<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929</id><updated>2009-11-09T23:49:44.913-06:00</updated><title type='text'>take my hand... we'll make it i swear</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>150</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-1877408372623394840</id><published>2009-11-08T20:42:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2009-11-08T20:48:20.801-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Heidi Stock Design'/><title type='text'>Some Exciting News!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;It's finally time for the launch of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://heidistockdesign.blogspot.com/"&gt;Heidi Stock Design&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/Svd99fjfGQI/AAAAAAAABMY/LGyzbMj9EOY/s1600-h/CH10-12+SAMPLES.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/Svd99fjfGQI/AAAAAAAABMY/LGyzbMj9EOY/s400/CH10-12+SAMPLES.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: white;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Check out my &lt;a href="http://heidistockdesign.blogspot.com/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; for many more design options - holiday cards, baby announcements, etc!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;:)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;All designs are original and customizable.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Get your orders in early and save 10%!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-1877408372623394840?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/1877408372623394840/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=1877408372623394840' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/1877408372623394840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/1877408372623394840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/11/some-exciting-news.html' title='Some Exciting News!'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/Svd99fjfGQI/AAAAAAAABMY/LGyzbMj9EOY/s72-c/CH10-12+SAMPLES.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-8135599979258019137</id><published>2009-10-30T11:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-30T11:25:35.581-05:00</updated><title type='text'>family visit!</title><content type='html'>This week, Adelle had a great time bonding with grandparents on the Stock side! &amp;nbsp;They came bearing gifts for Adelle AND mommy and daddy (some of the best hot cocoa I've ever had in my life) and we all had a great time!&amp;nbsp; Adelle warmed up pretty quickly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SusLWWa7PuI/AAAAAAAABG0/AzQJYfD7KJg/s1600-h/DSC00450+edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SusLWWa7PuI/AAAAAAAABG0/AzQJYfD7KJg/s640/DSC00450+edit.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You'll notice her silly little doggy hat... this is from a Halloween costume (from her Aunt Gina) we were going to have her wear, but it's too small :(&amp;nbsp; So she's been sporting the doggy ears for the past couple of weeks off and on.&amp;nbsp; hehehe&amp;nbsp; She has even slept in them a couple of times and loves them!&amp;nbsp; Thanks, Gina!&amp;nbsp; Luckily, Adelle's grandpa got her a great Jayhawk dress that has now become her cheerleader costume for Halloween as well :)&amp;nbsp; It even has a little white turtleneck with "Kansas" written on the collar.&amp;nbsp; Very&amp;nbsp; cute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SusLVDIVXsI/AAAAAAAABGs/lBqSz2jIrHc/s1600-h/DSC00449+edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SusLVDIVXsI/AAAAAAAABGs/lBqSz2jIrHc/s640/DSC00449+edit.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luke's dad has encouraged me to market the cards that I make.&amp;nbsp; I do enjoy entering them in challenges and what not, but that night I went through what I had and realized how many great cards I have that would sell great, even if they wouldn't necessarily be chosen for a publication or something like that.&amp;nbsp; So now I'm motivated!&amp;nbsp; I've been at my sister Lori's watching her girls/helping her out some yesterday and more this afternoon because she had to have an unexpected surgery (she's doing well... just not enjoying the recovery process).&amp;nbsp; Then I start a new job on Monday!&amp;nbsp; And Luke is going to be enrolling for classes at JCCC this weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This week we're heading to my parents' house.&amp;nbsp; My brother Craig and his family will be visiting from Missouri and the church there is having a trunk-or-treat.&amp;nbsp; It'll be fun to have all the grandkids together in their costumes.&amp;nbsp; Now I just need to find the SD card for my camera!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Halloween.&amp;nbsp; Be safe!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-8135599979258019137?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/8135599979258019137/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=8135599979258019137' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/8135599979258019137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/8135599979258019137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/10/family-visit.html' title='family visit!'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SusLWWa7PuI/AAAAAAAABG0/AzQJYfD7KJg/s72-c/DSC00450+edit.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-1028516170752159765</id><published>2009-10-25T12:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-25T12:35:04.032-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uchtdorf quote'/><title type='text'>the importance of creativity/creation</title><content type='html'>Luke and I are home from church today -- he has food poisoning and I have a fever and chills.&amp;nbsp; Awesome.&amp;nbsp; Adelle's the only healthy one around here.&amp;nbsp; Since we're missing church, I've been reading talks from previous General Conferences and was reminded of this quote from an awesome talk given by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, the 2nd counselor in the General Presidency.&amp;nbsp; This was during the General Relief Society Meeting in October (end of September probably) of 2008.&amp;nbsp; Enjoy:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You may think you don’t have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before – colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter. What you create doesn’t have to be perfect… Don’t let the voices of critics paralyze you – whether that voice comes from the outside or the inside. If you still feel incapable of creating, start small. Try to see how many smiles you can create, write a letter of appreciation, learn a new skill, identify a space and beautify it."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here's a link to the entire talk: &lt;a href="http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&amp;amp;locale=0&amp;amp;sourceId=15674bb52a73d110VgnVCM100000176f620a____&amp;amp;vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD"&gt;HERE.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-1028516170752159765?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/1028516170752159765/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=1028516170752159765' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/1028516170752159765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/1028516170752159765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/10/importance-of-creativitycreation.html' title='the importance of creativity/creation'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-1346921661265797201</id><published>2009-10-23T18:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-23T18:07:41.086-05:00</updated><title type='text'>thoughts and Cards Trends Blog</title><content type='html'>As far as the last post, I've decided to just be proactive.  