Happy Memorial Day!!!!
Hope you all have enjoyed the long weekend. Well it was a long week and weekend for us!
This week we have had a chance to shuck corn and eat it fresh! Yummy!
And enjoy a huge slices of watermelon...does it get any better???
Sarah finished up the week with Dare Day! They traveled to the local airport/ police station and had an opportunity to climb a rock wall, see how police dogs work, tour through an ambulance and also see all of the plane and helicopters on display. Fun day! They even signed shirts (before they put them on!!!)
And a very sweet surprise from a friend.....she read my blog about how much fun we had playing Apples to Apples when we were camping....and she sent us the game!!! I was so excited and so were the girls!!! Thank you soooooo much Kelly!!!! We've already played and laughed some more! Its a fun game for all ages! LOL!!!
To get ready for Memorial Day, Devon made all of her Kindergarten friends red/white/blue bracelets. She wrapped each of them and gave them to her school friends to wear over the weekend...wasn't that so lovely??!! I had nothing to do with it...it was all her!!! Below you can see some unwrapped gifts!
Each evening, Daddy and Brooklyn have been playing the "Penny Game"....searching through piles of pennies for wheat pennies and other valuable finds! I am telling you that girl knows more about money than I do!!!!!
And that brings us to the actual weekend! We had a yard sale with our neighbor and another friend! What fun! I put out a few toys and some outgrown dresses and customs. They all were snatched up! I think it was a very successful morning but my hubby says no. Oh well! We had fun!
We had a quick breakfast....Brooklyn enjoying toast!
Getting everything set up and our little table for bug spray and tea! I love to have tea with vanilla creamer in the morning!!! Delish! The girls ran around and played. Our neighbor's boys hung around too! Each night all the kids played whiffle ball in the side yard! All I heard was laughing and cheers! I was in working on my quilt!
After a quick lunch, Sarah and I went to get our haircut. It took like three hours!!!! But here are our finished looks! Sarah got a trim and a few layers and highlights. I got a short bob, color and highlights too! This will be perfect for the summer!!!
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On Sunday, we cleaned all morning and I took a nap!!!! The ice cream man driving through the neighborhood woke me up with the incessant music...grrrrr. I worked on my quilt...see more about that below! Then we had a huge BBQ for dinner with steak and corn and pasta salad!!! We had ice pops for dessert! We were STUFFED!!!!!!!
Monday afternoon we braved the heat and headed to the Wildwood Boardwalk! Boy was it hot! And Sunny! And hot!!! But we loved it! We arrived around 11:30 and didnt stop walking till we left at 3:30. Seriously, I felt like I had just toured EPCOT!!!
We visited Lime Ricky's, of course! They had a drawing and Devon won!!! Yaaa Devon! She was a little scared to wear the Lime Suit but not Brooklyn! She wore it in her stead! Then Devon spun the Lucky Wheel and won 800 tickets!!! Way to go girl! Edmund won his fair share of tickets too!
So after that fun, we continued down the boardwalk to the Curly Fry Birthday Party!!! Along the way we came across this new place....Can you believe your eyes? Humans climb inside balls and battle it out over the water....spinning and falling all the while! LOL! They looked like hamsters in those clear plastic balls!!! So funny!
We finally made it to Curly himself! Happy Birthday! They had Sunny the seagull and a very tall girl to help with the festivities!
After a few pics, we headed onto the pier for Sarah to ride the Great Nor'Easter. Great name for a coaster around here....since we get so many of these storms!!! She was so brave!!! I tried to capture a few pics of her riding. Can you see her waving below????
We saw advertisements along the boardwalk for this movie Standing Ovation. And here they were on the pier! I snapped a quick pic. Apparently is a movie coming out soon???? Anyone have info? Then the girls found a Curly Fry craft table.....appropriately, they were to decorate spuds!!!! Of course I was stuck carrying them around the rest of the day! Boy I miss those stroller days when I had a place to stash stuff!
It was finally time for the Curly Fry Eating Contest....apparently they brought in professionals! But before the big event they gave out free tee shirts and lots of cupcakes...they had boxes of them!!!! We also managed to buy a bucket of those yummy crinkle-cut fries!!! Don't you just love boardwalk food????
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After this we walked back up the boardwalk and the girls went on some more rides. Then we had pizza and headed home exhausted!!! And hot!!! What a great day!
I would just like to express my thanks and appreciation to all those who spend (or have spent) their days in harm's way protecting the United States and the freedoms we enjoy! Their sacrifices mean so much to me as I try to raise my children in an unpredictable world!!! Many thanks to all of you!!!
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Finally, I just wanted to give you all an update on my quilt. First, I have to say, I have never quilted or stippled before. This is the step that joins and stabilizes the three layers of a quilt. And since that is a major part of quilting, I thought I had better learn....FAST!!! I watched a few u-tube and website videos and then tried it out on my machine. First, I looked at my "feet" that came with my machine and low and behold, I had a special foot that you quilt with. Yaaa! I put it on and layered some fabric and just did it. It is actually quite fun and relaxing!!! I had a blast...I tried different patterns. I think I am going to just stick with the regular stippling for most of the quilt. I may do something fancy on the border though...we shall see!
The next thing I had to do was lay out all of the blocks and figure out if what I had in my head was going to look ok. I did end up rearranging some of the blocks and strips after taking this pic. A friend online told me that your eye goes to sameness so make sure I spread out similar looking strip patterns. I went with the center being the same color paisley, the alternating "scroll" and "paisley" colors from the center out. All the edges will have a strip border. There will be another border (aqua scroll) and a binding as well on the outer edge.
And lastly here is a pic of the start of the columns (there will be 7 of them). Don't you just love Jennifer Paganelli's fabrics????? I can't wait to see the finished quilt! I am also redoing the curtains and ordering sheets and will do some pillow shams and maybe a pillow?? So fun!
