Cousins

One of the coolest parts of Lorrie's wedding was that all the kids got to be in the wedding. When the fun dance music started, the kids were the first to get out there and start boogying down. Here they all are strutting their stuff. From left to right: Stephanie, Ashly, Samantha, Isaac, Sarah and Daisy. I'm so glad that Isaac has such great cousins, even if they are *all* girls! He sometimes complains about being the only boy, but I remind him that being the only boy on either side of the family has its rewards, too. Being the youngest doesn't hurt either. After I remind Isaac of the benefits, he remembers being the only boy can be pretty good!

Handsome Gents

Here are my guys! What more can I say? They are handsome and I love them!

Proudest Boy

Isaac was SO excited to be in the wedding and to get to wear a tux...he was only disappointed that he didn't get to keep the tux, that's my boy! At the wedding he caught the garter and this is the blissfully proud face I snapped afterward. Way too cute. When he told Uncle Brian that he caught it, Brian told him he had caught four garters. Then Isaac told Brian "You should really get married." Then he offered some advice about going to a restaurant to meet a girl, or Target. There you have it single gents, if you're looking for a wife all you need to do is catch a garter (or two, or three, or four) and then take a trip to Target. You'll be hearing wedding bells in no time!

Still In Love

At Lorrie's wedding we let Isaac be the photographer and he got some amazing pictures. He captured this one of Paul and I dancing. We were all in the wedding, hence the fancy dress that you can't really see and Paul's tux. We look pretty good together, I have to say. Cheers to many more years!

Rockwell Wedding Quilt

Paul's sister Lorrie recently got married. I have always wanted to make someone a quilt for their wedding. Thanks to Lorrie, I had the chance! Since she was going with a fall theme for the wedding, I decided to go with that for the theme. It was the largest quilt I've ever made and wasn't the easiest to get a photograph of the whole thing. As it was, I had to hang it sideways and it still wanted to drag on the ground. Had to put chairs under it to hold it up, hence the lopsided look to the right.
This is a little closer and shows some of the squares. The pattern was for a quilt half this size, so I had to double it to make it king-sized.





Here is one of the "double" layer squares, they kind of look like a square within a square. I had so much fun picking out all the different fabrics for this one.



And as always I included a shot with the back folded over. The quilt was so large I had to add in some extra fabrics to make it big enough for the quilt top.

Skateboarding

Right near our house is a high school with a smooth rink area. Sometimes we head over to let Isaac skate. We snapped a few pictures recently and here they are. I can barely stand on a skateboard, so Isaac must get his "mad skills" from his daddy.
He totally loves skateboarding and it's really exciting to see him try something, struggle, and keep at it.
















His school has a skateboarding club and every other Friday they go to a skate park. The other Fridays they go to a park near the school and practice.
Isaac claims that skateboarding is his "thing" right now. Interestingly, just like he swims "left-handed" by breathing on the left, he also skateboards left-handed--by pushing with his right leg instead of the left.

Seattle Sky

Once again I am miserably behind on blogging. Sorry, it's so much easier to just throw pictures up on Facebook than to make Blogger do what I want it to. But I'm going to try to catch up some. This is a quilt I made for one of my dearest friends from way back when. She had her second little one earlier this year. Since I made her a quilt for the first one I couldn't very well not make one for the second...at least that's the excuse I used to justify making it. The first picture shows the whole thing.


Next up is a little closer to show some more details.











A closer look to show the fabrics. Followed by a look at the border and quilting.








Lastly, part of the back folded over the edge so you can see it with the front.