If I really want to have a relationship with the people I've been friends with in the past, then I need to be the one to make the effort to actually HAVE a relationship with those people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow I'm singing at a funeral for a 24 year-old man, who is the younger brother of a good friend from high school.  His passing was very unexpected, so I ask that you all keep the family in your prayers tomorrow (Saturday) especially.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a lighter note, I have a card featured on the &lt;a href="http://northridgemedia.net/blogs/cards/?p=763&amp;amp;cpage=1#comment-1579"&gt;Card Trends Blog&lt;/a&gt; today!&amp;nbsp; This blog is done by CARDS Magazine, so it gets a lot of traffic.&amp;nbsp; It's exciting that my work is starting to be recognized and showcased.&amp;nbsp; This challenge was to make a collage-like card, so I literally used scraps from another card to make it (with a few added things).&amp;nbsp; I was recognized for my overall design, but especially for my unique color combination.&amp;nbsp; Anyway, that was fun!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope everyone has a fun weekend!&amp;nbsp; Halloween is only 8 days away!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-1346921661265797201?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/1346921661265797201/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=1346921661265797201' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/1346921661265797201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/1346921661265797201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/10/thoughts-and-cards-trends-blog.html' title='thoughts and Cards Trends Blog'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-3715657352901169092</id><published>2009-10-19T18:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T18:24:56.926-05:00</updated><title type='text'>some days are just hard...</title><content type='html'>I'm not going to go into detail, but you may not know that my new exciting and glamorous job fell through.  It's a long stupid story that results in me looking for jobs again.  I got a temporary 2 month position that starts in 2 weeks, but beyond that, I'm looking.  This of course has caused some economical challenges for us, but we're doing the best we can and are grateful for help from family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few weeks ago, a friend of mine from 7th grade through high school got married.  I found out about it from someone else's blog.  Today I found out that another friend from elementary school through high school got married and apparently nearly everyone from our little high school group of friends knew about it.  I'm not sure what to do with all of this information, but I am having a hard time with it.  I'm not sure if it means that I was a bad friend after high school to not keep in touch as well as I could have or if it means that we were never really that close.  This is aside from like 3 other marriages of friends in the past year that I either found out about after the fact or on Facebook.  I know that my religious values sometimes left me on the outside of things, but it is just really upsetting.  These are people I sought out when I got married to make sure they at least got an announcement.  These days I don't really have any close friends who I HAVE to call when I get news, aside from my sisters anyway.  Maybe that's the trade-off for having a close-knit family and a husband, but I guess I'm just not the type of person who can completely let go of a friendship, even if it's been a long time.  I know I could've made many more efforts to see these old friends though, so maybe I shouldn't be so worked up about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I just needed to vent a little.  This evening Luke and I are going to take Adelle and just get out of the house for a little Family Home Evening.  Location is TBD, but I'm excited to just get out and do something as a family, even if it's just window shopping or going for a walk!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-3715657352901169092?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/3715657352901169092/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=3715657352901169092' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/3715657352901169092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/3715657352901169092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/10/some-days-are-just-hard.html' title='some days are just hard...'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-8937518904199849323</id><published>2009-10-17T14:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-17T14:10:17.713-05:00</updated><title type='text'>time to update</title><content type='html'>Hello to everyone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not much to report today, but I wanted to share some exciting news (no, I'm not pregnant).&amp;nbsp; You may know that I have a&lt;a href="http://haphazardlycrafty.blogspot.com/"&gt; card blog&lt;/a&gt;, where I show cards that I've made, etc.&amp;nbsp; Well, recently I've been submitting cards to be published in card/craft magazines, and one of my cards was selected!&amp;nbsp; I will be published in the March 2010 issue of CARDS magazine, which is one of my favorite craft magazines.&amp;nbsp; I can't wait!&amp;nbsp; I already had to box up the card and send it with details on the materials I used, how to make it, etc.&amp;nbsp; They'll send it back to me after the March issue comes out and will send a bunch of cardmaking goodies and 2 copies of the magazine along with it.&amp;nbsp; Yay :)&amp;nbsp; This was kind of a goal when I got started and I have come a long way since the beginning of my blog.&amp;nbsp; I've had fun learning about different techniques, trends, etc.&amp;nbsp; Each publication asks for specific criteria depending on the issue, so that's how you decide what to submit.&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.scrapbooktrendsmag.com/submissions.html#cards"&gt;Here's an example.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/a&gt;Anyway, I can't show you the card now, but after it's published I will be sure to post it on here. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adelle is as cute as ever and is becoming more and more dependent on us for entertainment.&amp;nbsp; She's never been too attached, but lately she wants to be held or us to be playing with her all the time.&amp;nbsp; She also got her first ouchie this week... nothing serious, but she slipped and hit her face on the corner of the coffee table.&amp;nbsp; It didn't break skin, but she has a long bruise line down her cheek.&amp;nbsp; She barely cried -- just got mad when I tried to put ice on it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's all!&amp;nbsp; Hope everyone is doing well.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-8937518904199849323?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-894986577027474913</id><published>2009-10-07T01:20:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-07T02:09:20.633-05:00</updated><title type='text'>sleepy adelle pictures...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/Ssw-kMhrczI/AAAAAAAAA98/M7OZHBVrK-Q/s1600-h/SN851744+edit.