Our newest addition!

Lil' Kinsley was born Thursday, April 12.  Here she is 26 hours later.
I've never seen so much hair on a newborn!  Not sure the doctor had either....she started styling Kinsley's hair into a mohawk as Janessa was pushing.
7 pounds 11 oz.  20" long
Mom and baby are doing great.
Grammie is pretty happy too!
 

Kinsley's baby shower

Middle child is finally close to her delivery date!  9 months seem to drag along when you are grammie waiting to meet a new grandchild!  Little Kinsley is due April 9.  Last night we had a baby shower for Janessa.  Lots of friends came and Janessa was even surprised with a visit from her sister.  I told Janessa that I could keep a secret!   It was pretty funny how Janessa saw Jessica walking across the parking lot and didn't recognize her since she wasn't expecting her to be there.

I have been busy for the past month making decorations, etc for the shower.  I am not a party person so I stress and stress but in the end everything always works out fine.

I made banners to go on the tables.


Kinsley's baby quilt made with love.  I make a quilt for each new grandbaby.  

Thank you gifts for the shower attendees.  26 owls in all!  These were fun to make with a fat quarter.  I found the pattern here.  I'm proud to say I used fabrics from my stash!

My test owls.

Wasn't sure how many friends to expect so one of the girls reserved a room at the library.  Here is the food table.  

Lil' Kinsley received so many presents!

Janessa seeing the quilt for the first time.  I'm usually not very good at hiding my sewing projects but this time I don't think Janessa even knew the colors I was using.  Hope she likes it!  Every time I sat down to sew, I thought about how this lil' one that will soon be joining her mommy and daddy and our family.  I am so excited to meet her.


It has been a busy, stressful month and I am so glad it is over!

Not Your Grandmother's Log Cabin

Middle child's 2nd quilt she finished this past week. We took a class at the Wyoming State Quilt Guild retreat a couple of years ago and made this. Mine was done in red, black and white. I love the colors of this one! We choose a pattern from the book that was a bit of an odd shape. You use a 60 degree angle ruler on these log cabins. The book and ruler can be found here. I hope to someday make another pattern from the book. One that isn't so wonky in it's shape. We had a great time in the class!

 

Jelly Roll Sampler Quilt

Middle child finished her marathon sewing! Here is her Jelly Roll Sampler Quilt! I love the colors! She had most of her blocks finished from when Moose on the Porch Quilts organized the quilt-a-long but she never got the time during the school year (middle child teaches 3rd grade) to complete everything. The quilt is now at the quilter's. If you would like to make a similar quilt, the patterns are still available! It was a fun quilt to make and got rid of a couple of my jelly rolls (middle child "borrowed" one of mine) that have sitting around in drawers.

 

What do you do when your back hurts?

Middle child came over to speed sew today. I brought a table and chair into my sewing room so we could chat better and she could also be closer to the cutting table. She has 3 quilts to finish over the weekend and then get to the quilter on Monday or lose her place in the long line of waiting to get a quilt finished. All the quilts are at different stages but I think she can do it. By 5 p.m. she was complaining about her back aching but she also thought of a great solution...she knew we had a ball here for the lil' guys to play with so she searched the house and found it. It looks funny but I think it was helping her back!

 

Tomorrow will be another marathon sew day for her....she kept the ball on the chair when she left tonight so she is ready to use it again in the a.m.....she'll be over after participating in her first triathalon! Oh to have her energy..........or her figure..................

Finished quilt

Middle child was able to pick up her finished quilt from the quilter this weekend and then go run a half marathon today. She made me tired just watching her. I am so proud of her! The quilt turned out so cute! I hope it will bring some smiles to her friend's face when she sees it.

 

A quilt for a friend....

My daughter is making a new quilt. Her friend was recently diagnosed with cancer and she is aggressively trying to stop it in it's tracks. This quilt is for her. Middle daughter looked through many patterns before settling on this one designed by Natalia Bonner. You can find the free pattern here. She will put different words on it for her friend. I'm excited to see this quilt come together! It has been a pattern that is on my "to make in the future" list. I am loving it!

 

After 2 years.........

.......she's done! Yea for middle child!!!! This quilt is made up of blocks from 2 different BOM's. The green/purple were from 2010 and the peachy color blocks were finished in 2009. Middle child has several blocks that she didn't like so she decided to combine them all together....whether she liked the color scheme or not she was going to make it all work. Don't we get like that sometimes where we just want to say we are finished with a project and it doesn't matter anymore?!

I like the end result!

 

Some time away from home.....

Have been spending some much needed time away from home at our cabin.  A couple of days were spent sewing.  I finished up more of the Buggy Barn Convoy blocks.  Need to still applique the wheels on the trucks plus add the front ends to the tractors.

Middle child worked on her Buggy Barn Crazy Sails.  Got it all done too!  I really love the colors of fabric she used!

Next border for the Patchwork Posse Round Robin.  Still need to sew it to the rest of the top.

Daughter's coupon purse.

Inside look so you can see her handmade organizers.

Wouldn't you know it....we got lots of this again!  About 6-8" fell while we were there.

The start of the snowfall.

There was a day that the sun came out and middle child had to get some sun!  Brrrr!

Was pretty funny to look up one day while sewing and find middle child doing this to her frozen strawberries.

Am now home and ready to finish some more projects!

A new version of a Christmas tree

Last year middle child's inlaws gave her a tree that shed and shed it's needles, even though it had been cut fresh and delivered soon after cutting it. (I think they gave up on watering it) This is what she and her hubby decided to use this year.....

 

Thanksgiving Weekend

The last fews days have been spent with the family.  The Baby of the family was able to come home at the last minute instead of staying at school.  Who only gives one day off for students during a holiday weekend?  I was happy the school changed their mind about only giving Thursday off!
You can see we take advantage of her when she is home to cut our hair!

The Lil' Prince was asleep most of the time but we were able to get a few moments with him near the end of the Thanksgiving Day visit.  He sure is a cutie.

Spent a night at the cabin so we could try to shop on Black Friday.  I found that I have grown into a small town girl because I didn't find anything in the stores worth standing in long lines for.  I find that ironic since I love to shop!

We were also here for the last game of the season.  It's always nice when your team wins a BIG game like they did yesterday!

It's been a busy last few days with lots of traveling and visiting!

Girls like their fire

Middle child had a pine tree that devoured by pine beetles this summer.  We watched it die a slow death from starting at the top and making it's way down to the bottom.  It stood very close to their house so her mountain man hubby got on the roof last week and started chopping it down.  Since we have the fire pit now, middle child brought over some limbs and pine needles to burn tonight.
Look at that face!  She is loving this!

We especially liked the huge flames when the needles first caught fire.  Not something to try at home unless it is contained.

And then I had to take this picture of the house next door with the full moon coming up over it.  We have a house being built next to us.  It seems like it is very slow going.  A couple of weeks ago they started digging this hole that takes up most of his yard.  Bets are on as to what it is going to be.  We never seem to catch the owner to just ask him but we are coming up with some good creative, wild ideas.  :)