The Recent Past and the Near Future

Well, since school has started we have gone through 2 rounds of sickness. In between those times I have been traveling to my sister's home to quilt. I do have a sewing machine, but it was pulling the batting through. K. has one and that was scrunching the material. So I made the trip as often as I could (about 2 times per week - it's about 1/2 hour drive one way).

I am in the final stages of finishing J.'s quilt! Finally! This project has taken several years, but it is just gorgeous and I am very well pleased with it. I am so excited for him to see it! He knows nothing about it and will be very surprised...I hope!

Previously I had done tie quilts. I still like them, but WOW I have totally discovered that quilting can make such a huge impact to the overall appearance of the quilt afterwards.

I will post pics of the completed project when I am done. I'm very excited to share the pics with all of you!

My next quilt (for me) will probably be a jean rag quilt. Wendy made K. one and it is deliciously heavy. Wendy will have to walk me through the process of that one as it is very different than what I am used to doing!

I do believe that K. and I will be doing some sewing though this week as she is working on her quilt, which looks totally awesome.

On the days when I'm not at Wendy's, and the children are healthy, I am usually taking the cello into school (it's not allowed on the bus), doing laundry, going VT, running errands, cleaning etc. The days go by so quickly!

Pretty soon I hope to work on addressing Christmas cards (which I haven't done in several years). I have been procrastinating as I recently lost many of my addresses. They're probably somewhere in the house, but where?

I also need to work on Christmas shopping. I have barely scratched the surface of this one!

Now you know what I've been doing and what I will be doing in the near future.

Summer Fun

In the summer there were so many things to blog about. Taking K. to the temple for the first time, spending time with family, going to pageant, birthdays, swimming, haircuts and then school started.

These pics don't even begin to show the many things we did. It's just a tiny sampling. :)

Roasting Marshmallows

At the Visitor's Center in Palmyra.

The Cousins.

Lori, K, S, J and Grandma

A very large puzzle of Australia that we put together.

K. on haircut day

S. on haircut day.

J. on the first day of school this year.

Sick kiddos

I wanted my first post to be a sum up of the summer months. However, that's not happening now. It is late, I am tired and I want to post without having to worry about writing something long (which it almost certainly would be if I covered the summer months).

Since school began all three kids have been sick. S. missed a lot in September and all of last week. J. missed a bunch in September and K. has missed last Wednesday and all of this week so far. I do believe she will be going to school tomorrow though.

I feel really bad for them when they are sick. It is certainly no fun. I am glad that they are all doing better and are healthy again.

I would end with something witty, but that would take too much thinking on my part. (Can I say tired?)

Night.