Alex's Green Quilt

I finally finished Alex's Green Quilt late last night. I think the final stitch was stitched around 11:30 p.m. Then into the washer. I wish I would have waited until this morning to wash it because having it sit wet over night made some of the green fade onto the white. But oh well. Alex loves it.



I especially love the back of this quilt too. I think I could make a single color quilt and love it.



I have been able to spend some time with my latest book, Oh My Stars by Lora Landvik. I absolutely love it! Lorna is right up there at the top of my list of favorite authors. I love her style.

The weather has been wonderful. Which is a good thing because it sounds like it is going to rain several days this week. Let it get it out of its system though, because we are going camping all next week. Hopefully it will be hot so we can go swimming and enjoy our time outside.

Have a great week!

Monday, April 6, 2009

This is what we woke up to this morning. 5+" of snow! Needless to say no school, so I'm stuck home another day with all the yahoos!

**edited to correct my spelling, which was pointed out by my son**

Cabin Fever

Cabin Fever n. Boredom, restlessness, or irritability that results from a lack of environmental stimulation, as from a prolonged stay in a remote, sparsely populated region or a confined indoor area.

After days upon days of snow I definitely have cabin fever. I just want to leave the house and go somewhere. The library (which is closed on Sunday's), Wal-Mart (which my husband graciously went to Friday while Alex and I were watching Hotel for Dogs), the mall (which if I was able to go to a mall I would go to a good one, hence the link back there), ANYWHERE!!!

But I'm stuck at home. Dad is still sleeping. Simon is watching Spongebob, and dancing around at times singing this: (A special thanks to Broder for introducing Simon to the WWE and this song!:})

I think he has cabin fever too.

My Poor Babies

My poor fur babies are just so cold today. I found them all snuggling by the furnace vents. Poor Bella hasn't quite caught on yet and was left without a vent and therefore stuck with just the bed.

A Butterfly Award and Blizzard Watch

My wonderful, favorite sister-in-law gave me the awesome award for having the coolest blog she ever knew. Who would have thought?!!? And who doesn't love a cute butterfly.

This is a 'meme' award, so it gets passed on. I have many favorite bloggers, but some of them have well over 100 followers. How in God's green earth do you get over 100 followers? I have 2. Well technically 3 if you count my bus driver blog, but come on 100+. So I am going to pass this on to a few of the less popular blogs that I love to read daily.

The rules for passing it on are:
1. Put the logo on your blog.
2. Add a link to the person who awarded the blog to you.
3. Award up to ten other blogs.
4. Add links to the blogs you award onto your blog.
5. Leave a message for your awardees on their blogs.

I would like to pass this on to the following cool bloggers:

Cassie of The world the way I see it. We are new blog buddies, but she said it best...something about being destined to meet. I said bring it on, you live in the Sunshine state can I come live with you? She's crafty and fun.

Amanda of Crazy Mom Quilts. With a name like crazy it has to be good. She has a ton of helpful links on her blog that have helped me get back in the groove with quilting. Plus she has made some really cute quilts.

Latree of Dandelion. She is from Indonesia and I love having someone halfway around the world to connect with. Plus she has NEVER touched snow. Wouldn't that be a great feeling? She is a wonderful, sweet person, plus she has a cool blog.

I have lots of other fun blogs that I love to read and look at. Go visit these ladies and see why I like them so much.

On another note, we are under a blizzard watch. For some reason I have always thought that blizzards were something that only happened like...way back when. "Oh, do you remember the Blizzard of 1978", "No I thought it was 1983." Stuff like that. Well we have got more snowing and blowing coming our way. So, probably no school tomorrow. Which is a 'Yeah' and a 'Boo' for me. No work, but the kids will all be home all day. All 5 of 'em. 'Yeah' said in my most sarcastic tone. Hopefully the big yellow bus makes it back home in one piece with me intact tonight.

Just some Randomness

I took some pictures of the wonderful snow this morning for everyone to see and I realized I have other photos that I might as well share. So here we go.

{This post is all photos. If you are not interested feel free to leave. Thank you. Have a nice day}

These are some "nummy coo-kakes" I made earlier in the week. They are made with salad dressing, and even thought the kids would never eat it on a sandwich they eat this cake right up.

I also tried something new. Cream Puffs. They look good, but they weren't that yummy. We ended up tossing most of them. The pickiest eater in our house did like them though.

I am finally starting on Taylor's quilt. I got the idea for this quilt here. I wish I would have cut my pieces a little bigger, but I'll just add spacing pieces in between each block to make it bigger. I took this picture so it would be easier to lay it all back out later. I've had bad experiences with the kids messing up my stuff...go figure.

Here's my fearless Batman, checking himself out.

Me and Batman. I love when he dresses up. The costume is actually Spiderman, but since he has the mask he always calls it his Batman costume. He's cute, what can I say.

And last but not least here's our snow. It's hard to tell from this picture but the snow is probably 8 - 10 inches high on the picnic table.

I'm The dogs are glad we kept the trampoline a little longer. They have a semi-clear place to play and poop outside. You can't see the path too well either. I shovled a path to the 'safe spot' last night around 5 pm and by the time we got up this morning it was gone. Poor babies. The snow is higher than them.

Have a great weekend.