A few wedding pictures.

The wedding was wonderful.  The bride was beautiful and the service was sweet.  The only thing that went wrong was the ring girl didn't want to do anything but run around and play on the piano.  She had to be held by my other daughter in law to keep her out of trouble!  My oldest granddaughter became the official ring bearer and did a wonderful job!  Here are a few pictures of the wedding...

Carmen and Alayna



Alayna ended up being the ring bearer. This thrilled her to death.  She was so good!  She's shy and this was a big deal!

The happy couple.

Weekend Happenings and me time.

Well, I was busy over the weekend but it wasn't with sewing.  I kep the youngest grand child Friday night and Saturday.  She didn't really want me to sew anything. She wanted Grammy time. So that's what we did.  I played with her and watched some of her programs and just focused on her. 

 Plus, I haven't been doing too much of anything as my allergies are full blown.  I've been taking allergy medicine and feel like I'm a walking zombie.  I get home and don't want to do anything.  I have to make myself do anything.  My eyes are the worst. I can't even wear makeup as my eyes water and burn so much.  I love Spring but it sure doesn't like me.  Enough of my woes though.  I just can't get it together to think about too much right now.  Maybe when it's Summer and hotter than H!  I'll be inside buzzing around with my sewing machine....

Sunday afternoon, there was an official one year birthday party for Carmen. We went to the park for and had a great time with her. The older kids fed the ducks and walked beside the water and the oldsters sat around and watched. Then we had cake and ice cream and watched Carmen tear into her gifts. It was alot of fun and so good to see family on both sides. 

Carmen and her Daddy - My youngest son, Josh

two of the grandkids by the lake

Carmen with her cousin and her Mahma

Carmen got a little messy tearing into her smash birthday cake!

She loved reading the cards. She wanted to kiss all the little animals on the birthday cards.

It was a great time for all of us.  It's so much fun to see children having a good time with loved ones all around, Happy Birthday, Carmen, you are truly loved!

After the party, my DH and I took the other three grandkids with us to eat BBQ and another park over by their house to play while their parents went to the Ranger game.  That was fun too but I was a tired puppy when we got home!  It was midnight and I didn't want to do anything but go straight to bed! 
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday was nothing special. Just work like crazy so I can take off work for Thursday and Friday to go on retreat.  That's right, you heard me, it's retreat time.  I am ready for it too! Well, my body and spirit are ready. I'm not ready yet as I haven't even decided exactly what I'm taking so I need to get off of this and get ready to go. I'm heading out in about three hours so I have to get it together.  Usually, I have everything ready and the car packed the night before but I was so tired last night when I got home, I sat down to read the mail and that's where I stayed.  I woke up and went to bed and set the alarm to get it together today.  So, that's what I'm doing in a few minutes. I'm going to have some me time....Yeah, 4 whole days to sew and be with my friends. So, hopefully, I can show you some great things when I get back. Everyone, have a great week and get some sewing time in. Til next time, happy sewing!

Grandbabies and Brandon's birthday party

I took off work last Friday so I could watch my youngest grandbaby, Trent.  He is so much fun...He was climbing on the table and he knew he wasn't supposed to be doing that.  Cute baby but he has to be watched pretty closely cuz he's a climber!

My DIL was going on a field trip with my granddaughter and her class to the Dallas Zoo....This is Alayna, my beautiful and only granddaughter. She had fun with her Mom at the Zoo.

When they came back from the zoo, they went back to school and watched a movie and had popcorn!  What a treat!   We went to school and picked her up and my oldest grandson, Brandon...we came home and cleaned up the house a little bit so we could get ready for Brandon's birthday party.  He was having a Wii birthday party.  He invited several of this little friends to his party and asked them to bring their own controllers.  They did and their names were written on them and they played Wii games.  Then had pizza, cake and ice cream.  It was so much fun!  Brandon 's birthday isn't til the 29th but he had a big Halloween party to go to so he wanted his birthday early.  Here's the cute Wii cakes my
DIL made for him.

He loved these.  He likes fondant and asked his Mom to make his cakes with it.  She also mad cakes with regular icing too for the group that doesn't like fondant icing...

Here's the sweet birthday boy with his cakes.

Opening some cool gifts. 

