3rd of July!!

Alyssa and Kyle went to a Church Lock-in on Friday Night and had a blast! This is them waiting to leave!

We have had a GREAT weekend! It was lots of fun!!

We went bowling as a family! It was so much fun!

Detto said that I make alot of faces when I bowl! So..... He took pictures to prove it!

This is when I got a STRIKE!!

This is Detto after he got a strike!! Yeah for you!

Alyssa flexing like Daddy!

Isn't he cute!

Stephen got a strike! He looks mad, but this was his "Happy" Face!

I told Stephen to give me a double "High-Five", but we were trying to get as close to Daddy's head as we could! We thought it was a GREAT game... Detto didn't think so! Hee Hee Hee!

I forgot to tell everyone!! Guess what....... I won! BOTH GAMES!! I have Never Won a bowling game in my life and..... I won twice in one day! (on a side note Detto wants me to meantion that he didn't have his glasses and so he couldnt see) But... I WON!! YIPPY!

Its the NEW YEAR!! Welcome 2010!!

I am so excited about this New Year!! I just feel that it is going to be an awesome year!! I don’t know how or why, but I just know!! I have a feeling like I was given a new chance to change and do things better! I am taking this chance!! I have made lists about my projects I am going to complete this year and lists about lists I need to make... I sound like my Grandmother - she was the ultimate list maker!


I am going to change some of the ways we do our schooling. I have changed bed times, wake up times, school times, etc. The kids are very confused, but they will catch on!! I have caught up with grading and I am almost caught up with planning!!! I am so excited about all of my sewing projects.

I have signed up for 3 new swaps & BOM's!! I can’t wait to get going!! I am also completing some of MY personal quilting and sewing projects!! Here is one that is almost done... I just need to do a little more quilting on it.

Also, I feel different about Detto being gone this time. I feel like... I can do this! I have done it before and look at me... I survived. I have accomplished things that I never would have done if God hadn’t allowed us to go through this! I drove (by myself) to South Carolina, I bought tires for the truck, I made my first Car payment, and the list goes on... I am sad that he left again, but I feel like I will use this time to get things caught up and back on track and I will be ok! When he was away at BCT I used the time to get back in the WORD!! I was so blessed by my Bible reading and devotional books! I am loving all of the encouragement I am getting from the Bible! The Bible says how David encouraged himself in the Lord his God in 1 Sam 30:6! I love how getting in the Word encourages me! I am so blessed.

I am sad that Detto is gone. I miss him alot. The kids miss him alot.... But it is different this time! Yesterday I talked to him 4 times. We talked until 12:30am!! I was falling asleep on the phone and so was he!! I love that we have the privilege of talking on the phone like that! This is nothing life BCT where we got a 5 minute call sometimes on Sunday afternoons!! Please continue to pray for Detto who is stationed in Snowing/ Freezing Missouri!! Also please pray for Angela, Sheldon, and their daughters. Sheldon was deployed to Afghanistan right before Christmas, and Angela is Prego. Also, pray for my little brother John. He left for the Air Force Basic Training yesterday and he will be in Texas for 8 1/2 weeks!! Pray for his wife Sam and his daughter Anaia! It is strange that so much of my family is away in the military right now!! New Year = New experiences!!

Another thing I am really excited about is the Volunteering projects me and the kids are going to be doing!!! We have signed up for Disney's Give a Day Get a Day we signed up here! We are going to help clean up a Camp for Special Needs Kids!! We are doing this on Saturday!! The kids are really excited about it! Also, we have committed to make some quilts for Quilts for Kids! We are making 3 - one from Alyssa, one from Stephen and one from me!! This organization is really cool!! They are sponsored by Downy and they send you a quilt kit! All you have to do is follow the instructions and send it back! The quilt is then given to a child in need! I was shocked when the kids decided to do one each. I thought we would do a "family" quilt, but NO WAY... Alyssa wants to do her own and Stephen wants to do his own... So "come on Mom, you can do your own!" So we are making THREE!! I have already sent off for the kits! I ordered some extra kits in case anyone I know wants to do it too!! Just send me a message and I will give you the kit!!

Right before Detto left we took the kids bowling! It was so much fun!! I included those pictures and a few of our goodbyes!!

Detto got a STRIKE and the kids were jumping to give him a high five!! They are so cute!

Finishing My Quilts

I have decided not to start any new projects until I finish some of my UFO's (un-finished objects- Mom this is for you because you said you don't know what my acronyms stand for)!! I cant believe how much fun I am having finishing these old projects. I had a couple hanging on a quilt stand waiting for quilting, binding, batting, etc. So.... I am finishing them. I had one that I completely forgot about. How could I do that???? Yikes! It was the first one I finished. All it needed was the binding, so... I searched through my stash and found the perfect binding. It didn't take me very long to finish it. I cant believe that I waited this long to finish it. What was I thinking? After I finished it, I made Detto "Pose with the quilt". Isn't he cute?

I love the back on this one!!

Then I started on my other one's. I have sewn the starting binding onto another one, but I am hand sewing it down. (Mom, this is quilter talk. First you machine sew the binding to the front side of the quilt and then you blind stitch the back by hand!!) I cant wait till that is done. I will start quilting one after church tomorrow and hopefully I will baste another quilt tomorrow. (when you baste a quilt it is actually pinning all three layers together - top, batting, and backing!) I will be posting pics as I get stuff done!! I would have gotten more done this weekend but.... We went bowling again.

It was so much fun. We went with Kirin and Ishana. They are so cute!! The kids love to have their cousins over and so do I. The girls spent the night last night after Samantha's Surprise B-day Party. It was alot of fun. John bought Roman Candles for the kids to shoot off!! They loved that! After the party the girls came home with us and spent the night. Ishana always falls alseep first. She is so cute! Alyssa and Kirin played dress up until approximately 1am!! Then they woke up around 9am and watched cartoons!! Silly Girls! I love having them over. They are all so innocent and I love to watch them play together. Samantha just got out of the military and gave the kids her uniforms. They all loved it. Even Alyssa and Kirin, those two kept saying they were "Princess Soldiers"! They were marching around bowing and saluting each other!! Too Cute. Ishana even wore Sam's Dress Blue's to the bowling Alley. She didn't want to take it off!!

I am so glad we got to spend time with them today.

But, tomorrow will be more quilting!! Also, I got a box from Lisa today. Yeah. It had the cutest "musical / musician" fabric in it! Thanks Lis! She also added some books for the kids and... a great quilt label for my "Round Robin"!! I love it! I will take a picture and post it before I send it out! I am so jealous of her machine it does "Letters and Words"!! She had a really "spiffy" machine! One Day, Maybe, Oh well, I can dream.....

Stay tuned for more progress, coming soon!!!

p.s. A wise quilter said "A finished quilt is better than a Perfect Quilt"!! I agree