Cowboy Boots

My mom is a busy woman these days, sewing Audrey lots and lots of clothes, and now, these cowboy boots! I found the pattern and tutorial on one of the sewing blogs I follow, Nap Time Crafters. Mom said she struggled with it, but I think they turned out adorable! I can't wait to pair these boots with a cute denim skirt and summery top!

Help, please.

I'm hoping to creating a video for Audrey's first birthday. Maybe we'll have it playing quietly on the TV during her birthday party or something, but mostly I want it for her and for us. I want it to have music, I want to use photos from her first year, and - here's the hard part - I want to include snippets from videos we have from her first year. Does anyone know how the heck I can do this? I know it would probably be easy as pie if I had a Mac (ugh!) but I don't. I have a PC. And I downloaded Picasa.

I know many of you are very resourceful and smart and some are even computer literate so please help me out if you can! I literally have NO IDEA how to even start. None of my videos have ever been edited because I am baffled by the idea of it.

Check out this video (scroll down) to see what I mean.

Thanks ya'll!

xoxo

Hard Work!

I was avoiding laundry last week and left the basket full of clean clothes on the floor in the living room. It didn't take long for Audrey to find interest and start pushing the basket around the house! She does this whenever she sees a laundry basket now. I think she looks so cute when she puts her head down like its heavy and she's working really hard. I guess she's "helping" me do the laundry!

Blow Bubbles!

Audrey is at such a fun stage right now. I'm not sure, but I think I've definitely written that sentence at least two or three times before. Each stage is just better than the last! I love her more and more with every passing day.

Ok, enough sappy-love-story-to-my-daughter stuff. Audrey has learned to "blow bubbles" on demand. Its so cute. I will probably regret having taught her this if she ever starts doing it to/at people. But for now, it is incredibly cute.

I have no idea how to edit videos, or I'd cut out all the extra stuff. Sorry!

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Today sucks. It just does.

I googled "Puppies" and the images made me happy for a little while. But then I remembered that today sucks, and I was feeling crappy again.

Good thing I uploaded a bunch of videos to my Youtube channel last night, so I can spend today watching videos of my baby girl. They aren't anything special, except that they're of Audrey being ridiculously cute.

Like this:

I love how she crawls under the bridge at the end. So adorable.

Ok, wow.

I spend way to much time on the internet. Since I am in front of a computer all day at work, and we are in July which is the second slowest month of the year here (ohh how I'm dreading August), I have a lot of time to browse. Pinterest is a great website that I have found lots of fun food ideas, activities, and other things. Today I came across a website that has a ton of Do-It-Yourself plans to build stuff. What kind of stuff? Like, everything. Anything. And all of the tutorials and plans are free! I'm amazed. Here are a few of my favorites:

Helping Tower:
I have this on my Amazon wishlist as something I planned to buy for Audrey for Christmas. It is $200! I'm not sure how much this one will cost, but I think we could do it for less than that, plus it would be homemade by mama and papi!

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Or how about this adorable solution for dress-up clothes? Audrey needs it.

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Well, obviously she needs a kitchen as well. What child doesn't?

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I think its safe to say that I'll be putting Josh to work with all those tools he's accumulated over the years. I'm sure he'll be more than happy to make all of these things and more for his little girl!

First Steps

Our little muffin took her first baby steps on Friday! When I got to daycare, I was so excited to see they were having a concert on the deck with a one-man-band! He was playing all the childhood classic songs, and the kids were having so much fun. They had to put Audrey in a bumbo seat to contain her because she was trying to dance with the big kids but would have gotten trampled. I hung out with her for a few minutes dancing and singing to the music and chatting with her teacher. The teacher informed me that she took a step that day, and while I was there she even did it a few more times! I am so happy for Audrey, but I am bummed that I wasn't there for it. Damn mommy guilt. When I told Josh this news, he said she actually took a step the night before but he didn't want to say anything because I didn't see it. So sweet. If only Ms.Teacher could have done the same! Anyways, Friday night she ended up taking 4 consecutive steps at once, and then a few times took one or two steps. She seems better with her left leg than her right and she keeps taking multiple left foot steps which leaves her "walking" in a circle. Funny. Its hard to get a good video because she can't decide if she wants to walk or not and I now have a bunch of videos of her standing and then plopping to the floor and crawling away. Here is the best I could get for now. Enjoy! I can't believe our little girl is getting so big!