Graf Reunion

We had our second annual (kind of- we actually missed last year) Graf reunion at our cabin. We go just for the weekend and yes all 23 of us sleep in our little 1400 sq foot cabin. SHEESH! right?

Actually this year we were pretty Graf light. Greg and Andrea couldn't afford to do another cross country trip and at the last minute all of Lauralyn's kids got like puking sick!!! Yuck thanks for staying away! HEHE.

We did still manage to have lots of fun and lots of people there with two dogs. We spent one day totally inside reveling in the fact that we didn't have to have an agenda. And then one day mostly outside seeing the greatness of nature where he heard comments from Josh's "whimpy city kids" like, "this hike is so hard!" It was decided that we need to get those kids out more! We had a good time and don't think we drove each other too crazy. Although I am sure in coming years we will definitely need to work out other accommodations!

Here are just a few fun ones. I don't have all the pics yet from everyone.

BY THE WAY: THIS IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN I DON'T DO SCRAPBOOK PAGES.....WAY TOO MANY PICTURES TO DOWNLOAD!

PEEK-A-BOO

BUNCH OF SHOW-OFFS

ONLY SAM HIKES IN SANDALS

THEIR "PUPPY"

NEVER BE AFRAID TO GET UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH YOUR KIDS :)

PLAYING TABOO OUT IN THE NICE WEATHER

SORRY THIS IS SIDEWAYS. aUDREY AND ANDREW MAKING A MESS WITH THE BUBBLES.

ISN'T THAT LOVE?

I JUST LOVE THIS ONE OF THE TWO OF THEM

WE FOUND THIS GREAT SPOT TO HANG OUT FOR A WHILE

BEST LOOKING KIDS IN TOWN ON THE HIKE TO CASCADE FALLS

THE BEST OF THE BUNCH CONSIDERING I WAS HOLDING MY MASSIVE SLR CAMERA AT ARMS LENGTH!

PHOTO TIP: SHOOT WITHOUT LOOKING IN THE VIEW FINDER. THIS SHOT WAS THROUGH SOME GRASS AND TAKEN FROM THE GROUND. NOT SO OFTEN YOU GET PICS LIKE THIS OTHERWISE. TRY IT.....AND SHOOT A TON!

Bedding Done!

Ok so after about 20 trips to Joann's I am finally finished with the baby's (still unnamed) crib bedding. I saved like $40 at least by making a ton of different trips and using coupons every time. So I guess I win. Good thing we have a Joanns close to us eh?

I will say that if you hate it you better NOT tell me that you do. I stress over things like this. I walked down every isle three times at Joann's and two other fabric stores convinced that I am missing out on some of the great fabric finds in the world. Where do people that make cutsey silly mormon crafts get their dang awesome fabric? Is there some secret network that I am not privy to? And if you people are paying $10 a yard then forget it...That is ridiculous. What a rip off. I am gonna start skinning my own sheep soon I swear! So I finally stumbled upon these choices. I only hope that this baby is as clean as Audrey has been, otherwise I might be buying lots of new fabric for sheets!!!

I PUT THE BEDDING ON AUDREY'S CRIB TO TEST IT OUT. OF COURSE SHE WENT NUTS. SHE INSISTED ON TRYING IT OUT. SHE LOVED IT AND WHEN I ASKED HER IF SHE WANTED TO GO UPSTAIRS SHE SAID NO....SO I LEFT HER THERE...FOR 20 MINUTES JUST PLAYING...THEN IT WAS ACTUALLY HER BEDTIME, SO SHE GOT TO CHRISTEN THE SHEETS...SORRY BABY TO COME, SHE BEAT YOU TO IT!

I MADE MY BUMPERS PUFFY THIS TIME. i THINK THEY TURNED OUT CUTE...EXCEPT I DID NOT TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THAT THEY WOULD TAKE UP MORE SPACE....SO THEY ARE A LITTLE JAMMED IN THERE. I MIGHT NOT EVEN PUT THE BACK ONE ON SEEING AS IT IS SOLID BACK ANYWAY! HAHA

JUST A CUTE ONE OF HER DANCING WITH HER BABY!

Responsible Mama

So I got this idea from a friends blog....thought it was cute.

Some people for some reason have this really ridiculous idea about me. They think I actually have my act all put together. I am so glad that I apparently have the world fooled big time....but shhh don't tell anyone!

