Justin refers to this wall in his room as ”The Wall of Shame”

The reason he says that is because it doesn’t have anything on it. 

We have lived in this house just over 3 years and I painted his room the first week we moved in.  It originally was lavendar, which he called purple.  I let him choose the color. 

 He has suggested several things to hang on the wall.  Many of them were real small and would have looked dwarf on his wall.

This weekend we finally hung this.

This quilt is actually Bill’s quilt.  I made it for him (with the help from a few friends) when he became Dr. Bill in Dec. of 2005 from OU.

Justin is just excited that his wall is no longer naked.

That is the last line that Justin said as the curtain was closing during his latest play at church.

 Justin is playing Shadrach.  Here is where they are thrown in the fiery furnace and the angel appears.

They are now standing in front of the king after coming out of the furnace.

He really enjoys participating in these plays.

This play took place last November.   I recently ran across these pictures and remembered I hadn’t posted about it.

Besides loosing weight, reading my bible more, exercising more; one of my new years resolutions is to not buy any new fabric unless it will help me finish a quilt project and finish unfinished quilt projects (ufo’s).  I have lots of ufo’s, so I don’t need any more fabric for motivation.  Bill was very excited about this because he thinks he will  save money.  The four snow days we just had helped my cause by getting things done.  I completed the above quilt during the snow days and pieced another quilt top.  I ran out of time to quilt it since I have to go back to work tomorrow.  The blocks were done for the quilt above I just had to sash it and quilt it.

This  table topper quilt I finished during the snow day we had Jan. 7th. 

I also finished the little Valentine quilts I gave away during the 4 days off.

I wrote everyone’s names on a piece of paper, threw them in a bowl and Jemma drew out the winners.

Congratulations to Christy and Alyssa.  Christy let me know which one you want and then I will get them to you and Alyssa.

In the mean time we have another snow day today.  Here’s some pictures of what we have done in the snow.

Will and Justin shoveling the driveway.

Justin sledding on the hill at Enterprise Square, OC.

This is me going down the hill.

Jemma sledding with Jadyn.

Jemma doing snow angels.

Today is the one year anniversary of my blog.  As it turns out one year ago today was also a snow day.  So Bill had time to build my blog.  Last year we had 3 snow days right in a row.  Hopefully this year we will only have two snow days right now.  We already had a snow day earlier in Jan. 

I’ve been looking at the calender for the summer, and as much as we want to do, we need to be out of school on time.  I have to work about 8 days after school is out and I go back to work about 8 days before school starts.

In honor of my one year anniversary of my blog, I am giving away the following:

I’m giving both of these away, so the first person I choose has the choice of which one they want.  I got them done yesterday along with cleaning my house since we had a snow day.  The bigger quilt is about 9 1/2″ by 22 1/2 “.  The smaller quilt is 7 1/2 by 22 1/2″. 

Just leave a comment by Sunday night 9:00pm central time.  I will draw a winner and post it on Monday.  Good luck.

I’m talking about Will.  This kid has asked me for years if I had a super power what would it be.  He would suggest ex-ray vision, super hearing, things like that  It drove me crazy because I don’t think about things like that.  I finally came up with, I would create time.  That was very hard for me to come up with.

It started last Friday when he called me at work and asked me if I could help him make costumes for his latest project for his Enrichment Class.  I asked when he needed them done, he needed them done by Thursday.  This is what I’ve been making.

He’s supposed to be a Tibetian Monk.  I made four costumes for Will and the other members of his team.  They are traveling back in time to ancient Japan.  I talked to one of the other mom’s of his team members and all she was doing to help her son was  find a recipe from Japan. 

I did make the robe part without a pattern, but I used a pattern to make the hood.  I told Will he could be a monk for Halloween.  If you ever need four monk costumes, I have some you can borrow.

Last Friday was Moms and Muffins at school.  Everthing was set up early so I took the Justin and Jemma in to enjoy a quite moment and muffin before I had to start work and Justin had safety patrol.  This is Justin’s last year for Moms and Muffins.  It’s something we have done every year since Pre-K.  I’ll miss him next year.  I don’t really see him that much this year.  Occasionally he’ll come in the office and show me a book or I’ll see him in the hall.  He barely gives me a hug when I see him.  His teacher says I’m doing a good job of not getting in his way.

I do have one story to tell about being a working parent at my kids school.  In the fall Justin had lost a sweatshirt.  This is nothing new, he has a very hard time keeping up with his things.  I told him to look for it before school and then I didn’t see him until later.  When I delivered something to his class later in the day he had his sweatshirt on.  I was so excited that he had found it, I went over and looked at his tag to see if I had labeled his name in it.  I had, so I was happy if he lost it we would probably get it back.   As I turned back around the whole class was looking at me like I was crazy.  Why is she looking at his tag?  I sheepishly told Justin I was sorry and left the room.

One of Jemma’s friends had a birthday party Friday night.  All of Jemma’s friends wonder what they will get from her since I have made them all their birthday gifts.  I asked Maddy what she wanted and she told me a handkerchief dress or a pillowcase dress.  So Wed. night I googled for directions.  I don’t make anything without directions or a pattern, I’m to chicken.  It took me an hour to find directions on the internet.  All the directions were for girls that were about 5, so I decided I would also make a dress for Jemma to make sure I got it right.

Thursday night Jemma and I went to Hobby Lobby to pick out fabric and ribbon.  It took me 1 hour to make 2 dresses even after I had trouble threading my serger.  It took me an hour of searching to find the pattern on the internet.  I’ve decided I’m much better with my sewing machine than I am doing searches on the internet.

On Monday Bill got to finish one of his projects he has had going since July.  I’m very proud of him for getting it done.  I’m anxiously awaiting the completion of the stairs that have been imcomplete for about 1 1/2 years or the remodel of my closet he bought for me 2 years ago that is still in the box.

He put new seats in the mini. 

He bought the seats in July from England.  They finally arrived about the first of Nov.  They sat in Houston a few days until the government decided to search the crate after they weren’t satisfied with the x-ray.  That cost us $200, thanks to the after affects of 9/11.    When the crate was lifted out of the ship by a crane that cost us $100.  Needless to say, these were an expensive endeaver.

At least Bill can drive the mini and have other people ride with him now.  In order to pay for his new seats he sold the old ones, so he only had one seat in it for a long time.  Now he says he can finish the stairs since the seats are out of the way.  I can’t wait.

The reason I can’t find my dining room is because of Girl Scout cookies.  I am Jemma’s troop leader and the cookie mom, so all the cookies are stored at my house until everyone gets them sold.

Once again I am not helping any one that is on a diet.  But the Girl Scouts have a program that you can buy a box of cookies and donate them to Treats for Troops.  Girl Scouts will donate them to the military and they ship them overseas to our service men and women.  It’s a win-win situation you won’t gain weight and you’ll be supporting Girl Scouts.

We have found that high school kids love to buy cookies, so Bill is geared up to sell some tomorrow.