Already August!!!

This week in the Goodrich household has once again been the same old same old stuff. Tyler and I are still bringing home the bacon. I got a terrible migraine on friday afternoon that put me out of service for about 24 hours...ugh to headaches that won't go away!!! But other than that, things are going great.

I've been crafting, as usual, and have gotten around to making letter blocks for Lowe. This required me to cut out 156 little squares. I ended up having more than enough different kinds of fabric to only cut out two sqaures from each fabric. (Thanks mom for the donation of 5 fabrics). Here's a picture of all the different fabrics in no specific order.

And here's the super scientific way I figured out which 6 squares would go together on each block...I threw them all in a bag and blindly picked out six squares!!! It didn't take me as long as I thought it would to do this step which is good. I'm just glad I'm not as picky as I used to be...had I done this project when I first started sewing, I would have had to pick out each block's configuration by looking at all the fabrics and deciding which ones looked best with each other, etc....and it would have taken forever!!! Good thing I'm not that crazy anymore!!

And here are the A and B blocks that I've gotten sewn together already! They don't have the stuffing in them yet seeing as how I don't have any! Joanns trip planned for tomorrow...I got the C block done today also. They don't take more than about 10-15 minutes to sew together, I just get slightly bored doing the same thing over and over and over again so I take breaks and work on other things or go read inbetween making blocks. But it's ok because I'm planning on making these a Christmas present for Lowe.

Speaking of Christmas presents...I really wish I could post some pictures of the other awesome items I've been completing but that would ruin some surprises for Christmas...so those'll have to all be posted about shortly after Christmas! So practice some patience!!!

Lowe absolutely loves pasta. I made a pasta bake for dinner today and here he is enjoying it. Please notice how he's dyed his hair with the sauce!!!

And this is something Tyler can't get over...how much Lowe loves books. If you let him, Lowe'll just bring you book after book after book, sit in your lap each time, put his little hands in his lap and wait for you to read to him. He knows a ton of words too so he'll point at a lot of the pictures and say what he's looking at. It's super cute. He'll go searching through his bookshelves too until he finds his favorite books as well. At least he got something else from me along with the blonde hair: He loves to read!!!

Update on Tyler's sunburn: He went to a minute clinic and got some burn cream for it from the Nurse Practitioner. Thank goodness too because it was peeling really bad and all raw under the blisters that had popped!!! Second degree burns in places with the possibility of scaring! Whew! Maybe next time he'll listen to the counsil of his loving wife and Put On Some Sunscreen!!!!! Having had a burn that was worse than a second degree but not quite a third degree burn on my leg, I know what kind of pain he's been having so I'm glad he got some relief in that cream!

PS: Happy Birthday Grandma Jill!!! We love you, miss you all the time and can't wait to see you in November!!!

This Last Week

We didn't get any new pictures this week!!! I'm an awful mom for not taking any pictures of my baby this week...I'll do better this week.



So it was the same old same old for us this week, Tyler and I had work, I took Lowe to swim lessons on my day off. Yesterday, Tyler and I went Salt River Tubing my my brother Nathan and his friend Kapri. It was all overcast and breezy to start the day out, Nathan and I were actually shivering!!! But then the sun came and out we all felt it...bad!!! We all got sunburned pretty badly...ouch!!! We all had sunscreen on too, even re-applied it about halfway through our float. Oh well I guess. Here's a picture of Tyler's sunburn...ouch!!!





I'm in the process of cutting out 156 3 inch by 3 inch squares to make letter cubes for Lowe. So each cube will have one letter of the alphabet on it (thank you iron on letters!!!). I figure yeah, it's a lot of work, but at least when he throws these around, it won't hurt like getting hit by those evil little wooden letter blocks!!! So I picked out 78 (yes, I have more than this number) different fabrics from my stash and have cut out 30 different patterns so far. I figure this way, with only 2 of each fabric, there's no way any block with be close to being the same!!! I'll post some pictures once I get going a little further on the project.

We also went to one of Tyler's friend's wedding last night at a place called the Z Mansion here in Tucson. It was really nice even though it was outside. The place is really old and the family still actually lives there. Weird but cool. I would have to have a house with the architecture of that place...all old school and awesome! Some day when Tyler and I are really well off Dave can help us build my dream house ;) Yeah Dave!!!

So, can't really think of anything else that's been going on. TTFN.

Water Baby

Lowe really likes water, he'll run into the kitchen or bathroom if he hears the sink. Tyler and Lowe went to Target yesterday and got Lowe a little inflateable pool. Lowe likes to help fill up the pool and help water the tree (and himself!)
Here are some super cute pictures from their fun afternoon yesterday.

