Bode and Brock day

Lucky me had  a planned escape from both jobs to stay home and tend these 2 little sweethearts!  Their normal day care provider Miss Robin was gone and since school is out Chris and MB have to do some creative day care juggling until MB is off for the year.  What fun we had, Brock just loves to eat, he just eats and eats and enjoys it all so much!  He loves feeding himself, he had bits of bananas and little bits of bread besides everything else from the jar!  He's crawling so cute now....on the move!

 Starting to pull himself up places, I never did see him get to his feet but sure likes going on his knees to this new height!  Still crawls a few steps and then stops and does that cute turn around thing, just busy moving!

 But not as much as this one....he's so on the go, we had fun with so many things, trying out different toys, playing the old record player, play doh, lego's, lot of time with the little people, it gave me a great chance to clean out the toys since they were all out!!!  Blurry photo of his parade...

 Everyone took a good nap....yea for little beds!

  What a special day it was!

Jeremy's final T6 flight

Today is my son's final flight in a T6.  He's loved that jet!  I can't even imagine the number of AirForce pilots he's trained ( and washed out) over the last 4 years and given them a great first start at flying.  He's loved being a test pilot for this aircraft too, taking each jet up after it gets worked on to push it thru it's paces.  They honor him with a great 4 ship flight today so I'm hoping Jamie keeps us in photos!  Wish I was there to watch!  And the AF career continues.  Moving to Tucson, he'll be Major soon, and yea 1 1/2 hours from here!  A deployment in the next year....#3....so glad he got his family close to us just for that reason!  One never knows what he'll be doing next, I know being back in the air will be #1 on future goals!  Hope Your fini-flight goes well today Jeremy!

Christmas In July at ETC

Getting ready to hang a couple new samples up at ETC.  This one is for our Christmas in July that starts mid July and actually spills into August.  The first one is this table runner that has come out so pretty, I still think it needs a neat star button at the top of the trees!  Still stitching binding down but it'll be done to take in this week.  Lots of fun to make and looks stunning on the table with that red border accent!

 The next class then has matching placemats and napkins to go with, you can make what ever number your family needs!!!!  Next in the line up is a darling snowman wall hanging and a treeskirt....more to come on those but for now, here are the latest out of the sewing room!

Mothers day

We hosted everyone at our house for Mothers Day this year, it was a whirlwind of Craziness!  Jeremy was in town to find a home for his family in Tucson so was here to see everyone.  Tons going on, kids swimming, trailers out front being sold out of our side yard ( that's another story) food and munching, we all had a great time relaxing and hanging out.  We missed Jamie and Noah, Chris's family and Mike's family so we felt short by 10!

Amy and I

 We did a girl shot!

 My sister and I with Mom

 Marcy and Mom

 eating, playing jenga with adults and kids, we had a great time!

Beyond Basics sneak peek!

Here's a sneak peek at my coming Beyond Basics class at ETC.  The intermediate quilt class, it's in July/August.  It's been alot of fun to work on!  Still in process but here's a little tease.  We will be mastering partial seams!  I'll show you more soon as it gets done!  It's going to be a very happy quilt!

Organ Stop

We enjoyed an evening of fun with Bruce and Vickie a few weeks back.  After we joined them at church Bruce brought up the fact that he had heard about a place called Organ Stop and asked if we'd ever been....oh goodness, we go way back with that!  We've followed that place to enjoy the music there since it arrived in  Phx.  We don't go alot in the winter ( quite busy) but we love going in the summer for a cool place to gather.  One of those family places you invite everyone to join you at!  I think they enjoyed it, Bruce was into the technology part of how it all worked.  I think we'll be going back when Our shared Grandson Noah gets to AZ!  

 I sent Jeremy a text with this photo and just said where are we.....he knew right away.....guess Organ stop is a family favorite for us!  Great music, pizza and ice cream....how can you go wrong! And no one cares if little ones are noisey and get up and dance around!

All Cut Up at ETC

Here's our feature for All Cut Up this week at ETC!  It's a wonderful pattern  that was fun and easy to do all out of a layer cake and one alternate fabric.  the photo really washed out so you must come on Wed. to see it in person.  The light blue just is wonderful in it, so peaceful and serene!  A wonderful Star pattern that you could easily make bigger with some borders...course my brain goes smaller and I'm thinking, hey I could reduce this size and make itty bitty ones!  Or what about itty bitty stars in the corners....see what trouble my brain goes to!

