Our anniversary and my husband's birthday.

Today was our 33rd Wedding Anniversary.  Wow, 33 years!  Some days it seems like just yesterday and other days, well, we won't go there! I am a very lucky woman and I'm married to my best friend. He loves me and let's me be me....We have grown and changed but we've done it together. 

Tomorrow is his birthday and we will continue to celebrate.  He's off work tomorrow and we'll be hanging out together.  I guess I won't be sewing too much this weekend.

Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday, honey, I love you! 

Our anniversary and birthday

Yesterday was our 32nd wedding anniversary.  My husband snuck into my office after I left yesterday and left me some beautiful flowers, a card and a chocolate message....I saw this when I walked into the office yesterday morning. If you can't tell what it is, he spelled out 32 with some chocolate kisses...Ok, where's the money, no I forget, it's show me the money....Anyway, I thought this was sweet and I love him dearly.  Today is his birthday too.  Happy Birthday, honey, I love you.

 

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!

Happy Monday

I hope everyone is doing great.  Just wanted to drop in and say Happy Monday to everyone....

It's been a great day for me...today is my birthday and I've had so many calls and emails, I just feel so loved.  The weather is perfect and I really want to be out in it but it's another work day for me.  I'll get to play later so I hope everyone has a wonderful day. til next time...


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Saturday Sewing-BOM-Birthday Wishes

Today was the day to pick up another block in my BOM. I picked up block 5 for next month...This quilt is not going together quick enough for me. I love this fabric. Here's a picture of the quilt. The quilt is in the quilt store and it's hung sideways but I think you can see how lovely it is anyway...



If you want to see what the blocks look like close up, go check out my other blog, http://thomasquilt2009.blogspot.com. We meet once each month and get instructions or a demo on how to put the block together. Some of these ladies are fairly new to quilting and this really helps to get these extra hints or tips plus we get to shop! The store even gives us a discount for coming in! I love this. I always feel like this store really appreciates our business and they are great people too. The owners as well as all the employees are helpful and friendly. They always make coffee and have cookies or muffins for us. It's great. Everyone in this group is alot of fun too! Good times!

After the demo, I rushed over to pick up a friend and we went and had lunch with another friend to celebrate her birthday. Happy Birthday, Cathey! I hope your day was great! Then, Shirley and I went back to her house and finished up getting ready for our class. We are now ready to give the demo and I hope it turns out ok. I'll let you know if our sewing group likes what we did.

I'm still working on my crazy patch block. I had forgotten how to do some of the embroidery stitches. I guess it's true, what you don't use, you lose! Cuz, I sure did. I had to look up some of the old stitches I used to know. But, that's ok, I remember them now and I am enjoying doing this block. I'll show you the block as soon as I finish.. Til next time....

Happy Birthday Barbie!

I can't believe it, Barbie turning 50! You know what they say? 50 is the new 30, well she's definitely made a believer out of me. I still have some of my Barbie dolls and I wish I had all of them. My favorite was the Barbie with the wigs. I'm sure I can get that one again somewhere online for a substantial increase in price from what my Mom paid for it, but I'll stick to my memories. Happy Birthday B.

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....

Valentine Cards, Birthday cards and a pig

Okay, I told you earlier that on Tuesday, we did tatting as well as making cards. Here are some of the cards I made for Valentine's Day....and I made a birthday card for my granddaughter too. I went to Michael's Friday evening and bought a piggy bank and I decorated it too for her. This was so much fun and my DIL and granddaughter loved it. I'm going to do this or things like this more. It is so much fun to add something extra to a gift to make it your own. That's what being a crafter is all about anyway, right? Anyone can go out and buy a gift and a card but when you make something, it's from the heart...









Here's the pig...

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

Happy Anniversary and Birthday

December 16th is our 30th Wedding Anniversay. Happy Anniversary, honey. I love you....

Dec 17th is my DH's birthday. Happy Birthday. Another year older but I still love you sweetie....

Quilt Happenings, Easter, birthday

Hey there. Nothing much has happened this week. I went to my guild meeting Tuesday night in all the rain and only a few people showed up. I started not to go either but I was the person in charge of the program that night. We were sewing a disaster quilt and I had the fabric. I picked out 20 fat quarters from my stash and cut it up for a Turning 20 quilt top. There were only 10 people that came to the meeting, 4 of us sewed, 2 ironed and a couple of others laid out the quilt. We got the top together before we left. I decided the quilt was not big enough so decided to add borders. I didn't have enough fabric so had to buy some. I went to the LQS Wednesday afternoon and bought the border fabric. The borders are on. I went over to one of ladies home's on Friday night. She is in charge of community service projects and she had alot of fabric that had been given to her. I picked out fabric for the backing. I will put it together and take it to the quilter on Monday.

I had to work at the quilt store today. Alot of ladies came in talking about the Dallas quilt show. Everyone had good things to say about the show. They were all saying they wished they had more time to work on their quilts which got me to thinking about my time to sew. That also made me start thinking about Retreat!

Retreat is coming! April 18! Oh boy, I can't wait. By that time, I will have another project to work on cuz Bonnie at Quiltville announced the new mystery quilt. It is called Orange Crush and I will be working on that one too. I am still working on my Carolina Crossroads and hopefully will be through with that one soon...It has been alot of fun but I am looking forward to getting it all together....I will post a picture of that one when I'm further along. I just haven't had any time to work on my stuff lately but will next week after Easter.

Tomorrow is not only Easter but also my sweet DIL's birthday. Happy Birthday, Carrie! She likes to decorate cakes but she never has had lessons so I have paid for classes at Michael's for her birthday. She knows about it already and seems to be excited about it..(I had to tell her cause she's a busy lady and she had to check her schedule and make sure she could go on the days of the classes....) I will be babysitting for her if my son can't keep the kids. Oh boy, Grammy time! I love it....Fun times with my grandbabies.

Gotta go for now, have a blessed Easter.

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