An Embarrassingly Late Finish

I put this quilt top together months ago.  It sat for quite a while like that, but I was motivated to get it ready for hand binding during General Conference in April.  I like to have something to do with my hands while I watch.  I'm not good at just sitting.  I hand sewed about 85% of the quilt during conference and then it sat on my desk that way until this week.  Oops.  

 

Little Lady wanted to watch another Jane Austen movie.  She chose Emma.  I ran upstairs and grabbed the quilt.  (Can you tell I don't watch TV very much?). Twenty minutes later I had a finished quilt.  It's ridiculous it took me so long, but it is now complete!

Turning 3

The girls are three!  They are still very much in their destructive phase, but they are absolutely loved and adored by the kiddos.  You can tell just how much joy they bring the kids. That's Little Man's genuine smile.

Getting to the Root of the Problem

 We've had a lot of drainage issues with our house and part of our gutter also came off, we found someone to come out and try to find all of our underground drains.  They were so clogged that we couldn't actually find them.  They hadn't been cleaned out for the 7 years of the previous owner, and it turns out when we were paying people to clean out our drains they were only cleaning the gutters up top when they should have been cleaning out the rest of it.  It took them the entire day, but they located every drain and cleaned them out.  He found full root systems in every single one of them.  We have the honors of being the worst drains he's ever seen.  There was even a dead frog that go stuck in the roots in one of the drains.  So crazy!  I'm just glad it finally got fixed.

Twinsies

 I finally finished my star quilt tops.  They're for sisters, so I wanted them to match.

Memorial Day

We barbecued at a friend's house for Memorial Day.  MG got to come with us and make his very first S'more.  It ended up being an even greater adventure that evening trying to catch the Altman's escaped cat.  Joel was the hero and caught it and endured a fairly good scratching.  He took one for the team.  

That's a Wrap!

Last night the Children's Choir had their final performance of the year at Tallgrass Retirement Community.  We were missing a couple of kids, but oddly they sounded great.  It was definitely their best performance.  We're off for the summer!

 

A Sporting Good Time

Last night Joel and I went to a Kansas City Sporting game.  He was invited to one of the suites with other medical directors.  Joel starts a new position as Co-Medical Director of Safety and Quality Control tomorrow.  I was a bit worried, because Joel hasn't worked with them yet, so he doesn't really know anyone.  I shouldn't have worried though because pediatricians tend to be very nice human beings.  The VP is wonderful.  I loved talking to him.  His background is absolutely fascinating - he started out in aerospace engineering before going to medical school.  

Neither of us had ever attended a game in the box suite, so that was pretty fun - the food is good.  The Sporting as awful this season, so it was a pretty painful game to watch, but it was still entertaining.  The child sponsored that night for the game happened to be Joel's patient, so we got to go over and take pictures with him.  It was a fun coincidence of the evening.  It was an all around wonderful evening.  

   

Flying Geese

February and March blocks for do.Good Stitches are flying geese.  Solid backgrounds with patterned matching geese: