.Flat Stanley (Gordon edition)

Another Flat Stanley came to Canada from Utah!

This one comes from my nephew Gordon. The sweetest kid around!

His Flat Stanley had lots of fun as well!

he made friends:

made a snowman that looked just like him:

played the piano:

drove a car:

he got his own Easter egg twin:

and he played basketball:

Once again, I do this to try to convince my family to send me their REAL kids!!

Thanks for sending us Stanley, Gordon! Love you kiddo!

.Our Weekend

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Gusa Easter Weekend 2012

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One more thing.

It’s impossible to have a proper Easter without treats right??

That’s why I made Mud Hen Bars and Tessa made Bird’s Nests. Both found on Pinterest. Fun!

Hope your Easter was lovely!

.Easter

Easter

Weekend is

beginning and I am so glad.
Yesterday was warm and sunny,

we were wearing sandals and shorts.
Today it snowed and snowed, we're back

in coats and gloves.

Spring hasn't REALLY started here yet!

There aren't any buds on the trees or flowers

in gardens. But Easter brings with it a reminder

of new life, despite the weather. And April has

been an excellent month for us so far. We are

feeling so blessed.

Christ lives and loves us! There is life and

redemption after death. I am so grateful

for this knowledge that brings so

much joy to my life.

"One of the great consolations of this Easter season is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so."

.Flat Stanlucy

How lucky am I. My cutest little Lucy niece sent us a Flat Stanley in the mail.

All the way from Utah to Alberta, Canada!

I immediately renamed her Flat Stanlucy, because she is a girl and looks quite a bit like beautiful Lucy herself:

I was asked to send a letter back with pictures of what she did while she was here!

Well, she did lots!

Made some new friends:

She fed the Canadian geese:

Jumped on the trampoline:

She went to a very Canadian restaurant:

She sat in our banana seat:

And she came to a barbeque:

Flat Stanlucy had so much fun in Canada she thinks that Jordan and Jo should bring the real Lucy up here sometime! Promise we won’t barbeque you!

*My last Flat Stanley from Jeremy found here.

.300 posts!

I recently discovered that some people had never noticed that the picture at the top of this blog has our faces edited into it. It made me wonder—Have you noticed?

I’ve been in love with Norman Rockwell’s artwork since I can remember and I’ve collected his calendars and pictures over the years. Something about the americana style with kids and lovers looking so perky and lanky makes life seem so simple and happy to me. Not to mention the perfect retrospective look they give you into the early 1900’s. So far, for this blog, Air and I have edited three of his pictures to have our faces in them…

Here are the originals and the edited ones:

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And then we’ve made some other headers… do you remember all of these?

And you know what!?? We’re not even close to being done with these yet! We absolutely love channeling our creativity and fashioning things like this… and then being able to share them with you is just the cherry on top of the humongous cake.

So… thank you so much for following the last 300 posts of this blog and stay tuned for many more!

Love you all!