Dear Old Friend

For some reason, today I began thinking about an old friend I used to have. Her name was Abigail Green. Abby lived next to the house that was directly behind mine. We had a gate in our backyard that led to the neighbors and she had a gate to her backyard. So, every day we would play together. Going in and out of the neighbor's yard to get to each other's. We would climb trees all day. I remember once attaching a hammock to the tree in the neighbor's yard the one adjoining mine and Abby's. They didn't mind, or if they did it didn't stop us anyway. We would climb the tree and take turns in the hammock for hours. Any game we could think of we would play it. Titanic was this game where we would pretend we were on a ship and eventually it would crash. We would use beanie baby's as our other passengers on the boat. We played Titanic in Abby's backyard on her swing set. That swing set was awesome. It had a crow's nest... you know one of those platforms up top with a ladder and everything. We also played Titanic on her deck and patio. Lots of make believe took place in that backyard. We used to jump on my trampoline every day in the summer, and in the winter we would put on multiple layers of socks and tie plastic bags around our ankles. Sometimes we would move the trampoline closer to my patio and jump off the awning onto the tramp. Abby was my BEST friend and I was hers. She was like a sister to me. My family was hers and hers was mine. We were inseparable. We'd tip couches over and make them into forts. Hanging blankets over the tops and stacking as many pillows as we could find. She even helped my mom and I pick out our dog Tucker from an animal shelter. I remember her and I trying to come up with names we could name him.. like Noodle. Ha. Eventually we decided to stick with his original name. We made a secret fort in her basement once. It was our secret club. I'm sure we had a name for it, but I can't remember. We hung up sheets on the walls to make it look nicer and stocked it with stuff animals. O man, I just remembered... we used to make videos too. We had a series about these superheros. Cow and Chicken. She was Cow and I was Chicken. Her special weapon was a marker... and she called it her SUUUUper Stench. I don't think my chicken character had a special power, but I do recall wearing a ponytail on top of my head and doing a dance to "bawk bawk chicken chicken bawk bawk chicken head" (some rap song that farrah probably introduced us to.) We used to sing songs to her dog Pete. They went someting like, "Petey Wetey. You are the cutest puppy wuppey. I love you Petey." I could probably write a book about mine and Abby's friendship, but I'll stop here. I just felt like reminiscing about the good old days. Back when we were both so innocent. Abby goes to KU now and is all grown up. But, I'll always see her as the little sister I never had. She made my childhood fun and exciting. We went on so many adventures together and I'll never forget her. I love you Abigail Green, wherever you are.

Why I love Kansas

Unfortunately I don't have pictures to prove it so you'll just have to take my word on it. But, I spent this past weekend in Kansas. No matter where I travel or live Kansas always feels like home. I am amazed at how well my parents have kept the house up. All the little improvements have really added up and the house looks awesome and still feels as cozy as ever... even though the bed wasn't. I got to see Tucker (the dog,) my amazing mom and dad (we went to the renaissance festival,) Elena (dinner and the mall,) and Pete (when Elena and he drove me to the airport on Sunday,) Dondi, one of my best friend's Heather, her baby Brooke, Mollie, Bobby, Nick and some other really awesome people. All in all it was a good trip. I was sad to leave but happy that I had the chance to go at all. I wish I could have been able to spend more time with my family. I love all of you and I wish I could have spent more time just sitting around relaxing and talking. Anyways, I'm back in VA now, but you are all the reason why Kansas will always be home to me.

More Audrey

Audrey likes to ride her bike, and read, and stand there.

Audrey Buns

Here are some long awaited pictures of ms. audrey and me. sorry it took so long.

The Craft Fair

Amber's interests have really started to rub off on me. She's really into all crafty things. Knitting mostly... so yesterday we ended up going to the Crafty Bastard's craft show in DC.



The weather was faaaaaaaaaaabulous. 70's with a nice breeze. It was awesome. There were tons of vendors selling everything from hand made jewelery to tshirts to stuffed animal monsters. I ended up buying a couple of things. I got this awesome reversible headband and another present for someone... you'll find out this weekend. Anyways it was really fun to get out and experience something exciting in DC.

DampCats.com

So i was randoming surfing blogs and came across a link to this hilarious website. It shows pictures and videos of people who wash their cats. haha. here's a couple of pictures for all of you.

No letters were harmed in the making of this video...

Here's an update for the few of you who actually read this.
So being a nanny for my niece Audrey, I get my fair share of Disney movies and kid shows, but lately the favorite has been a Leap Frog learning show called The Letter Factory (Froggy Show.) It teaches kids the sound that letters make. I've had the pleasure of watching it every day and sometimes twice a day, but in yesterdays case I got to enjoy The Letter Factory three times!
Needless to say I now know that A says AH!
My favorite letter is either the T (without the T where would be... we're just here doing our thing.) Imagine a tapping T with a top hat and it becomes a lot more exciting, or the W. The W wears a sweat band and a gold chain, and scratches a record while saying wha wha wha wha. It's pretty much the highlight of my day.
Amber is constantly catching me singing the little tunes in my head and tonight I got the T song stuck in hers. Ha. I tried to find of video of it for all of you to preview, but all I managed to round up was this picture. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do.