Leslie Heading to Turkey

This is our last week with Leslie until next Summer.
 She is going to Turkey for the school year! her Mom is now over there and would like leslie for the school year. its going to be hard letting my "little" girl go, she was 2 and a 1/2 when her dad and I started dating, and now she is going on 14 !
 Leslie has grown in to a wonderful teenager, could not ask for a better daughter and a great big sister !
I hope that she has a great time while she is away from us and is able to experience a lot of new things and seeing so may wonderful places. 

Not going to move!

Well this time we know for sure we are not going to Turkey!

Jan blocks are done!

Leslie and Emily Jan blocks are now finished! Now all I need to start working on is the 2 small "sister" blocks that go with the larger ones! we are half way finished with this block of the month the last one will be picked up Sept 10 the date we are to be in Turkey! the shop Bella Quilts has told me that I should be able to pick up the last one before we leave!

March and Feb. Sister's Block of the Month

Today I finished last months blocks, this Sat. I will pick up April's blocks. and maybe I might finish Jan. blocks they are cut out just need to finish them. while I was out finishing Emily's up I started to clean up and toss things in my sewing area! got rid of 3 bags of small scraps of fabric, soda cans, have 2 bags of fabric to donate found 2 quilt tops with backings that should go get quilted, one has been done for over 10+ years! the other has only been done about 3 years. I have 4 shelves left to go the sewing table plus 2 totes full of fabric. you don't realize how much stuff you have tell you get ready to move! I know we still have a few months tell we move or not move still not sure I hope that we find out soon I hate not knowing whats going on . Sept will be here before I know it. at least the past ports for the girls and myself have been sent in!

Emily's Birthday

Cupcake making:
Emily made the

cupcakes

for her
Birthday!

I found out one thing

while making

them with

Emily!

I am to ...

over baring & controlling in the Kitchen.

I had a hard time letting Emily

pour the batter .

so when Leslie wants to make

cookies,cakes or brownies I have to go to

the other room!

or else I will end up making them and she will go do

something else!

when I was Leslie age I was making cookies and stuff. all the time!

Leslie's Birthday

This year for Leslie's 11th birthday she wanted to go to Chuck E Cheese's

she is in there trying to get the tix flying by her! she ended up getting alot! not sure how many she went with her mom and got a prize before we left!

All hope is not lost for Turkey!

Well Brad sent a text this afternoon saying that he got a email saying that there in no paper work saying he has lost his PRP so we still might be able to go ! YAH

A no go for Turkey!

So Brad sent me a text the other day telling me that the Orders to Turkey were Canceled. we are all sad about it. I think the girls are happy about not going, missing there friends!
well with 2 years tell retirement I guess this will give me more time to plan out where we are going to move to and find a house and all that fun stuff. we have been thinking of Utah, Vegas, or to stay in AZ... what to do. I would like to leave this State,

Turkey or no Turkey?

Last week I believe Brad called me and told me that we have Orders to Turkey! Yes the Country of Turkey! not the Bird that we eat on Thanksgiving or Christmas! We would not be leaving until next Sept. 2011 so passports for the whole family, going thou all the boxes in the garage and tossing out a lot of stuff that we do not need is in store for me !

What is cool about this move is we are going to the base that Brad was born at!
but then there is all ways the possibility that something might happen and we do not end up going. so keep your fingers crossed that things work out and we do end up going to Turkey!

Two year's over there would be great! we would be able to see the sights and Emily is old enough to remember seeing them and she would be starting Kindergarten at a DoD School and from what I have heard they are better then the state side schools!. the only done side would be Leslie and getting her to her Mother during the summers and every other Christmas. and cents the first Christmas we would be over there would be our Christmas to to have her it would not be too much of a problem . well when I hear more I will let you all know more! less then 9 months to go before we move!

Thanksgiving 2010

Brads Brother has taken up photography so we stood around for him to take our photos. this is from ours, in a few days we should get a email with our photos. the good ones were you can see our faces!

the girls had so much fun standing there for Uncle Johnny! and yes Emily is standing on a stool she is not that tall~ the next pic down you can see how much taller Leslie is.

not so good day quilting!!

READERS BEWARE BAD SPELLING TODAY TYPING WITH ONE HAND!

so today while quilting my finger got in the way! the needle broke ! I thought it might have gone in my finger cause it hurt so bad~ once it happened I came in a rinsed it with peroxide and wrapped it in a paper . called Brad and told him i might be going to the ER.
went back out to my sewing table and that is when I saw the needle was broken! called the Dr office to get the ok to go to the ER.
got there went to x-ray the guy did not check me in so i was forgotten I was fine they had given me a perkiest not sure if i spelled it right sure its wrong. well no bit of needle is in my finger and my finger is just fine all but the 2 holes in the nail and finger! i do have a pic. of it and a pic of my x-ray i like that cause my ring looks like its floating! but all in all I am good!
I do need to finish the quilting but not sure if i want to do it tonight . do need to change the needle. but all I want to do right now is go to bed!

