Quilts and cuties and cheeks, oh my!

Last week after helping my mom make a quilt for my sister's birthday I decided I wanted one too. Logan told me I could buy myself something nice so I decided buying enough flannel for a close to queen size quilt would be nice :) It's not really big enough for my queen size bed but it does cover the top so it's a good size for movie watching and definitely big enough for two ;) I can't wait to cuddle up in it with my wonderful hubby! *sigh* :)

Anyway, here's sort of the journey from fabric squares to cuddling up.

I cut out all the squares and after laying out the pattern I stacked up each column and separated them with little numbered papers. I love that tea fabric. It's so great :)

Here's evidence I actually did do some of the sewing. I "quilted" each square with an 'X'. I asked my Mom to sew the columns together so they'd be straight and nice.

Here it is all finished :D the back is all the brown fabric.

This is the "test run" Genevieve was watching Pooh's Heffalump movie and I have to say the quilt worked juuuust fine :) I snuggled in there after we took this picture. I'm excited to take it down to Sisters and use it during the traditional watching of Pride and Prejudice :D

Tonight I gave Rowan a splashy bath which was made EXTRA special when we got an EXTRA special phone call ;) It was really fun but sort of hard to keep Rowan from standing up and trying to grab my cell phone ;) Rowan showed off his animal sounds and got a good laugh :)


Afterwards tempted by the promise of a "cookie" (animal cracker) I lured Rowan out of the tub and into a towel. Which is promptly abadoned and made a run for it :)

He ran around frightening my brother's Hayden and Cameron with his nakedness. Cameron actually jumped up on a chair, then a table to get away from him. It was so funny!




After some protest I did get him back on a towel, dried off completely and jammied.




After a bit of a bump on the head (made all better by a cuddle with mama of course) we collected blankie, donkey, and the pluggie and Rowan went to bed. he's a good boy :)

Happy birthday pinkie!!

Today is Courtney's birthday!! She has reddish pink in her hair, which looks awesome. She's 17 today. She's my sister. I love her. Even though she can be a bit of a drama queen. She is an amazing young lady. She loves God. She likes Taco Bell. And she's a SUPERB aunty. I think she's great!

Way to be 17 Courtney... way to be.

I did it

After a bit of thought, a few "second thoughts", and a smidgen of apprehension I decided that another ear piercing would be fun, cute, and not a big deal. I knew it'd be reversible if I didn't like the outcome but now that I have them I think they're here to stay.

I guess somewhere in my mind I thought it would look a least a bit tough.

This is from the mind of a girl whose ONLY body modification was her first set of earrings gotten in the first grade. Of course the second set doesn't make me look any rougher or tougher than the first. I chose little alexandrite crystals (June's birthstone in honor of Logan's birthday) and they look really sweet. From a distance you can't even tell they're there. I think though that after I can switch out earring I could probably "toughen" them up by switching to some metal skulls or something if I really wanted. Ha ha, I don't think I could look much like a hooligan if I tried. Least of all with my two little gemstone earrings in each ear.

In any case I like them... and I hope Logan does too. I don't think he read the email I sent him telling him I was thinking about doing it. I have a feeling he'll think they're cute.