Wedding Quilt Sneak Peak and 100th Post!

Wow, can't believe this is my 100th post. Time flies...

Anyways, I just wanted to give everyone an idea of what the quilt will look like. It isn't sewn completely together, just in groups. I have to go and get some embroidery thread to finish the middle before I can sew it together. I'm just going to put their names and their wedding date in the middle. This will give you an idea of what it will look like.

Enjoy!

Wedding Wall Quilt - Tulip Block

Wanted to give everyone a taste of what the some of the blocks will look like.

Wedding Wall Quilt

A good friend of ours (one of Tom's best men in our wedding) is getting married in August. So I have decided to make their wedding present or at least part of it. I have also wanted to do this pattern and see how it turns out.

Their colors are purple and green (I added the the invitation to the picture below with the fabric).

I finally got the fabric yesterday and just finished cutting out the pieces. Well, except for the batting because it's drying right now. I wash everything before and after I make something.

Well, here it is so far. There are a bunch of pieces so I organized them (while I still remembered which ones were what) by letter like it lists them in the pattern.


LOL My cutting board is straight...gotta love trying to take a picture and fitting everything in above your head.

Emotional Last Month

Wow, so what a roller coaster ride!

Well, we found out Tom was put on permanent profile (not by doctors, but when he went to fill his paperwork out for pre-deployment...yeah...go army..way to keep on top of things). So we are waiting on a med board to see if he can stay in or not. So it has been very emotional. Tom has been seeing specialist after specialist for around 2 years now (started when he was deployed). We FINALLY got some good news. The latest one says that his nerve problems in his shoulder are operable so this gives us hope that he will be able to stay in! He is pretty down right now because his team deployed recently and he wasn't able to accompany them. They are awesome though because they made a job for him in rear-d so that he won't have to PCS (since this isn't a regular unit). I must say though it was so awesome when he came home from this last specialist because he actually was able to have full movement in his shoulder (he hasn't had this since his last deployment). The doc numbed the nerve.

Now on to the kiddos. Victoria is now sitting up by herself. Though she still falls here and there. She would sit up when you put her in that postition, but for the longest time she seemed content to just lean on one arm instead of sit up. Gabriel has lost 2 of his bottom teeth! Katheryn is Katheryn. She is talking ALOT and very bossy!

I'm Bored Again and Decisions

So as some know I get bored ALOT! Well, Monday I went to have my hair done and decided that I am going to be blond. We had put blond highlights throughout last time I went...so this time it was an all over and we put lowlight brown in. I'm thinking next time I'm gonna put pink highlights in.

OK so lately I've been having a "life change". I was sitting looking out the back door and feeling at peace with nature and just decided that I just needed to get rid of some of the hurt feelings, burdens, etc. There is a deployment looming, so maybe that was one reason. Funny though that after that a couple things happened:

1) Tom found out he was put on permanent profile (without a medboard...not from the doctors, but from people with whom he was filling paperwork out with...). He has been told that he has permanent nerve damage from the first deployment which has been getting worse the longer it's been. He's been told both it is and it is not operable. He goes for his second MRI (because FLW refuses to mail his MRI here). While no one likes deployments, we are more at ease with this one because he is going with a great group of people. He is taking this hard. I hope that this next MRI holds good news. I think that it would drive him crazy to be MED Boarded out. He really enjoys what he does. It hurts me to see him hurting like this. Please pray for us.

2) My cousin with whom I haven't talked to in over 6 years e-mailed me the other day. Without going into family problems, I will say we haven't talked her family or others for the same amount of time because of many problems and hurt feelings. She told me that she needed to try to mend fences for her conscience. While what happens between brothers and sisters is their business even though it effects all the family, I personally was insulted/hurt when they walked out of my wedding reception. The reason I was told (not by them mind you)....was that I didn't have a table set up for them with their last name on it. Uhhhh...ok...I did have a table set up for them with my maiden name...apparently if it's a wedding between x and y...you should include z?

So I do believe that God has reasons for everything. Though it might be many days or years before you see why. I can't help but thing that maybe the reason I had the change inside of me only days before everything happened was so I could have an open mind and not be overburdened with everything.