1st quilt 100% complete

Ok, I got my very first quilt completed this passed week. Thanks to my mom's friend Margaret who quilted it with her long arm machine for me. I just loved what she did. I can't wait to see what she does with Ryan's quilt. I really want to take a nap today but have lot of other more important things to accomplish this afternoon. Like working on a baby quilt that really needs to get done, the baby shower is Tuesday night. LOL! I'm sure I will be putting a note in the card explaining its not quite done yet. :O)

Hopefully this week is a fast one!!

Quilt #2 - Ryan's

I finally have Ryan's quilt done, well almost. I still have the borders to do yet. I was able to work on it today in between laundry.

Here is Lauren to with her latest school project. I thought she did really well on her fish. She really likes to pose, as you can tell here.

Hope to post more later this week, it should be a slower week for me.

Slacking on my blog posts

Sorry I have been slacking big time on my posts. I can't believe it was the 4th of March since the last time I posted. Wow, this month has flew by. The quilt retreat was a success even though I forgot my sewing machine. I did manage to get my first quilt pieced together all but the border. Which is now done and a lady in Albia is quilting it for me. I'm pretty excited but I don't think as excited as my mom is to have me quilting. It is additive and I just love picking out fabric. I am not getting for going another hobby, I will just have more unfinished hobby projects laying round. Oh well, what's one more hobby.
It was nice to have a few days off last week for spring break. We just headed to my parents and got to relax. Its back to work now but excited its Wednesday tomorrow. I hope to have some pictures posted on here by the weekend. It might even be a picture of Ryan's quilt which will be #2.
Have a great week.

Retreat weekend plans

My friend Heidi and I are heading to a quilt/scrap booking retreat this weekend. We will be leaving Friday night and returning Sunday afternoon. We are excited to get away for a few days. We don't get this opportunity very often, no kids and no husband. Mom will be their quilting with her friends. Yes she talked me into quilting, she did give me a few lessons a couple of weekends ago. She also let me take home her extra quilting stuff and her small sewing machine to practice with. I really enjoy it so far, not that much different that putting a scrapbook page together. I'm sure to get a lot more lessons and quilting tips this weekend. I know Heidi and and will have a blast. I will post Sunday or Monday all about it.

Sunday post

Ok, I said Monday I would post the picture of the coyote so here it is. We haven't seen it again since Monday. We think maybe the snow scared him off somewhere but who knows maybe we will see him again. Also posted are some pictures of Lauren's V-day party at Hawkeye child care where she goes when Mike is in school. I actually got to attend the party Friday morning and we had a great time! Hope your Valentine's day was great!!! Have a great weekend, at least what's left of it.

Quick Monday night post

Hey, just wanted to post quick tonight before it is off to bed. Just wanted to tell everyone I got my husband back on the weekends. He no longer is working all day Saturdays and Sundays. Yeah, we are also going back to church on Sundays as a family. It is wonderful.
This weekend was the second one since he has been off the weekend shift. It is kind of weird having him around the house but me and the kids really love it. He is only working 20 hours at his job. Since his spring semester in his electronic engineering tech program at Hawkeye is the toughest. All the upper class men in his program tell them if you can get threw this first spring semester you got it made. He has a lot of homework every night but he is working hard. He goes into in work most evenings and some really early mornings before he has to be at Hawkeye. I'm so proud of him and can't wait until next year when he will graduate.
Oh, we also found out yesterday we have a coyote in our neighborhood. One of our neighbors emailed all of us and said she was walking he dogs on Thursday evening and saw it in the middle of the street. We saw him tonight in the back parking lot of Birdsall park just past our back yard. It looked like a dog but we howled at him and he turned and looked at us. The kids even came out on the deck to see our visitor. They say he is not aggressive at all. I hope to have some pics of him up soon so check back.

Grandpa Ted - forever in your hearts

Mike's grandpa Ted passed away last Friday 1/3o, he was 81. He was such a great man, husband, dad and grandfather. I will truly miss him and his awesome bear hugs. He was one that really knew how to give you a hug. He would always know when you needed one too. I'm so thankful my children got to know and love their great-grandpa Ted. He would always tell the girls how beautiful they were and he loved them all so much. He knew the lord Jesus and is now in heaven rejoicing and for that I'm grateful.
Tomorrow will probably be difficult at the funeral saying goodbye, he was just like a grandpa to me from the first time Mike and I started dating. He treated my just like a granddaughter he always had. It is extra hard as he was the only grandpa left on either sides of the family. We all supporting and sending extra prayers for grandma, she is doing well but will need lots of family support in the next months and years. Elizabeth is already planning weekends and spring break with her.

Happy 60th Dad

We are in Albia today as my dad's and Alex's birthday party was last night. He was 60 on the 21st. The party was a blast as you can see. Everyone was telling my dad 60 is the new 40. HA! I think that was to make him feel better. He was not taking being 60 all that well. Alex, they guy who was working for my dad this summer, and mom planned the party and both invited a few friends . Alex is going to school in Dubuque to be a pilot so ya know him and my dad flew all summer. The kids had a great time as you can see. Ryan at 6 yrs old up at the bar, I think he was studding the waitress and getting chummy with the bartender. They drank like 4 or more shirley temples and loved drinking out of the beer mugs.

We will be traveling home this afternoon to start a new week. It was fun to come down even though it was for a short trip. Maybe next time Mike can come with since he will no longer be working on the weekends. Yeah!