Cross Roads

well sents I for get to put the one pic, on the bottom like I wanted to here is one of emuly and Sugar tonight two of my three girls sleeping,! I should be but not . well never mind i just found my self doesing! night all hope you like 2 of the pic of Brad's Christmass.

What a good name for this one with the past few days it has been to say the least cross. SO maney things going on in my life right now not sure what way up is any more, thought things might be turning around but after tonight not so sure! I guess all I can do is pray and put it in the Gods hands! but before things got to crazy tonight went to the Cross Roads class at Bella Quitl's had a good time got two of the 24-25 squares done!

Leslie's Sister block

Leslie's Block the fabric that she picked out from the 6 that we got! the background is what I picked out for it. I loved how it turned out! one I get the 6" blocks done I will post them I will most likely wait tell next month when we get 3 more fabrics to choose from.

Sister block and Fabric for Brad's QUILT

Emily"s Block was the first to get done! Leslie is all cut out just need her to sew the strips together! the first month we got 6 fabric's the girls got to choose the fabrics they wanted for the block . once Leslie gets her finished I will post it also! here is some of the fabric I choose for the Crossroads Quilt for Brad I hope that he will like it.Nov. 2 I go in for that class, it should be lots of fun!

there are 8 fabrics right now I need to cut them in to 2' strips before class, and I need 24 different fabrics.

Sister's

The Block of the month for Bella's starting next month is called sisters, at first I was just going to do the one , they just had one done when i first saw it, the country one(on right). then on Saturday they had the other one done and fell in love with it. so I thought its called sisters and scents i have two girls who love to help with quilting, and they both have been asking for a new quilt! I am going to do them both.

For this block of the month there is a 12 inch block and then 2 smaller ones of the same block. and only the 12 inch block is the one to show to get the next one! and this one is only 3$ a month instead of the 10$ from this past year! I will just have to see what one the girls like and then hope that they do not like the same one!

Emily's 1st day of preschool

Rock Hudson

Sept . block from Bella's

I was sewing the other night, and I looked up and saw Emily and Sugar sleeping on the landing !

the same photo as above thougth I got the other one I took. oh well they are so cute! Bella's Row of the Month for Aug. still have 3 left to finish sewing together! but should get it finished in the morning. this months (sept) is the the last month! it goes by so fast! once I get it all put together I will post it.

Emily, Leslie and Leslie's moms dog.(I do not like this dog it bit Em in the lip last summer! Iam just glad that em has no problems with dogs now.)

last week while it was raining Emily got on her rain jacket and boots and was playing with sugar! this is a action shot, sugar just came behind her and em was falling down ,sugar was jumping up! she was laughing so hard!

well that is it for the time being . have some pics of Emily's first day of Pre-schoool!

Birthday's and Christmas

So I asked the girls what they would like there birthday party's to be.

Leslie said that she wanted a 'spy" birthday party. so looked up idea's online, copied them now have 22 pages to read to plan a party . My favorite one was a James Bond themed one! not quite sure if its for a almost 11 Year Old! one of the ideas was to make Id badges take a pic when they come in and at the end give it to them with the goodie bags! I know that her birthday is not tell Jan 12. but with Christmas 3 weeks before and Emily's birthday 4 days after Christmas Ineed to plan and order things now!

Emily after her Birthday last year wanted a Ladybug party! she is turning 5 this year! so we are looking at cakes and cupcakes I might be able to make the cupcakes but the cakes we saw and liked now way could I do, going to check out cake shops and see how much a cool ladybug cake would be.

I fell like I am behind in the Christmas shopping! for the last two years I have been done with most of the gift getting, it also helped that brad was deployed and came home about this time so the extra money helped alot! This year Leslie Mom is now at the same base we are at and it's her year for Christmas with Leslie so we are not too sure how it will work out, we have kinda talked about us having her Christmas eve and her Mom having her Christmas day, but not real sure what's going on yet! I would like to know before the end of OCT. but I am sure that is not going to be everyone plan.

Elizabeth Taylor ~block of the month Quilters Market

The girls being funny! for got to flip the pic around before posting it,

the block of the month from the Quilters Market this one is called Elizabeth Taylor liked how it turned out, like the real one a little better the points are much better.