Newest Baby Quilt

I make family quilts for all the nieces and 

nephews when they have their first baby.

(if I made one for each grand niece and nephew

 I'd be way too busy, between Walt and I there are

50 grand nieces and nephews)

Michelle and Kennedy had their first baby 

May 16th

 This is their family quilt  --  The Hidden Four Patch

 I sew their family name in the border.  Then they 

can use it for all the babies in their family

 The back

And I sign and date the back

 The four patch, hence the name

 cut into triangles

 second four patch

 cut into triangles

 The four patches sewn together makes two of these squares

 It's cut into little pieces

 The four pieces with two rectangles are turned 180 degrees

 and each piece is sewn into a block

Each block is sewn together 

then borders, batting, and back quilted together

 and the binding     Done!!

Trip to California

We don't normally go to California in June 

because it's to hot but Cade was having

an 8th Grade Graduation Ceremony

so off we went

 Large class.  See the lady standing in the bleachers

wearing the gray top and black pants?  Cade is in the

blue shirt and shorts right above her head

 Cade is in front of the third seat in the second row

walking in

 Getting ready to go up and get his diploma

 Getting his diploma

I thought I would be able to crop this but when we

updated our computer my program disappeared

Then to find Cade afterwards was a little tricky

 Brooke gave this cactus to Amy about 13 years ago.

It was a little start off of Aunt Ruth's big one.  

This year it decided to bloom and it did twice already.

 Then Amy put us to work painting the 

inside of her house.  The old color is the 

yellow tone in the back

Painted to the gray color. 

But we painted all the gray color into

the living room, hallway, rec room, office 

and hall to the garage.  Quite a project

We got to see one of Claire's Lacrosse practices 

They had a tournament in Petaluma on the weekend

They got their new uniforms the same day

 Claire was goalie for the first half of most of the four games

 Needless to say her team was dominating the ball

so there wasn't much for their goalie to do

 and the second half of the second game too

 We spent the night so out to dinner we went

 Claire wears her hair in braids because the

goalie helmet is so tight. Pretty hair Claire

 They won all five games in the tournament

 and got First Place Medals

Good Job Girls!!

Tournament Tshirt and a milk shake

In the median on the freeway they have oleander planted.

When we were down in April they weren't in bloom yet,

but now they are

While we were in Petaluma at the tournament 

Cade was in Boston on a week trip with his school.

Lucky Duck!!

Busy Week for us but time to leave when the temps hit 102 :o)