People

Lately i have had some good, soul-inspiring conversations with different people. All these people are of different ages, and come from different experiences, and all of them have taught me. It makes me grateful to have good people surrounding me, in-town or online or on the phone. I am thankful for all the fabulous people who inspire me with every interaction. I am blessed with people who make me feel good about who i am while still inspiring me to become much, much better. Thank you to all of you. I hope to keep learning from you and to become like you.

Craft Tag

Show us your latest project whether it is completed or still in progress. Show-off a little and inspire other bloggers with new ideas.

This is my latest completed project. (Come on. Come on out, don't be afraid.) This just a test prototype and isn't perfect but i was happy with how it turned out. It was a fun project to design and i got to try out some new quilting skills on a very small scale. I pieced the top of the shell out of scraps in just a random pattern which was a new fun process. I machine quilted the top. I have never done stippling before, i still need alot more practice.
Sadly our little friend is still nameless. Feel free to leave name ideas in your comments. She is a little slow to warm up. But eventually she comes totally out of her shell. (Sorry i had to add those puns).
So that's my little project. I can't wait see everybody else's. I tag Michal, Kamrah, Joy, Debbie, my mom, Katie, and anyone else who reads this blog.
Happy crafting!

Update

Yesterday we took all the kids in for their overdue check-ups. They all did well. We like our new doctor. Talmage got the most shots with three. Morgan had two shots and got his ears cleaned out (not at all a pleasant experience) and Emma got away with just one shot.
Talmage now weighs 11 lbs. 3 oz. Meaning he has gained exactly four pounds since birth, just over one pound per month of his life.
















Both the older kids are now officially tall enough to ride the Star Tours ride at Disneyland.
Morgan is 42 1/2 in. tall and weighs 37 lbs.












Emma is 40 1/2 in. tall and weighs 35 lbs. (exactly two inches shorter and two pounds lighter than Morgan.)

cold hard cash

First we'd like to report that we survived our first ice storm last week. I was lucky enough to have left early to pick up Morgan from school so i didn't end up having to drive in the worst of it. CoP let all their employees off two hours early but Nate only got home about 10 min. earlier than normal. He had to drive really slow and found that some roads were closed and then ended up leaving his car and walking the last mile home. He watched several cars spin out in front of him and knew it was no use trying to get to the top of the hill in his car.
Minus the driving we thought it was pretty cool. We all went out to "ice skate" on our patio. The kids and i got a whole collection of ice leaves by carefully peeling the ice later off of our plants. They were really cool. We had a fun time and Morgan enjoyed the next two days off from school.
After the storm there was a total swing in the weather and we enjoyed beautiful sunshiney days for the weekend. On Saturday the kids were playing outside and they found a snail shell. They rang the back doorbell to get my attention and when i went out we had this conversation:
Morgan:"Look, a snail shell. Can we sell this for two dollars and sixty cents?"
Me: "That would be fun, but i don't think that anyone will buy it for that much."
Emma:"But we need to."
Me:"Really. Why do you need to?"
Morgan: "So we can get lots of money."
Emma: "Yeah, we need lots of money."
Me: "What do you need lots of money for?"
Emma: "So we can buy lots of dolls and other things."
Now Morgan could tell that this wasn't quite the right answer so he piped in with this response: "Cause tithing? So we can pay lots of tithing."
I thought it was pretty funny. I guess at least they have a righteous desire to pay tithing.