Quilts, Kids, and Animals!

Today I finally opened my roll of quilt batting! The past few weeks, I have been matching quilt tops with some backings, so today I started cutting my batting for them. I cut 10 battings for full and queen size tops! And still have a lot of batting left. I will cut more as I need it. I plan on purchasing a frame and machine to quilt my own and my frame will have a pole for batting storage but I will not be storing it on there for awhile. See, I will be setting my frame up in the new house and don't really want to leave the roll of batting out there so that it will get all dusty with the sawing, cutting and building going on in the house. So as of right now, I have 10 ready to go! That is 10 out of 74!!! Still a long way to go, but at least it is a start!

Now on to other news! Hunter came home today with a little award from school. He is 6 and in the 1st grade. It was for reading, they test them all every few months and the national average for his age is to read 23 words per minute. That may not seem like alot but that is what the paper said. He read 57!!! I am always proud of my boys no matter what, but he was a very happy little boy today!

Here is Andrew with his Beagle, Scary!!! This is the dog that has one blue eye and one brown eye!!! He is a wonderful little dog and only about 6 months old.

Here he is with one of his stags, a young rooster. It is a million dollar blue, that is the breed, but of course it did not cost a million! He loves his animals and enjoys spending time with them all.

This is Beauma!!! She doesn't really look that big in the photo but she is due to foal around the first of April! I just can't wait! Of course, we want a stud so it will probably be a filly. No matter what it is, we will love it just the same! I know I showed this photo of Smokey before but he is just so cute! Anyway Monday I had a lady to call and asked to breed to him. She has a toy poodle too and has been trying to find one as small has hers to breed to. So he had a little girlfriend to come over yesterday! :) Know what I mean! So after them doing the deed several times hopefully there will be puppies around April 21, close to that. We get pick of the litter! Not sure what I will do with another puppy, but if I can get it away from the boys without them having a fit on me, I may sell it. It will be very tiny, she is only 3 lbs and he is 3 1/2 lbs. So we will be counting the days down....
After I got off the phone with the lady Monday evening, Chantal came out and trimmed his hair up around his face. As you can see in the photo it is bushy so she cut it close and he looks so cute.
Kristie