late birthday night out

Last night Roger and I went out for my birthday (only 2 weeks after).  First we went to Country Buffet for supper as I got a free meal - only had to pay for Roger's, good deal.  Then to the movie, The Odd Life of Timothy Green.  This too was free as I won the tickets from CW Rochester - the tv station.  Cheap night out and we enjoyed both the meal and the movie.  The movie is good but alittle sad and unusual.  Most kids would probably not follow and enjoy it but it is a good movie for adults.  I won't say more about it so I don't spoil it for anyone if they go to see it!
Love to all
Ann

Cute Kids

Dakota posing.

Mr Henry sitting in his high chair for the first time.  Sorry about the red eyes - didn't realize it soon enough.  These are old pictures from July.  We haven't seen him since the first of July.

Another one of Henry - you can see his pretty eyes in this one.

Connor busy drinking water waiting for Dakota's t-ball game to start.

Conner - saying "take my picture"  then "let me see it"

I have more cute kids - just don't have pictures of them to post right now, I'll have to start taking my camera along again.  For some reason I haven't had the camera with me lately.

And, atleast, I think they are "cute kids".

Sewing Projects

This is a 3-d pinwheel table runner.  In July when we did the sizzlin summer shop hop, I found this pattern at one of the quilt shops.  It will be great for fall - just need to quilt and bind it.  It was a quick sew, so will probably be making more of them.   The next one will be using Christmas fabrics.

I found this cheater panel in a quilt shop last spring on the way home from Chicago.  We stopped and checked out a new quilt shop.  I liked this panel since the number words are in english and spanish.  One on the families in child care speak Spanish.   So this will probably be a gift.  It is crib sized.

I started this quilt quite awhile ago, and have had the top done since early spring.   A few days ago, I decided it was time to quilt and finish it.  The fabric line used is Dilly Dally by Moda.   For that reason alone I decided it would be a great quilt for Dakota.  I wanted to bind it in black, but didn't have enought, so used two different pink prints that are in the quilt - didn't have enought of either one, so just used both.  It should fit on her twin bed nicely.

A table runner that who knows when it was started - just found it among the sewing items and decided to get it finished.  It didn't take long once I started.   I will have to try harder to get items finished in a more timely fashion.

Now that I have these items finished I can start thinking of new projects to have availbable for craft days........ya!!!!

Green Beans

I froze the green beans when Ken picked last week.   We had a big pan of fresh green beans for lunch.   Fresh beans were really good.  The rest I had to wash, steam then bag for the freezer.  

All bagged and ready for the freezer..........green beans to enjoy this winter.

Canning

Hi everyone,
Here I am on the family blog - completely new look from what I'm used to.  Just wanted to let all of you know that Gabby, Ken, Nancy and the 2 kids, Ann and Roger all went out yesterday and picked green beans from a farmer that Gabby knows.  Guess all of them got what they wanted, and so off they went to do some freezing/canning of the green beans.

I canned 14 quarts for myself and another 14 pints for Kim.  Next week I will be getting peaches from Youth for Christ over at the Methodist Church on North Broadway and so will then be spending some time doing those also.  Maybe while I'm doing that, I can make some peach jam.  Yummmmmm!!

Not much else for now, so will sign off.  Have a great weekend. 
Barb

Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday for August 2012

Happy Anniversary to Carl and Virginia on the first, 36 years and also to Stacey and Alan 8/7 - 10 years.  Congrats to all four of you!  I think we also have 5 birthdays this month:  Angela on the 8th, Matthew on the 16th, Devin on the 17th, Conrad on the 27th, and Riley on the 29th.  Hope you all enjoy your day!
This blog has sure been a problem lately getting on to put on a new post!  It even wanted me to list a mobile phone# tonight, not quite sure how I managed to get this on!

July Birthdays

Happy Birthday to all the July special people..........

Katherine, Barb, Michelle, Richard, Katie, Dylan, Aiden and Parker.

Hope you all have a great day.