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/Ssw-kMhrczI/AAAAAAAAA98/M7OZHBVrK-Q/s400/SN851744+edit.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389751645614338866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/Ssw9kFVv0hI/AAAAAAAAA90/i7LtMhLeWNQ/s1600-h/SN851754+crop.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/Ssw9kFVv0hI/AAAAAAAAA90/i7LtMhLeWNQ/s400/SN851754+crop.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389750544173617682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/Ssw9jVCqI9I/AAAAAAAAA9s/oN0FPHy2t4I/s1600-h/SN851753+edit.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/Ssw9jVCqI9I/AAAAAAAAA9s/oN0FPHy2t4I/s400/SN851753+edit.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389750531208651730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;taken 10/5/09 in the early A.M.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-894986577027474913?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/894986577027474913/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=894986577027474913' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/894986577027474913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/894986577027474913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/10/sleepy-adelle-pictures.html' title='sleepy adelle pictures...'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/Ssw-kMhrczI/AAAAAAAAA98/M7OZHBVrK-Q/s72-c/SN851744+edit.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-211430423411512196</id><published>2009-10-01T16:58:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-10-01T17:19:58.829-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='moving'/><title type='text'>a busy busy busy month.</title><content type='html'>wow, i can't believe it's been nearly a whole month since i last posted... adelle is as cute as ever of course and she's kind of a big stinker.  she likes to play with her daddy's XBOX and when he tells her 'no,' she looks at him, shakes her head no, then laughs and usually goes after it again.  she is saying "up" and can repeat a series of notes if i sing "ahhh" to her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;about 2 weeks ago, i started a new job in OP.  i'm working primarily from home, but am enjoying the change so far.  monday evening luke and i moved to the KC area and really love our new place.  i'll be sure to take some pictures when we finish unpacking (we're pretty close already).  luke has had several job interviews and we're just waiting to hear back.  tuesday evening, we found the phone number of a bishop of the ward we thought we would be in and called him.  that same evening the elder's quorum president, elder's quorum secretary, and relief society secretary called us to set up times to meet us.  luke already played bball tuesday night and i got to meet the r.s. pres and secretary this morning.  the r.s. president in my new ward is one of my former YW leaders from growing up in lawrence.  sometimes i forget how small the church really is.  anyway, we get to meet in the brand new stake center, which is pretty close to home (and for luke that means a full-size basketball court).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;that's the update for now.  i need to take/post some more pics of us and adelle.  we're so blessed to have such a sweet/funny baby.  tonight we have a visit from the EQP and EQ secretary.  then bball for luke and SLEEP for me.  it's going to be great.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-211430423411512196?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/211430423411512196/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-4293509327298221308</id><published>2009-09-03T11:34:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-03T12:46:41.054-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='milestones'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kcsc'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='adelle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='birthday'/><title type='text'>milestones and what not.</title><content type='html'>I think I'll just start with some cute pictures of Adelle, since they're not really related to the post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's Adelle during bath time.  I just wanted to show off her pretty face and long eyelashes :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/Sp_-1-csIGI/AAAAAAAAA8E/bgnoC5jGPJo/s1600-h/SN851584.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/Sp_-1-csIGI/AAAAAAAAA8E/bgnoC5jGPJo/s400/SN851584.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377296683353514082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Here's Adelle's favorite bath time pastime (that's a mouthful -- the words, not the rubber ducky). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/Sp_-1SCVxjI/AAAAAAAAA78/ZwiAhstG2aM/s1600-h/SN851581.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/Sp_-1SCVxjI/AAAAAAAAA78/ZwiAhstG2aM/s400/SN851581.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377296671431837234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I cannot tell you how many times we have found Adelle chewing on her binky like this.  So silly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/Sp_-05kv_eI/AAAAAAAAA70/zVKI_AlJ3TU/s1600-h/SN851590.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/Sp_-05kv_eI/AAAAAAAAA70/zVKI_AlJ3TU/s400/SN851590.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377296664865275362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so i bet you're all wondering what we're up to these days... well at least our cute little girl.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;just a day after my last post, so on August 12th, Adelle started pulling herself up to standing in her crib.  she did that for a few days and then started doing it with furniture around the living room.  about a week ago she started doing a LITTLE cruising (walking while holding on to furniture), but she only does it if she sees something really worth getting.  also, she has been crawling since just a couple of days before she turned 9 months, so also just a few days after my last post.  She is very quick and already pretty sneaky.  also, about 2 weeks ago (so right after she turned 9 months) she started saying "dada" somewhat consistently.  she definitely knows who "dada" and "mama" are and will sometimes try to say "mama," especially when she's crying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we had adelle's well-child 9 month visit on Monday and the doctor couldn't believe how healthy and on target she was!  she now weighs 20 lbs and 10 oz and is 29 inches tall (that's 3 inches in 3 months).  the doctor also said, because she's getting all the nutrition she needs and eating so well, that we could start to phase in whole milk instead of formula and also more finger foods (you know, since she already has EIGHT teeth).  she's already had a lot of finger foods, but i think we're going to start giving her veggies primarily in the finger food form because she has developed this habit to start talking and blowing out air and making silly noises as soon as she gets a spoonful in her mouth (only with veggies or something she doesn't quite like as much as fruit), making it gets all over her and us instead of you know, into her body.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i've gotten to go to a couple rehearsals now for the Kansas City Symphony Chorus.  I don't think I knew what to expect when we (my mom and I) started, but it is such a wide range of people - experience, background, AGE, etc.  