July 2011

Pool Fun

Today we had another house showing so we were able to go over to our friends house to hang out, have lunch and then swim in their neighborhood pool.  What a blessing!  We’ve been enjoying getting to swim with them for free  🙂  It’s great too, since it’s quiet and I feel like I can …

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Today

Today I got my 300 sets of bean bags cut up and ready to sew, so that’s 300 sets of six colors, two of each color is a set, so that’s a grand total of 3,600 bean bags to sew, flip, stuff and sew!  Crazy!!!  I also got pockets for Q-Chords cut up. For some …

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Beautiful Poem

 My Mom-n-Luv sent this to me today… I love it!  “That needle poking to and fro, Means so much more than you may know. Each snap, each button, each shirt, each dress, Contains something you’ll never guess. Each garment Mom makes, from the start, Contains a small piece of her heart. With every snip she …

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Butterfly

Christopher has been leading us in studying Romans 12.  Especially focusing on the renewing of our minds.   When we were talking about it, I thought of a butterfly and it’s metamorphosis.  Word pictures help me sometimes, so I was sharing that with everyone. Today we were enjoying watching and taking pics of this beautiful swallowtail …

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Granola Bars

My Mom makes yummy granola bars that everyone loves, except when I make them they don’t taste near as good, in my opinion.  🙂  Something about Mom making them…never can duplicate it!  So here is one I’ve tried, with a few changes, and we all love. Chewy Granola Bars 1/2 cup peanut butter 1/4 cup …

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Another Sunday

Another great Sunday.  Although I didn’t get my exercises in today like I should have.   I did come across some fun quotes today which I’m including here.    http://www.quotegarden.com/needlework.html     If I stitch fast enough, does it count as aerobic exercise?  ~Author Unknown P and I got to have a little special time today.  We …

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S and Teddy Bears

So…when  we had our first little one, C1, I thought it would be fun to make a patchwork teddy bear in honor of his birth for both sets of Grandparents.   I had always “planned” on have three children…..but God has us on a different exciting path instead!  Once you start down that path, it’s hard …

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