A Hat Week

It has been a good week, we have made hats. YIPPY!!!!

So that sums up our week. Hee Hee Just kidding. Robbie has had a good week with school and scouts. He is excited that soon he will be a webelos. The best thing he says is his dad is the leader. I can't believe he is going to be 10 soon. WOW!

Sid has been a good helper around the house and sewing. He likes to go pick out material with me which is fun. He is doing well in school.

Kennen is still busy trying to get the yard ready for winter. (which I don't think is possible, but don't tell him that)

Really, not much excitement happening in these parts. I guess no news is good news sometimes. Hope you all have a wonderful week. This week there are pictures of all of the things we have been working on. Love you all.

A quilt top week

This week has been a good week. The weather has been perfect, had a great time sewing and shopping and hanging out.

Kennen and I finished the gates out in the back yard. (sorry pics will come it decided to rain today so everything is super muddy) We are now working on the garage door. Yippy it finally came in. The grass is looking awesome and green. The inside of the house..... WELL.... that is another story.

Robbie had a field trip this week. They went to Fort Laramie and to the Oregon Trail Ruts. He didn't want to go, but he went and ended up having "an okay time". Boys... Gotta love them. He is doing well in school and is counting down the days to go to Disneyland to celebrate his 10th birthday. (can you believe he is turning 10???) I must be old.

Sid is a hoot to have around. Yes, in the picture he made a tinkertoy microphone and he also made a guitar from the tinkertoys. It is awesome. He and I have fun together. He is also excited to go to Disneyland but says he won't ride on any of the rides. So we will have to see.

This week I have been sewing and loving it. I have made some sun hats for the boys for Disneyland and making more for my niece and nephews also. (we are all going Shad, Jenny, Emma, Drew, Luke, mom and Jack) Yep all 11 of us. I also made a quilt top for the homeless youth center this week. I do have pics of the quilt cause I took it in all ready so I wanted to share with you.

So as you are sewing you are left to thinking. I love thinking and lately it has been a welcome thing. I thought about my life and how it is so much like the quilt top. How each thing I have done and each person I have encountered has made a piece of my quilt. I truely have an amazing quilt. I hope that I can keep adding to my quilt to make it a priceless piece of art.

I hope that you have a wonderful week. Laurie I promise I will take pictures of the grass, gates, doors, hats for the next post. I may just have to post in the middle of the week. Love you all.

100 posts

Wow!!!! I have posted 100 blogs. How time flies when you are having fun.

We are all doing well, the weather is changing and fall is in the air.

This week has been a good week. The boys are doing really well at school. We had a back to school night for Robbie and his teacher is so cute. He really likes her, that is such a good thing. They go on a lot of field trips here in the 4th grade which has been interesting. Robbie thinks it is cool that so far they have gone on 1 field trip per week. This week they will be going to Laramie (3 hours away) to do fort Laramie and then the ruts. They have to meet at the school at 645am and will not return until 6pm.

Sid is still liking school and his teachers are also really neat. He likes playing and he is learning something everyday. He came home from school the other day and told me "mom you blow your nose so much cause you have a lot of mucus" It was pretty funny. Then he tells me this morning that "Jesus sent him her to be silly and to make people happy" I love the things the 5 year old says.

Kennen has been working hard on the gates for the backyard and also working on cement and grass. He is always so busy. The best thing is I like being out helping him. We make quite the team. I mix the cement and he pours it and smooths it out. It is AWESOME!!!

100 post I hope that you all will keep reading for many more. Love you all.

Funeral and flat tire (this week is all about F's)

We got a call on Tuesday telling us that Great Grandma Bessie passed away. At which time we were debating on if we should make the trek to Price, Ut. for the Funeral. Well.... we talked and had to call Robbie's teacher (I was supposed to drive 5 kids up the mountain and spend the day there with them) I got that all taken care of and Thursday night we are off, we are on our way to Utah. We leave Casper at 7pm and get to Rock Springs at 11pm. We find a motel and sleep and wake up at 5am and get back on the road again. This time however we went through Flaming Gorge, Vernal, Duchesene, and into Price. It is very pretty, but also very switchbacked and you use the brakes a lot. We made it... Just in time for the family prayer and closing of the casket. The funeral was nice, the cemetary was good. (It is way hot, after being here for a year Utah seems very hot) After lunch and stuff we pack back into the suburban and head to Utah County. Okay the ride between Price and Spanish Fork used to seem like forever but holy cow it was fast. Once again thanks to Wyoming driving long distance is normal. We went and got some necessities from Maceys and off to the farm we go. We spent the night with my grandparents and had a good visit. The next day we went and seen mom and Jack then met up with Lynn and Chris at University mall for ice cream then off we went.

I-80 for all of you who have kept up on our travels on I-80 know about our issues there. First trip was the radiator, fan, etc... We have also had 3 flat tires in one trip... window wipers and the list goes on of our travels on I-80, well this time was the same okay maybe worse. We were in the suburban (new), driving on I-80 (bad luck road), and the front tire blows. Thankfully Kennen was driving cause I probably would have rolled the car. He was having a hard time keeping it on the road. He finally got the car under control and got it off of the road. Well...the damage is front bumper, paint on the hood, running board, wheel well.... YIKES!!!! At which time I start crying. We haven't even got the garage door here and fixed yet and now we have the suburban.

Kennen asks me whats wrong and I came undone. I told him that we were no longer driving to Disneyland in a month that we were flying and we were not flying out of Denver we were flying out of Casper. He said well that will be expensive (last trip he flew to Salt Lake cost 700 dollars) I said I didn't care. By the time we got home I think he thought that I had forgotten and all was well. We got home and finally in bed at 2am and I was awake at 7am checking on airfare. I finally found a good deal. YIPPY!!!! no driving for us we only have to drive 5 minutes to the Casper International Airport. I found out gas prices and worked it out and we are actually spending the same amount of money. So flying here we come. The boys are excited. :)

So here our week for you. Funeral, Farm, Flat tire, Flying It is our "F" week. We hope you all have a great week.