Post 47-Pam's Quilt

Pam made a quilt for her granddaughter similar to the one I quilted for Quilter's Haven last summer.

I love designing the quilting based on the fabric, and I had so much fun doing that with this quilt.

A clover design on the green fabric and an orange peel design on the blue fabric.

And a fun star design on the star fabric.

I love this yellow chevron fabric!

But this adorable owl fabric is my favorite!

We celebrated Mia's birthday at The Mandarin in Bountiful. The restaurant is a local and national award-winning Chinese restaurant. It is always a long wait to get in. Luckily, parties over 8 can make reservations, so we didn't have to wait. But it was crazy to see people lined up in the rain 20 minutes before the restaurant even opened! The food is so worth it!

Mia's favorite part of the night was her cupcake. She showed no shame in shoving her face in it!

Post 48- She's Growing Up!

Guess who's 1? It's hard to believe it's been a year since sweet Mia came into our lives. She has blessed us in so many ways, but the thing I've noticed the most is we all smile more because of her. We're not celebrating the big day until this weekend when grandparents will be in town, so I don't have any cute birthday cake pics. But I did snap this pic today. For some reason she really wanted a green onion. Every time we opened the fridge she grabbed at them. So I gave her one today thinking she'd taste it, spit it out, and be done with it. But she surprised me and chewed the onion to pieces. Crazy-and stinky-girl!

My husband is a pretty awesome snowboarder and has been teaching my boys. He makes it look so easy! A few years ago I decided to try it. I signed up for a lesson at a local resort. At the time, I was in the best shape of my life as a marathon runner, but learning to snowboard kicked my butt! It was a harder workout than an 18-mile run! 

I did a bit of skiing as a teen, but It's been 18 years since I last went skiing. So when we decided to take the family to Wolf Mountain for a night of family snowboarding/skiing, I was a bit apprehensive about getting back out on the snow. It's just like riding a bike, though. It came right back to me and it was a lot of fun! Here's a pic of my older daughter and I freezing our butts off.

One last picture-here's the progress on our house. It's so exciting to see walls going up!

Baby Time

It's hard to believe my sweet Mia is already 4 months old. Today she ate about 3 teaspoons of sweet potatoes! Its bittersweet for me to see her reach her baby milestones. It's fun to celebrate those accomplishments with her and watch her growth, but having a 16-year-old and 12 & 10-year olds has given me perspective on how quickly they grow up. It just goes way too fast!

While I've been basking in the joy of baby time I really haven't had much time to blog. Although, recently I found the blogger app, so now I can blog during feedings!

As far as quilting goes, I'm currently working on a quilt for my local quilt shop, Quilter's Haven. I love that place. It seriously feels like home with the bed and the way all the lovely fabric is set out. The quilt will be on display for The Wasatch Front Shop Hop next week, so I will post pictures then.

Beautiful Baby Mia!

Our little baby Mia entered the world on February 5, at a whopping 5 pounds 9 ounces! She was my smallest of my four kids-surprising for being my last baby! My first thought when seeing her was, "That's all? She's so small!" She reminded me of a tiny mouse with her solid black eyes.

Because I wanted my parents to be able to be in town when she was born (and I was tired of my huge kankles), I was induced a week before my due date. I loved the labor room at LDS Hospital. It was huge! It had a sitting area for my mom, mother-in-law, daughter & husband with a curtain that could be drawn when I wanted privacy.

We are completely in love with this little girl. As my 9-year-old son says, "she is the cutest cutie pie ever!"

We all celebrated her 6-week anniversary by sleeping a straight 6-hours!

The beautiful photos were taken by Melissa Burnett (melissaburnettphotography.blogspot.com)

It's a ....

It's a shame that I'm just barely posting this, but life gets so busy! I had my ultrasound on September 19th.  I asked a very talented young lady I know to make a cake to announce the baby's gender to my family. I think she did an awesome job! Visit her blog at http://cakesbycara.blogspot.com/

It's so stinkin' cute!