Overall it's a fun time, though I forgot how much Charles Bruffy loves count singing :)  I'm enjoying singing again and look forward to the performances and other opportunities it may present.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and I'm 25 now, as of Saturday the 29th.  So far, it feels good :P&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-4293509327298221308?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/4293509327298221308/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=4293509327298221308' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/4293509327298221308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/4293509327298221308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/09/milestones-and-what-not.html' title='milestones and what not.'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/Sp_-1-csIGI/AAAAAAAAA8E/bgnoC5jGPJo/s72-c/SN851584.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-9061032230214948269</id><published>2009-08-11T11:26:00.010-05:00</published><updated>2009-08-11T12:42:24.213-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Update!</title><content type='html'>Hello hello! Not a ton has been going on for us. We just had a transition in the house where we work, so that has kept our hands and calendars pretty full. Transitions can be really challenging -- especially when we don't have all of the information -- but we're doing the best we can with what we've got!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On Saturday, I had an audition for the Kansas City Symphony Chorus. I have been looking for ways to get back into singing for a while now, so when they emailed me about auditions (I signed up for updates from them), I was excited to get involved. I was out the door on time to take Adelle over to my parents' house while I was gone, but then everything else went wrong. First of all, I wasn't paying attention and headed for the wrong highway. Turns out I could've gone that way, but without directions, I didn't want to get lost. So, I turned around and lost about 15 minutes. Then I decided to take the North Lawrence exit to KC and there was a huge detour once I got over the bridge. I got so lost in North Lawrence trying to figure out where to go that by that time, I had burned about 35 minutes, meaning I would undoubtedly be late. Well, I was late, but only by 5 minutes and they were running about 10 minutes late! So, I had just enough time to fill out my audition form and then sing. The audition was actually fun. Charles Bruffy, the director, worked with me a little bit, having me sing my song in different ways ('Pie Jesu' from Faure's Requiem) follow by a little sight reading. Then at the end of the audition they welcomed me to the choir and gave me the music! I'm really excited to sing on a regular basis again and my mom auditioned too, so I'll always have someone to ride with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Fun Adelle things:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;I can just lay her down on the floor, give her a bottle and she'll hold it and drink it on her own.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;She is SO CLOSE to crawling that we're having to baby proof now, except while I was taping some cords to the wall, she started going around me to get to the part that wasn't covered yet and she keeps moving what we have in front of the TV stand to cover the electronics (uh oh!). She is pretty quick pulling herself around with her arms and she does this push up thing (hard to explain), but lately she'll go forward with one knee and then lunge. So, I think she's pretty close to figuring it out. It's so funny to watch. Oh and this morning, I went in to get her and she had pulled herself up on her knees holding onto the railing of the crib. NOOO!!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Adelle has FOUR top teeth coming in all at once! We discovered them about 3 days ago and she had been a bit fussy, so that explains it! We're having to slightly medicate her in the morning before her first bottle, or she refuses to drink it because it hurts her teeth so much. So when these fully grow in, she'll have EIGHT teeth! The top 4 and the bottom 4. She's growing up too fast!!!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;She'll be 9 months old on the 19th, just 8 days away! We've been watching the Friends DVDs again and last night we watched Season 10 The One With Emma's Birthday and it made me cry. Before we know it, Adelle will be a year old! It's going by way too fast. Before we know it, she's going to be asking for help with Math that I can't do anymore...&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;And now for some pictures representing her new "skills:"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here, Adelle is sporting her new fake smile, which I'm sure she got from us. She is always imitating the things we do. So cute.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368760582102994274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SoGrTfReTWI/AAAAAAAAA3I/mYLDIpJeMhk/s400/SN851402+edit.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Adelle in her new preferred sleeping position. Bottoms up!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368760585413247522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SoGrTrmswiI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/3xaKkMP3E6A/s400/SN851414+edit.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And here you can see her new obsession with sticking out her tongue. She's been doing this for almost a whole month now, but it's still so funny!&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368760592127758194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 312px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SoGrUEnkD3I/AAAAAAAAA3Y/WREFeeYlZKM/s400/SN851439+edit.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope everyone's having a good week! Soon I'll post a couple of projects that I recently completed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-9061032230214948269?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/9061032230214948269/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=9061032230214948269' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/9061032230214948269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/9061032230214948269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/08/update.html' title='Update!'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SoGrTfReTWI/AAAAAAAAA3I/mYLDIpJeMhk/s72-c/SN851402+edit.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-7242096913637064445</id><published>2009-07-25T15:54:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-07-25T16:15:41.022-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Clapping!</title><content type='html'>I mentioned in the last post that a goal for the week was to record Adelle clapping and overall just being cute, so this is some footage I took last night.  (please excuse the clothes on the floor behind her and Luke sleeping on the couch)  Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-bd03e4d0d1fb1f9" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DpgAAABqQx1oQmSnIaATdhug8I95Fis6s5SoGxksE3xjxlLazE1MMF679xKK0KmwJQTsNDYOYpi4ITlakvSUrTZp84Zjjns7odt-nFhcPIURN0gol1ukfuyk_7nrWVxfmefEiUwnGC4kL5FEWtRvK10i043kHSF35rjPybjH1hknzn46rN3d48bdYm2PlAtWpfVbAJ0iRA6LTM_VGpPeFGpgORDevW7pQ9609H-eYIBWdn8Jf%26sigh%3DHJvZjqgxCjuceWWLKLygzFY7dOw%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&amp;amp;nogvlm=1&amp;amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Dbd03e4d0d1fb1f9%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DmcCAGbVHaVS15GGkneSxfoZN7Rs&amp;amp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DpgAAABqQx1oQmSnIaATdhug8I95Fis6s5SoGxksE3xjxlLazE1MMF679xKK0KmwJQTsNDYOYpi4ITlakvSUrTZp84Zjjns7odt-nFhcPIURN0gol1ukfuyk_7nrWVxfmefEiUwnGC4kL5FEWtRvK10i043kHSF35rjPybjH1hknzn46rN3d48bdYm2PlAtWpfVbAJ0iRA6LTM_VGpPeFGpgORDevW7pQ9609H-eYIBWdn8Jf%26sigh%3DHJvZjqgxCjuceWWLKLygzFY7dOw%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&amp;amp;nogvlm=1&amp;amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Dbd03e4d0d1fb1f9%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DmcCAGbVHaVS15GGkneSxfoZN7Rs&amp;amp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and she has 2 more teeth coming in!  