Friday, October 10, 2008

I have never made a Quilt!!!

Mom and I decided to take a quilt class. This is a quilt that I have wanted to make for a couple years now. It's called a "Rag Quilt". I saw it in the store about 2 years ago and loved it. Although, I didn't care for the fabric they had used for their display(just not me), I loved the concept of the quilt. Not a lot of measuring and not much quilting experience. Let's just say it was a beginner quilt. That's perfect for me. And it was cute. So we signed up and went. We had a blast.
Here' a few pics of our time together.

Me and mom at the sewing machines.

All those squares we had to cut out with the rotary cutter and mat...that is what took the longest, a whole class just for that. I love all those colors and prints together.

Mom told the whole class how goofy I am...I just loved the look of the stuff in this basket...I know there are only a few of you out there with the same view but I just don't care what people think of me...I loved it..so I took a pic of it. LoL if you want to.

Mom looks so cute behind the sewing machine. These is my largest memories of her...she was always sewing something. She was very happy while sewing. Sis, remember those doll heads laying around the house. Scared the doodoo outta me sometimes.

Yes, I sat behind one too. Lol again...I love it just like my mom.

These are the patterns that will make up my quilt. Some of my favorites.

Well, now we just need to finish it. I will be posting the completed projects soon. Hopefully, it doesn't take so long that you forget about this post.

Stay Tuned!!!

Til next Time with T!

Thursday, October 9, 2008

How Much Are These Cupcakes Worth?

So Shine had a Cheer Dinner/Auction at school for the parents of the cheerleaders. The cheer coaches provided the dinner and the competition parents provided the dessert to auction off and whatever the dessert sells for goes toward the cheerleader's balance. Shine really wanted to make something to sell instead of purchase her dessert. So we did.....
Shine with her cupcakes...stand included in the auction.

This is what we made...

"Strawberry Cupcakes with Homemade Buttercream Frosting"...the cute little flags are compliments of Aunt Sheri...these are there school colors and their mascot name. She "created" them on the computer, emailed a whole sheet of them to me and me and Shine put them on a sucker stick. They were sooooo cute. The cheer coaches, cheerleaders and parents love them. They were specific to their school, which is why they were so special, and because they were a little piece of Aunt Sheri even though she wasn't here. Thanks Sis, again!!!!

These are no-sew fleece blankets in their school colors...a gift from the cheer coaches to the cheerleaders. Very cute! This is one of the cheer coaches auctioning off Shine's cupcakes....the bid started at $15.00.... $35.00 going once, going twice...Sold! for $35.00 to the same person that made them!!!.....

Yes, we bought our own cupcakes. Shine wanted to buy them and share them with her friends. So I bought the stuff to make them, spent the time to make them, and then bought them a 2nd time.

Only from a proud, supportive cheer mom!!! That's crazy. I know none of you would have done something like that...ever...

She was proud of her cupcakes and wanted to share.

Til next Time with T!!!

Monday, September 29, 2008

September Layout!

This is my latest layout for the store,
just thought I'd share a peek with you all.
Share your thoughts....

This is the right hand page....Right hand page....
A little closer detail...Mom bought these leaves for me...I love the glitter on them, and the rich colors, just like the leaves Sis will see this year...thanks mom!

I love pumpkins....this was a long sticker that I cut up to fit in the space I had...

I was very glad they gave me fall colors to work with. It's been a long time since I have worked with fall colors. Also, I hadn't scrapped these pictures yet from our annual family trip to the pumpkin patch from last year.

This year trip will be quite different than all the previous years w/out all our family. We will make sure to have a good time for the kids and we will, however, we sure will miss the rest of our family.

Hope you all like the layout design.

Til next Time with T!!!!

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Been a Little Busy!!!

Well, I haven't posted in a few days...just like everyone else. It seems all the other bloggers out there have been just as busy as we have. Let's see what have we been doing since my last post....well, I'll try to make it short...

Shine had a game or two, a cheer dinner/auction, Kameron had a soccer game and soccer picture day, Brooklin has been practicing her music (I'll share later), Kameron's school carnival. Wow that's just school stuff.

Well, I will just show some highlightive(did I just make up a word?) pics...
Kameron's soccer game....

