Vote for me!

Shorts on the Line voting is up!

go here: http://imaginegnats.blogspot.com/2012/07/viewers-choice-voting-begins.html and vote for my shorts! Mine are #55 #59 and #64 (pick your favorite)

You can vote once a day per computer every day this weekend.

A little secret

Have you noticed that I finally stopped posting every other week about my latest craft projects? I thought I should take them to a place of their own. Their own little blog. It's not a real blog, but sometimes I fantasize about it becoming something. 

I named it after Zuzzy (The blue guy here, more formally known as zizzer zazzer zuzz)


It's craftingzuzzy.blogspot.com


Zuzzy's given me the chance to participate more in the blogging community. I don't exactly want to send strangers over here to look at my craft projects along with our family stories. I'm just getting it going, I started it two months ago. This week I entered three pairs of shorts that I designed and sewed into a blogging contest called "Shorts on the Line." The event is being hosted by three bloggers, and each blogger is featuring their favorite entries yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Yesterday my box pleat shorts were featured  on Imagine Gnats. Then today my peplum shorts were featured on Small and Friendly. It's an understatement to say I was excited. There are some amazing prizes for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners of this contest and for the "reader's choice" award. The reader's choice will be determined by voting this weekend. So I will let you all know on Friday how to vote! 


Now the secret is out!


How many of you thought the secret was that I was pregnant when you read the blog title??? ha ha ha, no prego ladies over here.

Dora

I saw this on facebook and watched in about 5 times, and every time I couldn't stop laughing. 

 

 We watch Dora the Explorer almost every single day. It mesmerizes Christine. It's like a reset button for her when she is in a hyperactive state, or just a great 20 minute distraction that let's me cook dinner.  But it's more than that. Christine's favorite shirt is her Dora Shirt. She drives a Dora truck. Her favorite story book is Dora's Backpack. We eat Dora cereal for breakfast. We color in Dora coloring books. When it came time to buy underwear, there was no question, we were buying Dora panties. I think Dora is slowing taking over our lives.

When we go shopping, if there is something with Dora's face on it, Christine WILL find it. There are lots of stores that I'm surprised to find that Dora has infiltrated. Example: the fabric store. I was buying fabric and Christine goes "Dora Dora!!" I look around thinking, "No, she must be saying something else." Then I see the Dora fleece... then I think "Ooooh! Christine would love a Dora fleece blanket...I need to buy that! (Don't worry I resisted. I haven't bought it yet. But as you can see I sure am a sucker when it comes to indulging Christine's love for Dora)

Loves to Swim

At the end of June Jeff got two weeks off. Two weeks of time to spend with just us! and no study books! It's an understatement to say that it was awesome.  We tried to cram a lot of fun stuff into those two weeks. We went to the zoo where we fed the giraffes, we rode the train at Hermann park, we went to the playground and rode on the slides. Jeff and I even got to go on a little get-a-away while Christine stayed at GiGi's. But Christine would say the best part was going swimming with Daddy every single day.

This girl loves to swim! We bought her a little swimming vest and arm floaties so now she doesn't need any help swimming around the pool. (it really makes swimming a lot more fun for everyone)

Christine doesn't need any help getting ready for the pool. She knows where everything is at, and can pull it all out. Sometimes she just decides she is ready to go swimming and starts bringing me swim diapers and pool toys.

 Come on giraffe, let's go! we are all ready!

Hmmm, Christine, I think you forgot a couple of things.

Rain Boots

This week it has been raining every single day. Not Utah drizzly rain, good Texas downpours. That means it's time to pull out our rain boots!

 Christine LOVES her rain boots. They are a little big on her, so she clomps around as she walks in them. But she always has a HUGE grin on her face when she wears them.

I couldn't get a picture of that grin though, because she kept staring at her pink boots.