Blessings!!

I wanted to journal this and remember my many blessings.

1. The SUN! It is amazing what a little sunshine does for your spirit.
2. My son, I had a wonderful lunch with him. He makes me laugh and he is just a true blessing. (To remember later when he is driving me crazy!)
3. People that do really nice things for me. This book I agreed to read for an author, I expected a paperback ARC, and instead I got a hardback regular, awesome book!
4. Food in my belly --

Now, time to go outside, read and enjoy some of these blessings.

I hope you take time to remember your own!! Know that all of you are listed in mine every night. :)

Sunshine has arrived!!!!!!!!!!!

Just in time too. We FROZE at the game last night. Did I mention we froze???? They lost, but did well. The score was 13-15. Awesome effort though!!! Jeff took his final test for the 1st year apprenticeship and he got a 98%!!!! YAY!!! Now he is off for the summer. Double yay!!!

I am about to go take Hunter out to lunch. He never stays home with me sick, unlike the princesses (hahaha) so I thought it would be nice to eat with him. My MIL sent me $20 for Mother's Day (isn't that super awesome??) so I thought I would use it to get him something special for all his hard work this year. He turned in EVERY one of his assignments, almost always 4 days early!!!

Tonight we have another game. At least the sun will warm things up a bit!

I got a little bit stitched last night. I love how the little quilt pieces are going to look, as well as the different baskets, don't you?





After looking at yesterday's post and today's it seems I haven't gotten very far, but each basket has 3 or 4 different colors for the shading, so it is a bit more time consuming!

hugs across the miles, may all your X's be crossed and may the frogs stay on the other side of the pond!

Success!!!

We have success! The house is clean for the week. HOORAY! I really wanted to get it done before this weekend, because Sat we are going to brunch and then hiking for the day, so Sat wouldn't be a good day. Then of course Sunday we have church in the morning and evening, and fit the race from Sat night somewhere in there.

It is STILL raining, so I don't know if there will be a softball game tonight. They will never get to play at this rate!!!

Well I worked a bit more on my I love baskets and quilts WIP.





Well off to enjoy an hour of quiet before the children come home and we start the evening!!

hugs across the miles and may all your X's be crossed and the frogs stay on the other side of the pond!!

Happy May!!!

Happy May to everyone! I keep wanting to post but it seems life is flying by right now, and so here, now I am!

A LOT has been happening here at the Speelman house. Lex is playing softball, her coach up and quit so Jeff is helping out another dad coach. Hunter is in swim lessons and also we go swimming every Wed afternoon. Busy busy! We had a taco dinner at church to help fund the young adults to go to camp this summer. It is $185 per youth. Please pray that everyone gets to go.

Here are some pictures of the kids enjoying the pool:


Lex and A:



Hunter:



and Ellie and K:



Our weather hasn't been that great. I hope all this rain makes everything soooooo green!!!

I finished SMO Summer Side: (sorry it is sideways)





and last week sometime I started CCS I love baskets and quilts from the June 2009 magazine. Here is my progress:





Here is what it will look like when it is finished:

http://www.crosscountrystitching.com/data/project/212cover.jpg

I love the blues in it!!!

Today we have swimming and then softball practice, and church! WHEW!!! I woke up with a migraine, I didn't even hear any of my family getting ready for the day. So I must have been out of it. I got up and took a shower, and feel a bit better. I might just stay home tonight though and sleep, so it doesn't come back with a vengenance.

hugs across the miles and stitch lots! XOXOXO

Shhh.. we're hunting..

for eggs. Here is Hunter before the hunt being Mr. Silly.



Hurry run run!!



Shhh don't tell I found these!!







The bunny left plastic eggs with a bit of candy and some even had $1 bills!!

Be back later, after I get back from the First Annual Home and Garden Show hehe!!

(Lots of stitchy pictures coming!!)

Ok now on with the show!

CRAZY Weather!

Monday we had a brief but HUGE flake snowstorm for about 10 minutes! I wasn't able to finish dinner and get out there.

Tuesday night, we had a bit of hail.



Bubba dancing in the hail!!



K and B were going crazy trying to eat it all!!





Ok, next MY WEEK IN STITCHING!

So I tried a rotation this week, only doing whatever bag was for that day! It worked out awesome! Even if I didn't want to put away the piece I did, and I think I look forward to working with each of them more so!

Monday was SMO Say Melons. Before:





After:





Tuesday was SMO Feb 08 Swirl.

Before didn't get on my camera for some reason, but here is after:





I finished with this one sooo quick, I started March! So here is March when I left it Tuesday night while watching Snakes on a Plane.





Wednesday was a UFO. Smile Giggle Laugh by SMO. I had done it in some other colors, but I am so much happier just going with what is called for instead of taking all that extra time to find different ones. So here it is, I didn't get much done on it at all after all that time rip rip ripping. :)



Thursday was the Halloween SMO SAL. Friday was SMO Say Apples. Today I am working on SMO Say Summer. Both apples and summer are UFO's, but I did them in colors I don't like, so most of this week was spent ripping! I haven't taken pictures of any of them yet. I will tomorrow and share!

Have a wonderful, blessed Saturday!

Good Friday!

Good morning everyone! Looks like it might be another beautiful day here. Regardless, I will have a wonderful day. All my chores are done. Spaghetti for dinner!!! Ellie is still home sick, with a fever. Bummer. Jeff took off today. He is going to Pastor's to weld something.

I am not sure I will get back, so everyone have a blessed Easter. I might be back later to share pictures of my stitching, but we will see!!!

Stitch lots!!!


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It is finished!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love it so much!!! Here it is:









So today I gave the dog a bath, and got a load of laundry done. Everything else was done last night. Tonight we are going to have pork chops, roasted potatoes, salad and corn. YUM!!! Ice cream for dessert. DH got Peanut Butter Cup and Double Fudge Brownie. It is funny because yesterday I was saying to the girls how it would be nice if I had some brownie ice cream and then DH shows up with some!!! We think alike ;) hehe

Looks a bit chilly this AM, but sunny. I can hear lawnmowers going. Woohooo...

Today I am going to work on this UFO/WIP, Walk Worthy:





When it is done it should look like this:

http://www.crosscountrystitching.com/data/project/196keep.jpg

I just love the colors. Heck, I love anything from JJ :) hehehe!!!

Well have a blessed, stitchy Thursday. Off to eat some ice cream ;)