i heart faces - 'smiles'

Time again for i heart faces weekly photo challenge. This week's theme is 'smiles.' Sounds easy enough, right!? Wrong!! Trying to find a picture of one of my kids with a genuine smile (not a cheezy grin) is no easy task. I did end up finding one of my little Tootie with a pretty cute smile, played with it a bit and this is what I came up with:
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I think I am in LOVE!

As of late, our vacuum cleaner has been on the down hill slide. Like, spitting out big clumps of hairy dust balls kind of down hill slide. So for the past couple of months, I have been holding the lock for the canister down to keep a good seal while vacuuming. Needless to say, it hasn't been very enjoyable (like it ever is!) to vacuum the floors all hunched over. Well, a few weeks ago, I was shopping with Duke's mom and the kids and we passed by the vacuum cleaner isle. I took a couple of minutes and oogled over the Dyson's on display. You see, my plan had been to save up my rewards $$ from my credit card and wait to get 30% off a Kohls, and the buy my dream vacuum.
Today, Duke's parents stopped by for a quick visit. It was sort of on the impromptu side, which is little unusual, since they live about an hour away. I didn't think much of it and, of course, we love having their company. When they arrived, I was in the kitchen getting dinner ready. Oscar walked in, set something down and announced that they had brought our wedding present. Fr some reason, they have unnecessarily felt that they needed to buy us a wedding present and had been looking for some outdoor furniture now that we have a back deck to fill up but since we were a little more in need of a new vacuum, the final answer was this gorgeous piece of engineering:
I think I have fallen in love. Please excuse me while I wipe the drool and vacuum till my arm falls off!

They work hard for their money!

My children are learning, at a young age, the value of working hard for their money.
Okay, you got me. They WANTED to help me clean so I let them take over and I thoroughly enjoyed taking pictures of them work while sipping on a margarita.
Wait! Kidding again...about the margarita!
Who knew cleaning could be such fun.
I am sure it is even more enjoyable when you get to torment the cat who was perfectly content, minding her own business, while lying in a sunbeam.
I'll share another tidbit with you. Audrey looks a lot like her Mommy does while cleaning...pantsless that is!
You see, most of the time when I am cleaning, I take my pants off (I KNOW...TMI), while cleaning the tub/shower so I don't get them wet. Then I continue on my cleaning binge and forget to put my pants back on!
Hey, when I am on a roll, it is best to just let me go! That is harmless enough, right?! {Please say YES!}
Don't fret...no plans of me posting pantsless cleaning pictures of myself any time soon! Besides, Audrey pulls it off much better than I ;)