If I were less perfect in my life I would probably have entire days where I did nothing but watch Audrey play and watch HGTV and Food network pretty much all day long. Although, honestly that would mean that I was secretly getting ideas of how to expand my ever increasing vastness of talents and skills ending up with 15 new recipes to try in a week, so then I could still be blamed for working too hard. Sheesh good thing I don't have to worry about this problem!

I am definitely not the kind of person to forget about my husband and make food for myself on a regular basis and not even ask if he wanted anything right then!

If I were way less patient in my life I would get really annoyed at people that refuse to actually contact people in an age where that is the most important thing according to consumer marketing. I would definitly hate Wells Fargo people for not actually taking the time to email our preapproval letter to the right people for three weeks. It is sure a good thing I totally have the patience thing under wraps so that I don't have to deal with such negetive feelings as these.

I am defintely not a slob enough to let huge cobwebs build up in the corners of my windows before I notice and actually take the time to hold a vacum up there and get rid of them. I mean come on who forces the poor people in thier home to live like that. Definitely not me that would be mean and cruel and unmentionable

I would never procrastinate something like making the invitations I need to design for my calling in relief society till the day they need to be passed out. That would look really bad and kind of make me unreliable. Kind of like thos Wells Fargo people I talked about earlier. WOW, good thing I am not like that....then I might have to hate myself too! And I would definitely never forget to burn a cd of images for a client....that would be unthinkable, unprofessional, and foolish!!

And lastly, I am so glad I am the kind of person that has my emotional state totally in control. I mean how many women can say that truthfully? And that I am pregnant to boot. I feel so lucky to be the only woman in the world that never overeacts or makes the people around her miserable. If I weren't then people living with me might have a very large amount of negetive thoughts thrown their way for no apparent reason. Sheesh, whew, I am so glad I am so on top of my life.



HAHA Hoped you enjoyed the confessions of a highly not perfect woman!

Help??

I have a hunch that Audrey maybe hyper extended her knee yesterday. She was running off somewhere and stepped a little far out of her normal step and as I watched her it just looked wrong. She immediately fell to the ground of course crying. Well she got up she was wobbly and I was worried she did something worse because she crumpled when she stepped on her leg. Although for the next couple of hours I had her mostly sit down and take it easy and reminded her to take it slow. She cried in pain a couple of times when she stepped too hard or something but by that evening she seemed to be fine.

Today she shows no signs of it even hurting? Anyone think I should be overly concerned? Should I take her in to a doctor just in case? Just wondering what you all thought?

Precious Flashback

I just have to post these super cute pictures from back in March. Audrey has pretty much always fallen asleep in my arms for her naps and at night. I have loved this time with her. It is the time when i feel closest to her and get to cuddle her. However we are now working on her going to bed by herself so that I don't have to be frenzied when baby 2 comes.

So I had his idea to take these cute pictures of her sleeping with me holding her. I never really got any of those pictures of us when she was little. So I set up my camera on tripod and cleared some stuff out of the way and shot away once she fell sleep. These were some of my favorites.

PS! For people who don't know this. You can click on people's pictures to enlarge them. So especially on my pages that I have writting on, you can click on it if you want to see it better or read the text on the scrapbook page.

Tourist Day out

Some of the girls from our little play date got together and had a little tourist day for the girls. We walked around the Mirage, Ceasar's where Audrey was fascinated by the monstrous toys, and then on to MGM to see the Lions and have lunch int he jungle!! Audrey loved it all, except for the big gorillas in our corner at Rainforest Cafe. She was cute about being a little nervous though. She would get a little antsy and then come sit on my lap and bury her face against my chest. She would wrap her little arms super tight around my neck. But she never cried or anything. Unlike Madeline, who got a little mor affended by all the noise. Poor Anjali!! Although honestly, I was SO releived it wasn't my turn to have the cranky kid. Audrey does not always do great at restraunts. However for future notice, Rainforest is probably a good place to take kids, it is loud enough already that no one cares if they are crying.

Cute Girl!!

I just had to take some pictures of how cute and big my little girl is getting. And of course her silly daddy always adds something special to the mix!

Moments to melt your heart!

Long awaited Flashback pics

Finally Finally Finally I have taken the time to edit (a few) and put together some pages for the super cute tutu adventure. I had wanted to take some tall grass pictures for a long time now. I found this perfect spot out at the Wetlands Park so we got all the little ones together and hit the hey! Well, the girls did not exactly love it and run off frolicking like I had hopped! And FYI to all those out there trying to take good pictures. It is VERY tricky to do that at 8 am with some of the most harsh light of the day! Just so you know. But, I think some of them still turned out pretty dang cute!

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