TWILIGHT teaser! Girly scream from Terri

Twilight in HD

Quilt

Her are a few pictures of the quilt that I have been working on! Yeah it's done! I am happy with they way it has turned out. I spent a lot of time doing the actual quilting. (click on the picture to see the detail work) And for the most part I am happy that all my blocks lined up so nicely.

Front & Back

Close ups

A boy and his... SPIDER?

I have always been afraid to let the boys play with the spiders. I was so worried that they would hurt my little ones... (boys hurting the spiders not the other way around) Today I wanted to give it a try. Both Ian and Jason were so gentle and interested in Lucy. It was precious. Jason really wanted to hold Lucy, and he told me she was "so sweet". I know that I am a bit of a spider freak, but I was just thrilled that they seemed to enjoy her as much as I do.

Mom VS. Dad

So I was looking at pictures we took over the weekend and the realization hit me that I was no fun.

Mom= Chores

Dad= FUN

Oh-well at least they have one fun parent!

"DARN-it"

It's a pun, if you don't get it you need to sew more :)
I decided to darn this quilt I am working on. I thought it would be interesting to do the darning (stippling) in a different color so it stands out and makes the back side of the quilt interesting. Well since I am doing the whole quilt I have gone through the thread I was using. I went to the store to get more brown thread, bought 3 different kinds and still ended up with the wrong color... Darn it. So back to walmart for me, this time I'm taking a sample of thread. Look at the wonderful variety of brown. In case you're wondering I am only 35-40% done with the darning, looks like I should buy two spools when I get the right color.

ABC - IAN

Here is our little one with his ABC's. I would love to take full credit, but I didn't teach him his letters, he just picked them up on his own. We discovered his talent one day when he was reading his letters off a Taco Cabana cup. This is how the day took place: Ian said "t-a-c-o ...". Matt and Terri say "Did he just spell out taco cabana?" "Wow, how long has Ian known his letters?" The rest is history. I'd like to thank the good people at PBS for their continuing effort to improve learning. Some day I'll donate (I owe them for this)!

Our Dinosaur Friends

Dino smiles -A very happy thing for Terri.

Here's the deal, we had the record "Our Dinosaur Friends" when I was little. I can remember the day that I was taking the record to kindergarten for show and tell and it slipped out of the cover and the record broke. Part of it was still playable but I was so sad. This was my favorite record growing up. As an adult I have looked everywhere trying to find a replacment. I found another record on ebay and bought it; however, I don't even own a record player. I have been asking around trying to find someone that would let me borrow one so that I could transfer it to MP3 and I would never have to worry about breaking a record again. Today was my lucky day. I found a guy who did just what I wanted to do and he went a step further, he put it online for download. I am happy to report I have the MP3 version of the Album. I tried to upload a song for your listening pleasure, but I didn't feel like working with html code so, if you want to hear a song from my childhood here is the link to the web page. Enjoy... if you want.

http://www.vgg.com/VGGBlog/2007/01/mp3_monday_dinosaurs.html

My favorites are My name is Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, and Dinosaur Friends song!