She already has the 2  in the middle on the bottom row and now 1 on either side of those is just breaking through the gums.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-7242096913637064445?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='enclosure' type='video/mp4' href='http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=bd03e4d0d1fb1f9&amp;type=video%2Fmp4' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/7242096913637064445/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=7242096913637064445' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/7242096913637064445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/7242096913637064445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/07/clapping.html' title='Clapping!'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-6509938170947068545</id><published>2009-07-22T19:21:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-07-22T19:21:35.463-05:00</updated><title type='text'>8 months and a new missionary in the fam.</title><content type='html'>all of a sudden my daughter can do a bunch of stuff.  like today i said "yay!" to her and she started clapping.  then later i said "clap" and she clapped some more!  so cute!  and she has started waving, but not consistently yet.  what's funny is watching her try to be mobile.  she gets up on her knees and then doesn't know what to do, so she rocks a little and eventually lunges backwards.  she's getting there though!  oh, and she can pull herself up to a sitting position from being nearly flat on her back.  it's so cute watching her figure things out!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;on another note, my brother went into the MTC today!  i'm excited to hear about his initial reaction and his experiences there.  this is such an important thing for eric and i'm really glad he gets the opportunity to do it -- to go out on his own without family nearby and really learn how to work hard and be outspoken.  this 2 years is going to affect the rest of his life so much and i am so grateful that he not only gets the chance to do it, but that there is nothing else he would rather be doing than serving as a missionary!  yay!  and so, i'm going to try not to miss him, but instead to be a good pen pal with words of encouragement and sincere interest.  that's what he needs from his family, not "wish you were here"s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;back to the first note, my goal for the week is to get a picture of adelle, since she turned EIGHT MONTHS OLD on this past sunday, and also a video clip of her clapping and babbling.  she is just so stinking cute.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-6509938170947068545?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/6509938170947068545/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=6509938170947068545' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/6509938170947068545'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/6509938170947068545'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/07/8-months-and-new-missionary-in-fam.html' title='8 months and a new missionary in the fam.'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-7396269405661979105</id><published>2009-07-08T10:03:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-07-08T11:00:54.037-05:00</updated><title type='text'>if you really knew me...</title><content type='html'>you might know that i have a very slight bossy streak.  and if you really knew me, you'd know there's more to say than that.  let me explain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i have a younger brother.  he's nearly 20 now.  before we know it, he'll be off to the MTC and then to the mission field (yes, I realize I'm referring to SLC as the mission field, but too bad, Utah!  you're part of it too!) to learn about what it means to be self-sufficient, to realize how much he really values his personal space and time alone, to come to understand what it really means to work to the point of exhaustion, to draw closer to Heavenly Father than ever before, to rely on the Spirit for everything, to realize there's still so much to learn.  now i'm faced with the realization that my little baby brother isn't so little anymore.  i remember constantly ragging on him, not in the playful way an older sister would, but really just being bossy and kind of mean.  i resented him for making me be the one to mow the lawn with this mentality that the able-bodied male should do it.  i was annoyed that i was still the gopher even though he was the youngest.  maybe i was just more of a pushover.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;then there was that week in Kentucky where together we endured the nearly 10 hour car drive to a session of EFY (Especially for Youth), to be a part of my spiritual (and social) high.  forced to be friends, at least for a week.  now don't get me wrong, we always had our moments, though they were often heavily shadowed by my motherly attitude of "you should do what i say" or "you should feel bad for not doing what i say."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;eventually i got over myself (some), got married and moved out and now we can actually talk on the phone, talk as peers, talk as brother and sister.  i tease him about girl&lt;s&gt;s&lt;/s&gt;, impress him with my &lt;s&gt;vast&lt;/s&gt; growing NBA knowledge, and watch him play with my little girl as I realize she'll be nearly 3 when she gets to play with her uncle Eric again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but it really is worth it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eric, i am so excited for you.  we won't be too far away and you'll constantly be in our prayers, that your time will be well-spent, not just for you, but also for the people in Salt Lake City (I guess you ARE going to a foreign land afterall, hee hee).  Good luck and don't be surprised if Mom cleans your room while you're gone!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I hope you'll forgive me in advance for my poor pen pal skills, but we'll do our best!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love, your youngest big sister, Heidi.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-7396269405661979105?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/7396269405661979105/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=7396269405661979105' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/7396269405661979105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355590140320317234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SlLg24RgfzI/AAAAAAAAA0I/XuJIy7iE-D4/s400/hair+for+sale.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-5809795447587715189?