Sleepover Weekend!

There was mud play, foot baths, cupcake decorating, Lego building and lots of extra play time in the kids sleepover weekend! The proof is in the pudding!

 

Very Crafty

I recently made up for some long-lost time in crafting by cramming it all in a short period. At least it felt like that! Here's a couple of my recent endeavors:

 - Quilt I made for nephew J's 6th birthday. I'm so proud of my first real quilt! The squares were all lined up - woohoo!! I made the top squares first then put the batting and backing all together and "stiched-in-the-ditch" which is sewing in the original seam lines of the squares, so the back has the same square block pattern.

Back of the quilt in need of a lint roller after I set it down on our wool rug!

And after I received a frosting tip set (56 tips!) from Mary for my birthday, I got to try them out on her birthday cake! The cream cheese frosting was harder to work with than buttercream but it was not so soft that it didn:t do what I wanted.

 

Birthday Present Photos

Lovely floral blazer, casual black blazer and teal shoes gifted to me from my mother dear. :)

Nifty new hairstyle I tried

 

Rainy Day Mondays

Rainy Day Mondays Always Get Me Down....
Not really. But since it's been wet and cold (yes, real cold, not just California cold) we've been hanging out inside a whole lot more than usual. And here's lots of what we do on these cold wet days.

 

Around the Yard

December sure did fly by! I have lots and lots and lots of catch up photos to post on here from the past month and I wanted to go back first to November because there were various projects and yard photos that I wanted to share on here.

We had (still have) so many rocks that have been removed from the front driveway island and several huge boulders so Matt decided to put them to better use as a little rock river bed underneath the existing wood bridge in the backyard. The boys love it, especially when we water the apple tree by pouring a bucket of water down the river bed. He also took some scraps of wood and built a second bridge near the bottom of the river bed.

And our patio area with more rocks cleared away. Whew, Matt's been working super hard around here!

And then, just some pretty flowers from around the yard...