grammy & Grandpy's last Saturday. She has spent the night over there before, but this was a slumber party with all the granddaughters. They spent the night scrapbookin' away. Looks like they had a fun time.
Check out my mom's blog to see the fun!

$2 Tuesday

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:33:00 +0000

Last Tuesday we headed back over to Thanksgiving Point to enjoy Farm Country. Ellie had so much fun feeding the goats, pigs, ducks and getting a big kiss from a cow! We saw bunnies, baby horses, turkeys, llamas, chickens and even went on a hayride. Ellie went home with a toy horse, that she keeps calling a ella (elephant) and her own red cowboy hat. Now she can wear her hat when we do the Giddyup song and dance. The regular price is only $3.50, and Ellie is still free, so I'm hoping we can go back again before next August. It was a fun way to spend a few hours.

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Giddyup!

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:18:00 +0000

This is a little dark, but I think it's cute anyway!

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I hope you'll dance . . .

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:25:00 +0000

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I made this video awhile ago, I just never posted it. This is from Cameron and Matt's wedding, and a moment of dancing at Disneyland. Ellie loves to dance, and I wanted to remember that. It was too dark to get video of her dancing at the wedding, but she had so much fun!

KHS Fan!

jenxoxobri@yahoo.com (Jen) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:45:00 +0000

Last night I was looking for a blanket in my cedar chest, and found this old tee. Ellie wanted to take off her shirt and shorts immediately so she could put on mama's tee. When it was time to get into her jammies, she cried and wanted to keep the tee shirt on. So, I let her sleep in my shirt, and just put on some jammy bottoms instead. I didn't think anything about it until I dropped Brian off at work this morning and wanted to stop by the grocery store to pick up a few things. She looked like a poor little girl in her mommy's clothes, with no jammies of her own. I wanted to say, I promise, she does have cute jammies, I don't make her wear my clothes!

Go Cougars!!!