Happy Blog Anniversary!

It is now official that I have been blogging for 1 year! I can't believe that time can honestly pass by so quickly. We have at least 12 subscribers to our family blog which excites me tremendously! Feel free to forward on our site to friends and family and encourage them to subscribetoo! I am really enjoying letting everyone in on "this graves family". I hope that you are enjoying it too!

It's Moving Day, It's Moving Day!

My brother Justy and sister in law Amby moved out of the Danville homestead to become official home owner in Riley. We will miss them dearly! We have enjoyed having them so close to us for 3 years. We are sad to see them go (although Justy and Dad are happy about the move). On an injury note, Aunt Sandy fell down the stairs and broke her leg! Feel better soon! I will give it to Sandy. Here she is with a broken leg and she didn't even act like it hurt that bad! You are a trooper!!!
Uncle Justy with Emalie, Mimi with Zachery, Aunty Amby, Uncle Dean, Aunt Sandy with Abbey and Natalie, Papa and me. I used a self timer on the camera so we could all get in the pict!

This is what we hope Justy and Amby look like in about 22 months! (A baby of their own) Hint Hint
And then in 9 years from now their family can look like this! Or they could just have 2 sets of twins and get it over with quicker!

Amby and Natalie before the U-Haul takes off. That night Natalie got Amby and Justy's wedding pict and put it in her room. She said she missed them already and wanted to "just look at them and remember them"

Why I love Creative Memories Memory Manager

When Creative Memories introduce the Memory Manager I honestly bought it so that I could try it and tell my customers it wasn't really worth the $49. I WAS SO WRONG!!! I am in love with Memory Manager. Not only does it to a fab job of organizing all of my pictures (in a super easy way) (not to mention the cross referencing capabilites) but it can do some really cool stuff with pictures. This is the picture I took of Emalie yesterday at Nana's pool.

Original picture.

I blurred the background here. You can't tell much difference b/c the focus was on Emalie.

See anything missing? The power line and the chair are now gone.

And now the towel and flip flops are gone. I used the cloning tool.

And here I took out all the color except for Emalie. I love this software!

I have one in stock and I can order more if anyone wants one!

I don't mean to be biased, BUT...

I think that Ms. Emalie Ann may just be the cutest little 10 month old out there! Look close....I have 2 bottom teeth!

Oh my, I am JUST THAT CUTE!!!

My first time at Nana's pool was today...Isn't my swimsuit cute? Mom couldn't decide which one of the 5 that I should wear today. I think she made a good choice!

Everyone just loves a profile shot.

No autographs....please!

Nana's Pool

Although Nana's pool has been open nearly a month, we finally got in it 2 weeks ago (have I ever mentioned how time flies by?) So here we have some picts of the pool! It was a bit chilly when we first got in, but we finally got to go swimming! Zachery played more out the pool then he did in it. Zachery and a water toy, do I need to mention that I bought another water gun, Abbey has one from her birthday. You would think there would be no fighting over the toys. WRONG! Lesson I have learned: BUY THE EXACT SAME THING!

Abbey is my little fish and loves the water!

Get a load of Natalie. I think she had all the bases covered: Fins, floaty belt, goggles, and snorkel. She had a good time, but not so fond of going under the water.

This is how Emalie spent most of the swimming day. She was so tired she passed out on Uncle Dick's lap. So cute!

Swingin'

Emalie just enjoys swinging SO MUCH!! After supper and she is wanting to go to sleep we go outside and swing so she gets a little bit of a second wind!

Here Zachery is swinging in a big boy swing!

Having a little chat with Papa, I will have to post the videos of that soon.

She is an American Girl Part II

I decided to go back and get the rest of the deleted picts...so you might want to read the next post first!

It is very tiring looking at the windy city...Here is Abbey sleeping in the taxi...which she was very excited about riding in.

Mia and Molly ready to hit the town. I think this picture is so cute!

They went to the Navy Pier and rode the tallest ferris wheel. It more than 150 tall. Abbey has also rode the highest ferris wheel altidtude-wise at the North Pole in Colorado. It's on a mountain. I bet not many people have rode both!

Molly is getting her hair brushed through.

This is Abbey's other friend. She shared a goodie bag with her. She traveled to Chicago all the way from Montana.