Garrett's Birthday party

Here's our Garrett....he's now 6 and going to Kindergarten!  Goodness! Isn't he good lookin!

 It was fun to get to celebrate you Garrett!  What a fun party with your favorite Bean Burritos!  Cousin Noah was even here to help you celebrate!

 He was having fun peeking into his " traditional pillowcase" that Grammy puts all the Grands presents in.

 Somebody is going to play coach pitched baseball this year!

 Noah you are so cute sitting there!

Garrett had a big G of rice krispie treats!

There was lots of splashing and fun in the back yard! Lots of cousins there to join in the fun...Noah...

 Bode and little Landon....  Cailyn was there and little Brock even came but he didn't get to swim!

 What a fun celebration of Garrett!  And here those silly candles that don't blow out, we all had fun! And I think Garrett had a great 6th birthday!

And here is this random shot we took of all "the girls", it just sort of happened...  oh and there is Landon in the corner!

Peacock update

For those of you wondering the little peacock is doing great! Toni took him home that night and settled him in with his siblings since he was stronger, he was welcomed back into his little family just fine! He was very hungry and she mixed up egg yolk for him to eat.  He's doing great, scurrying around with his little siblings and comes out from under his Mommies wing to eat and peck at the ground.  I'm so glad she helped him the first day to get stronger since the Mommy peacock was ignoring him!  She showed me a photo of all of the other ones, some are yellow like you'd see a baby chick and then 2 were the brown like Cutter. First time I've been around a baby peacock, he sure was cute, hard to believe in no time he'll be a big majestic bird.

fun with the B Boys

Ken and I went over to help out with the little "B" boys on Sunday   We took Bode swimming while MB and Brock had some "time" and Chris got a nap!  Then we took Bode on an adventure to McDonald's....yes we had fun and no we didn't show him how to do this!

 Lots of playtime....nuggets....french fries...apples....milk....more play....

 And ice cream.....

 Home for a nap....we wore him out really well! I loved seeing him cuddle with his quilt...you all remember that one hanging down at ETC!

 Some fun with Brock, he's gained weight this week!.....getting round!

 A peek at the new Bob stroller, Bode got a ride with the bag of "dirty diapers".....quite the delivery to the door!

 So fun to have some time with these little guys!

Brocks baptism

We celebrated Brocks baptism a couple weeks ago, what a memorable day for this wee one! Here he is with his "Godparents" my sister Marcy and her husband Vince and MB's sister Melissa.

Here is our little Brock, how tiny he was!

MB's folks were here, Brock was only 10 days old but MB's folks had to go back to Idaho after being here to help thru his birth and so it was great to celebrate early so they could be here.

Amy and Aiden, Garrett and Ethan....

Ken's Dad, Ken and my Dad...

Our sweet angel....

My folks with Chris and Brock...

So sweet to have this infant so fresh and new...

The grandparents and great grands....

What a wonderful day to celebrate our little Brock!

Sew and Go Visitor

Here is our little Sew and Go Visitor we had today.  It was a fun class, everyone was working hard on their lining for their big bag, so next week we begin the 2 weeks of classes for everyone to finish the outside of the bag...the end of our summer series.  So one of our students had a mother peacock hatch her little clutch of eggs today.  Mommy peacock was not taking care of this little guy so she intervened and took it in to save it and what to do when you have to get to class, you bring him along!  So everyone was taking care of holding the little hours old chick.  We were so amazed at the change just since she brought him in of how strong he had gotten from not being able to get up with the Mommy pushing him aside and by the time she left class he was starting to jump out of his little basket.  So cute to hear that peep peep peep.  So the challenge will be tonight when she tries to place him with his siblings and Mommy and see if they accept him now that he's doing well....I hope so, she'd already named him Cutter since he was coming to sewing class!  So cute to see how cute a hours old peacock can be!                                                                             

Spooky!!!!

