Laptop Pictures, your FAVORITE!

I should really just have a blog devoted to the pictures one can take on a Mac laptop. I think I would have a pretty big following.... of my friends and family that already follow my blog. Clancy and Matt came to visit me after work one day and these are the pictures that followed.

Matt's hot. I think him and Clancy are making the same face.

Not your best angle baby boy... Auntie Carrie needs to teach you your camera pose.

Oh, much better... this is a good power pose. You show those highlighters who is the boss! Clancy is the boss! Boss of my sanity level and sleep level and bicep strength level. AMAZING how strong those puppies get just holding him and for once in my life something on the left side of my body is stronger than the right (b/c you carry him with the left arm to free up the right.. for those of you who didn't catch that). He is crawling now. HOLY COW why didn't someone tell me my house was so dirty and all this stuff was all over the place. He puts stuff in his mouth I'm convinced teleported to my house b/c I do not remember it being there before. This morning we found carpet in his mouth while buckling him in the car. CARPET? The other day I found some sort of tape, parts of a noodle, pine needle, and my favorite dirt. ?????????? I give up... no I don't b/c if I do he will choke and die. Just realized my life has been turned upside down and I wish I lived in one of those houses that is decorated so modern they don't have any furniture, carpets, or stuff... just air. Air is the major decorating focal point. Clancy try to choke on air... ha ha! Mom 1, Clancy 0!

All Kinds of Activities

What's been going on with the Debricks?

1. Clancy is wearing 18 months clothes b/c he needs the extra room in the waist. I don't have the heart to tell him he is only 8 months old. He doesn't need a complex.

2. Matt and I are going to Reno the first weekend in June for a sheep show. I've never been to a sheep "convention" of this sorts. Nor Reno. Is it like a Star Wars convention and everyone dresses like their favorite sheep breed and we tour various booths and discuss if the Death Star really could've made foot fungus disappear? No? I kid. It's where all the big names in the sheep biz show up and show and sell their sheep. Big deal... Big DEATH STAR deal! I'll try to have pictures for you. Clancy isn't going... OMG it's a date. What should I wear?

3. I signed up to run the Portland Marathon 10/10/10. St. Agatha is my team name. I'm the only one in my team. I'm accepting applications. St. Agatha is one of the patron saints of breast cancer.

4. Matt spends most of his time either in the sheep barn, sheep field, feed store, his truck, the trailer attached to the truck, or home.

5. We are coming to Iowa in June. We will leave probably the 17th or 18th and arrive in Omaha area the 20th or 21st. Clancy and I will be at mom and dads most of the time. Matt will be sheeping it with Tyson "big deal" Rule in Haywarden (sp?) Iowa and then down to Missouri for the Midwest Ram Sheep Show (something like that). Is there an update I typed that didn't involve sheep in it?

So pictures... pictures... pictures... I think they are in the Death Star.

What's new...

You know what's not new... this background and my pictures! Good lord I'm bad at this blog stuff.

Easter...

Clancy and his great grandpa Ben. Yes, Clancy is 25 now and in med school. I mean really, doesn't he look so old? When did that happen? I swear I've been paying attention.

Our little Catholic....

Helmet boy

I call this "Natalie At Window"... part of her wander aimlessly collection.

WE did it! They are Catholics. We continued the line of many many many many generations of Wolf, Reinig, and Hensley Catholics. Check that off the list of accomplishments.... whew. I did feel like this was the first milestone I "got done" in Clancy's life. Baptism then off to first day of school. I was Natalie's Godmother and Dad was her surrogate Godfather. Ann was Clancy's Godfather and Matt's brother Mike was his Godfather. It is a tradition in the church that the babies were all white, so no I was not trying to go for the Elvis during the Vegas years with Clancy's clothes.

Joe and Deb are like grandparents to Clancy and will be wonderful spiritual leaders for him, probably better than his mom and dad! Doesn't Clancy look like a doll in that picture? It is him right?

THE DRESS... PUFFY SLEEVES!

Clancy did really well with the water, but tried to avoid the "holy spirt"... Matt leaned over and whispered it was his side that was causing all the trouble.

Natalie wasn't sure why we wanted to put her hair in that bowl... and really... she brings up a good point.

Love this picture... PUFFY SLEEVES AND BOW IN THE BACK... wish I could wear that dress.

AGH... why are they sooooo cute. Can't stand it sometimes.

Baptism

Clancy and Natalie are getting baptized this Sunday at Mt. Angel Catholic Church after the 10:00 mass. I am positive they will be the oldest kids there since you are suppose to baptize your kids when they are still considered newborns and don't have "chub" everywhere or can verbally tell you NO!

Natalie's dress... oh my gosh Natalie's dress. When I first saw it I asked Ann when we can go wedding dress shopping for Natalie. It's all fluffy white satin with pretty little beads work on it. PUFFY SLEEVES! The shoes of course are to DIE FOR (in a high pitch voice).

Clancy's dress... is not a dress, boy's just get to wear satin white suits with crosses on the lapels. It is a super cute outfit, but still not a pretty little girl's dress.

Matt's dress... oh is so super fun! It is yellow, pale yellow with pink flowers and blue rainbows and lots of purple bows throughout.

So look for pictures after Sunday.

And I'm back..

Sorry for the blog hiatus. I just needed a break from all THE PRESSURE! Just kidding, there was no pressure except the own I put on myself to make sure this was updated all the time with Clancy pictures. Which for those of you who know me... is a lot of pressure. Especially now that I'm working it seems even harder to stay current in the photo department. Also, what I enjoy most about blogging is being able to write. I was always much better at reading someone else's diary (Ann's) then keeping my own. No wait, seven year old Laura did keep a diary and it was called verbal vomit at recess to anyone who would listen. I have never had a good filter when it comes to talking about how I feel ... to random people. I guess that's why I liked to blog b/c it was like I was seven again trying to explain to my friends on the jungle bars why our secret club shouldn't be called "My Little Ponies" ... so unoriginal.

No really, in 2nd grade we moved to Kansas from Iowa and the new school we went to was a far cry from the farm kids of Iowa. It was a preppy school on the right side of the tracks. We went there b/c we lived in the only apartment complex in the school zoning. This school was so wealthy, or it seemed that way at 7, that they had live gardens growing in the middle of the school INSIDE. Trees, shrubs, everything! The school was even called Village. I mean really... how on the right side of the tracks does that sound. So anyway, the Village girls wanted to start a club and they wanted to call it My Little Ponies. I wanted it to be based on My Little Ponies, but I wanted something more creative like the Princess of Horses or The Olympians of Four Legs. I lost that battle with my big mouth and some cool points. We eventually got the house built, moved to the other side of the tracks, and went to a school with normal stuff in the halls like vomit and glue and kids who could use their imagination b/c they didn't own every toy made.

What was my point? Oh yes, the blog is back. But don't expect a lot of pictures. I could include exerts from Ann's diaries? Just kidding... no really I know where they are.