My Furry and Fuzzy Friends

My pets are some of my best friends. I have two cats and a dog. I hang out with them all the time. I even talk to them when no one else is around.

This is Eve. She is my black fuzz ball. Before we got Eve, she was an outside cat and the runt of the litter. She was very scrawny because we think she got pushed out by other cats when she would go to eat. She is very sweet and will let you pick her up and cuddle with her.

Sometimes she will be stuck to your leg and will follow you around everywhere. Eve is the calm one of the bunch (I call her my baby). She is about 2 years old.

This is Ember the fat cat. In this picture she is rolled over waiting for me to rub her tummy (so spoiled). Ember has a unique personality of her own. She can be really hilarious, because if you look at her long enough her eyes look crossed. She also is very skitzy if a person she doesn't know tries to pet her. Ember doesn't really meow, but she makes a sound that is part purr part meow and part squeak. It is very funny to hear.

But over all she is a sweet cat if you can calm her down enough for her to sit still. She is about a year or two old.

This is Annabelle. She is a yellow lab. Annabelle is now 8 or 9 and we have had her since she was a puppy. Anna is a great dog. She is also a very good doorbell. She barks whenever somebody comes to the door.

She loves her squeaky toys and bones. She will play and play with them and then when she finally gets curious enough she will tear open the squeaky toy to find what makes the noise. (believe me there is stuffing everywhere).

I love all of my furry and fuzzy friends. :)

Great Easter

Today was a great day to spend with my family. This morning my brother and I opened our easter baskets and found all the goodies that they contained. Then my family went to church. Our church did a wonderful musical presentation instead of a regular service. It brought a new meaning to easter. Then we had lunch with my grandma and grandpa and my great aunt and uncle. It was a lot of fun to have some good conversations with family. To work off our dinner, my brother and I had an easter egg hunt like we do every year. I won with a total of 41 eggs and he had 38 (we are still missing 3 somewhere outside). I had a great day.

Yesterday, my brother and I went over to grandma and grandpa's house to sew. My brother worked on a special project. He made a fabric post card for my parents for Easter.

Even though he can be annoying sometimes, I have to say that I am pretty proud of him.

Hope everyone had a great Easter! :)

Band Geek

Another one of my passions is music. I have been in band and choir since the 5th grade. I started out on the alto saxophone.


I really enjoy playing the saxophone but it is pretty easy to play. So in my 7th grade year I told my band teacher that I wanted to learn to play another instrument that was more challenging than the saxophone. He suggested either the oboe or the bassoon. I choose the bassoon because the are not to common.

This is a very interesting instrument to play. The fingerings can get complicated, but thats the way I like it, challenging.

Then on the side I take piano lessons. I enjoy playing the piano because it is relaxing.

I also enjoy just listening to music. I like contemporary christian and classical music. You could ask about anybody that knows me and they will tell you I am a band geek (or a music geek). :)

What a Day

Today I went over to my grandma's house to work on my current project. I am making a raffle quilt for a fall festival. A few years ago, one of my classmates died of cancer. Now, every year her parents arrange a fall festival to raise money for many cancer societies. This year I am making a full sized quilt to raffle off. Along with a full sized quilt comes alot of work. Repeating the same kind of block over and over again tends to get a little boring. I have created an esembly line or an order in which I put the blocks together.

First I lay the block out so I don't get the squares mixed up and get some funky looking type of leaf. (which I have already done)

Then, I sew all the squares together.

Then lastly, I press all the seams open.

When you keep on repeating this process over and again it gets boring. But the boring part will soon be over. I'll soon be able to put all my blocks together to make the quilt top.

Then, near the time when I was going to go home, I was not paying attention to what I was doing, and I heard this huge CLUNK!!!! I looked down and saw that I had just sewn through my finger. Yes the needle actually did go through one side and came out the other. Boy am I glad my grandma was there.

She said, "What was that?!"

Then I said, " Ummm... Grandma I just sewed through my finger."

And then she proceded to get the needle out of the machine and out of my finger. The needle had actually twisted and broken. She finally was able to get it out and we soaked it in peroxide. Thankfully I had just changed the needle when I started so it was mostly clean. So now I have a pierced finger. All I have to say is that I'm glad my grandma was there because if she wouldn't have been I don't know what I would have done.(Luv ya Grandma).

Now it is a little sore but I'll live. I'm going back tomorrow, sore finger or not. I am not going to let it get in my way. :)

Passion of Sewing

I absoutly love to sew! Many of you have probably seen my grandma's blog. She is my sewing buddy. When I was 4 my grandmother taught me how to sew. I would sit in her lap and while she would work the foot pedal I would guide the fabric under the presser foot. I really love the time I get to spend with her sewing.

This is my first quilt. It is a stack the deck pattern. This quilt got a best of show ribbon in a county fair. As you can see I love color.

This is my second quilt. It is a rag quilt. This one also won a best of show ribbon at the county fair.

This is my third quilt. (Sorry its on its side. I couldn't get it twisted upright.) This is a strips n' curves quilt. I named this one God's Promise because of the rainbow effect it has. This one also won a best of show ribbon at the county fair.

Another one of my quilting buddy's quilted all of these quilts for me. She did a wonderful job! You're the greatest Laurie!!!!

Sewing is so much fun! :)

Excited!

Hi everyone! I'm very excited to start my blog. I hope to show you what my everyday experience is and what I enjoy doing most. Enjoy!