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/5809795447587715189/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=5809795447587715189' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/5809795447587715189'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/5809795447587715189'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/07/craigslist.html' title='craigslist'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SlLg24RgfzI/AAAAAAAAA0I/XuJIy7iE-D4/s72-c/hair+for+sale.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-9018455006599687553</id><published>2009-06-30T11:56:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-06-30T22:20:20.228-05:00</updated><title type='text'>life is so good when you choose to be an active part of it.</title><content type='html'>i got up this morning determined -- determined to do something more than i did yesterday, specifically to start the day more active and involved in the outside world. so, i went to the grocery store. :) i loaded up adelle in the stroller and walked down the long street to hy-vee, where we browsed a little while, got some things we needed, and walked back home again. this is one of the nicer days we've had in a few weeks, so it was really great to be out in it. adelle fell asleep on the walk home and i was just trying to keep her legs shaded (i'm sure i looked silly walking to the side of the stroller, pulling it rather than pushing it from behind).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this has been a really busy week and i've really enjoyed it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;on thursday evening, i got off some time from work and went with my sister kelly to the mormon tabernacle choir in kansas city at the sprint center. we had a lot of fun and even got there a bit early. we were playing games on her iphone watching people running in at the last minute (this is one of the most embarrassing things for me about the LDS culture... always late! ... and i am guilty of this at times as well, but not for something like this -- there were lines of people walking in through the first song). i probably wouldn't have gone if it wasn't for my friend Greg who is in the choir and sent me 2 tickets, but i am glad i got the opportunity to be there. it reminded me of some goals/desires i once had that got pushed to the backburners while life happened... more on that later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;friday after we worked half a day, luke, adelle and i packed up the car and drove to st. louis to my brother Craig's house. we stayed there overnight and then went to the St. Louis Temple on Saturday early afternoon to go with my brother Eric and my sister Kelly, both of them going for the first time. my brother Eric is preparing to leave for the Mission Training Center to train to be a missionary in the Salt Lake City South mission. it was a really great experience to be in the temple with so many family members... i just wish that everyone could've gone. i am definitely grateful to Craig and Vanessa for being willing to stay and watch the kids. it was a really great trip and just reminded me of how Luke and I need to be making a better effort to go often. there are always reasons not to go... it's so easy to say you're too busy or that you can't get off work, but when it's really important to you, you make it the priority and honestly, when we told our boss how important it was for us to go, she found people to be on call for us herself and made sure we got to go. that was such a huge blessing and definitely not something that always happens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i'm tempted to start rambling, so instead i'll just end with a super cute Adelle picture from today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SkrVrvekbDI/AAAAAAAAAzw/WAtZLj2-Ojc/s1600-h/SN851345.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SkrVrvekbDI/AAAAAAAAAzw/WAtZLj2-Ojc/s400/SN851345.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353326054539029554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SkrUmoKdWuI/AAAAAAAAAzo/YBUPnxTLwrU/s1600-h/SN851345.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-9018455006599687553?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/9018455006599687553/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' 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url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SkrVrvekbDI/AAAAAAAAAzw/WAtZLj2-Ojc/s72-c/SN851345.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-2214379343795877902</id><published>2009-06-24T22:25:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-06-24T22:28:03.933-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Adelle pic of the week:</title><content type='html'>I hope you will overlook the messy sweet potatoes on her face and notice how stinking cute Adelle is in her daddy's KU hat.  What's funny is that she kept it on for a really long time... it didn't even bother her.  Then of course Luke put it over her eyes and she tore it off and threw it on the ground.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SkLuWssZhTI/AAAAAAAAAzg/wELSh3Tlvm0/s1600-h/SN851297.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SkLuWssZhTI/AAAAAAAAAzg/wELSh3Tlvm0/s400/SN851297.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351101380991485234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-2214379343795877902?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/2214379343795877902/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=2214379343795877902' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/2214379343795877902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/2214379343795877902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/06/adelle-pic-of-week.html' title='Adelle pic of the week:'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SkLuWssZhTI/AAAAAAAAAzg/wELSh3Tlvm0/s72-c/SN851297.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-2802014763574596009</id><published>2009-06-22T21:50:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-06-24T22:23:44.865-05:00</updated><title type='text'>blog surfing.</title><content type='html'>i really don't blog surf very often.  i stick to the blogs i know and have been invited to read... most of the time.  but every once in a while i'll do a little blog surfing and come across something that looks kind of like this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;This blog is open to invited readers only&lt;/h1&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" class="blogUrl"&gt;http://{insert clever blog title here}.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="margin-top: 2em; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;It doesn't look like you have been invited to read this blog. If you think this is a mistake, you might want to contact the blog author and request an invitation.&lt;/p&gt;Makes me feel like a total stalker.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;{insert awkward scream here}&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-2802014763574596009?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/2802014763574596009/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=2802014763574596009' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/2802014763574596009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/2802014763574596009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/06/blog-surfing.html' title='blog surfing.'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-4977194924392686978</id><published>2009-06-15T17:32:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-06-15T17:41:36.211-05:00</updated><title type='text'>quick update!