I Love My Ducks

Ok Duck fans! Run on over to this website and watch the I Love My Ducks video. You could also search for it on youtube…

I don’t know how long it will be up as the Duck is a trademark and it wasn’t authorized, but the video is great!

I smell roses too!

Funky Fashion: Edition 4

Snow Bunny…

It’s all about the boots

I think the lack of pants makes her look taller…

Happy 500!!

Posts that is.

Well, actually Happy 501! But it doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, does it? Math was never my thing. I am not sure how I messed up when WordPress does the counting for me…This should have been on Wednesday to be the true “500th” post, but whatever…here it is all the same.

I started this “ittybitty” blog just over two years ago with my first post on 08/20/2007.

My posts with the most traffic are:
Owen’s Story
Simple Felted Sweater Bag

I receive the most traffic from these blogs:
Sofia’s CDH Story
Angel Elli
Never a Dull Moment
Be Not Afraid-Owen’s Story

These are the most frequent searches that bring people here:
funny grace, felted sweater bag, cdh blogs, congenital diaphragmatic hernia success, cdh blog, felted sweater bags, cdh awareness day, left brain qualities, cdh stories, intubated baby, cdh awareness

I have had over 47,000 hits.

I would love to hear from my readers. I know I have a lot of lurkers…especially all of you folks that come from Sofia’s blog:) Please take a moment and leave a comment, it would make my day to hear from you!

Nasty Dog

I can’t help myself. Two Daisy posts in a row.

We had “big” wind storm last night followed by a night of rain. But, I just couldn’t bring myself to lock Daisy up inside all day.

She ran herself silly all day.

Around 3:30 I looked out the window and saw this…

The sweet pup had nestled up in the leaves that had blown into the corner of the fence. She was curled up like a little deer. Of course she has excellent hearing and heard me through the window and moved her head. But she was still cute.

There was no way I could let her in without a bath. She had mud caked up under her belly.

Have you ever seen a more pitiful pup. She hates getting a bath, but loves running around once she’s clean.

Grace said “Mom, why do you want pictures of something so nasty?!?!”

Well, I just can’t help myself!

Cutie Puppy

I have been working on archiving our pictures and burning them on dvds. I have let this go much longer than I should have as I have over a year’s worth of picture and no back up…

Anyway…as I was sorting through October of 2008 I found these sweet pictures of Daisy when she was a tiny pup. She is sitting in a doll size chair that used to be Grace’s time-out chair…until she peed on it…Daisy that is.

I had forgotten that her left ear used to fold back and her right folded forward…now they both just stick up…

Does It Really?

This is how the conversation went down…no embellishments…

Danny: “What are we doing with this stuff?”
Me: “Well, the shoes go back to my mom and the box is going to your brother.”
Danny: “What about the purse?”
Me: “It’s my purse, I’m using it.”
Danny: “Oh, where did you get it?”
Me: (trying to quickly express that I hadn’t just spent money on something frivolous) “I’ve had it for awhile, it was in our closet.”
Danny: “Yeah, I can tell, it looks old. Like maybe it came from your Grandma’s closet or something.”
Me: “It does not! There’s nothing wrong with that purse.”
Danny: “It just looks old. You know your sister wouldn’t be caught dead using that purse.”

Be honest with me people…before I embarrass myself by using it. And naturally, if you all say that Danny is right then doesn’t that mean I should be purchasing a new one to avoid said embarrassment…

Or maybe a Christmas idea…(hint, hint, nudge, nudge).

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Later in the day as I was retelling this conversation to my sister, she assured me that she didn’t think that it was that bad.

We did decide that since I have only purchased three purses in the last decade and all three were in the first half of that decade, that maybe it’s time to upgrade.

Is it odd that one of my three purses was purchased for my father and he didn’t want it?

That could mean that A) it wasn’t really a purse, rather a bag and doesn’t count. B) that could be why my Dad didn’t want.

It didn’t seem strange until I said it out loud to my sister. But we did have the best giggle over it…

Go Ducks #8: Grace Face

Little missy who doesn’t usually like to cooperate for “GoDucks” got on board this week so I have lots of good pics of her…

Ducks 44, Sun Devils 21

Funky Fashion: Edition 3

Grace’s fashion sense has been developing for awhile now. As I was going through some old pictures to archive, I found these….taken October 2, 2008

Perfect for picking crab apples, especially the click-clock shoes.

Belated Halloween Pics

Assuming that I would have opportunity to take pictures of Grace and Owen in their costumes on Halloween, I neglected to take pictures at the harvest party at Grace’s school. Luckily, some friends were able to give us the pictures they got.

Grace dressed up as a ladybug.

Owen went as a little boy refusing to wear a costume…”comstume hurts me…” He still enjoyed himself by eating sprinkles in caramel…

Yum!

Then the sugar crash…

Then Halloween night, Owen still refused the costume but he got to run around in his “Go Ducks” clothes with his buddy:)

Happy Veteran’s Day

A year ago today I posted pictures of the veterans in my family.

At the time we didn’t have a picture of my Dad’s Dad in his military uniform. However, this summer, my Mom met my Dad’s half-sister and she gave my Mom a picture of my Grandfather in his uniform.

And here is another picture of my Mom’s Dad in his uniform…

Two handsome men in uniform!