Someone is TEN!

This precious face turned 10!  I can hardly believe that 10 years have gone by.

 His cake request was simple.

 He hit the mother-load with playmobil due to clearance items.

 And what 10 year old boy doesn't want a headlamp?!

 He had one friend over on the day and then we brought 3 home with us from Kearney Art day.  I spent some time with them at the park while mom ran errands.  Can you find him in the spider web?

 Wow, this was 5 years ago.  He's so big now.

Happy Birthday, Quinn!

Alissa

Rockets, rockets, rockets.

Our kids group did a rockets project over the last few months.  Last week we finally launched them off.  Mom was our fearless leader for the rocket endeavor.

 The younger girls had other projects, kites and such.  So, they were the peanut gallery for our launch party:)

 We first launched Quinn's HUGE rocket to see how the wind would affect the other, smaller rockets.

 Once again it was too heavy for the launchpad and had to be held in place until lift off.  Mom and Mr. Ogle did a good job;)

 It really was a windy afternoon, but we had success and didn't lose a single rocket.

 We had enough engines to shoot each one off twice, but the assembling of baseball practices all around our group was cause for the end.

Afterwards, a few of us had a nice picnic supper in the park.  I took advantage of the rolling hill and did some rolling...SO FUN!

Alissa

Once Upon A Time...

Once upon a time I made this quilt:)  As you can see on the edges, there are half triangles.

 I couldn't throw them away.  So, I decided to finally put them into some sort of a project.

 I came up with a star!

 I simply need to handstitch the binding and it will be a lovely little table topper.  It feels good to do a bit of stash clearing:)

 At our last MOPS meeting this quilt of Michelle's was hanging out.  I have no idea what they used it for, but I was inspired.  It is loverly.

 I haven't made any Farmer's Wife quilt blocks in awhile.  These have been sitting in a pile waiting to be photographed.

 I love this green fabric! I have a dress made out of it.

Once upon a time I made this Very Hungry Caterpillar quilt for my nephew.

 I had pieces left over from that too.  More stash clearing!  I made this little quilt.  It is a lot smaller than it looks in the picture.  Soooo, I had to order just a little bit more to make it a proper baby quilt:)  Not sure who for yet.

 I bought this little arm and collar ironing board at the rummage sale last year.  It has been shedding dead foam pieces since then.  I happened to have this loverly green fabric that actually matches the avocado green metal.  It is now cleaned and covered!

 Speaking of the rummage sale...today is the day.  I have to work a short shift and then we'll see what treasures are there to find!

Alissa

May Day Festivities

Mom picked this book up at the Salt Lake City library.

The cover of ours isn't suggestive of its "times past" content.  However, I picked it up and began to peruse.  What an awesome book!  I read many things out loud to mom, among them was the part about May Day.  She got an idea.

Mom and the kids planned out May Day baskets for every house in our little "village."  Don't worry, it is only 34 houses.  The baskets included a flower ready-to-plant and some candies.

 I helped in part of the assemblage.  We rolled paper plates to create the basket.

 Tuesday was a less than ideal day to do our deliveries.  I had to work due to another co-worker being out of the country and mom and the kids had to take Grandma out of town for an unplanned appointment.  I arrived home in the afternoon and shortly after they arrived.  We hopped in the car with the goodies and off we went.

 It was so fun to watch, but it did make me nervous.  I was glad it was those two and not me.  I'm a bit afraid of people and doing things that I don't know what to expect.

 Quinn was quite stealth in his deliveries.  He'd creep up to each house, hang the basked, ring the doorbell or knock and then zip back to the car with amazing speed:)

 Mom even got to deliver one.

 It was fun, and they were "caught" by a few neighbors.  I've told many people when that our town isn't terribly "warm and fuzzy."  There is hope though and we can be the kindness that sparks more.  A few days later we received a card of blessing, simply signed "your neighbors."

Alissa

Crazies?

What do you get when you give dad and Quinn duct tape?

Something like this:)

I decided that Olga's shape just wasn't quite right.  So, I tore her apart, saved the stuffing and put her out for the trash.  Quinn found her and decided she looked an awful lot like armor.  We did have to do some duct tape surgery to take care of the chest bumps.

Then he wanted a helmet.  I gave him the duct tape and a ski mask.  He and dad went at it.  Here is what he got.

Unfortunately, the ski mask idea didn't pan out as well as we thought and was really hard to get on and off.  It was fun to watch though.

Almost as fun to watch as this:

Hehe.

Here are a few more Farmer's wife quilt blocks I've finished.

Happy Saturday!  I'm off to watch some soccer games.

Alissa