We had such great gals come to our "SPOOKY" class.  Over a dozen came and made this fun halloween quilt.  We had them for one class and sent them home with lots of homework to finish, they came back the next week with all these blocks made!  

 It was so fun to see everyone's version! and all their fabrics!

 Here are just a few of them as they were laying them all out.

 I can't wait to see a few of them back finished soon.

 And I get to bring mine home now!

splash pad fun with Noah

I'm digging may way out of craziness here and downloaded lots of photo's from the last month finally so I had to show you the fun I had with Noah at a splash pad while he was here. I escaped the craziness of our life and went and got Jamie and 2 of her sisters and babies and took them all to a splash pad to cool off.  Noah is checking it out...

 I'm sure it was an odd thing for a child to have water come bubbling up out of no where in this Az heat!

 Here are (L-R) Danielle, Jamie, little Charlotte ( Danielle's baby girl) Noah is next and then Stephanie and her little guy Elijah.  It was fun to catch up with Jamie's sisters while they were here and see their little ones.  Danielle is from Virginia and Stephanie is from Brazil via Ohio where they are staying for just a few months and then back to the other side of the hemisphere. Lots of fun they had with those 3 babies all together!

 And Noah learned to drink from a straw so boy that was a fun new adventure! Great way to spend a few hours in HOT AZ!

Bats in the Belfry!

Here is your sneak look at our Wed. All CUT UP class at ETC.  We took some Halloween charm squares and did this cute runner!  What fun was that to make too,  The bat came out so fun, he has quilting on his wings and green gems on purple buttons for eyes!  Very frightfully cute for a coming Halloween!  I wish he was mine!  So All Cut up is on Wed. at 11:00, come on by, you'll get the pattern, you can even trace our enlarged bat!  You'll love it!  

Hey NOAH!

Hey Noah....Grammy misses you something awful!

Little "B" Boys

I'm so behind on photo's but I will catch up one of these days and back track.... Garrett's bday, Brocks Baptism, more of Noah and on!  Crazy crazy life I lead but here is just a fast look at my Sunday....... it was a Bode and Brock day!  Jeremy and Jamie and Noah left, Chris was helping Ken so I got to spend the day with MB and the little "B's".  Chris was trying to pack up his tools but he had a bit of help!  Bode loves tools and always suggests we get a screw driver to fix things with!

 He did have fun with his new umbrella I brought along!

 And little Brock is just such a good baby, thank goodness #2 just chills!  He is very content unless you change his diaper, of course I"m not there during the night when he thinks it's time to be awake then... but when you are 2 weeks old that is what you do!

 He's showing us how strong he is!

 Bode and I spent almost 2 hours in the pool and yard!  It was wonderfully cloudy out and we just stayed out until he was done!  He loves the pool and then had fun running around in the yard.  MB had some great time then to bathe Brock and herself !  We came in and went for lunch....at McDonalds!  Yea for toddler play area  and happy meals!  Brocks first trip to McDonalds.....he slept thru the whole thing in his little corner of the booth, I don't think anyone knew he was there!  While Bode and MB napped I got Brock to cuddle with all by myself!  Ahhhhh!

 So what a fun time I had, I'll get the latest photo's posted one of these days but here is this cuteness going the other way!

Holly Jolly

I realized I didn't post the last photo's from our final Holly Jolly Days class at ETC.  We had quite a few come make the cute snowman runner.  Most did a flip and sew technique so when they left it was even quilted!

 It was fun to see everyone's fabric choices!  This was the 4th friday of the series, we had quite a few come to all 4 and they received a $20 ETC. gift card!

 They sure were fun to do!  We are going to repeat the snowman welcome sign that was the first one again this fall.  We had so many good responses and people wanting to do it that couldn't come in July so watch for it on the schedule coming out soon!

Noah fun!

We've been having such a big time with Noah while he's here!  I'll get all of the photo's organized soon to show you what fun we had, but in the mean time here he is at Garrett's birthday party playing the piano...he loved pounding on those keys!  It's been so fun having him here!  more to come!