My friend Jaimie got it quilted right before Christmas.  I took it with me when we went to WI to work on the binding.  I got some of it done while in the car.   After watching the Olympics for 2 nights I got the rest of it done so I could hang it.

I really enjoyed watching the Olympics.  I was happy watching even the most obsure event.  I’m sad they are over.  Now I don’t have anything to watch.

You may have noticed I didn’t post anything for 6 days.  Most of those days I was out of town.  The last day I was trying get over being gone.

Bill and I traveled to southern Ohio and West Virginia.  He received an alumni award from Ohio Valley University.

We flew into Cleveland, OH Thursday night.  As we approached the runway, the airport closed that runway.   On our second approach to the airport, they closed that runway.  On our third approach we got to land.  After we got off the plane, Bill got to talk to an Air Marshall.  The Air Marshall said we slid the whole way as we landed.

We rented a car, then went to our hotel.  It was about 1:00 am when we got to our hotel that night.

It was snowing before we landed and snowed continually until Sunday morning.

Friday night we went to “Expressions” which is OVU’s spring sing “like” production.  I have a hard time coming up with adjectives to describe Expressions.  They have 4 coed clubs that perform a musical type “singing, talking and choreography” performance.  The musical acts in between the club performances were also judged.

Sat. afternoon, we spent time with Gary and Sharon.  They are Mike’s parents.  Mike was Bill’s roommate all through college.

Sat. night was the banquet where Bill received the Medal of Merit in Education.

The couple in the picture with us is Teddy & Cheryl Tackett.  They are responsible for introducing Bill to church, studying with him and baptizing him.  Teddy received the Alumni award for Christian Service.  It was really neat to meet them and spend the evening with them.  They live in Parkersburg, WV.

We stayed with Jason and Lana while we were gone.  We lived next door to each other our last year at OC in the married apartments.  We shared lots of cheap meals with each other.  We had a great time catching up with them and getting to see their family again.  We stayed up late too many nights.

Lakia and Justin are the same age and share a birthday.

Monday afternoon before we flew home, we stopped and saw the tree that was planted in honor of Bill’s mom.  She was a council person for the Village of Glenwilllow for 26 years before she passed away.

Our flight home was another experience.  We flew out of Cleveland a little late and when we got to Chicago, we sat on the runway for 35 min. until a gate opened up.  Then we had to wait for all the carry-on luggage that was to big to go in the overhead compartments to be taken from below the plane.  That took another 15 min.  After all was said and done we missed our flight to OKC.

When we got to the customer service desk, the woman that helped us had a heavy Mexican accent said she could put us on a plane to San Fransisco.  I decided that she need to know her geography because if she had known it, she might have gotten us on the flight to Tulsa or Dallas.  Instead we ended up on a flight to Kansas City.  We got our rental car at 11:30 pm and drove all the way back to OKC.  We got home at 5:00 am, slept 1 1/2 hours, got up, and went to work.  I was so busy at work on Tues. I didn’t have time to get tired.  Tues. night I was in bed by 8:45 pm.

We had a great time while we were gone reconnecting with friends from the past.  I just wish the traveling hadn’t been so hard.

Jemma and I have been teaching the babies on Wed. night at church.  Tonight was our last night.

Jemma set up the classroom, lead the singing, handed the toys to the babies and cleaned up.  She practiced the songs at home several times before the quarter even started.  She also read the teacher instructions thoroughly.  One Wed. night we got to class 10 min. early, she later told me we needed to get there sooner than that so she had more time to set up.  I was very proud of her for taking her responsiblity so seriously.

I sat behind the babies and tried to keep them in their chairs and checked for dirty diapers.  Jemma said I was on poop patrol.  It was hard work keeping them in their chairs some nights, especially after working all day.

Please turn your computer screen sideways to see this picture.  I don’t know why the computer wouldn’t to it’s job and turn it.

Here’s my shirt for St. Patrick’s day.  I just realized that Easter isn’t that far off, so I need to start working on my Easter shirt.

Our normal routine is going to a boy scout meeting the 2nd and 4th Tues. of the month.  Jemma and I would sit in the back of the room and do homework, since she has ballet after school.  We don’t have to go anymore because…Justin is an official Boy Scout.  Bill now gets to take both boys to the same meeting and Jemma and I can stay home.

Will was at Justin’s crossover ceremony and presented Justin with the neckerchief to his new troop.

Bill was Justin’s den leader so he got to present Justin with his arrow of light award.

I’m very proud of Justin for all his hard work.

I know that sounds like an odd title considering my kids are older, but Justin got his first haircut by someone else other than his dad on Friday night.

He was a beauty shop virigin.  At 20 months old, Bill gave Justin his first big haircut with clippers.  I was out of town with my sister, so I wasn’t around to witness his curls getting cut off.   Thank goodness for video cameras, I think.  He had a lot of fun having the chair raised and lowered.  Linda also has a stool that she sits on to cut hair, Justin had a blast spinning around on it also.

I took this picture on my phone since I realized while I was there that this was Justin’s first haircut.

He actually combs his hair now.  It’s been funny to watch him learning how to do this since he is almost 11.

I wanted to do something different for Bill and the kids for Valentine’s Day, so I went to the Edible Arrangement store.  I went on Thursday afternoon.  The first thing I found out was that they think their fruit is very special.  Alot more special than I was willing to pay.  The second thing I found out was, I was a day late in ordering, to get it in time for Valentine’s Day.  I took one of their brochures and it showed what their fruit looked like after it was dipped in chocolate.  I decided I could do that myself.  I went to the grocery store and bought strawberries, green apples, and chocolate.  Then I went to Hobby Lobby and bought sticks.  Here is what I came up with.

When Bill got home from work  Jemma says, look Dad an edible arrangement!  Bill says, who sent that to us. 

I’ve never dipped anything in chocolate, but it’s kind of fun and goes pretty fast.  I think I saved myself at least $50.  You can find my motivation at EdibleArrangements.com if you want to .

I am sleeping with the middle people child.  See I have proof.

I used to have to sleep in a really small crate, but now the people mom trusts me enough that I don’t have to sleep in that metal box.   So I started sleeping on the couch.

Now, I go to bed when the middle people child does, I get up when the people  dad sends me and Butler out to go to the bathroom one last time, then I sneek back upstairs and sleep all night long with the middle people child.

I finished this quilt last weekend.  I had the heart blocks done since 2005 and layed it out last summer to put together.  I didn’t get in done then, so when I went to put it together now, I couldn’t remember what I had decided to do before.  My mom was here when I layed it out last summer and she couldn’t remember how I had it layed out either.  Next time I better draw it out if I don’t get to it very soon.

Jemma wanted to get into scrapbooking.  I know nothing about this.  I admire people that do it, but I have decided to not start another hobby.  I use my blog as my scrapbook. 

So I did the next best thing and went to Hobby Lobby to do some research on the subject.  I asked one of the managers what they would recommend.  After getting their advice and consulting my 40% off coupon.  I purchased a book for Santa to give to Jemma for Christmas.

She was very excited.  On a Sat. afternoon she put all the pages together.  She didn’t put pictures on them yet, but she put all the designs together.  I liked the book I choose because it had a template on how to put every page together.