Craft-Pen Pals

Last week, a few friends and I decided to be craft-pen pals. Meaning, that we'll make small drawing, paintings, knits... anything fun. By no means am I an artist. I make messes and I have fun making them and I firmly believe that it shows that I have no clue what I'm doing. I made my first "craft" and I wish that I had taken a picture of it before I sent it off this morning. I glued a million small gems onto a new container of floss... it's now "flossy" floss. Get it? Hahahahahaha I really do crack myself up. Last night, I took out one of my canvases and cut out the canvas. I then poured a bunch of different paint on one side of the canvas and just smooshed the paint and once its dry I'm going to use that for another project. Anyway, I kept the wood from the canvas and painted it a pinkish-white and plan to make a very cool picture frame.

Any suggestions for small/neat /silly gifts to make and send to people?

Also, I started a very cute quilt...  This should only take roughly a decade to finish.

Uh oh...

My daughters biggest accomplishment to date has come.

Nathan was napping in the back room, as per usual (He wakes up around 4:45 for work, so I guess I can't blame him). So, I took Ve out to the living room to play. I set her down on the floor to see which toy that she would reach for or scoot to and we could start playing. I like to do that, watching her decide is too cute. As she sat there on the carpet perched on all fours, she started to gaze at the hallway. Then it was almost as if there were an audible "AHA!" and a snap of the fingers. She lifted her chin and with every intent she started off down the hall. Crawling. Like a big girl. Not scooting or pulling herself. CRAWLING.

She has yet to stop. She just looks so proud of herself too. Hahaha

My first real scare.

NEVER in my life have I been so scared. Last night, Nathan was taking a nap in the bedroom while Ve and I were in the livingroom. I was watching Gossip Girl and Ve was directly in front of me playing on the floor with one of her toys... or so I thought. Turns out, she was playing with a small piece of plastic or cellophane or some kind of crunchy plastic. Sure enough as all things that Ve picks up, it went into her mouth and then down her throat- where it stayed. Even though I have taken infant CPR classes, I completely panicked. I couldn't remember anything except that Nathan is a medic. I picked her up and ran down the hall where Nathan was sleeping. I swung the door open and shouted "She's choking"! Nathan was up out of bed and grabbed her out of my arms faster than you could have blinked. He quickly turned her face down in his hand and worked her back until she spewed (which seemed like an eternity but was only milliseconds). And I mean spewed. She has just eaten green vegetables and drank a bottle. It looked like something out of The Exorcist. As soon as she had finished choking and puking, she just looked up and started laughing... like it was fun. Goodness, do my child and I have different views of fun! As soon as she started laughing, I started sobbing.

 I am SO lucky to have Nathan and Ve.

Ah, childhood.

My mommy sent off all of her Disney VHS tapes to me. I cannot wait to get them! I've been browsing Craigslist for those VHS/TVs, you wouldn't believe how hard it is to find only a VHS these days! Hahaha I'm so thrilled to start VaughnEmery on her Disney journey! To think, she'll be enjoying the VERY SAME tapes that I did when I was little. It makes me a tad bit choked up. I wonder if she'll like The Little Mermaid like me or be a fan of Sleeping Beauty like Nathan?

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

Pregnancy Psychic?

My Grandma has always had dreams or premonitions when someone in the family got pregnant. I've had a couple about friends getting pregnant and sure thing, within a few months they were. I had a dream last night that a family member was pregnant. Goodness, wouldn't it be funny if I inherited that trait from my Grandma?! Other than the pregnancy part, it was a very silly dream about my sister and I wrestling around and laughing really hard. It made me miss her very much. At one pint, I shouted that I had ruptured my spleen from laughing and wrestling so much. Oof. I miss being near my family.

The best big sister a girl could ask for<3

Pumpkin Patch!

We went to a local pumpkin patch a couple of weeks ago and I wanted to share some pictures with you guys :)

 ve sized pumpkin :)

 <333

she was pooped after all of the excitement!