Team meeting....Kameron looks like Hugo standing like that.. Sissy is such a good cheerleader for Kameron...she loves watching him play.
Kameron doesn't like being a goaly...however, he looks very cute in the goaly shirt....he ends up trying to play when the ball comes his way...wow, that's a serious look on his face. He stopped the other team from scoring 3x's, and missed one.

Good job Kameron!!! Yeah Team!!!! They won the game 11-7...

Soon after Kameron's game we headed for the last hour of Shine's game...

The team cheer....I personally think Shine is the most beautiful...she's the tallest one, front and center.


Some video of Shine cheering....


On to Brooklin....I took this video when I heard Shine playing the piano...Brooklin heard her, got her drum and started playing with her drum, but when she played she was playing in time with the beats of Shine playing the piano. I just thought it was so cool to hear her play with Shine...

Here it is....


Another one that shows both of them...

Well, that's it for a Saturday morning and afternoon. It's just about as busy as a weekday. I am making the decision to enjoy my children while their at this young age.

Til next Time with T!!!

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Walking with the Dinosaurs!!!!

Hugo took Kameron to see the "Walking with Dinosaurs" show at Save Mart Center. He got some tickets at work, front row seats. They had a blast. Kameron is really into dinosaurs lately...he loves to read about them, look at pics of them, knows the names of them and can tell you very many details about them. Of course, I'm a gill (girl in Brooklins language), however, he knows a lot of details about these crazy creatures. Try him out the next time you talk to him.
Anyway, here's a few pics of the great time they had..
By the way, if you think its too late to train your husbands to take a "load" of pics like mine, then think again....you get em' where it hurts....you train their son.
That way when they go somewhere with dad the son is telling the dad to take the picture of them in front of the ????. It worked great for me this trip...Hugo filled up his memory card with the pics/video of the event and Kameron came home saying, Mom, I told dad to take that pic....I was loling... I must say they both did a great job at the photography, Kameron telling Hugo what to take and Hugo taking the pic.
They were both very proud to bring home a full memory card to show mom. Of course, I made a huge deal about it to both of them.
There you are ladies...that's how ya do it...
Enjoy the creepy dinos....
Well, this is not a dino and he's not creepy...

The only pic of Kam and Hugo together...but it's a good one, I love these two...they are the two most important men in my life.

Now the dinos'.....
The back plates on this one turn red and to date there is a big dispute as to why...not sure why except that the blood rushes to them....
Give a guy a break..."no time like dinner time"....nothing stops hungry in a man...not even scary dinos....Ok fine, Kameron wasn't scared at all, and didn't "need" his mom....Dang!!!!

Maybe he is a dino and maybe he is creepy.....lol!
"Aahh! Mom this is my favorite dinosaur in the whole world...it's a Teridactil, it flies in the air". It's a what???? That sounds like the cough medicine I just gave your sister...What's a gill to do?


This one just finished with a "Raaarrrr!!!" you can see the stream of steam below his mouth....Hugo said it was the loudest one out of all of them.This video is super funny....this dinosaur came right up to Kameron, they were on the front row and he was pretty much exactly in front of his face. He told me he was not scared at all, however, Brooklin would have been scared if she would have went....I don't know that to be a true statement.

Some more videos to enjoy...


This ones the loudest of the night....be ready...

This is a very happy little boy...what an great dad he has...I am very thankful to have a husband that places priority on time with his children...

Kameron had a great time seeing the dinosaurs in action. Hugo said it was somewhat like a documetary but better because it was live. So Kameron learned more details about Dinosaurs. It was great time for Dad and son time. However, Hugo is forgetting that his youngest, petite, little gill is somewhat of a tomboy. Brooklin told me after they left that she wanted to go to see the dinosaurs. I think she would have loved it very much and I know she would not have been afraid of them. I think I would have though.

Shine decided that she wasn't interested at all. I originally told her we were all going as a family and she had a cow..."Mom, I don't want to go at all!" Kameron's response to her was, "Shine, they're not real, they're just robots, cause if they were real they would come and eat us."
This is why we call him little Hugo...very logical about everything, even down to turning off the lights when not in use. I agree, however, the two of them drive us gills crazy with that.

Hope you enjoy the Dinos as much as Kameron did....

Thank you for enduring this long post but Kameron said before he left that he would promise to make dad take a lot of pics if I posted them on our blog. He will be excited to see them all posted.So see you can train your boys!!!!

Til next Time with T!!!!