Finally

after weeks of delays, we are finally closing on our house on Thursday.  Kevin had come at the end of August with all of our stuff which we had to load into his cousin's garage.  Thankfully, the sellers had moved to KY last year and knowing our situation, allowed us to move into the house a few weeks ago.  All we had to do was switch over the electric....we have well water so we didn't have to switch water.  I waited to order internet and phone until we had the all clear.  It was supposed to be hooked up on Monday, but the gentleman had an opening today, so yeah.....internet!!

Kevin got to spend a week with us before he had to head back to CA.  We got all moved in and most of the boxes unpacked.  We were also able to do some minor repairs and get some things winterized.  Things are starting to come together now and we're excited about our new home.  The first night we stayed, we enjoyed the sunrise out of our bedroom french doors....the view from the bed which faces out was breathtaking!!

Off to clean up and do some unpacking!!

We're enjoying WA

We ended up driving up to WA.  Our plans of flying TL up to summer camp didn't fly....sorry, hehe!!  It was cheaper to drive him.  We leave on Monday to head to IA.  We close on our new  home in MN on the 31st.  Can't wait!!

We've spent the week visiting lots of friends.  Not alot of sightseeing as the kids just really wanted to play with their friends.  I did run over to the quilt shop in Anacortes to pick up some backing for the girls' horse quilts.  I could have spent a fortune buying fabric. 

Here's some pictures from this area.  We will miss it; the people and the beauty of the area.

Enjoy your weekend!!  We're having gorgeous weather here in WA.  The kids are having a  blast here!

Coming out of the fog.....

School officially ended this past Saturday for me.  I hope my kids are learning to attend college when you're young and not try to do it while working full time (like my hubby) or taking care of your family. 

Now that I'm finally done, I have about two weeks before the girls and I leave.  We will be going to IA to spend time with hubby's family until we close on our house on August 31st.  Lots to do with only a little bit of time!!

I need to finish doing some quilting and sewing.  I have to sort through the entire fifth wheel and figure out what we're taking in the car, leaving here, or packing in a box to go to the storage unit.  I'm going to take it room by room.  Thankfully, there's only three rooms and they are small; but there are seven of us in here and lots of stuff!!  ugh!

Take care and keep cool!!  Its supposed to be in the 100s here this week.  ugh!

Our new home

We have put an offer in on a new home in MN.  Its a 12 acre farm with several barns.  The house is a four bedroom, older farmhouse with lots of personality.  We are going to be doing the inspection soon and waiting for the appraisal to go through.  We're very excited!!  Means lots of packing and getting ready.  But to never have to move again!!  Yeah!

See, I have done some quilting.....

I've been busy finishing up the kids school year and working on my own classes.  The next four weeks will be busy finishing up the last four weeks of two classes.  But, I have been busy quilting!!  See!!!!

 I have been busy hand piecing this quilt and another just like it for my two oldest girls.  I don't have a space big enough to take a good picture.  The second one is almost done, I'm piecing the green borders on that one now.

Blocks for my BOM.  This is the only one that is almost done.  I've applique the pieces but have to do some finishing touches.  I hope to have the others done this weekend and finish up all the little touches.  This is supposed to be 12 blocks and a topper but I think its too big.  I don't have enough wall space to hang it so I've decided to do three wallhangins with four blocks each and then use the topper as a table runner. 

I'm also trying to keep the kids cool by hitting the pool everyday if we can.  Its been in the high 90s and hundreds.  None of us like this heat at all.  .......And I'm spending my "free" time lesson planning for next year.

Have a wonderful week everyone!

Hello, I'm still here!!

I'm sorry that I haven't posted in so long.  Hubby was gone for a month.  In the military, we have a saying, "when your hubby deploys, everything will break." And so it did. 

The fridge in the camper broke.  Thankfully, we own and electric cooler so I was able to keep stuff out there.  It was a pain not having a freezer, so I had to keep running to the store to buy meat and other stuff that wouldn't fit in the fridge.  My laptop starting acting up and is not working now.  And some other minor things didn't work. 

Hubby returned and we tried to relevel the camper to see if that would trigger the fridge.  The hitch got stuck for the fifth wheel in the back of the truck and hubby jumped in to try to fix it.  It was stuck so he jumped over the side and landed on a railroad tie and broke his foot.  Yep, broke.

So, between fixing all the broken stuff, helping him with this foot, and doing homework, I haven't had much sewing time.  I have just finished my final and have two weeks off.  I hope to get lots of sewing done!!

Have a wonderful Mother's Day!!

Hand piecing is taking forever....

which is why I don't have any new pictures to post.  I hope to have the borders on the one horse quilt this weekend.  I am working on piecing the blocks together for the other horse quilt.  Maybe I can get all the borders together this weekend.

I need to get working on quilting the littles quilts.  Maybe this weekend I can carve some time and space to get out the sewing machine.  I decided to do those by machine quilting because I already need to finish up TL's and will soon have too more to work on.  My goal is by June to have them done so I can work on Christmas and fall wallhangings and my Halloween quilt.  I have four blocks for my pumpkin block of the month and don't even have the first one done yet.  Need to get cranking.

I also hope to (starting this week) spend three to four hours a week doing some digital scrapbooking.  I need to get working so that I can complete some books for the kids by Christmas.  They spent alot of time in Iowa looking at the books I made for my mother-in-law a few years ago.  I just realized that they really don't have any books to look at because they are all works in progress.  I can't work with the boxes of pictures because they're all in storage right now but I can work on my digital pictures.  So, that's my goal.  Someone keep me honest, okay!?!