On the Road Day 1 & 2

After spending a week in Idaho and Wyoming, Yvonne and Alex made it to our house ready for more traveling. They really shouldn't have but they brought us more welcoming gifts. Beautiful tulips will be embracing the White house garden's this spring. Such lovely shades of pinks. This week I will plant them and think of them as I'm doing so. Yvonne had knitted this beautiful pink scarf. Rennie had made me picture cd of our trip together in March and Yvonne #2 had made me this dove pincushion. Don't I have talented freinds?
And we are off the next morning to sunny Lake Powell and St. George. So travel along with us. We did some amazing things over the next few days.

Our first stop on the road was the big rock candy mountain and explaining about the off road vehicle (ATV) trails along side the mountain.

On our way we also stopped in Panguitch to show and tell them about the statue of the quiltwalkers. They had seen pictures of this on my blog and were interested in stopping. A quick stop at the Pink Coral Sand Dunes on our way to Kanab.

We stopped for a quick sandwich and did a little shopping in the Wigwam. Neither Stuart or Alex could find the right hat!Either to big or to small. What funny men we are traveling with.We got all registered and got the trailer all set up and enjoyed the sun going down. Stuart fixed us a steak on the barbie with dutch oven potatoes. Yvonne and Alex thought he was fixing a roast, that's how big the steaks were.

After our food had settled it was time to get serious on building a fire so we could make s'mores. Something new to our friends.

And I think Yvonne enjoyed them very much. So yummy and oh so sticky!We had an early rise Monday morning and the sun was beautiful coming up over the rocks. Today we will be taking a boat over to Rainbow Bridge. A first for everyone on this trip.

A little chilly going out but the sun didn't disappoint us. The day was filled with lots of it and boy did it get hot at times.

We made it. And it's even prettier in real life and to think I saw it for the first time with people from the Netherlands made even better. This was the tour guides idea. And a fun one at that!

Yvonne had helped her friends Eric and Fred arrange a trip to Utah and some of the canyonlands and guess who was in the same area at the same time. Yup, the boys so we arranged a meeting time and had supper with them in Kanab that night. What are the chances of that happening again? We had a great time getting to know them, we laughed the night away and learned more about the people of the Netherlands. When it was time to say good bye the boys were curious about the truck and how it all works. It's man stuff every where I guess. They were in awe at what this big black thing can do.

Time to say good night here. Hope you are enjoying the journey so far. There's lots more to tell you about. Watch for day 3 & 4.

Even time for sewing!

Wow, here we are in October already. With such a busy September I still found the time to sew 4 new quilts. Don't know how I did it, but I did. The first, a cute little something for the little cowboy in your life. This is on display at the Corn Wagon. I used an older pattern from Mary's Cottage Quilts called Bunkhouse Kid. Most of the fabrics are from the King of the Ranch collection from Sara Khammash for Moda. I used brown minky for the backing and had a paisley star pattern quilted on it.

After Jacob moved out, his bedroom needed a new facelift so before our house guests from the Netherlands arrived I made new bedding. I didn't have a pattern for this quilt. I used 5" charm squares, a layer cake and yardage from the Hometown collection from Sweetwater.

Not to shabby, huh.

And pillow sham's to match. I will show you the whole new look at a later time. Let's just get caught up from all the events that took place in September.

A quilt tradition of mine is to give the grandkids a new quilt for their third birthday. This is McKinley's quilt. This quilt was made from just one layer cake and some solid yardage. It is the Veranda line from Robert Kaufman. I picked this cute line up at market in May with McKinley in mind. It just fit's her cute personality. The backing is lavendar cuddle (minky). And in with the binding I added purple rick rack. A fun accent to the finished quilt, I think.

And the pattern I used came from the fun new book by Sweetwater. It's called the Familyroom quilt. I can think of so many other fabrics this would be fun for. You might have to have this book.

And the quilt I just finished up last night is called the Jellyroll 1600. Marsha taught us how to make this quilt from one jellyroll peiced together end to end, then cut and sewn together with five seams. There are other variations to this quilt too. Watch for more on this one, it's getting very popular

My jellyroll was one I had in my stash from market 2 years ago. It's the Joel Dewberry Modern Meadow and the backing is from his latest collection Heirloom. The polka dot binding is from Michael Miller.

"Sew" yes I have been keeping up on my sewing amongest all the other events taking place this month.

Stay with me!

Happy Friday everyone! I hope you don't think I have forgotten about my blog. I have so much to share with you, lot's of things have been happening around here. So just stay with me, it's going to be a blogging weekend, for me at least!

In Mourning!

I wasn't going to be to work the week of my birthday so the girl's at the Corn Wagon celebrated before I left for vacation and boy did they go all out for the big 50 birthday girl! This is what met me at the door that morning. My very own walking aid! And look it even has a bag attached for the "old bag"! And everyone was dressed in black for they were mourning the passing of my youth. Oh aren't they so thoughtful. You could find tissues at every work station.

We all met for lunch, which was Cafe Rio. The cake was perfect! A headstone of all things.

Some of my family even stopped in. Kaitlyn, Teegan and Angie joined us for lunch and Stuart was on his way to Provo. Check out my new tiara.

My friends are mourning me again, this time they are all crying. I am so lucky to have such wonderful friends such as these ladies. They make my job so much fun. Now you see why I love my job.

And, oh what nice gifts I received. Everything a 50 year old needs, right. Thanks for such a great party my friends.

Look who's here!

After almost 18 hours in the air, Yvonne and Alex made it here from the Netherlands. They will be staying almost 3 weeks. I'm so glad they made it safe and sound. They were very tired but oh so glad there was someone to greet them when they landed. Now onto to their first American supper on this trip. Alex was ready for steak.

We ended up a Texas Roadhouse in Clearfield. You can always count on a good meal there and the prices are just right. Yvonne's birthday was on September 1st so I had just waited until she got here to give her gift. She is a big fan of King George so I bought her his new CD. They try an buy some new CD's while they are here, she said this is one that was on her list. I hope she's enjoying it. I also gave her some western print fat quarters and a very cute pattern from Thankfully Sew, western to of course.

It's good to be all together again. I can't wait to get together with them next week, there will be lot's of fun things going on.

They are using our pick up while they are here. It has been a dream for Alex to drive something like this. We offered it and they couldn't of been happier. Here Stuart is explaining a few things about the truck to Alex. Then we said our goodbye's for the week.

They brought us such nice welcome gifts from the Netherlands. For me a lovely crystal welcoming candy dish and the chocolate to go in. Please come visit so you can have a taste. They are yummy! And for Stuart they brought a Dutch recipe book. He can't wait to start trying out some of their recipes.

We are very fortunate to have such great friends from such a far away place. And I'm glad they chose to come back to the great state of Utah for their vacation.

She's coming, she's coming!

My dear friend Yvonne, my blogging buddy from the Netherlands is coming today. (You all know our story and how we met don't you)? That's another story in itself. I will have to share it again for those that don't. We will be picking her and Alex up at the airport this afternoon. They will travel onto Idaho and Wyoming for the next week. Then back to our place and from there we will be visiting Lake Powell and some other places of interest in and around St. George and Zion's. The last week they are here will be spent in Orem. They will be celebrating September birthdays with us and she is even going to be here for my first bag class of the season. I don't know who's more excited about all of this, her or me. They will be tired from such a long, long flight. We will treat them to a nice American supper after picking them up! Any suggestions. See you in a few friends.

My family favorites!

Take a peep at all this White house craziness. Our family pictures turned out awesome. Enjoy and let's see which one wins your vote for favorite.