Summer Birthday Fun

Just let me tell you, Rhya LOVES peas from the garden. She will eat them as long as someone helps her, in this case, grandpa.
I have spent most of the last two weeks celebrating my birthday. We love an excuse for parties, lunch with friends (several lunches!), and family times. Kallie and Ryan even came for the weekend, and here is my birthday present from them. A full pedicure, one of my favorite things to get! I was spoiled for days by my husband, kids, and grandkids!
The finale was a yummy family dinner, birthday cake and all, at Adrienne's house with everyone attending. I guess it's finally all over until next year.

Red and Green

Just thought I'd show you the first of the garden harvest. This is the last of the spinach and the first of the peas, zucchini and raspberries. Yum...........

Vacation time: Wallowa Lake and Washington

We had a great reunion in Oregon. Here are
some of my favorite pictures. Weston was happy as long as no one bothered him while he was eating his cake.



Braden and Avery loved the beads that
Aunt Valerie provided, and Braden is
the "KING" and
Avery "the Princess".

The "adults" (I think that means "old people")
all went to dinner one night while we were in
Washington. It is amazing to me that we are
all looking so old! You can tell that JR took the picture,
because it is from way up there.





































The kids loved the water that ran just behind the cabins.







The quilt is the one I made for the reunion raffle, and it was won by little Clara. It has all 71 names of the current family of Leon and Mary. Each generation is represented by a different color.

Quilting Time

Oops, I guess I didn't get anything posted in April. I was busy sewing.......

The leaf quilt is an original design, hand quilted. It won a ribbon at our SRVQGuild show. (Only because it was by hand, and most quilts these days are by machine, so not many quilts in that category!)




The flower pots quilt is the one that I have entered into HMQS,
to be held in Utah this weekend. I get to go, and look at it hanging in the show among the many other quilts! It will be a fun weekend, seeing quilts and Kallie!

The third quilt is a Heartstrings, just bound, to be donated to Quilts of Valor, for returned soldiers.
It has been a fun sewing this month, but now it will be time to work outside, and do other things. Alas.....

Annie Oakley

Adrienne's kids were here for the day, and sweet little Rhya girl decided she wanted to be a cowgirl, since the boys had all the stuff out. She put on the hat, and then insisted I help her with the scarf, belt and boots. She found a stick and actually made a "shooting" noise while aiming it. It was a fun day!

Laura Dawn's Birthday

We had a family gathering at Adrie's house, and she generously fixed lunch for us as we celebrated Laura's birthday. This was my contribution, a cake that is supposed to look like "smores". At least it tasted good, probably because of the ganache filling inside!

It's Warmer in Provo!

Because Ryan was out of town on business, Kallie invited me to spend a few days with her. It was so warm, (compared to here!) that we hardly needed jackets. Max, recently turned one, learned to like me, and Avery, turning three, was sad when I left.

Avery has learned lots of songs, and has been well trained. She had a hard time letting me out of her sight. Even when I was in the bathroom, she would peek under the door and say, "I see your shoes, Grandma!" And then once she yelled., "YOU ARE USING TOO MUCH TOILET PAPER, YOU ARE USING TOO MUCH TOILET PAPER!"