</title><content type='html'>I'm sorry I've been away for so long, but I just wanted to do a quick update and let everyone know that all is well. I took this picture of Adelle today and just wanted to let everyone know that she's just as cute as ever :) She's a really good eater and we're slowly working in the puffs and soon she'll start meat (at the end of the week when she turns SEVEN MONTHS on the 19th!). She babbles pretty much constantly and is playing with different sounds. She thinks the 'p' sound is hilarious and does it a lot, as well as the 'b.' She's growing up too fast!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SjbMKb7Rj3I/AAAAAAAAAxQ/KTHdslbiwfE/s1600-h/SN851265.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347686087216172914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SjbMKb7Rj3I/AAAAAAAAAxQ/KTHdslbiwfE/s400/SN851265.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news, my little brother Eric got his mission call last month and will be serving in the SLC South mission. He goes into the MTC on July 22nd and we're all really excited for him! Very soon, we will go to the temple with Eric as well as with my sister Kelly. I haven't been to the temple since before I was pregnant, so I am REALLY looking forward to that. And I'm really grateful to our boss who is so understanding and said she'd be the backup so we can be gone on the weekend. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, this is all I have time for at the moment, but I'm going to try and play a little catch up here soon. If not, I'll at least be blogging more frequently than once a month.  And in the meantime, check out &lt;a href="http://haphazardlycrafty.blogspot.com/"&gt;my craft blog!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-4977194924392686978?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/4977194924392686978/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=4977194924392686978' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/4977194924392686978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/4977194924392686978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/06/quick-update.html' title='quick update!'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SjbMKb7Rj3I/AAAAAAAAAxQ/KTHdslbiwfE/s72-c/SN851265.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-8147483132206146958</id><published>2009-05-19T18:44:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-05-19T18:51:45.135-05:00</updated><title type='text'>life, milestone, and other junk.</title><content type='html'>It's been a while since I really blogged about my life.  Even now I don't have much to say, but wow have we been busy and exhausted... almost all the time.  Our only day off in the past week was Saturday because of weekend staff participating in KU's graduation (and the fact that many subs were unavailable also because of graduation).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luke and I have decided to change up our work schedule... we work together and it's a little bit flexible during the day, so now Luke has decided to take on the brunt of the work instead of us working equal amounts.  We're in our second week of doing this and it already is working so much better.  This way I'm available during the day to do the paperwork that needs to get done, as well as taking care of Adelle in her own home and having some time to pursue some of my own personal interests (I don't know if I mentioned that I'm working on a graphic design website).  I already can feel this change helping our marriage so much and I'm so glad that Luke is willing to take on the extra responsibility.  If you've never tried it, it is really challenging working with your spouse, especially this kind of job where it so easily spills into our personal relationship.  This new schedule has really helped a lot though.  We're not around each other ALL day long, so then we can appreciate the evenings/weekends more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news, ADELLE IS 6 MONTHS OLD TODAY!!!!  That is such a milestone that I can't believe she's there already!  My sister Lori took some pics of her yesterday and I can't wait to see the best shots!  maybe i'll post a pic of her before bed from ON her birthday.  I'm going to write her a letter tonight and also write down the things she can do/almost can do right at this moment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's all for now!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-8147483132206146958?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/8147483132206146958/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=8147483132206146958' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/8147483132206146958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/8147483132206146958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/05/life-milestone-and-other-junk.html' title='life, milestone, and other junk.'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-1184991343102453332</id><published>2009-05-11T15:03:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2009-05-11T15:18:48.775-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lori George Photography</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SgiF-paY91I/AAAAAAAAApU/GExnE6dPDuI/s1600-h/LGP+logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SgiF-paY91I/AAAAAAAAApU/GExnE6dPDuI/s400/LGP+logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334661069935277906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I've mentioned a few times before on here, my sister Lori has started a photography business.  This weekend she officially launched &lt;a href="http://lorigeorgephotography.blogspot.com/"&gt;her website/blog&lt;/a&gt; and she's included a drawing for a free session!  If you live near Lawrence, check it out and leave a comment (by Monday, May 17th!).  You could win a free session plus a $25 ordering credit!  Also, even if you don't win, she is offering 50% off session fees if you book a session before May 31st (which makes the individual person session only $12.50!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm taking a small part in her business in designing custom announcements/invites/etc. for her clients.  Depending on how many opportunities I get through this, I plan to also start my own website where others can order from me as well... maybe other photographers offering to their clients as well as people who just want to order.  Anyway, check it out!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-1184991343102453332?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/1184991343102453332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=1184991343102453332' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/1184991343102453332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/1184991343102453332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/05/lori-george-photography.html' title='Lori George Photography'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SgiF-paY91I/AAAAAAAAApU/GExnE6dPDuI/s72-c/LGP+logo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-7355178769822351280</id><published>2009-05-01T11:27:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-05-01T11:33:43.586-05:00</updated><title type='text'>my first order...</title><content type='html'>I have been working a bit with my sister Lori on her budding photography business and have had fun looking at pictures and helping her make editing decisions, etc. Along with that, I have also been working on various announcements/invitations, etc that she can offer to her clients for babies, holidays, etc. Well I got my first order! I took off last names and changed the birthdate to protect a little privacy at least, but here it is!  