The Big Winner Is

Nick had his raingutter regatta today at East Side park. He is in cubscouts and this was one of the things that the boys get to do. He was telling us last night that he was going to win because he hates being a loser [he came in dead last in every heat with his pinewood derby car]. He got to race 3 times and won all of his boat races today. He was one happy boater. He won a nice backpack with a lantern and a compass in it. Thats him when he won his last race. He looks pretty happy.

I said that I would post a picture of my TB [Thimbleberry] wreath and I finally took pictures. Hve to find someplace to hang if for christmas but that is the easy part. I also finnished my flag that I bought the kit for when mom, aunt Rita, Lisa and I went on about 2 years ago. I want to hang the flag on the garage on days when you should hang flags out.I have to figure out how to do that. Its easy when I hang things on the deck or on the porch rail, I just use pins to hold them up there. To bad I can't put a pin through the metal that is around the garage door. You know back when I started this blog I thought I would only do it for a little while but it is really quite fun. I look for things to write about that I think others would enjoy reading about and I have always liked taking pictures. I guess I could finnish what I was trying to say about the flag kit that I bought . I got it at Red Rooster quilt shop. that is where mom aunt Rita, Lisa and I went, on a shop hop. We went to shops around Columbus. It was nice to get away with just the girls.

The zoo and Brittany's prom

Back again. On friday May 16 Butch and I went to the zoo with Nick's 1st. grade class. We had Nick and one of his friends, Logan, to walk around with. We had fun with the boys and wished that we had more time to spend there. In order for the kids to be back to school on time we only had 21/2 hours to see as much as we wanted to. Logan didn't care as long as he got to see the monkeys. Nick wanted to see everything. We had to take a sack lunch and Nick wanted to take a bologna sandwich so thats what we took. Nick is the one in front. On May 17 was Brittany's junior prom. She went with a group of girl friends and one of the girls cousins that was male but just decided to tag along with them. Brittany is on the right side in the black and white dress.

Sone of the girls didn't get to the picture place on time so I did't get them in the group picture. I think that they were all beautiful that day, but then I think that Britt is beautiful every day. When we got a granddaughter we got the best one of all. Her mom's friend, Angie, did her hair and I had to show it because I thought it was so cute. Look at that smile! Britt has a smile on her face almost all of the time. It was a proud moment for all of us last night. After many years of starting and stopping Brittany's dad Gary recieved his GED. After the ceramony we went to the Eagles for a little party of cake and laughter.

Way to go Gary!!!!!!! I think that I have picked out the blocks that I am going to do with the fabric I am getting from the family fat quarter exchange. I am going to do a puss in the corner block. The pattern that I am looking at makes a 6" block so I will need a lot of them. When the year is over I will have 84 hopefully all different fabrics. There is 7 of us in the family group now and every year we do some kind of exchange with fabric or blocks. We also get together every other month so it keeps us in touch. My aunt Carol has been bringing grandma with her so it also lets her see part of the family more than once a year. Of course we have some of the family that hasn't seen her since she got sick and went to live if Elmwood Asit. Living. That was 7 or 8 years ago. Close family, huh. I really have three different quilts that I want to make with my FQ's for this year. Too bad my Quilt Barn's not finnished. I still need to find some one to do my wiring. Once I get that done it should go faster. I would like to be moved in sometime this summer. I don't know if that will happen or not. It will be so nice to be able to work on things without having to move them when I'm done for the day. I keep going back to the nickle quilts books for quilts to make. I must love the scrap quilts.

10 hour days

Lucky me Global decided to put us on 10 hour days to help with gas use. We only work 4 days but the hours are killing us, and this is only the second day. Needles to say after I get home and fix supper and eat All I want to do is sleep. This early to bed and even earlier to rise is for the birds. I promise that some day i will post zoo and Brittany's prom pictures. I really did take some.

