My New Hobby

For Christmas Danny gave me a really nice sewing machine, the one that I have been wanting for quite some time. I have made a few things with it like a really cute apron, on christmas day, and a baby blanket for one of my friends soon to be baby boy. It has been lots of fun playing around with it.
I love quilts. I have a quilt that my grandma Phylis made me that I cherish. I also have another quilt that my mom made me and one that my aunt gave me that was made by one of my ancestors. Each of these quilts mean so much to me. I want to be like my grandma Phylis and my ancestors who made quilts for their family. I want my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren to have the same thing I did, beautiful quilts that have meaning and love stichted into them.
So with this desire I realise it can only be accomplished if I take up the hobby of quilting and perfect it as did the other women in my family who went before me. I love to sew and this will be the perfect opportunity to get lots of use out of my new machine. Plus, I always fall in love with all the beautiful fabrics and their designs every time I walk into Joanns. Now I will have an excuse to buy, buy, buy!
Seeing as I know nothing really about quilting I needed to learn. I picked up the best book. It is a beginners quilting book. It has tons of great info and gives you four beginner patterns to start with.
With book in hand I went to one of my favorite stores, Joanns. I fell in love with the cutest lime green baby chenille fabric, I had to get it. I was able to find a few other fabrics that would match great. So, my first quilt turns out to be a baby quilt. It being a baby quilt means nothing more than I hope to one day wrap a cute little baby boy in it. (the lady cutting the fabric asked when I was due when she saw the fabric, can't a person make a baby quilt without being accused of being prego?)
Here are a few pictures of my new hobby in progress. I will post more pictures as it gets closer to being finnished.

Family

I am very excied about this coming weekend! I get to go home and visit the family!! Maryann and the kids will be down and we will be having a bbq for Madeys birthday. I love bbqs with my family, this will be the perfect way to start spring! I also love seeing Maryann and the kids. I wish they lived closer. Here are some pictures from the last time we got to see Maryann, Cory and the kids. We watched the kids one night while Maryann and Cory stayed the night in the Anniversary Inn. We took them ice skating and they did really well except Conner refused to get out on the ice. It was very cute to watch Danny try and convince him to try. Danny and Conner are so funny together, they love to tease each other. After ice skating we took them for pizza at Fredrico's and then back to our place to chill on the luv sac and watch movies. We were so tired. Danny passed out on the couch before any of the kids did. I hope I have just as much fun this weekend. I always do when I go home to the place I love, Spanish Fork.

Figuring this Out!

Well, I think if I am going to have a blog then I better post something every now and then. The reason it has taken so long is mostly because I am new to this and haven't really figured out how it all works. I lost my expert on it, Lisa moved home like 3 days after she showed me how to set one up, and I have been lost ever since. I figure it is time to just play around with it and figure it out on my own.

So...I am hesitant to start up one of these blog things, only because I don't really know what I am going to blog about. We don't have any kids, heck we don't even have any pets to blog about. Oh' well. I guess I will just blog about the very interesting life of me and my hubby. We are so very interesting! Haha. We'll see where this takes us.