Jakey and Trev

Jakey and his cousin Trevor were having fun playing with Jakey's old toy.

Of course a fully loaded Christmas tree is too much fun to resist!

Here is the happy family and the Thanksgiving spread. Great food Tom and Amanda! Jakey ate way too much of the corn.

Jakey and Trevor found lots of activities to keep them occupied. Imagine what they will do when Trevor begins to walk.

Random quilt night pictures

Mugsy always likes to be involved somehow. He is usually getting in the way, so this was a good place for him .

There is always ironing to be done.

Amy is hard at work with Shelley's "desert" quilt getting pieced together on the ground.

Another baby quilt

Why not crank out two baby quilts for the work of one? That is my motto, so I did this one along with the other one. This one has more of a craziness to the pattern, but the zigzags are still there. I really like it with the turquoise binding. I do think that next time I'll choose a backing fabric that is a different color from the arrows on the back.

New baby quilt

Here is my latest baby quilt made for a very special little guy. This one is done from my pattern. I really like the blue/gray combination.

The batting was a little fluffier than I'm used to, so I'm going to have to start basting and making larger backings to the quilts so I don't run out of fabric on the sides. Each quilt is a learning experience.

I was very happy to have a little embroidered patch with all of Roland's important info on it embroidered thanks to my friend Gioia's machine. Most of the fabric from this quilt is secondhand gotten from various places. I think maybe all of it. The blue backing was a tablecloth in its former life.

RH Quilt #27

Our 10th quilt completed for this quilting season and our 27th total for RH. If you have been keeping count, we should only have 1 more left to make, but because of some communication problems about the quilts, we actually have 7 more to make. We are actually happy about this because it would be sad to be finishing our project. It's nict to have to make a few more. The above quilt is a nice mix of M &L and estate sale fabric.

Reluctant pirate

Here is more evidence of the twinsie effect. Jakey and Nate both have to be wearing their pirate napkin hats.

Fresh apple pie and dressing

Here is my apple pie and I'm working on the sausage dressing. No it was not for Thanksgiving, but it was still good. The pie plate was a wedding gift , and it is my all time favorite pie dish.

Mini Pumpkin

This little guy was given to Jakey by his friend Gioia. In its prime, it was the cutest mini jack-o-lantern that you ever did see, but a couple of nights of candle-lit wonder turned this cutie into a small sinister looking jack-o-lantern. However, you can sort of get the idea here.

Happy Halloween

Jakey finally put this costume on after much kicking and screaming. For some reason, he hates being put into this costume. But he did like the hands.

Here is one of the pumpkins Nate carved. They were both pumpkins grown in our garden. This one was an anatomical challenge, but it looks pretty G rated.

Last year Jakey could barely see over the top of the wall, now look how big he is. He does have an extra head this year, but who's counting?

Auntie Heidi gave him this costume last year because she knows of our love for the Toy Story alien, and this year Jakey fit the costume. He might even fit into it next year if he's lucky. We'll see. Maybe it will be easier to get him into it.

What Jakey likes...

He loves to play with Nate and I. He really needs a little bro or sis, because we are always having to play with him. Here is Nate trying to catch a few Zzzzs but Jacob isn't interested in letting dad sleep.

Jakey is also very social. He makes friends with everyone at school and here at home. He loves people so much. He has really warmed up to the girls in the quilt group because he sees them a few times a month and at church. He seems to think they are coming over to see him.

He is going through a semi-annoying phase of wanting me especially to do everything he is doing. If he is wearing a hat, I have to wear one too. If I have a jacket on, he wants one on too... bib, shoes etc. It's getting a little old, but sometimes results in cute pictures.

He is also getting very creative. He loves playing with his "colors." He is not a drawing prodigy yet, Nate is just good at drawing robots and was willing to let Jakey color all over his robot creation.

RH Quilt #25 & 26

A lot of estate sale fabric here mixed with a bit of JoAnne's.

A good mix of M & L and estate sale squares. This would have been almost our last quilt, but unfortunately 6 of our quilts were given away permanently, so the RH quilt group must quilt on. Our goal was to make 28, but now we have to make up for the 6 that were given away, so we are 8 away from our final goal. Not bad for a year and a half of work. If we had a mathematician in the group, it would be interesting to see how many yards of fabric we have used in the creation of these quilts. All of the backs are vintage sheets as are the bindings of the quilts. We don't use batting, so that has saved us a bit.

RH Quilts #23 &24

This is the mostly M & L fabric quilt.

Another mostly M & L and JoAnne's fabric quilt, with a little bit of estate sale and Shelley's garage sale fabric thrown in.

End of summer fun

It's chile roasting time. This time of year, Nate gets the itch for roasted green chile. He has been buying them up from the farmer's market and trying to simulate NM chile roasting on our grill. So far it hasn't quite been the same as NM.

Jakey and mommy have a special reading corner. This is also where most of Jacob's toys are kept. It's kind of a mess back here, but it's his special place.