Brittany's Flip Flops

This story starts when we went to Hawaii in 2005. I bought Brittany and I matching flip flops and we wore them all of the time. Then in 2006 we went to Kings Island for a couple of days and one of the days we went to a big water park. Grandpa couldn't go in the water so I put my floppers on the back of the wheelchair to keep them with us. Brittany saw what I did with mine so she put hers in the chair beside grandpa and to make a long story short one of hers got lost. She was pretty upset about it. I have been trying to get her another pair just like the ones that got lost. I went on line and tried every way that I could think of to get them. Thanks to my friend Kare whose daughter lives in Hawaii I finaly got her a pair. I gave them to Brittany last night and she was really excited about getting them. My mission is complete!!!!!!! No one knew that I was still trying to get her some. I hope she don't try to wear them with her prom dress this saturday. I haven't done any sewing this week. Just at work and that don't count. The company that I work for decided that with the gas prices getting so high that we are going to work 4 ten hour days instead of 5 eights. Bummer, I hate working ten hours. the only good thing about that is we get a three day weekend. On friday Butch and I will be going to the zoo with Nick's class. Sounds like fun we haven't gone there since Nick was little. With all of the kids should be fun watching them. Hope it don't rain. My other plans for this weekend is to finish putting the raffle quilt together. Shouldn't take too long I don't have much to do on it yet. Then I won't feel guilty for working on my things. Lisa already has my challenge quilt so I am waiting for that to get done. She said it would be done by the end of this month. Lisa in my longarm quilter and cousin.

I had quilt club today. I really enjoy going to that. We had sewing time after the meeting and I didn't feel like taking my machine down and taking it with me so I cut binding for my TB wreath wall hanging that I did a while ago. I got it sewed on last night so I could hand sew the rest of it today. I got almost 3 sides done. I had to talk a little too. Tonight we went to mom's camper for a cookout. My brother and his wife was there with their dog, Andy. Mom had her 2 dogs there and the 3of them got along well. Nick wanted to stay the night but we made him come home. We are so mean! Mom wants to wait for it to get warmer out for him to stay. He took his bike out with him so he could go play with his friend that he met last year. Just had burgers and dogs but it was still good but then I like to eat so almost anything tastes good. Nick had to have a bologna sandwich. Go figure. Kare's daughter found some flip flops that are almost the same as the ones that Brittany had from Hawaii. Grandpa lost one of her old ones that were just like mine. She missed hers a lot because we wore them all of the time. THANK YOU, THANK YOU KARE!!!!!!! I have the club raffle quilt almost together. It is going to be Beautiful. If you are checking out my blog and want a ticket just email me at fabric_cow@yahoo.com I will post a picture when I get the top put together. Then I have to send it to the quilter. I took a walk around my back yard this afternoon while Butch was mowing and some of our plants are getting big already. I had to pick some lilacs to bring in the house so we could smell them. I wish they would bloom longer so we could smell them all summer.

Where has time gone

Where has time gone? I got an email from Joanne yesterday about Quilt club and never realized that our club meeting is this saturday. Then this morning I looked at my calendar at work and realized that Mothers day is this sunday. It seems that the older I get the faster time goes. Am I ready for either on? No!!! I better not turn around when the kids are here or they might age a couple years on me.I haven'tbeen doing much this week so I don't have too much to write about. We have Gerttie here tonight for awhile. We haven't seen them as often since Shawn and Dixie broke up. Butch put her on the scales tonight and she weighs 56lbs. She is only 4 and already a chunky monkey. Sewing Express called about my machine tonight and they found the problem with it. I broke a bracket that has a spring in it. Bad news is that they have them ordered but they haven't gotten them yet. Bummer now I will have to take my old one to club meeting to sew on. If I can think of what to take to sew on.

Hanging the new clocks

While we were on vacation Butch and I bought two clocks. Not cookoo clocks this time. We already have three of them. This time they play music on the hour. We couldn't agree on which one to get when the salesman made us a deal so we could get both of them. This morning we decided to hang them. No letting them stay in their boxes for three years like the last time. So after we hung them I decided that I should get the rest of my things put back on the walls that I took down in 2002 when we painted the inside of the house. I never put them back because right after that is when Butch had his first surgery and after over a year of running back inforth to all of the hospitals it was not something that I felt that I had to do. Now it looks like someone lives here again. Butch had to take a short nap on the couch after we got done. It was hard work cleaning the dust off of everything while I was crawling on things to get everything hung up. My new tatoo is driving me crazy cause it is starting to peel and itch. My other one didn't do that. I hope it gets done with this soon. Shawn had to go back to work tonight and Nick went home about the same time so we are having a very quiet night.

Another long lazy weekend

Wow I got back from vacation and went back to work on Thursday to find out that we had Friday off because we didn't have enough work. I haven't done a thing yet. Just been sitting around thinking about all the things that I could be doing. I could go in the room and work on a quilt or read a book or take a nap but I have been too lazy to get off of my chair to do any of them. Shawn and Dixie broke up three weeks ago so last night he got Korey and Gerttie and brought them over for the night. Nick got here right before they went home this morning and things got a little wild before they went home like they always do when the three of them are here together. Good thing Ryan wasn't here. I might have left. Sometimes it is too much for this granny. We haven't seen Brittany yet but she is always so busy with all the things that she is in.

This is all of Shawn's kids. Korey 5, Nick 7, Ryan 6, and Gabby 4. Looks like little angels, right! The picture to the left is Mikey, Nick and Brittany at the State Fair. Brittany's baton group goes there for a compitition almost every year. Most of the time they take Best of Show. Mikey doesn't do much although he did start bowling on the high school team this year till our only bowling alley burned down about a month ago. Other than that he plays vidio games and listens to his music on his Ipod. I have one other grandson but I don't have a recent picture of him. He lives in Chicago. He has been there about a year. I was out looking at the pool while Butch was cooking on the grill and I can't wait to take the cover off. Still a little cold to do that yet. Last year Gert took her cloths off crawled over the gate and went swimming on top of the cover. She got a good spanking for that one. We are lucky that she didn't go through the cover. I hope you don't mind my rambling on, I learned how to do that from my friend Joanne.

What I did on my spring vacation.

Time sure goes fast when your having a blast. Almost at the last minute we decided to go to North Carolina for our neices wedding. We left last thursday and got back yesterday. It was a nice time for a road trip. We stayed with Butch's younger brother Terry and his wife Darleen. They live in Lincolnton NC. Tonya the one that got married lives in Belmont NC. Tonya and Ryan got married on saturday. She not only gained a husband but she got two stepdaughters in the deal. She already had a son. On sunday after a small family get together of the ones that traveled and the ones that live there we left and headed to Gatlinberg and Pidgon Forge for a couple of days. We really like the Smokey Mountains. We did all the usual tourest things like siteseeing and shopping. We didn't do Dollywood this time because time didn't allow us to. I had to be back to work on May 1st. We did do a different show this time and if you ever go there I recomend it to everyone. It was the comedy barn and it is a show that you can take the little ones to. I don't think I laughed that much in a long time. Whats more the kids that was there thought it was as funny as the adults. While in Pigeon Forge Shawn got the brain storm that him and I should get tattoes together, so we did just not the same thing. I got a sunflower and a bluebird on my ankle. I am not sure what his is supposed to be. That is kind of hard taking a picture of my own ankle. If this would have been my first one it might have been my last. This one hurt when he was doing it. Shawn said it was because he really drilled it in and it is closer to the bone than my other one. One of the best parts was that the Peace Frog store was still there and I got 2 shirts and two stickers for on my car. This is the house that we stayed at . This is a brand new house and very nice inside. I was a little afraid that I was going to spill something and mess it up somehow. I made it with no messes or anything else. They put us in the Disney Room. It was filled with all things Disney. Believe it or not but it went really well with 7 adults and 4 kids all trying to get ready Saturday for the wedding. We had no bathroom clashes or anything else. Terry made us breakfast every morning. He is a pretty good cook. It was a nice weekend with them. We don't see them often enough. Their little boy is growing up faster it seems than if we saw them all of the time. He will be 4 this month. I looked for quilt shops the whole time we were gone. I only saw one sign for one but it was around 7pm on Sunday and I didn't even go to find it cause I knew that they was closed. I went to work today and when I got there I found out that I don't work tomorrow. I could get used to this one day a week!!! Until I get my paycheck.