Marvelous Martes!

VEDA DURRETT CLOUSER born on 11/28/2010

Isn't she beautiful? My sweet cousin Laura and her husband Jon are the proud parents of this little sunshine. She was born on this past Sunday around noon. She was 7.9 lbs & I'm not sure on the length. Nathan & I couldn't think of a better picture for Marvelous Martes. Hope you all enjoy! There are more pictures on my facebook if you want to see more of her!

An Awe-Inspiring Evening

Well we just wanted everyone to know that we have just achieved a wonderfully pleasant evening with one of our dearest friends, Sarah Lynne Guessetto. The ladies made some killer pizza while I worked out and became more of a man. We talked about boys and basketball and tetris and we even practiced sitting with our ankles crossed as to not be inappropriate. It was so much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Barbecue Chicken Pizza with Garlic Crust Recipe

I hate to say it, but I'm pretty sure we have just concocted one of the 17 all-time greatest pizzas ever made. Even old Earnest Stubb would be proud. Prepare to forget everything you ever knew about barbecue chicken pizza...

What You Need:

Barbecue Sauce (Preferably Stubb's Smokey Mesquite BAR-B-Q Sauce...the best eva)

Honey

Brown Sugar

1 Whole Onion

Shredded Cheese (we used mexican style and italian)

2-3 Cups Pulled Chicken (we bought a cooked whole chicken that we at the grocery store to use)

Olive Oil

Minced Garlic

Pizza Crust

How To Concoct:

Slice your onion up and saute it over medium heat. Add about a tablespoon of honey and brown sugar to the onions and let them carmelize. Cook your chicken if you didn't buy a big pre-cooked chicken from the store (which you should have done because it makes life 3.6x easier). And if you did buy a pre-cooked chicken, pat yourself on the back, de-skin that nasty thang and tear it up. We had a cereal bowl full of chicken that we added to the pizza. Now add your chickens to the onions and sprinkle some BBQ sauce over the whole kaboodle. Put on low heat.

Spread olive oil on the pizza crust. Then cover it with barbecue sauce and add your minced garlic to the crust. Now tell yourself you are loved and are a pretty cool person and. Then check on your carmelized onions and chicken to make sure they haven't exploded. Word.

Now cover that mudda crust with yo cheez.

Add the onions and chicken to the pizza.

Then sprinkle some mo cheese on dur. Put 'er in the oven on whatever degrees and forever how long the constructions on the back of your pizza crust says.

Now prepare to be terrorized by the greatest pizza you have ever made.

Thank us later (some Funfetti Cake will do).

Chancehold out.

Christmas Time At The Chancehold

The Chance Family Christmas Tree

Well it's that time again. Time for joy and time for cheer. Time for some Chance family tradition: a few cinnamon rolls, some mango punch, and National Lampoon's Christmas vacation. And even a little tree decoratin'.

Carrie enjoying her mango punch and cinnamon rolls.

Oh my groodness.

Before the tree remodeling.

The Mrs. unwrapping some tree goodies.

Doesn't everybody put green bursts on their tree?

Step 1: Add da' awesome tree skirt from TJ Maxx.

Step 2: Add da' lights... And change into some more comfortable clothes.

Step 3: Add da' ribbon.

Step 4: Add da' bow. Carrie wants either to study how the Grand Canyon was formed and make her own or start a bow making business. Either one would suit her.

She's a beaut Clark.

Carefully placing the green bursts in the most perfect position possible.

Decoratin' the fire outta that bad boy!

Hiding the Christmas pickle! First person to come over and find it wins a duly awesome prize.

Nathan & Corinne (or Nathan Chance, whichever you prefer)

Carrie enjoying our handiwork. Kind of looks like a photo for a white chocolate covered oreo add.

That's something ain't it? She falls in a well, eyes go crossed. She gets kicked by a mule, they go back to normal. I don't know.

Chancehold Out.

Microwave Baked Apple Recipe

Microwave Baked Apple Odoriferousness

A nice lady told me today about these easy bake creations. Carrie had heard of these little monstrosities before and I decided to try one tonight. And it did not taste bad at all. In fact, it tasted good. Real good. I liked it. A lot. Carrie liked it too. It would probably be very safe to say that we both enjoyed it. And this is an easy treat to make, total time to make was probably less than 3 minutes and 12 seconds. Coolioolio. You should try one.

What you need:

An Apple

Butter

Brown Sugar

Cinnamon Sugar

How to Concoct:

Place your app in a microwavable bowl. Then give it a name, pet it and tell him/her that you are very sorry for what is about to happen.

Core the apple. This was my first coring experience. Apparently my wife is a master corer. You should ask her to show you her skills some time.

Fill the new hole with butter and brown sugar then put the apple in the microwave for around 2 minutes. The amount of time you bake the apple is really dependent upon its size and type. You don't want your final creation to be too mushy.

After the first trip to the microwave...

Now add some cinnamon sugar and put that puppy (apple that is, puppy apple) back in the microwave for about 30 seconds. I've heard it told in tales of old that you can even add some cinnamon hearts or other cinnamon candies here to add a little more of a cinnamon kick.

The finalized product.

Now it's time to feast on the beast.

Marvelous Martes!

Marvelous Martes!

Took a trip down to the Boogie recently to do some pebble wrastlin' and snapped a couple of pics of one of our friends. I secretly want to be a climbing photographer but I'm finding that I really lack the photography skills to do so. But I'm gettin' there.

The Wave

Spyro Gyro

Space

Color Blind??

So we were wondering what everything would look like if you were colorblind so we googled it and found this online colorblindness simulator that lets you upload a picture and then shows you what it would look like if you have different kinds of color deficiencies. Dis is so crayzay!

This is how we see (and you prolly do to)

If you have a red/green color deficiency it looks like this.

And this is what it looks like if you have a blue/yellow color deficiency.

We know, probably not the most interesting thing you have ever seen, but we thought it was pretty darn cool.

Marvelous Martes!

Marvelous Martes!

This is the sunset we saw as we drove back into Clarksville last Tuesday coming home from Atlanta. Are we getting better at this picture takin' thang or are we just in the right spot at the right time? Well either way I have the best wife ever so it really doesn't matter. Buuuuuuuuut, if it did matter, I would probably finish reading the book we bought last Christmas that is supposed to show you how to use your Nikon D5000 camera, which I think I am going to start reading again. So, upon reading it, I suppose it will in fact matter whether or not we are getting better at taking pictures or if we just happen to be in the right place at the right time, but, but my friends, but, it will not negate the fact that I have the best wife ever. So thar.