Happy Birthday!!!!

Today is my precious Mom's birthday!!! She turned 55 today! We had her a little party, it was only us kids and grandkids. She was sooooo sick! She has been sick for several days, I guess it's this old nasty bug but she still managed to smile with her little birthday headband that Chantal got for her!!! I snapped this photo about the time she was eating her cake! Isn't she so pretty, even being sick??? Most of you know how close that I am to her, I could not ask for a better mother than what she has been.



I haven't had a chance to sew any today as of yet, but hopefully I can get a block or two done before bed. I did these two yesterday, so I am getting closer!!!!



Yesterday after Richard got home from work we worked on the house for a little while. I was so hot, 94 degrees so he made me go inside until he got the wall nailed together. Then I went out and helped him stand it. It is hard to tell much about it in the photo but this wall is in 4ft from the edge. We will have a barnstyle roof so the outer part will have a slant to it. We came in 4 ft to make storage for me. This is the 20 ft wall in my sewing room and the two large openings that you see will be shelving for fabric and supplies. Richard has to work tonight but hopefully after he gets home and takes a nap we can get a little more done.


Andrew has a friend staying the weekend, so I'm sure I will be up late every night! You know how teenage boys are......very LOUD! Maybe I can sew and my machine will ground out the noise!!!!!
Kristie

I'm Back...

I know it has been a couple of days since my last post, so here I am finally. Not a whole lot of quilting going on here. I have been doing my chores around the house during the day, then heading to mom's during the evening to put up apples! We picked a few bushels the other day and right now we are freezing them, I think we have somewhere around 32 quarts in the freezer. We plan to freeze a little more and then do some jelly, applebutter, and maybe some canned apple pie filling. There is no shortage of apples here so we are trying to put up as many as we can.

Hubby was home today so you know how that goes...just can't get alot of sewing done when he is home through the day. He will go back to work tomorrow so hopefully I can get a few more blocks finished. I did manage to get one block done a few minutes ago. Here it is....this makes me 52 blocks on the Love Letters and I have 55 blocks on the Diary quilt. Just think, if I had stayed working on only one of them I would be almost finished. Each quilt has 121 blocks in it.



My SIL had another ultrasound on Monday and found out that it is a BOY! The baby is due in November so I still have a little while to get a quilt done. We were all convinced that it was a girl but we were wrong. They did one of those 4-D Ultrasounds and it looks like you are looking right at the baby, they could see his hair and everything. We are all excited about it. This is my brother and his wife, they have 2 children already....Madison 6 and Zeph will be 2 tomorrow!!!!! I have a pattern in mind, I just have to dig it out and get started.

I want to say a BIG THANK YOU to everyone for their nice comments about our dog passing away. I think the worst part of it for me was seeing my boys so upset. If you are a mother you know what I mean, it hurts so bad to see your kids upset when there is nothing that you can do about it. They seem to be doing better now as long as Fred is not mentioned. I guess it is still too fresh in their minds.

I will leave you with a cute photo of Donkey!!!

**UPDATE**

In my last post I mentioned that our precious dog had been missing for 3 days...well...we found him....under the house...DEAD! We were outside and I happend to walk by that end of the house and smelled something...we looked and there he was. It was soooooooooo sad! He didn't look like he had been hurt in anyway, he looked like he had died in his sleep. Not sure what was wrong with him but at least we know now where he was. He is buried down next to Eb, one of our horses. Here is a larger photo of him and a fawn a couple of years ago. The deer would come almost everyday to play with him. How cute is that??



Today, Richard has left his door open to his tool building and look what I found....Jim, going in the building!!!! I told you all he just walks around the farm and we don't have him fenced in. He is the KING of the place!!!


I got 4 more Civil War Love Letter blocks finished today!! This now brings me to a total of 51! So ONLY 70 more to go!!!! hehehehe! I can't wait to hit the halfway mark, then it will be down hill from there.





I will probably spend the week bouncing back and forth on the Love Letter quilt and my hexagon quilt. It is very hard for me to stay on one thing when they are big projects!

Tomorrow, my SIL has another ultrasound! The baby is due in November and so far they don't know what it is yet. I don't think my brother wants to know but she does. I don't blame her, I would want to know too. They already have one boy and one girl so it doesn't really matter as long as it is healthy! But...I think it is a GIRL! So I will let you all know if I am right or not!!!!!! This means I will have to make another quilt!!!! :)
Kristie