Happy New Year

Hello blog land.  I'm sorry I've been away so long.

This past year has been a tough one.  I lost my job, then got it back again, then lost it again.  It's a long story, and I wasn't fired either time, but lost it all the same.  The second time was the hardest, seeing as I was given notice the Friday before Christmas.  Hopefully, I held it together as well as I think I did and everyone had a wonderful Holiday despite the potential to have it all fall apart.  Tyler got glasses this year.  He looks so cute in them.  Both boys are going to be finishing preschool this year and Eden will be starting middle school in the fall.  She'll be 10 in February.  I can't believe I will have one that is in double digits.

I really enjoyed having my family in my house for the holidays.  I hope that it's a new tradition that will carry on through the years.  Hopefully, Amy and her family can come next time.  Mom's house just isn't big enough for all of us anymore.  I'm also not opposed to the idea of going to Tennessee for Christmas.  I'd love to take turns.

I don't know what my future holds right now.  I'm trying to decide if I want to continue working in the legal field for either another attorney or at one of the local courthouses, or if I want to work for a big company doing mundane tasks, or if I want to stop procrastinating and work on becoming a self employed photographer.

I hope that you all have a wonderful New Year and I get it all figured out very soon.

Zoo & Huber's all in one weekend.

We took the kids to the Louisville Zoo for the halloween party this weekend.  This will be the last year that we waste our time on this crappy event.  You wait in aweful traffic with rude people who think it's ok to drive to the front and expect to get in, then you pay $5.00 to park (it's free any other time) and if you are not a zoo member it costs $8.00 to get in.  It used to be that if you are a zoo member you get in free, now, you have to go on the "zoo member" weekends which are the first two in October.  All of this for....wait for it...... 7 pieces of candy.  I'm not kidding, I'm not being dramatic, LITERALLY 7 PIECES OF CANDY.  Are you kidding me???  This used to be such a cool thing to do with the kids and now it's just a huge waste of time and years of my life shaved off due to the high blood pressure enducing madness. 

OK.  I'm done with the gripe.  On to the positive.  Eden is beautiful, even when you use eyeshadow to paint her blue.  My good friend Andrea who is an amazing artist and is currently in cosmotology school agreed to do her makeup for me and WOW am I impressed.  She did a great job and we had all kinds of people talking about how amazing her makeup was.  Google Avatar makeup and you'll see just how awesome Andrea is.  It's not an exact match but still looks great!

Tyler wanted to be Darth Vader.  Him and Jacob were both so cute!  They both called him Dark Vader.

Eden took a friend with her.  Nya, vampire queen.  Makeup done by Andrea.

Jacob as Indiana Jones.  Five o'clock shadow provided by the lovely Andrea and brown eyeshadow.  He thought this was the coolest thing ever.  Sat right in the chair and let her "paint" him with a makeup brush.

 After the nightmare that was the zoo on Saturday night, I took the boys and Eden to Huber's with Keith, Dana, their three, Mom, Erin and Erin's friend Beth.  They loved the tractor ride to the pumpkin fields.  Personally, I wasn't such a huge fan.  It's been really, REALLY dry here and the dust from the tractor tires was pretty bad.  At least it was a gorgeous day.  Sunny, low 80's and a nice cool breeze.

Eden wasted no time picking her "perfect" pumpkin.  She grabbed this one within the first two minutes and it's the one she carted back to the barn. 

However, Jacob did not pick his right away.  He thought he liked one until he put his finger in a big hole, then he thought he liked this one here.  Then, I picked up a pumpkin that is so smooth and perfectly orange I just had to show it to them all and guess what.  That's the one he liked. 

I thought it was cute.  So does he.  If you look closely, he's decided to draw on it with a green crayon.  It kinda looks like a pancake.

Grandma helped Tyler pick his out.  I like it.  It's small and kind of pear shaped. Tyler didn't pick up the first thing he saw, but he did have to be told that you can't just drop them if you decide you don't want it.

I think he's happy with his decision.  What do you think?

Back on the tractor to head back to the barn and pay for our u-pick pumpkins.  All in all a pretty good weekend.  Even if I did think I was going to have to cut a b!tch if she let one more line jumper in while waiting in traffic to get into the zoo.

Check this out!

