Quilt Hollow Giveaway

I love to visit Quilt Hollow's Blog! She always has something interesting posted and I love her quilts! She is even doing longarm quilting... something I wish I could do! Anyhoo... she is having a great giveaway at her site... please visit! You wont be disappointed! Pour yourself a nice mug of something to drink and go visit!!

Awesome Giveaway!!!!

You HAVE to visit Brenda at the Pumpkin Patch Primitive Quilts Shoppe!! She is having a fab giveaway and you don't want to miss out! While you're there be sure to spend some time on her blog AND visit her store! When you stop by be sure to tell you I sent you!

It's hard to believe that October is already half over and I am way behind on my postings! Here are a few 'collages' that highlight two activities during the month of Sept. In the next day or so I will hopefully get more pictures loaded!

September 11 was the annual Freedom Walk for the kids at school. Going to school on a military base adds a different flavor to the event as each child also 'serves' as their military parent(s) do. Calvin, Lydia and Tyler all wore their "My Dad is a Red Warrior" t-shirts as he is deployed and most everyone wore red, white or blue. At our particular installation there are also many foreign military personnel and they joined in the walk.

Here is Lydia

Here is Calvin

Not too far from our home is a great park! Here are just a few pictures of the kids. We were getting to the end of the summer weather and so we had to take advantage of 'park' play time!

Miss Lydia

Tyler

Calvin

Next time I will post some of our pictures from the trip we took to the Red Barn in Weston MO and maybe some pictures of the quilt projects I have been working on!

Another Giveaway!!!

Judi At Green Fairy Quilts has some new patterns and has a fantastic giveaway!!! Please visit her and tell her I said hello!

Catch-Up

Is it just me or is September becoming a quick month?! Tyler started preschool and now I find myself with several hours to myself 5 days a week and believe it or not, I have been very busy! I have started to visit a friends home once a month for scrap booking (a new thing for me), I have been working on two quilts with some ladies from Church, a new Bible study on Wed nights and of course football has started for the boys. Football for the boys is not your typical team sport situation. Here they have a start smart program for the little guys where it's a one on one with the parent and they learn running, catching, throwing, punting and kicking skills/drills. It's an hour for each kid and so since Chris is gone that means I get to play two hours a week with the boys. Thank goodness there is another mom in the same situation! Hopefully I can get Lydia to take some pictures so we can post them!

Meanwhile here is a picture of one of the quilts from our church group. We make them for the widows/widowers. This particular quilt is going to a lady who lost her husband. She likes pink, fairies and cows... so we went with the pink and then I found some cow print that I thought would bring some humor for the backing. It came out really nice!

I have a lot more to post but will do that another time. It's raining really good outside so I want to get some things cleaned up and sewn!

Milestones (Updated)

Well, I am officially 40. Have to say, it doesn't feel any different than being 39... but the 30's were definitely different than the 20's. Not complaining, I know a lot of folks my age who feel their age and I'm thankful that I don't! My in laws came to visit from Illinois and brought me my cake. The kids loved the bones but weren't too sure why it was a 'Halloween' cake. Even after explaining the meaning behind it they seemed more concerned that turning 40 meant that I was dying... doesn't help when their dad is deployed and they worry about him... so I changed the subject and just told them that some people find odd cakes funny and that I am fine and not going anywhere soon!

My oldest had his eye appointment today an he definitely needs glasses. He is farsighted and has an astigmatism which messes with his nearsightedness, something he inherited either from me or his dad. Later today we'll go shopping for frames. Here he is in the office with his nifty doctor shades. He did really well for his first official appointment and didn't budge when he had to have those eye drops! I was so proud of him!Ty did really well waiting with me while his brother had his appointment. We were in the office for about 90 min. which can be a very long wait for a 4 year old. Ty kept it lively though... at one point he (in front of a waiting room filled with soldiers and other folks) looked at me and then pointed to another soldier in uniform and asked me if that guy was his daddy. I thought the soldier was going to pass out and that I would follow his lead but I quickly told Ty no and that his dad is deployed... Ty smiled and then said 'ha ha mom, I'm just kidding!'. Several guys laughed... but the one soldier still looked a little pale!

Here is the update! Cal got his glasses (they are a dark blue/metal color, hard to tell in the pic) and wanted to have his picture taken... (for his Daddy) so I got out my glasses and we took the picture. He can already tell a difference! On Monday we'll 'see' how much he likes them during school!