Quilts, Birthdays and a Pioneer Museum

So much has happened in the last 3 weeks.
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1. First off... I am sad! I accidentally deleted the pictures I took at Parker, Tyree's and Cali's Birthday Party on the 15th of September. :-(  Oh well, The birthday cupcakes were cute, the little girls were adorable and Cali was gorgeous as always!

Here are a couple pics I took off of Cali's facebook page.

2. Before leaving Idaho I finished quilting Cody's quilt. This quilt top was made from a quilt of the month series from Abbot's in Rigby back in 2005. I finished the top in 2006. And again I will say......I love my quilting machine. And in case you are counting, this quilt has 194,164 stitches.

All of my quilt tops are finished. I guess it's time to start making more quilt tops. I hope to make a blog post with my older quilts soon.
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3.  Darryl and I left on September 17,  for our new job in Mississippi. On the way East we stopped at the Pioneer Village Museum in Minden, Nebraska. WOW! It's like the Smithsonian of the West! So much to see and learn about. Here are just a few pictures.

If you are ever crossing the U.S. on highway 80, block out a couple of hours and go to Minden, just south of Kearney, and take a stroll back in time at this wonderful world of history! Your kids will love it!

One of the interesting displays housed appliances used to make women's work easier. This entire room is full of washing machines from different eras.

Later this week I will post the pictures I took at my niece's wedding in Zionsville, Indiana and from our visit to Shiloh and Jason's!! Have a happy day!

Baby Gabey

The week before Darryl and I left for Mississippi Hillary and Baby Gabriel came up to visit Grandma and Grandpa. I sure love this cute little guy. The photos are from the 9 - 16th of September when he was 6 1/2 months old and weighed 22 lbs. He is a big little guy for sure and he loves his Grandma Cindy!  

Gabriel's big brother is his dog Toby, so he had no qualms about playing with our little Sugar doggy!

And he is not afraid of Dog kisses either! Eewwww! 

"What? What'd we do?" 

He tried and tried to push up and crawl....

I understand from Hillary that he finally started crawling this week.

Mommy and Grandma played around and tired to get some good pictures of him for his mommy to frame.

This looks like one of those "Caption this picture" photos, so go ahead and leave a caption in the comments.

He spent some time snuggling grandma...

And playing outside with his cousins

And swinging with Uncle Cody

in the new rocket swing grandpa Darryl bought him..

This is fun!  

Just enjoying life and being cute...

and happy..

and maybe a little stinky...

And loveable all day! 

And his favorite time was anytime he could eat... so Grandma Cindy introduced him to Oreos! 

    

They are so good!!!

Try to Remember the Kind of September.........

I love the song Try to Remember from the Fantasticks. I think it is the first popular song I ever truly fell in love with and tried to sing on my own.  I was 9 when it came out and my parents had it on a recording by Ed Ames, one of my very favorite singers. This September has been so perfect and the words of that song have often come to mind...   (Here are a few lines from the song)

Try to remember the kind of September....

When life was slow and oh, so mellow. 

Try to Remember the kind of September .....

 When Grass was Green and Grain was Yellow.

 Try to remember when life was so tender....

..... That no one wept except the willow....

 Try to remember when life was so tender ....

 ...That dreams were kept beside your pillow....

 Try to remember when life was so tender ...

 That love was an ember about to billow......

 Try to remember and if you remember.,..

 Then Follow -

Follow, Follow.   

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I finished Cody's wedding quilt. I put 194,164 stitches in this quilt and it took me about 15 hours to quilt. I babysat and played with my grand-babies. Jesse and Tyree liked to visit us and play with us on Sundays, Hillary and Gabriel came up for the week and we had a wonderful time together. Cody started back at BYU-I on Sept. 16th. I will post more pictures in a few days and a couple of cute videos.

Zig-Zags and Flowers for Hillary

I finished Hillary and Jake's quilt yesterday. This quilt is only 5 yrs. and 6 weeks late getting to the happy couple. But I am sure it will look lovely on their bed. I could not take pictures outside since it is raining, so the colors might be a little off. The top is pieced in a log cabin, zig-zag pattern in yellow with dark shades of maroon and burgundy.  The back is gold and I quilted it with burgundy thread in a 'Field of Flowers' pattern.