Video of the Week

I finally turned off my A/C!!  Yes folks, I believe fall has finally arrived in Oklahoma.  It's about time since the first day of fall was last Thursday!!  I can't wait to watch my electric bill plummet.  :)  Of course that means that pretty soon my gas bill will skyrocket.  Seems as if Spring and Autumn get the short end of the stick when it comes to seasons.  We go straight from hot and humid to cold and blustery with about a month of mild temps in between.

Anyway, back to the video.  I turned off my A/C yesterday, opened up the windows in the house and turned on the attic fan so we could get some air circulating in our house.  It was so nice enjoying a nice cool breeze throughout the house.  Here we have Abbie and Frank conversing at the screen door.  Looks as if I'm going to have to figure out how to lock this screen door.  I think Frank is warning me, "Mom...hurry...Abbie is going to escape!!"


Hey Abbie, can you let me in?? from Megan Vogt on Vimeo.


**REMINDER** 
This is the last week that you can vote for Abbie in the Gerber Generation Next Star contest.  So please go vote now and make sure you vote daily for the rest of the week.  She is very close to 200 votes!!

Video of the Week

They have been best buds since she was a few days old when brought her home from the hospital.  He has been her protector and as you can see, loves to give her rotten kisses!!


Best Friends from Megan Vogt on Vimeo.



And don't forget to go vote for Abbie on Gerber's website. 
http://www.gerber.com/photo/?entryid=87374&/#/detail/

Pimping out my daughter

So I have finally done it.  I entered Abbie into a baby contest.  My mother in law has been telling me about different baby contests but I always forget to submit her photo until it's too late.  Well, I got on the bandwagon when I saw this contest.  I mean who wouldn't want to win their child a $25,000 college scholarship?  And winning a Flip camera wouldn't be too bad either!!

Voting began at the beginning of September and continues for the rest of the month.  Currently she is at 117 votes.

So won't you please go vote for Abbie in the Gerber Generation Next Star contest?  One vote per day per email address and computer.

http://www.gerber.com/photo/?entryid=87374&/#/detail/

Video of the Week

During my 2 week absence, I neglected to post a video of the week.  So today I give you something extra special, an Abbie & Mommy Production.

It's not the beach in California but it's our little get away for when we need to cool off in this hot summer heat.  And with summer coming to an end, this was one of Abbie & I's last pool parties. 


My Lil California Girl from Megan Vogt on Vimeo.

Don't worry, I'm not lost.

So I’m sure you have been wondering…where is Megan? It’s been almost two weeks since her last blog. You were ready to send out a search party for me, weren’t you? Don’t worry, I’m still here. I haven’t been hospitalized or been on some exotic vacation where I sit on the beach sipping on Margaritas and having some young male apply lotion to my pasty white skin. I think I would blind the poor lad and scar him for life with my giggly, post baby body. But I do have an excuse for the long absence. I have been playing hostess with the mostess. Last week was a busy week in the Vogt household. My steppy type father made a visit on the 30th. He is a truck driver and we had found out the day before that he had to drop off and pick up a load nearby. He left his truck in the Wal-Mart parking lot and came and spent the evening with his favorite (whoops, did I let that slip) granddaughter. Abbie wasn’t too sure what to think of him. She has been going through stranger danger these days. But about a good 40 min later, she & Grandpa B were the best of friends. It was nice having him visit even if it was only for a short time. We hope he gets many more loads down this way.

Every year for Labor Day weekend, we usually have a big party at our house and we invite “The Group”. That refers to the bunch of friends that I used to work with at Affiliated Foods Midwest. We received that name from another coworker that didn’t care for us too much. We have been friends for almost 10 years and have many memories together. Well this year, things didn’t work for everyone to come down so we just had Shelly & her boyfriend, Dave, flew in from Colorado. Dave and Charlie have a lot of the same interests so they get a long great. Neither of them is big into sports so we never once had a football game on (kind of hard to do anyway since we no longer have cable). They are also both big motor heads so they spent one day putting breaks on Charlie’s 1967 Firebird. Shelly & I went and got a massage the day they arrived, did a little bit of shopping and laid around the house. We also went out as a group for Mexican food and Margaritas, spent a day at the zoo and had a late night of grilling, drinking and story telling around the firepit on the deck. I can tell that it’s been a while since I’ve drank any alcohol. I was pretty tipsy by the end of the night. But don’t worry, I pumped and dumped all weekend so Abbie didn’t feel a thing!!

Well that is what has been happening with the Vogts over the past couple of weeks. I hope to fill you in on some milestones with Abbie over the next couple of weeks. She is definitely growing up and becoming Mommy’s big girl.