An Early Fall?

 The drive to Jordyns school is showing early signs of Fall...its beautiful, but makes me think we are in for a very long snowy winter.  Most of the leaves around here are still pretty green, but its definitely starting to cool off at night!  Its still warm enough to go swimming though, so we enjoyed the river over the weekend.

 We also celebrated Justins 44th birthday...the photos arent the best, but i was using someone elses camera...

 Cousin Christine was up for the weekend...she wanted to get away to the mountains to do some reading for school, so we were happy to have her join us for the birthday festivities.  We enjoyed pumpkin cake and then watched Justins new birthday movie, Hunger Games. 

Happy Birthday Sweetheart!  We love you!!!

Off to the Quilters ~

The top is finished and ready to go to the quilters!  This will be my first time sending a quilt off to be quilted...i usually do them myself, something simple since thats all my machine will do...but id like more creative quilting done this time...so off it goes! 

Happy Birthday Aiden!!!

 

 

First Day of School!

 Hooray...today was the first day of school!  Lots of school supplies, new clothes, brand new lunch box and backpack, friends returning from summer vacation...how could you not be excited!!!

 Jordyn has a very small class this year, with only 7 kids in it, so they should get a lot of one on one time...however, if the numbers keep dropping, it does worry me that they could try to close the school again.  Fingers crossed some more families move up to the mountains to eliminate that!  :)

 After school, we celebrated the first day back by going for an ice cream cone...pecan praline and chocolate mint chip....Yum!

 And this is what happens to Jordyn with a sugar high...WATCH OUT...whatever you do...dont make eye contact!!!  :)

Happy First Day of First Grade Sweetheart!!!

More Summer Fun~

Summertime Fun!

 

End of Summer Play Date ~

 I cant believe summer is over...where did the time go?  This has been one wild and weird summer for sure...the fires sort of threw us all for a loop, so to celebrate the end of summer with a bang, we decided to have a big play date at the house with a bunch of jordyns friends from school.

 They played for hours and hours, and while they played, the moms got to relax, have a few drinks and visit!  It was a great time for everyone!

 The weather wasnt the best, but after a while the sun tried to come out and we took that opportunity to jump in the river...

 After about 8 hours of fun, several melt downs from the little ones, and lots of hot dogs, we called it a day.  What a memorable afternoon...i hope everyone had as much fun as we did! 
 Meanwhile, on the quilting front, i almost finished Jordyn's quilt top for her room.  Several months ago we painted and redecorated her room.  Jordyn got to pick the colors, and she chose pale pink and pale orange...and since i couldnt find a matching comforter, i decided to just make her one.  I used the bento box pattern, and i love the way it turned out so far.  Ill probably put a border on it, and then send it off to be quilted.

 Im participating in another swap on about.com, its a birthday swap, which means each person is designated a month to receive blocks from all the other participants, but instead of doing 12 months, we are doing 6, so each person makes two blocks each month for the "birthday" person.  Miss August chose this block in bright batiks, so this is what i made.  What a colorful quilt she will have!  Cant wait till my month, which is December!  :)

Toothless!

Jordyn went to Grandpa Frank and Grandma Pats to go fishing and have a sleepover...but while she was there, she was distracted by a pesky front tooth...which she then decided to pull...so now she is missing both front teeth :)  Toothless Jordyn!