Yesterday, I posted a link to Do Fun Stuff on iTunes because I wanted to help out Ryan Marshall  and his beautiful family over at Pacing the Panic Room.  http://pacingthepanicroom.blogspot.com/2010/08/look-at-what-we-went-did.html

Apparently the big push landed the album at the top of the Children's music charts.  Do Fun Stuff is currently battling it out with Yo Gabba Gabba for the number one spot.  When I checked it about 10 min. ago Yo Gabba Gabba had edged us out but I think if we keep pushing, we can take over that top spot again.

So, with that said, if you checked out my post but didn't click on the monster and listen to some of the music on the Do Fun Stuff album, go ahead and do that now.  I'm telling you, if you have kids, they are going to like these songs.



My kids like Pass It On.  I like Always a Blue Sky, Nothing, Ladybug and Morton the Caterpillar.  We have been listening to these songs here since Saturday and the honest to goodness truth is that they are great, kid friendly songs that don't make me want to pull my hair out by the handfuls.  Well worth the $9.95 price tag.

Also, if you don't follow Ryan yet.  You really should.  He's smart, he's funny and he's also not afraid to lay out all of his frustrations and keep it real. 

If you haven't seen this video,
So Long I'm Six from The Panic Room Videos on Vimeo.
please watch it now. 

This beautiful little boy is the reason for this album and you can find out more about SMS or "Smith Magenis Syndrome" here.

Please help any way you can. 

I'm helping a web friend today.

Sorry it's been so long since I've posted anything new and noteworthy.  I'm happy to be making my comeback into the blogging community by helping a web friend and his beautiful family.

I've been following Ryan over at http://www.pacingthepanicroom.com/ since about 25 weeks into Cole's pregnancy with Tessa.  I love his blog.  I love his insights, his photography and thanks to him, we now have a Canon 7D in our camera bag. (Thanks Ryan!)

Please, click on this monster above and go over to iTunes and buy this album.  It's kid songs and fun kid friendly songs for parents.  My three kids have already chosen their favorite songs.  100% of the proceeds go to research for SMS.  For more information click on the "Our Cause" button above. 

If you don't have the $9.95 to download the album or if you feel that $9.95 just isn't enough, please click on the Make a Donation and contribute what you can to a great cause. 

Thank you Ryan for allowing me to be a part of your web storm.  It's an honor.  Squeeze the Littlest Buddy for me and here's my sincerist wish for Do Fun Stuff to chart on iTunes.  I've written my review and rated the album.

PS:  If you want to help me spread the word about this album you can click on the "share this widget" and add the monster to your own post.  I know that Ryan and Cole will be most appreciative if you do.

We do this every night.

Every night when we put the boys to bed, I arrange Tyler's "stuffedies" the wrong way.  When I first started doing it, it made him mad.  He's very particular about how he wants them.  I guess he knows that the dog and the catapillar are going to fall out of the bed but his bear is the most important thing so he get's to take the inside position so that he's less likely to fall out.  Now, it's like a game and he asks us to put them in wrong.  I love this little game.


Bedtime routine from Linn Goodman on Vimeo.



I'm also still playing with the T1i and the lighting so, I'm sorry about the dark faces.  I'm still working on it, but love playing with it and I love it that we are finally getting some videos of our kids so I can remember their voices, how they act and they way they say certain things like Tyler calling Chrismas Grimace.

Happy Father's Day

I follow the Pioneer Woman's blog and I love her post of her MM and her punks. So...I thought I would follow suit and post some of my favorite pictures of Michael and our babies.

This little girl started it all.  I knew that he would be a great daddy, I didn't know he would be the BEST daddy.

I love this picture.  Tootie has always been the baby we couldn't get to stay in bed.  He was snuggling with daddy and I couldn't resist taking a picture of two of my favorite guys.

Here he is with all three and three generations of Goodman's.  Great Grandpa Titus, Grandpa John and Daddy.  Michael's Grandpa will be 100 this fall.

Not a huge fan of my look here.  This one was taken so that Eden would have a family portrait for her preschool class the night before she needed it for class.  I love her expression and her toes in this one.  Also, we all miss those natural curls.

Twenty-two days old in this picture and that chair was pretty much my bed for the first several months of the twins lives. 

The level of exhaustion is beyond words.  But just look at those faces.  So sweet and even though we were so tired all the time you can still see how much he loves those babies.  All three of them.  So, to the man I love, thank you so much for being the best daddy.  You are the best thing that ever happened to me and we make beautiful babies together!  I couldn't be happier.

Our new camera does HD video.

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Originally uploaded by Linn531

Here is a video that I took with the T1i. Please let me know if the video won't play.