Quilting Retreat

This last weekend I went on a Quilting Retreat with my mom and sisters. I'm not much of a quilting kinda person but I had a quilt that needed to be finished so it was nice to be able to work on it. People had great ideas on how to finish the quilt. This picture doesn't really do the quilt justice. It's got very cute patterns throughout it.

Donna & Diane mostly worked on a quilt for my mom's bed. It turned out really nice.

Fun in Salt Lake

I got to go to Salt Lake this weekend and play with my girls! Sophie loves to go to the swimming pool. Jennie has been teaching her to swim and she is really good at it.

Such a big girl helping in the yard!

Walking the trails!

So this morning started out as another sunny day so we decided to take a walk. We have never really walked around the Mercer Slough (close to Bellevue) so that's what we did. Kent & Erik as the tour guides kept us on the right trails.

One of the trails leads you around a blueberry farm. There was a lot of bushes that will have yummy blueberries on them this summer.

One of the places we stopped along the way was the Winters House. The people who owned much of this land built a really nice house and the City of Bellevue bought it in 1992 and began refurbising it.

Justlike my new stove in the kitchen!

Skung cabbage everywhere. It is sure pretty to look at.

Spring is here! Well at least for a few days

It was such a beautiful spring day that we decided do the Zoo! I don't get out to Pt Defiance very often so it was nice to see the new things that they had there.

I love all the seahorses...

So cute!

He does't look very happy does he?

Winter in Dallas

So I went to Dallas to help out a struggling warehouse and expected to be here for just 1 week but......................... I found it needed more help than I first thought so I am staying 7 more days than I planned. It's not to bad except they have had record cold tempatures. At night it has been around 15 degrees and has not been above freezing in days. I have been working about 14-16 hours a day so I haven't gone out to see anything in Dallas. I did go out last night and see a movie so that was nice. I'm going to find a ward to go to today before I got to work though.

On Friday I am going to fly through SLC and I have about a 6 hour layover so I can play with my cute family in Utah :)

Sandbagging & Acting

As part of one of Erik's merit badges he needed to spend some time helping a community prepare for an emergency. So we choose to help create sandbags for the City of Auburn.

Way to go Erik!

During Erik's first quater at GRCC he had a Drama class. His class put on a play called "Noises Off" Erik did an awesome job with his characters. We saw it twice. We couldn't take pictures during the play but here are a couple of shots of the sets.

Sophie, Sophie, Sophie

Boy does this girl love her Uncle Erik! Lots of Sophie!