This was a fun party.  8 little boys all running around inside and out.  I was a tired Grammy when I got home!

Happy Birthday, Brandon, Grammy loves you!

1st Day of School for my Grandkids

These are my sweet grandkids. It is the first day of school, Alayna is in kindergarten, Brandon in First Grade and Trent has a few more years to go.



Brandon and Alayna




Carrie (my DIL) and Alayna

Sunday Sewing and Grandkids

My guys were gone picking up an old pickup from a friend of ours. My older son has wanted this truck since he was 16 and he is now 28...He finally talked our friend into letting him buy it. This will be a project for my two sons and my husband to work on together. They were gone all day and I got some quality me time...

I worked on several things. I made up for lost time with no sewing machine Friday night. I put together all 8 strips of this Stacked Brick quilt. It is now ready for sashing and borders. This is the 3rd Stacked Brick quilt. One is finished, I just showed that one a few posts back. Number 2 and 3 are in the strip phase now. I think I'll use scraps for the sashing strips on these. I'll audition these and see which ones I like. These are all pressed and ready to be put together.






I put together two more rows for my Floating 4 Patch Quilt. It now has 10 rows and is a small square quilt. I'm going to put together more rows on this one. This one is just too small. It's so cute, I want it to be a full size quilt so I need more strips. This month is the last month for the exchange so I guess I'll put together as many as I can.





I also washed and pressed my little Nana's Flower Patch wallhanging. The pink marks came out just fine. I put the French Knots on it and some little red heart buttons. I will be putting some quilting around the hexagon and then I can frame it. The pattern called for an old looking frame but I don't want that. I know what I want, it's just finding it...If I can't find what I want, I'll get my husband to make me one. He is very talented with glass and picture framing.




Tonight, is a back to school party over at my son's house for my granddaughter and grandson. Alayna started kindergarten today and Brandon went to 1st grade. We'll be having dinner followed by cake and ice cream. Wow, where does the time go? Seems like just yesterday, they were little and crawling. Enjoy your grandkids while you can, cause they grow up too fast!

My granddaughter and her Heart Pillowcase

Ok, my DIL sent me this picture. I made my sweet GD a heart/love pillowcase for her birthday. I thought this was pretty funny and had to share it. At least it's keeping her feet warm!

My Granddaughter's 4th Birthday party

Several little girls all dressed in pink tutus....getting their nails done, putting on little girls make up, lipstick, cake and gifts...What fun. My little Alayna turned 4 and had some little friends over to celebrate with her. It was so much fun to see these little girls doing girly things...











And, of course, the very pretty cakes done by my DIL...this turned out so sweet..the cakes look like flowers, aren't they cute?



This was so much fun...I'm already looking forward to what's up for next year. Til next time....

Happy Birthday Alayna

Hello sweetie, Happy Birthday. My sweet granddaughter is 4 years old today. We are celebrating this Saturday with a little girl's tea party...doesn't that sound like fun?

I love you...Grammy

Fun with Grandbabies

I watched my grandbabies tonight for my kids. They are fun but man, they wear me out. Brandon is 5 and Alayna is going to be 4 next Wednesday. I took them to Soulman's Bar B Q for supper. Brandon loves barbeque. He calls Soulmans, Pigtown....I didn't know what he was talking about when he told me he wanted to go to Pigtown! He also has a unique name for Home Depot, he calls it Man Land. I love it. Only 5 years old and already has opinions. We ate barbeque then came back and watched Finding Nemo. I had to talk Brandon into watching that as it is a kid's movie and he's not a kid...he's a boy. We watched Nemo and he loved it. Popcorn and M & M's for snack, bath and bed. Boy, I was ready for bed too. Mom and Dad came in and I played with the baby for awhile. He smiled at me four times. My heart flipped over. Aren't grandkids great? With that warm, fuzzy feeling, I gave him back to his Mama and went home.

My grandkids

These are my grandchildren, Brandon is 4, and Alayna will be 3 tomorrow. Happy Birthday, Alayna.

Alayna's Birthday Party

This was Alayna's Birthday Party. She is my granddaughter and her birthday is tomorrow. My sweet DIL had a Strawberry Shortcake birthday party and cookout for her. It is so wonderful to have kids in your life. It's good to hear their laughter.

Alayna's birthday pictures