I'm Still Here

People have commented that I haven't posted since July. Sorry! It's been kind of busy around here since the girls started school. I think I spend more of my time in the car driving them to all of their activities and then sitting and waiting for them to be finished. I'm not home that much! I'm still sewing a little, not as much as I would like. I haven't really completed a whole quilt yet but I'm steadily working on several different ones at the same time. I get bored with one and then I work on the other. I've also done a few more house swaps with my Yahoo group. Here a two of my latest houses.

The first one is for a Calendar House swap and my month was April. I've titled it "Raining Cats and Dogs" because I found this great fabric with dogs and cats falling out of the sky with rain. I used that for the main part of the house. The roof is rainbow type fabric. The doors and windows is money fabric in honor of Tax filing day. The chimney is fabric that looks like trees for Arbor day. The sky fabric looks like rain.

The second house is another Calendar House, this time for February. I just had to use heart fabric for the main house, roof and chimney for Valentines Day. The door and window is party fabric in honor of both of my girls's birthdays, which happen to be in February. The sky fabric looks like fireworks for Chinese New Year (even though Chinese New Year could be in Jan or Feb I wanted to portray it in my Feb Houses).

Once all the houses are swapped I will receive 12 houses portraying each month for each group that I joined (in total I will be getting 24 different houses). My goal is to make each of my girls a calendar house quilt. I say my goal because who knows how long it would take me to actually finish the quilts :)

Happy 4 Year Family Day, E!!!

I'm a few days late in posting this but I wanted to wish E a HAPPY FAMILY DAY!! 4 years ago we were in China bonding with this beautiful little girl. Today she is now 4 1/2 years old and a bundle of energy. She keeps us on our toes and we wouldn't have it any other way. We love you E!!!!

Enjoy some of her early photos and some of her today.

E just minutes after being placed in my arms

At our hotel room right after placement.

At the beach. This is the area from China where E is from.

Just smiling in the crib in China.
Meeting her big sister for the first time. Notice how she is holding M's hand and just staring at her.
4 years later!


A group photo of all the little girls from Yangxi at our 4 year Gotcha Day party on Nov 8, 2008. E is the tiniest one 3rd from the right.