Alissa's table runner she requested before harvest began. I finally figured out how to keep the points. I could have cut them off and it would have been easier, but I like it with the points.

Really -- it's been a month! Wow -- Merry Christmas, just in case it gets here before I know it. :)

A quick and fun table runner -
It's not finished yet!

Happy birthday to those of our family who have birthday's this month: Melissa, Isaac, Katelyn and Becky (the first). ;-))
The weather is beginning to turn -- the last few morning's we've been 34 degrees at 7 am....brrr! It just can't be that this short summer is gone! Right?
Copper's little jaunt he went on earlier this week was an all nighter! Guess he's a teenager? He came home unharmed and hungry. Now he gets to wear the shock collar when he's out of the kennel, for any reason, even to eat.
I got called to be the Humanitarian Specialist in the ward...I don't know what that entails nor did the Bishop. But apparently the stake wants each ward to have one. And today's RS lesson was on Compassionate Service! The teacher gave us all a notebook to use as a service journal-- given or received -- I thought - that's a whole lot of pages to fill in. And she had taken a bunch of time and personalized the cover with a picture of Christ and a quote on service and other cutesie stuff. Udawna always, always goes beyond. Like two months ago her lesson was on genealogy and she had done research for most of the sisters in RS. She handed me three-four stapled pages of research she had done just on our line! Awesome lady.

James was put in two honors classes at school. The first week we knew he had Honors English, a day later he came home and said they had taken a pre-test in physics and had switched his class schedule because he scored so high in the normal class that he needed to be in the honors physics class.
What a bunch of brainiac's we've got!!!

Hmm

It seems like the only time I post anything on this page is when i've got pictures to show. Not Today!! haha I just thought I'd stop and say that it was a nice day seeing and being around some extended family.
The other day -- now that the house is beyond quiet -- James and I were flipping tv channel's and came across this show about raising children. Silly to have sat and watched it but we did. It was informative and I felt good watching it because I felt like I had done those things with my family when they were growing up...but that's beside the point --- what I wanted to share was about Mia. Mia sat on the floor next to me watching this program. It had children in the activities and Mia was glued to the tv. I think she misses having Alden, Eli and Gracen here to chase and play with. It was obvious she loved watching the children on the tv. Something else I've noticed -- Mia barks at the girl piano students and not the boys.

I've begun another quilt...this one is beautiful too. Well you know what I mean -- the pattern is beautiful and popular. I'll whip up a few blocks and some time soon post a few blocks...Hopefully before we're dealing with harvest. The apples really need to get a move on though if they're going to get any bigger!!

I still manage to quilt with all the activity going on here. I have to say that the colors in this quilt are one of my favorites. Maybe because I worked on it during the long, dreary days of winter and it brought a little sunshine into those cold days.
The pattern is called "Candy Shop" from McCall's Quilting magazine Apr 2010. The fabrics are from the Sip of Summer line at Connecting Threads.
I took this picture before I put the final white border on.

The newest babies!!

Our family was blessed with three sweet new babies this year. Phoebe, bottom right, was born in March. Reese, bottom left, was born in April. Jeffery, top, was born in May. This brings our grandchildren to a total of 13.