Merry Christmas

It bugs me (alot) when people say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. Brian and I were in a store in the mall after buying some socks the gentleman said to us, "Happy Holidays". I am not afraid to say that I believe in Jesus Christ and that I'm celebrating his birth and that I'm not trying to be politically correct and offend anyone.

Ok...here is a glimsp of our Merry Christmas day.

Favorite picture of all...

Girls' Quilts

A long time ago (like 2 years) I got a hankering to sew something not boyish...like PINK. I thought if I sew this who am I going to give them to? I couldn't really put a pink quilt on MY bed? could I? After I see the pictures though I really do like how they look with the logs. I decided to give them to my sister's girls since she has a lot of them. I wish I would have taken a picture of Kate's quilt...it was blue/brown/green/yellow...just lovely colors. Anyhoo...Korrine's quilt is the pink one and Kamas' quilt is the purple.

Korrine loves pink and hearts.

I made this by putting a 3" square on top of a 6" square on top of a 9" square and letting the edges fray. I love the look after I've just washed them. The back is made from minky. I held on to the top for a long time after I had completed it and didn't have enough to make a back or binding and I was lucky enough to find a binding that matched all the colors on the front. I also love how it is diagonal.

Kamas loves purple and fairies. My mom copied the purple fairy from the white patch of fairies and enlarged her. I added butterflies and ric-rack. This one just makes me happy. I also LOVE that the binding is using the scraps from leftover 2 1/2 strips. You can see in the above picture the different edges.

Boys' Quilts

This one isn't quite quilted, nor bound, but I wanted to get a picture of this one. This one is one my favorite and I'll prolly just keep this one. I love all the bright colors and and the fun cowboy theme. I also tried out a crazy 9 patch pattern that I love too. This will just be a lap quilt. Sept. 2010

This quilt is done the same way as Jens' soccer/green/black/white quilt towards the bottom. I also love all the bright Halloween prints and how crazy the boxes are in the center of the squares. Oct. 2010

This is Christian's scout quilt that still needs to be quilted and bound. I made Ryus (my nephew) a similar one and I love how classic and clean it looks. I also love the new merit badge fabric that I was able to cut out individual merit badges that Christian earned. I also wanted to highlight the different fabric that I used on his that represent Christian. When Christian was a baby...my mom had a really super soft rug in front of her kitchen sink that he would crawl all over the house trying to find it and when he did, he would lie down with his face on it. All his life he's been a feely touchy guy of fabrics so I added a row of minky just for him that is super soft. 

Jens' Tshirt quilt from Iowa and all the places that he visited while he was there playing. He even went to a showing of Wicked.

This is Ty's Tshirt quilt.

This shirt was the back of one that is already on here and I wanted to include this one, it's his own handwriting that he had to write for his PE shirt in middle school.

Here is Christian's Tshirt quilt. They are all pretty similar except that rows and columns are a little different fabric and here again the back of his quilt is special for him. It's also minky.

Backing done with stripes and a border of soccer material.

Jensen went away to Iowa without any bedding besides a sheet set (that didn't even fit, he had to buy an extra long twin size) So when we went to visit him during conference Oct. 2009 I took along this quilt to give to him. I really love this one. I had the high school quilt this one and it's pretty poorly done. One day I would like to machine quilt on my own machine. I'm trying to get up the bravery to do so.

This one is Jens' Tshirt quilt, first one that I made. I love these because they get so many tshirts for their different activities and this is a good use for them, rather then use them for kindling for our outdoor fire place.

Jens's scout quilt 2008 You can't see it very well but each of his merit badges are embroidered on the cream sections that are angled. I do LOVE the picots (triangles) on the edge of the quilt. I wasn't going to add red to the quilt because the instructions didn't call for it but I'm so glad that I did.

6:41 A.M.

I love this song! It's fitting on this special day of Ty's. Happy Birthday Baby.

Out of all the fish we caught together...

you were the best catch! Will you go to homecoming with me?

THE ASKING...

My friend is very talented and blew up some fishing poles from the "animal balloons" and had a fish attached to the end of and had this saying written on it. We blew up tons more regular balloons and put Christian's name on individual pieces of paper in separate balloons and they put all those in her car.

THE ANSWERING...

After they had finished studying together for honors physiology (they study on a regular basis together...the night before class). She pretended to go home, but a few minutes later the doorbell rang and there was a big chocolate soccer cake on our doorstep. Christian dug in and with the first few bites he found the prized answer.

Date Stats:

Pick up date

Go to Zach Heaton's house and swim

Don't forget pizza sauce as your assignment.

Swim

Eat homemade pizzas for lunch

Take girls home

Hang out at Zach's house until girls are ready.

Hurry and go home and get ready...(don't forget the corsage)

Pick up Jessica

Take a million pictures

Go to dinner at Zach's house

Go to the dance for like a second

Go watch Superman

Take Jessica home

Get home at 12:21 p.m.

Don't be nervous... Outside her housePutting on the wristlet...that's easy.
Putting on boutineer...that's a little bit trickier..two more pictures later and then mom comes to the rescue.
Table before everyone gets there. Eating at Zach Kaiser's house.

Christian and Jessica's cheese On your mark, get set JUMP!!
The whole group (above)...Jordan Brandt, Lara Birch, Zach Heaton, Kelci Koop, Jessica Atkinson, Christan, Ally McKell, Zach Kaiser.
Fav pic! LOVE IT!

Tashakkur!

This is the whole panaromic view of our cultural hall.

Garrett, Brian, Traci, Jessica, Curtis, Tyler, Blaze
Megan sorting little girls' clothing...doesn't this look overwhelming to you?!...and it's only half of the room.

A great big thank you (in Afghan) to all those that helped with Christian's eagle project. Yah!!! the physical part is done and boy was it hard. I don't think I've ever seen a project in the amount that was donated. It was so amazing to see all the donations. The soldier in our ward who Christian wanted to send all these items to, his daughter Juleea donated all her yw project school kits to his project too (which was over 75 kits) Just overwhelming amount of generosity!

We had a ton (I'm not even exaggerating) of clothes mostly kids clothing, school supplies, blankets, toys, soccer balls (even my good friend from Texas sent some new soccer balls to add to the donations!!, that was so fun) Thanks Lindsay!!, hygiene supplies, mens, womens clothing, and boxes (thanks Nate) to ship them in. Oh yeah and a little bit of time donated by my great friends here. I can't believe what great friends I have! I am so grateful!!

Christian did so great at being a leader and carrying out the project. On that very last day, when we were packing all the boxes, the youth and leaders in our ward helped out tremendously.

At one point, it seemed so overwhelming that I thought, let's just pack a couple of these boxes up and take everything else to DI. I'm so glad I listened to my friend...it's just the boost I needed. You are going to want to read her story of helping us out too. Then...

Kristina (she has a 15 passenger van) also drove all 114 (well, we had 14 of those boxes in our van, don't want you think we didn't do our share....hahahahaha) boxes up to Salt Lake where we dropped them off at the shipping company that delivered these free. We had 5 pallet fulls of 5-6' of boxes on them.

Thanks again to all those that helped out! Kristina, Heather, Heidi, Kamarie and all the youth.Use that broken hip Christian!!

Here is my sweet friend... Emmy and his mom. "We are not put in circles of friendship by coincidence but by Divine Design"...Neal A Maxwell

Now on to the hard part, getting all the signatures and finishing the paperwork...