Chompers

So, Victoria's second bottom tooth came through the skin yesterday and I noticed her top ones were starting to head down. It's good and bad. I'm glad she has gotten them through because she's not as cranky. The bad part is teeth and nursing aren't always fun. They are sharp little teeth! She's already chewing on whatever she can get in her mouth when she's not nursing. LOL

Baby Quilt Part 2

So, I have been hand stitching the binding to the back of the quilt and my fingertips are getting sore because I'm not used to it. Ugh...there has to be a better way. I think I'm gonna experiment on my scraps for an easier way to sew the binding on. I have 2 sides down and 2 to go! It takes me about 40 mins/side, which I know could be worse so I'm not complaining.

Baby Quilt

So I found some Antique Peter Rabbit fabric and decided that is what I was going to make a good friend a baby blanket with. I love it so I ordered a bunch. LOL My friend is having her first and it's a boy. Now if you listen to "old wives tales" when alot of boys are born, we are going to go to war. I know a bunch of people who just had or is about to have boys... I'm hoping that it is wrong (though I have known it to be right in the past...oddly enough). Anyways, back to what I was talking about. I cut everything out yesterday and took maybe a total of 4 hours to sew, pin, iron, and repeat (getting up to check on Victoria several times). I made two mistakes. Now I'm not gonna tell anyone, but whoever tells me my two mistakes will win a basket full of cookies (their choice) along with some cute things I'll make.

Here's the picture:

Pictures From the Ice Storm

For some reason Photobucket doesn't like me. You'll have to click on the pictures to get the full picture. It's cutting most of them off.


Here are some of the pictures I took from the recent ice storm.

These are from around our house. If you go to the "Winter Storm" post below you can compare some of the pictures.

The above 2 are of the huge Blue Spruce tree we have beside the house. I'm surprised it didn't break any of the branches with the amount of ice it had on them.

This is the Japanese Maple tree.

Just a picture of the front yard. The cable hanging down is the cable/internet line that snapped off the pole.

The spruce tree branch is one with Tom's car. (Same cable line as noted above.) LOL That branch had to be cut from the tree.

Pictures from my parent's house.

Behind my parent's house. The top half of the cedar trees snapped off. We're hoping it didn't bend the back end of the tractor's trailer.

Blackberry vines covered in ice.

The huge tree branch barely missed the corner of the roof.

I just like the icicles hanging from the front.

Ice covering a burning bush.

Just to give you an idea of how much ice we had. The porch rail is about an inch thick. Tom had up to 4 inches of ice on his car.

I'm Finally Back

So we've been without cable for about a week thanks to the ice storm that hit. We were lucky and were without power for 2 days, but my parents just got power back on Sunday. I have lots of pictures from around our house and my parents house of the damage the ice did and some "pretty" pictures of the ice. We were lucky that my parents had a gas fireplace, especially with the little ones. It made me realize one thing. We weren't as prepared as we should have been! But as long as we learn from it and that we are all well, that's the important part.

On a good note, Victoria cut her first tooth yesterday. She had been "working" on it and cranky for the past week or so. She also has another one right beside it coming in so I expect her to be cranky for a lil while longer.

I got the kitchen painted. I've only had the paint sitting around for about a month! LOL Not sure how I'm gonna like the blue color, but I'm sure when we get everything the way we want it that it will look good.