Labor Day Weekend

Labor Day weekend we took a quick trip to Santa Fe, NM

I took mainly scenery pictures - so different from Kansas

A lot of driving in the middle of nowhere, I just KNEW aliens were going to get us

I couldn't do it - there is no way I could live out past Dodge City, KS

These are all in the Santa Fe/Farmington NM area



This lake just popped out of  nowhere - so pretty

Just love the scenery

I don't know why it took us so long to find this gem

Great food, museums, art and shopping, shopping and more shopping 

London thought we should move to New Mexico



Cant wait till next time

First Day of School

Today was London's first day of Kindergarten

A friend asked me this morning -

 "Was it hard to drop her off? Or just unbelief that she is old enough for school!?!

I told her - "Both - my little girl is disappearing quickly" - tears for me not her

I am so excited for what is in store for her this school year

She is ready . . .  and so am I (I think/hope)

Summer flew by and we had so much fun

  I am so glad she got to spend this time with Russ

"life is a balance of holding on and letting go"

This was morning was exciting and hard

You worry as a mama - but that is natural

I still check at night before I go to bed that the girls are breathing - laying my hand on their back

She knows only 2 girls in her class

and we don't even know if they will be in the same Kindergarten class yet

She will be fine, find new friends and enjoy all that is offered to her

 

Another positive stepin our life

Sprinkler Park

We've got a sprinkler park just a couple miles from our house

It's great that you can just throw on swimsuits and go

a good way to cool off quickly in Kansas

 

These are pictures from Kennedy's first trip

she wasn't too sure about it at first

 Watching her sister - still has that towel for security

 she got pretty brave until some water shot up her nose

 These are taken later in the summer

still hanging onto a towel at times - too funny

 summer fun

 this is just what a mama wants to see - right?

I guess we should of brought some water - ha ha

they are so lucky to have this sprinkler park

just think  . . . all we had was a sprinkler for the grass to run through



rain . . rain . . glad you stayed

It was so strange today

I got home from work and it suddenly got dark outside

didn't think they were calling for rain

I was sewing and heard a noise - Russ told me it was just the trains

and then it started

RAIN . . . and it continued to rain hard . . . pouring

guess who had to go outside and play

I love how London finds the greatest joy in such simple things

so very thankful for this shower that lasted more than 10 minutes

everything felt so refreshed and clean afterwards

MY Quilt

It is finished and all is well with my soul

I started this quilt 2 years ago

I have had many interruptions during those 724 days

putting it away to work on other projects for other people

I am so please with how it turned out

I finished it around midnight - hand sewing binding is not one my favorite things

I was so excited to have it done - that I slept with it

Yes, I am a dork - but I don't really care

It was warm a cozy

nothing better than sleeping under a quilt

Just a few pictures

I wanted to take it outside for a little photo shoot

but was snowing this day - funny because it snowing right now!

It doesn't snow in Kansas in March only in Ohio

I love all the colors, the brightness, cheerfulness of it

just what I was wanting in a quilt

I used Amy Butler's "Soul Blossom" line

this is from a stack of fat quarters

Finally something for me

Oh Happy Day