I created that butterfly pattern myself and used a color scheme the mom wanted.  It was a lot of fun making this!  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;And of course the photo was taken by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://lorigeorgephotography.blogspot.com"&gt;Lori!&lt;/a&gt;  Click on her name to check out her website if you want some great child/family photos taken!  And her rates are pretty low so far since she's just starting out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SfsjbfX89mI/AAAAAAAAAnA/7Z91ClNQl8U/s1600-h/alexis+sophia+johnson+announcement+purple+blog.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SfsjbfX89mI/AAAAAAAAAnA/7Z91ClNQl8U/s400/alexis+sophia+johnson+announcement+purple+blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330893539108517474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-7355178769822351280?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/7355178769822351280/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=7355178769822351280' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/7355178769822351280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/7355178769822351280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-first-order.html' title='my first order...'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SfsjbfX89mI/AAAAAAAAAnA/7Z91ClNQl8U/s72-c/alexis+sophia+johnson+announcement+purple+blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-8396366826183874523</id><published>2009-04-26T23:39:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-04-26T23:39:32.307-05:00</updated><title type='text'>yay!</title><content type='html'>adelle is cutting her first teeth! it's the 2 front bottom teeth. no wonder she's been sticking her tongue out so much the past couple of days. i would too if some foreign sensation started breaking through my gums...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yay!  they grow up TOO fast.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-8396366826183874523?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/8396366826183874523/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=8396366826183874523' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/8396366826183874523'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/8396366826183874523'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/04/yay.html' title='yay!'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-8953572170976828553</id><published>2009-04-16T16:43:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-04-16T16:46:14.083-05:00</updated><title type='text'>...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY"&gt;i'm inspired by Susan Boyle.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the kick in the pants a lot of people need...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-8953572170976828553?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/8953572170976828553/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=8953572170976828553' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/8953572170976828553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/8953572170976828553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post.html' title='...'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-4938827595001182376</id><published>2009-04-12T13:19:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-04-12T13:40:36.989-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='resurrection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Easter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='butterfly'/><title type='text'>the butterfly.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SeIxsu-j7aI/AAAAAAAAAis/1a-_TePiN5w/s1600-h/Fullscreen+capture+4122009+12207+PM.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SeIxsu-j7aI/AAAAAAAAAis/1a-_TePiN5w/s400/Fullscreen+capture+4122009+12207+PM.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323872354099785122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I learned something new today and I wanted to share.  I was thinking a lot about Easter and why we really celebrate it versus &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;how &lt;/span&gt;we celebrate, so I wanted to find some of the symbolism behind things that often represent Easter.  Some things are pretty obvious.  Eggs, chicks, bunnies, flowers... all represent new life, just as Spring itself does -- the new life that is promised to all of us when our bodies and spirits are reunited in perfect form because of that Spring morning when Christ rose from the tomb after being crucified and then lying in a tomb for 3 days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my search for meaning behind all of the Easter bunny and egg decorating hype, I found a great explanation as to why we sometimes see the butterfly in the mix with everything else that may represent Spring and Easter.  First we have the caterpillar who walks along the Earth, representing Christ's life on Earth.  Then there is the cocoon stage, representing Christ's crucifixion and burial -- when he was lain in a tomb.  Then comes the butterfly emerging from the cocoon transformed into a magnificent creature, just as Christ was raised from the dead--resurrected with a glorified body.  I really enjoyed learning about this and hope it will give me an extra reminder of the blessing and promise that we will be resurrected into perfect bodies because Christ first was resurrected to set the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Easter everyone!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-4938827595001182376?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/4938827595001182376/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=4938827595001182376' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/4938827595001182376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/4938827595001182376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/04/butterfly.html' title='the butterfly.'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SeIxsu-j7aI/AAAAAAAAAis/1a-_TePiN5w/s72-c/Fullscreen+capture+4122009+12207+PM.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9037083469017269929.post-3371575234314571522</id><published>2009-04-06T00:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-04-06T00:21:22.433-05:00</updated><title type='text'>month 5 so far... so fun!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SdmRUQNkvXI/AAAAAAAAAik/QAIiOr5dn-w/s1600-h/2009-03-31.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SdmRUQNkvXI/AAAAAAAAAik/QAIiOr5dn-w/s400/2009-03-31.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'&gt;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9037083469017269929-3371575234314571522?l=lukeandheidi.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/feeds/3371575234314571522/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9037083469017269929&amp;postID=3371575234314571522' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/3371575234314571522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9037083469017269929/posts/default/3371575234314571522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lukeandheidi.blogspot.com/2009/04/month-5-so-far-so-fun.html' title='month 5 so far... so fun!'/><author><name>Heidi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06793556741065579588</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09377113873807889730'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2A1blgijTs/SdmRUQNkvXI/AAAAAAAAAik/QAIiOr5dn-w/s72-c/2009-03-31.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry></feed>