The Hunter Family Camp out

Every year we go on our annual Hunter Family Camp out, so here are some of the pics! Enjoy..

(Notice the squirrel on the left hand side drinking the pancake syrup)

Our Service Quilts are finished... on to the blankets!

I finally got the other two full service quilts bound and finished!! All four of them along with a couple of receiving blankets were dropped off this week heading for the LDS Humanitarian Department with the hopes that they will bless the lives of others somewhere. Again thanks to friends and family who donated your time to help me tie them all and share in the joy of service. I do need to apologize that I don't have pictures of the final products to put up. I got so excited about getting them dropped off that I didn't remember the photos until they were boxed up and taped shut. Next time I will have to take pictures of the process too so you can all see yourselves.

On to my next service projects. I still have about twenty more receiving blankets I hope to sew and have donated by Thanksgiving and if everything goes well with my website and Etsy shop, I'll be able to buy more for next year's donations!

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