 So wed. is the demo day, starts at 11:00, come when we open at 10:00 to sew if you like in the lab.  Everyone is getting the hang of that, come and sew, shop, listen to the demo, make it a fun day at ETC in their airconditioning....its that time of year!!!! You block of the monthers I'll see you there too, come for All Cut Up too, your blocks are out for pick up that day!  $5 gets you this sweet pattern and  a whole day of fun!

Garrett's Star Day

Garrett officially graduated from Kindergarten this week!  They were all so cute, they had a wonderful program that they sang many songs at!  So sweet to hear all those little voices! They all wore special Navarrette t shirts with all the kinders names on the back! Then we were invited back to their classrooms for presentations and the kids enjoyed cookies and drinks.

 Garretts special award was for his smile!  The best in the class!  Course we have all known that from his very first smile, he's the one I always said his smile will knock your socks off and how about that, his teacher figured that out too!

 So fun to get to go enjoy the last day of school with these 3.....now off for ice cream to celebrate!

Summer Sew and Go Series at ETC begins!

Our Summer Sew and Go Series at ETC begins next week!  Tuesday is the day we kick off our series of Seasonal banners!  We are going to hit up 6 different holidays thru the summer making a banner about this size, maybe a bit shorter, maybe a bit skinnier, but all will be somewhat this size.  You can hang them up, put them on a table for a runner, I want to put mine out by my front door, take one down stick the next up!  $20 gets you your kit and you can enjoy making our first one for SUMMER !  We are hoping to take orders for anyone that might like this great metal hanger.  A coworker at ETC, her Dad is building them so we'll be taking special orders on tuesday if you'd like one that fits perfect!  He'll have them done and ready for you to pick up at the next Sew and Go.

 1st and 3rd tuesdays each month, we have a really good time!  And "summer" will be officially ready to hang!

Something sweet!

So I've been "missing" amongst the blogging world again......Life!......but I"m gonna post a few and work backwards for my own sanity!  So today I'll start with something sweet!  Last day of school Sweetness!  We tried a new fix it frozen yogurt place with Amy and the boys, quite near their house....WE WILL BE BACK!  It was great, they had smaller cups so no matter what, the boys could have fun making their creation without filling a 2 lb cup!  So thanks Kiwi Loco for having smaller cups than anyplace else!  Here is Aiden's delight!

 But actually this was the sweetest part of the day!  Celebrating the last day of school with these 3!  We now have Aiden who is officially a 4th grader, next is Ethan who officially will go to 2 different preschools next year filling his days with fun!  And Garrett, who's tooth is coming in just in time to be a 1st grader!  Can you believe it!

Sew and Go

Here's our Sew and Go project for this next week at ETC! Something new and fun!  It's a great little take along sewing kit.  Little pin cushion in the center, 4 pockets for thread and necessities, a ribbon to hold scissors in a pocket...

 A little needle case and the best part is...

 It all folds up!  Tight and cute to take along in your bag or suitcase!  Now you will be set to do that handwork in style!  This is actually the bottom with the button....

 And here is the top part all folded up.  We'll have several color choices to choose from...May 21st at 11:00.   It's our last Sew and Go before our SUMMER SERIES BEGINS....June, July, August, we've got a great fun series planned for the summer!  What better place to hang out 2 Tuesdays a month in the cool air conditioning at ETC!

Chevron Trivet at Sew and Go

So here's a sneak peek at our Sew and Go project for this next week at ETC.  We are going to learn this great chevron block and turn it into a wonderful trivet!  Complete with batting and insulbrite!  It's nice and big so you can plop that casserole right on top with no worries!  The chevrons are so fun and easy you'll definitely want to do more...in fact I'm thinking quilt blocks would be so fun! I can see a whole quilt done out of this block with sashing.......see what my brain does!   All those itty bitty pieces....come see how easy they go together!  It really is a perfect charm pack project too...hmmmm do you have any of those sitting around waiting for a project!  $20 includes your entire kit with thread...and all the fun people that come to Sew and Go.....oh and Barb and I too! Lots of color ways to choose from in the kits!  Lisa has them all cut for us and ready to go!  May 7 11:00, ETC's "cool" lab is the place! 

And it's May....when we start talking about our SUMMER SERIES!  Come hear all about it! June, July, August.... Sew and Go Summer Series ....  It's right around the corner.... All 6 Sew and Go classes this summer that coordinate!!!! 30 is our number of spots these days so you don't want to miss out!