Nothing too exciting had happened around here. Tyler and I did watch the movie The Bounty Hunter last night after Lowe went to bed and it was actually pretty funny. Hopefully Tyler and I can start trading babysitting with friends so we can start to have a monthly (at least) date night where we actually are sans baby! We'll see...

Lately...

Here are some pictures of a few things I've been sewing lately. The bag and it's accessories are from this make a bag sew along I found. It's been really fun and all the instructions are on kellyrachel.com/blog if you're interested!!! The pink and brown sleep mask and make up roll are prizes that I made for this wellness challenge I'm participating in...sorry Sara that I've spoiled the surprise a few days ahead of time for those participating!!!


And here's just a super cute picture of Lowe from Abram's wedding reception. It's so hard to get any pictures of this boy because he never stops moving...ever! And whenever I get the camera out, he stops doing whatever cute thing he was doing because he wants to mess with the camera! Silly baby!

A Tale of Two Weddings

Whew!!! The last week or so has been really really busy for us Goodrichs! And I can't even say in our house since most of the business occured outside out house!

First off, my older brother Ben got married on July 3rd in St Paul Minnesota. My parents and two of my other older brothers and I were all able to fly out there to attend. It was a beautiful ceremony and I'm so excited to get to know Joanna better. Yeah to another sister!

So, a quick story about getting to Ben's wedding...Dave and I were driving up to Phoenix from Tucson on Thursday night in my little Mazda 3. We're going about 75 mph just south of Picacho Peak when this hugemongous semi truck tire flips up in the middle of the road right infront of us. The big pickup in front of us doesn't show any sign that this thing was in the road and with cars on either side of us and one riding my bumper, we can't avoid hitting the thing. So then my car's making all sorts of noise, Dave and I thought we had a flat tire. So we pulled off the side of the I-10, got out, assessed the damage (dented front passenger side bumper and plastic covering on the undercarriage of the car ripped off and hanging almost to the ground). Ok, not that bad we think until we get back in the car and IT WON'T START!!!! So...an hour and a half later after talking to my insurance and waiting for the tow truck guy, my little car gets towed back to Tucson and Nathan (another older brother) rescues me and Dave. Mind you, this whole time Dave and I are sitting in the car whose lights are slowly fading due to some unknown reason and whose gages keep twitching like the car is seizing!!!) Turns out the suspension is shot, the ac compressor is ruined and the battery was jolted so that it refused to hold a charge!!! Poor little car...needless to say, we're still waiting for it to be fixed!!!

But anyways, onto the other wedding! My younger brother Abram got married on the 8th of July to longtime sweetheart Rebecca. They met before his mission, knew they were going to get married before he left, she waited, he served faithfully, he got home, they're now married!!! And no, you don't need to adjust your computer screen...she really is just that much shorter than he is (even with the 3/5-4 inch wedges I found for her that she's wearing!!!)


I couldn't help but put this picture up on the internet...my dorky brothers from left to right: Mike, Ben, and Dave.

Lowe is getting so big and wants to help out with everthing we do. A while back, I was actually doing well of keeping some flowers alive in the planters outside of my front door...than we went on vacation in May and they died. I've been way too busy with other things to fix this. Lowe must have remembered seeing me water them months ago though because the other day, we got out the watering can from out closet and went to the front door. Tyler and I let him out and this is what he did:

Silly baby!!!

And thanks to this challenge I'm doing (Thanks Sara!!!) I was actually able to finally finish The Watermelon Quilt. Why do you ask is it capitalized? Well, I've been trying to quilt this thing for over 3 years now...3 YEARS!!! But I finally put my mind to it and wah la!!! Finished quilt!!!

Well...those are about the most exciting things to happen around here in the last few weeks so until next time!!!

And The Winner Is...

Lindsey Joslin!!! I used the random number generator off of random.org and it picked #5. I numbered the comments date wise from who commented first being #1 down to who commented last, etc. So just email me Lindz with what you want on the back of the flowers, if anything, and we'll figure out a way to get them to you.

Keep checking back, I'm thinking of something else I can do for a giveaway soon!

Giveaway!!!

So...I decided (for at least one time), I'll be jumping on the giveaway band wagon.

For this giveaway, there is one handmade black and white pleated pouch with red accent zipper and 6 handmade tattered flower embellishments.

If you want to enter, just leave me a comment below. The lucky winner will get to decide whether they want hair ties, bobby pins, safety pins, nothing or any combination attached to the back of the flowers so they can be used in a variety of ways. Good luck!!! Oh, the giveaway will be open until Sunday night when I will randomly select a winner who I'll post next Monday for contacting purposes.