Sewing as an antidepressent

To keep myself from being immersed in self pity and sadness, I've been sewing and cleaning alot. Here is my latest completed quilt project and I'm all ready half done with another! Last time I made a baby quilt for a friend's baby, I didn't finish it until her baby was 2 years old. It helps that this onc is machine quilted.
I like the look of pieced backs, which turned out perfect because while sewing this, I misplaced some blocks, had to make more, then found the original blocks in my messy sewing area! I was able to use those extra blocks on the back. :-)

A Taylor post

Taylor's tricks:
Taylor's photo:
Taylor's homemade key lime pie:He made it all by himself, from scratch, complete with beaten egg whites and a homemade crust. Taylor thought it was ugly, but it tasted delicious. Don't you think that's all that matters when it comes to dessert?

Little seamster

I've been sewing everyday lately and I guess Leif 's been taking it all in. Just now as I was on the computer, the kids told me to go take a peek at Leif. There he was at the sewing machine putting pieces of fabric under the foot and moving various levers. He spent at least 20 minutes in there readjusting the fabric and pressing buttons on the machine! What a cutie. I like that better than when he decided to throw all my bobbins across the room, and then ate my chocolate stash and drooled chocolate all over the chair. You couldn't imagine him doing that could you?

I was upstairs cleaning up some of our family's miscellaneous clutter in Mom's attic yesterday. Leif hadn't had a nap yet but he was being good and entertaining himself downstairs. Next thing I knew, he'd found himself a healthy snack and a comfortable spot to rest on top of the table.

Notice his arm in the chip bag.

Pyramid Project

This past school year Jenny Hanson, Travis Hanson and I taught a science/math class for our Commonwealth school on Fridays. It was a great learning experience for me and I really enjoyed getting to know this wonderful group of kids! We had lots of great discussions, interesting field trips, and they worked hard on their presentations.

Randomness

I don't feel like making multiple posts, so this will be very random......just warning you.

Leif having a grand time at Hop 2 it. Isn't that such a look of joy?
Heidi and Hannah having a fun time together.
In our science class that we had this spring, we had a great friend-- Jim Cornell, come lead a rat dissection for us.

I loved having someone there who could explain what we were looking at. The smell brought back memories of all our dissection projects at Shoshone Falls and looking back at those photos I realize how fast everyone is growing. sigh.I thought this was a cute photo of Grandpa Pearson with Leif. Every 5 years the dams are supposed to open the spill gates to make sure they are in working order. It was so amazing to watch all the water come spilling out. Here's a before picture-And AFTER, with the spill gates open.
The spill gate right before it opens.
Well, enough of the randomness. I need to go change a stinky diaper!

Lagoon 2011

Our yearly trip to Lagoon for clogging finals was this weekend! The kids scored really well on their "Lonely Goatherd" dance and Hailey earned All Star All American for her Acapella and Acapella duet. Hailey with her friends Abby and Kia.
We had a fun time at the park but the hotel stay was awful- (Leif didn't want to sleep because he had a terrible cold, Heidi got a stomach ache in the middle of the night and moaned for a few hours, the curtains wouldn't close so the light from the parking lot was shining in my eyes, the beds felt like boards.....but enough complaining all ready! I should just know by now that when our family travels, it means sleepless nights.)

Because Heidi was still feeling a little woozy in the morning, she did kiddie rides with Leif and I all morning. We had fun riding the train, the sky ride and the little cars together.
Taylor shelled out the bucks for he and Joel to ride the Sky Coaster this year, which is a huge bungee jump done in the prone position, so our family calls it the Super Man. Oh WOW! It would have gave me a heart attack to do it, but they loved it. Here they are gearing up for the ride.
The beginning of their ascent up......up.......up. I'm glad Joel is brave enough to do fun things like that with Taylor, since I am a big chicken. I think I would have to be paid 5,000 dollars before I would consider doing this. And even then......I might back out. Hopefully this little video works.