Camping and Fishing Trip

We went camping with my family and got to tryout fishing again with the girls... we had more success this time!

Julia fishing in the river!

Saturday with Daddy!

This last saturday Daddy and the girls had the day out while I went and worked for a friend at a local boutique. They went to the Bean Museum to see the elephant displayed there and had so much fun. They also went to feed the ducks on campus.

My New Projects!

NEW! - The ultimate rag quilt!

So I designed this quilt to use some of the smaller fabric pieces I have

and it is definitely a favorite of mine. I had fun designing the large embroidered flowers

and used them in the large squares to keep the fabric in place instead of the traditional X.

I love how my pattern turned out so much that I might just have to make more...

at least a boy version!

Two of our finished service quilts to donate to the LDS Humanitarian Services!

The bear one is a crib size quilt and the moon one a single (72x90)!

Christian's Baby Blanket

'fish style' to match his bedding!

Free Fishing Day!

For Free fishing day our family went fishing in a local reservoir.  We fished for about an hour.  Rachel noticed that every time she reeled in her fishing line that she had caught another worm again.  I don't think that we got the point across that the worm was always there.

Then we then drove to a little fish farm in the yard of a retired couple and fished in their ponds.  Rachel went first.  As she pulled out her fish, the girls realized that fishing involved actually catching a real, wiggling fish!  Both Rachel and Alissa were afraid.  We barely got a picture with Rachel and we couldn't convince Alissa to try and caught one.  As I was fishing Alissa dramatically said to me "Mom, just don't let me see the fish." as she turned her head away from me in a most pompous manner.  We decided that we might have a little work to do with our 'ladies' to become an active outdoor family or exposing them to any non-princess thing.

Rachel's Graduation

May 20, 2009