True Love

Ever since Grayden was about five months old he has had a very bizzare obsession with our vacuum cleaner. Most babies are afraid of the vacuum, which makes sense to me, it is loud and fast moving, much taller than a baby & hogs all the goodies that could have otherwise been eaten! Here are a few pictures I have taken to document his growing "love" of the vacuum. Those pictures were taken in December when he was scooting around pretty well, but hadn't mastered crawling or standing yet. He followed me around as I vacuumed trying to keep up & you can see how red the back of his little arms are from trying so hard to catch up to me. These pics are from January & as you can see he figured out how to stand up! That gave him an even better view of this awesome machine! He also learned to crawl pretty quickly (probably due to me vacuuming so often) and it became more and more difficult to vacuum with him around. I would often find him standing up to the vacuum with his arms around it just looking it up and down. Maybe he was looking for the on button!

I fianlly had to recruit help when it was time to vacuum because I was afraid I would end up rolling over his little fingers or tripping over him. Trinity gladly accepted the job offer & tried her best to hang on to him while I vacuumed as quickly as I could. He would squirm and wiggle so hard she was barely able to hold him.

I asked Matt to record him for me one day in case he all of a sudden grows out of his obsession, so here are a few little clips of what vacuuming around our house can be like. Enjoy!

Pictures only Post

I figure I could explain a little about my last post since I try to always tell about what the pictures are about. However, I was in such a hurry when I stuck those pics on here that I had NO time left to write anything.

My niece Emily read the book "Flat Stanley" in school & each of the kids from her class sent Flat stanley in the mail on an adventure. He came to our house, so we hung out with him for a while, took pictures, and then I was supposed to send the pictures and a letter from Stanley to Emily about his adventures with us. Well...I sort of procrastinated until the last second, so I stuck the pictures on our blog so that Debby (Emily's Mom) could get them. I emailed her the letter so she could print that off too & then Emily had everything she needed for her class. If you want to know what all the pics are about you can read Flat Stanley's letter too.

Dear Emily,

Thank you so much for sending me to go visit your Uncle Matt, Aunt Leslie, & their kids; Trinity, Brinley, & Grayden. I had quite an adventure & am so excited to tell you about all of the things I did with them while I was in Denver, Colorado.
Trinity was so excited to see me and asked me if I wanted to play the Wii with her. It was so much fun! We played Mario Party 8 & I even pretended that I was in the game getting bonked on the head by coconuts! Hehehe Moving up and down and all around made me a little dizzy, but I told Trinity I would love to play the Wii with her again before I left.
Everyone waited patiently for a turn to play with me, and as soon as I was done playing with Trinity I was off to play with Brinley. She introduced me to her favorite doll, Benny, and then showed me her room and some of her favorite toys. She didn’t want to share me with anyone else, so she stuck me in the toy barn so that no one could find me. Lucky for me her mom saw me sitting by the chicken and took me out.
Your Aunt Leslie was so busy trying to clean, cook, change diapers, & take care of everyone. She decided to put me up by the mirror so that I would be safe from Brinley hiding me again. She didn’t realize that Trinity could reach me & before long I was with Trinity once again. I got to have a ride with Trinity on her scooter, we watched a movie, and ate a snack, but then Trinity left me on the floor!!
I was pretty tired, so I decided since I was laying down that I would go ahead and take a little nap. I had just dozed off when I heard a loud noise coming towards me. I opened my eyes just as I felt something pulling on my feet! It was your Aunt Leslie & she was vacuuming the floor, but she hadn’t noticed me and accidently sucked me up into the vacuum!!! I was so afraid that I was going to be thrown out in the trash, and no matter how loud I screamed or yelled no one heard me. Then, to my surprise, someone did find me, but it was the baby; Grayden.
Your Uncle Matt noticed Grayden standing by the vacuum babbling baby talk at me. Matt was so shocked to see me in there & he quickly took the vacuum apart, lifted me out, and cleaned me up a little. Pretty exciting wouldn’t you say?
I have had so much fun visiting & your aunt Leslie even gave me a picture of the family to keep. I can’t wait to see where my next adventure will take me. I hope I don’t get sucked into any more vacuums!!

Love,
Flat Stanley

Flat Stanley's Adventures

A Little Something to Look At

I have a ton of pictures to post from my 3 weeks spent in UT, but since I haven't put them on my computer yet you'll have to settle with some of my recent digital scrapping LO's.
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Check back soon for posts about our UT trip!!

Give a little-Get a little!

Making handcrafted items is a dying art, but they are so fun to make & get! So, here's a little game to encourage the handcrafting to live & thrive!! The first 5 people to leave a comment on this post will receive, at some point during the year, a super-duper handmade gift from me. What it will be and when it will arrive is a total surprise!

The catch is that you must participate as well-before you leave your comment here, write up a pay it forward post on your blog to keep the fun going. Then come back, let me know you're going to play, and sit back and anticipate the arrival of your gift! Remember that only the first 5 comments will receive a gift from me, so be quick! This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!

2. It'll be done this year (hopefully sooner than later.)

3. You will have no clue what it is going to be.

C'mon, you know you wanna play!

Here are a few handcrafted items that you will NOT be getting from me! (or maybe you will?)

Fixed...sort of

Thanks for the encouraging comments ladies! I played around with it & finally settled for this short-sided look! Oh well, I don't claim to be any sort of computer or blog genius! (If you have no idea what I'm talking about read the previous post)

What the heck?!

I finally finished making a new background & header, but the dumb header isn't centered?!! I am so mad and I know it is going to bug me every time I look at it! If anyone has any suggestions please let me know!!!

PS. I'll post something more worth-while soon!