Taking a quick break from all the summer fun we're having with Darci and her family to post a quick picture .... it's great fun to have them here and I feel like we haven't missed a day apart from each other - even though it's been almost 2 years since we lived right down the street from them. Gwen and Mason are getting together fabulously. Bees games, swimming, backyard BBQ's, fabric shopping ... we're cramming in the fun every day and will be so sad to see them leave again!
As most all of you know Marc and I are having a 2nd baby, another boy, on August 24th, 2009. Some of you remember with Mason we had a "Guess the Babys Name Game" where we sent out clues in order to make a game out of guessing his name. Marc and I have decided on a name for Baby #2 and are again keeping the name top-secret - except for these clues we'll send out weekly for these last 8 or so weeks of the pregnancy.
If you weren't around for the first round or need a refresher on what Masons clues were - here's the run down of Round 1 (the pictures we sent out along with the tie-in they had with Masons name):
Clue #1 - pyramids were built by the free masons.
Summer is just flying by and we're trying to get out an enjoy it as much as we can ... despite being 7.5 months pregnant and the weather starting to get super hot. :) Less than 2 months left until the baby comes though so we'd better enjoy these last 1-child days.
We have an awesome park in our neighborhood that is right next to the lake - it's got great climbing toys and lots of soft sand to play in. Mason feels right at home at the beach when we go there.
May was a big month for the 3 Quilting Bees I am in ... each bee had 2 blocks due, so that was SIX block I needed to make. I hate being behind but I'm so glad that all six of them are done and going in the mail on Monday!
It's an interesting thing making a block for someone else ... with the fabric that someone else has chosen ... you never exactly know if they're going to like it or not or what their tastes are or if there's a particular thing that they just HATE. I guess signing up for a quilting bee you kind of know that - and that's what makes it fun is getting a ton of different perspectives on the same general idea.
So the blocks I made for the month of May were:
For the Pieced Together Quilting Bee:
Allison's drunkard's path block:
I've been slacking on posting about day-to-day stuff here, which really is what this blog started out to be. As one of my good friends says - she blogs for selfish reasons, to have a record of her family and kids and all the fun things they do. I usually am pretty good about uploading my iPhone pictures to my Flickr (hello emailing straight from the phone to Flickr easy-peasy!) but then the pictures just sit there and I NEVER seem to get the pictures from my hard drive over here anymore. I figured it was time for a big post catching up with some of the fun stuff we've been doing in May. (And is it already June?!)
Riding bikes:
Went to one of my local quilt stores this week and they happened to be having something going on when we were there --- a bunch of demonstrations, sales, giveaways ... it was great. I got a few charm packs from a 30's line that I can't remember the name of ... the 2 charm packs are the same line, but they're shop-made so they didn't have the name of the line printed on them. But it's fabric that I've wanted to buy ... and since they had a demonstration of an easy charm pack quilt along with free quilt instructions - seemed like the perfect time to buy it. I also got a ton of that turquoise and orange fabric because it was on sale for 3.00 a yard. The turquoise charger came from a different store but it was also on sale and I wanted it for my sewing room.
So happy I finally found some of this today at IKEA:
