That time of year again!

Oh it's the most wonderful time of the year. Ok that just popped into my head considering it's snowing outside! Yes that's right the May 29th!! WHAT!

Ok so that not the wonderful part! It's Quilt retreat. For those of you not in the know, I'm in a quilt club, When we first moved back to Magrath and we were living with Mom and Dad, Mom took me to her ward quilting activity which happened twice a month. I was hooked. Anyway so just before the beginning of summer we have a quilt retreat. Really I call it a sleepover party. We stay out at Bro and Sis Mannings (who's house is the big huge one just out of town. So there's enough bed's for everyone. I'm the youngest person But i love it.

THey were in deep discustion abou this 1800's quilt that Donna inherited. All the patchwork and everything was all stitched by hand!! Holy cow I think i'm pretty hot stuff cause i can peice by machine i would quit if i had to sew by hand!

So this year for supper we have super enchilada's with a Mexican salad. It was so good. Then we got started on our project. This year we did "self Binding receiving Blankets and pillow cases that we are donating to a shelter. The blanket's were awesome. I'm excited to make tonnes more! They were so fun.

After that we went up and watched our movie (leapyear) very cute and super good treats! Especially the peanut Brittle. Mmmmmmm

This morning we woke up and finished our pillow cases ate breakfast and headed home.

Yikes! That was a early morning!

All in all it was a great time! There is not a better group of lady's on the planet! And Just like having a sleep over party when i was young, The day after I'm so tired from all the fun that i usually need a nap.

Walk/Run

The kid's have been in a Walk/Run club at school. They came home super excited a couple months ago and asked me to sign them and myself up. I told them i could not do it with the little boy's. It's a commitment to go 8;00 in the morning or at noon, and do a walk from .5 km and up. And at the end they get to do a mini marathon and get a tee shirt if they don't miss a day or if they missed a day they got to make it up.

So after I told the kid's i could not do it They said "no problem mom, We'll ask Grandma, she'll do it" So i called and pre-warned mom But really they were right, she would no say no. So Mom being such a trooper agreed to be in the club with the kid's.

So every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday they walked at lunch in a big group. The kid's loved that Mom did it with them. Paris' goal was to always beat B and Mom but Brody walked with Mom everyday, He even held mom's hand the whole time. It was a pain for Mom to get up there in the middle of the day but the kid's sure appreciated it.

Today was there final Mini Marathon. The kid's were excited! I went up and snapped a couple pictures of them before the race. I'm so proud of them for sticking to it and not missing a day (except when they were at Auntie Missy's) but those were made up. It was so fun to see them so proud of themselves. When i saw all those kid's running across the street it got me a little choked up to see that many kid's and how much work went into organizing this for my kids. As much as i swore i would never move back here. I'm glad we chose to come back, I love that the kid's can be involved in things like this and the freedom they have to come and go to school on there own and well all the good things that come with small town.

I got it!

Finally I got the new power cord for my computer! If you've noticed (if anyone reads this) there has been no pictures, which is not at all like me. I put pictures with every post but my cord went to the crapper and no longer worked and i had no juice left in the battery so alas i had to resort to Brad's computer. (yes we have our own computers). Brad has no pictures on his and I cannot find the actual cord to get the pictures from the camera to his computer so, Long story even longer There were no pictures and i missed it! So here we are back with pictures.

Last Saturday was a super busy day. Brad was up and out of the house by 4:30 Blahhhh He was doing extra tiling work so we can pay cash for the roof to be done. So the kid's and I got up and got started on our work. Really it's not work it's fun! I was doing more pieces to my outdoor sectional. I'm proud to announce Phase one is complete. Phase two is cutting foam and buying pillow's to fit. Phase 3 is covering!!!
So here is Phase one!



Well as i was doing the sectional i ran out of screw's and wood, so the kid's and I played a game of ante-I-over. I have not played it since we lived in the long house and had to rock, paper, scissors to see who had to jump the fence to get the ball out of Fraser's yard, but i digress. I totally schooled the kid's in it. They may be fast but i know all the tricks! So we played that till Brad got home at noon and talk him into playing with us, He asked were i came up with this game? What! are you kidding me, I would love to take credit for such an amazing yet simple game but it was not mine to take credit for. So i said to him " you did not play this when you were little? He said "um no Kade, we lived in Welling, We counted Cars for fun" Hehehe he's so funny. (but he was not kidding).

Anyway after our amazing game i went back to working on our sectional, while Brad and the kid's planted the garden.

Soon after we got cleaned up, and went and had a Bar B Que with Wolsey's for Scott and Falene's Birthdays! Well I think Scott's was counted in there. But i forgot to take pictures of anything but Knox and Emily. So here they are. Oh wait after I say all this i think this was actually Monday? Hmmm I don't remember, It's been that long of a week!


Yesterday was a rain day! Blahhh, But i did get my Camera bag done. I wanted to make a bag that fit my camera and len's but still work's as a regular bag as well. Yippie I finally did it!

My Rock star!

I was out to lunch with Paris the other day,

Me: Paris who do you play with at school now days?

Paris: Katie, Carly, Teanna, Manda, Jillian, Mom I'm pretty much a Pop Star!

Me: Yes you are Paris.

So I'm building My outdoor sectional. I was Bragging about it a couple post's ago.
So I had gone up to get the wood and I asked for 5 1by4's So he said ok, Do you need them cut. I said no, cause why would i need them cut if I was going home to cut them. Hmmm. So i proceeded out to the Yard to get them in our Buick Rendevou which is slightly larger then a car and slightly smaller then a van.
So he pulls out 5 boards, And said it this what your taking them in? I said yes, duhhhh, Brad and i had got wood before in the Buick. So he puts them in and i realize something is wrong. When Brad and i had got them before they did not seem to hang out that far. Oh well, So i had Blazer in the front to lean on them and i had one arm around them and away we went (mind you we are a block away from the Home hardware. So we get going and hit a little bump and the wood started bouncing and It got bouncing so bad i thought for sure we were going to loose it, or it was going to go through the windshield. So we slowed way down to like 2km a hour, got it stabilized, re-ajusted Blazer so he was hanging off it to keep it down, and we got home.
I pulled them out and it was then that i realized he had given me 16 footer's instead of the 8 footer's i thought he was giving me. Now i realized why people were looking at me. Really a 6 foot space in a vehicle with 16 footer's out the back, We must have taken up half the block. No wonder in our small town Mom heard about me taking my 16 footers home in our vehicle. Opp's. Brad Laughed he thought it was funny, But not so funny he was about to let me look like a idiot again. He got me 8 footers today. So I'm off to build the rest of my sectional!