T Shirt Quilt & Running

 Karma asked me to help her make a quilt with all of Clint's 4H T-shirts. It was fun to make and good experience for me. I've never made one before, and learned a lot. I cut out each shirt and then had to iron on fusible web to the back of each piece because the jersey material stretches so easily. After I had it pieced together the Corn Wagon quilted it for us, and I did the binding. It's a small lap quilt.

I've been training for the St. George Marathon this summer. I'm up to about 17 miles now, and the next few weeks will be some intense running. I still have an 18 & 20 miler ahead of me. I've done fairly well this year...running has become more enjoyable as the years go on and I find I struggle less mentally. I finally learned that if I'm struggling to just keep pushing through and I seem to come out of my rough spell (which may only last a few miles). I think I used to get down and think too negative when I was hurting and that makes for a miserable run. I've also been running sprints this year to see if I can improve my speed, but we'll see what race day brings. I think I'm capable of a 3:50:00 this year, not my best time but let's say my 2nd best time. This will be my 9th marathon.

Baby Blankets

I made these baby blankets for Emily's baby. I had to buy a walking foot for my sewing machine in order to sew minki material. It's normally a huge pain to sew this material but the walking foot worked wonders. It was $170..yikes! Bret doesn't know the price yet and he won't until he reads this blog. (that could be months down the road).
I can't wait to meet our new baby girl..one more month! I wish Emily the best luck with the end of her pregnancy!

Christmas Stockings

I finally finished the Christmas stockings that I started last year. I was pregnant with Adah last Christmas and decided I might as well wait until the baby came before I finished them. I think they turned out cute.

Another Cross-stitch

I finished Adah's cross-stitch. I love it. I love the frame!
couple cute random pics:

Sibling Love

He sure loves his kids!

Another Quilt

I've been sewing like a mad man lately. I actually did this one right after I had Adah and then I had it quilted by the Corn Wagon. They do a great job. I know my sewing machine can machine quilt but I need to get a walking foot and then practice, practice, practice. I think I'm going to let Adah use this one and I'll save the other one for a keepsake.

We went to the Payson Pool late this afternoon and it was awesome, hardly anybody was there. Normally that place is packed. It was prefect weather and it was nice hanging out as a family!

Old Fashioned Quilts

My mom makes all her grandkids an old fashioned rag quilt. Here are Emmett's and Adah's quilts:

Quilt & Babies

My baby was sick today. He slept in until 11:00, which I thought was odd but he has been going to bed late. When he finally woke up he wanted me to hold him for a while and then as I was getting him into the tub he threw up. Poor kid. We spent the day/night watching movies in pajamas. I hate when he's sick but it is the only time that he lets me hold him. I was able to rock him to sleep tonight and that made me really happy.

This is a blanket I made for Adah. Nothing special but fun to do. I'm a happier person when I have some kind of a sewing project to work on.

My niece Hailey was baptised tonight. She looked so cute in her white dress and she seemed really happy about her special day. Unfortunately I didn't get to see her baptised because Adah cried and I had to walk her in the halls of the church. I did catch the end of my mom's talk on the Holy Ghost and that was nice. Wish I had a pic of Hailey..I need to take my camera more often.

New dress! I love having a girl and the clothes that come with!~

Lori gave me one of the center pieces from the dinner tonight. I love gerber daisies. They remind me of Joey. They're his favorite flower and therefore they're my favorite flower too. Thanks Lori for driving down to my house to give them to me.

Emmett's New Bed

We got Emmett a new bed and moved him out of his crib. I didn't want to move him out since he hasn't tried to climb out of the crib, but we have to put the new baby somewhere! He's been in his new bed two nights now and hasn't come out once. I'm starting to wonder if he realizes that he can. I made him a new comforter and that has helped the transition. He loves the elephants and hippos on the fabric.

We made one last trip to Minersville a few weekends ago before the baby comes. We actually thought it was our last trip until Bret's dad called us and said he was the new bishop in Minersville, so we went back down the following weekend to see him get set apart. He'll be a great bishop.

We went to St George also and hung out with Amy & Nanette. We went to the Washington Rec center to swim, watched the BYU basketball game, did some shopping, etc... It was fun! P.S. BYU made it to the sweet 16...which is great. Jimmer Fredette is beyond awesome!

This picture is for Jill. She really wanted a picture of Bret driving a UTA bus. Cute huh?

Last item of business: I decided to make a boy quilt too and I'll save whichever quilt I end up not using for another baby or give it to one of my sisters. I seriously love to sew. I just finished a few more projects which I'll post later and now I have nothing pending. Makes me sad but I won't have time to sew when the baby comes. Also my scheduled c-section is April 26th at 3:30pm. We called UVRMC one month in advance and the earliest they could get me in was 3:30pm. That hospital is way too busy. Meaning I have to fast all day :( I don't mind fasting but my nausea has returned a little and eating helps.

Baby Blanket, 33 weeks

This is what I see when I'm sewing. It scares me having him that close cause I have to constantly remind him to not touch, but its really cute. He always comes up and says, "ohhhh wowww".

Here is the neutral baby blanket that turned out completely girly. I love it and its the first quilt I had professionally quilted. I want to learn how to hand quilt one day. Bret's grandma was really good at hand quilting, and made blankets for all of her grandkids. The one Bret received looked like it was done by a machine...its perfect. She was excellent!! We always talked about going down to Fredona to have her show me how she does it or just watch her, and now we regret not going. She passed away a few years ago. My mom can hand quilt and she does good too. Anyways if this baby is a boy then I'll just hold onto this quilt until my girl comes. I'm sure she'll come one day...right???

Little peak at the back.

33 weeks

Random pic of Emmett and Max. Max is a chunky kid. I could just squeeze his chubby bum all day. They are going to be the best of friends, Emily and I will make them be!!!

Pic of my man! He's such a great guy and works really hard. He's been working for UTA for about 5 months now and really likes it. He started working as a service employee and now is a TVT (transit vehicle technician). Emmett loves to be with Bret. They feed the horses together, work outside or in the garage together, wrestle, play farm, etc... all the boy stuff. I'm grateful Bret does those things because I don't think to very often. I spend more time cuddling Emmett, reading books, going for walks, coloring, etc... It's so important for kids to have a dad and a mom!

24 Weeks

I am 24 weeks/6 months. This pregnancy is going by faster then the first one and I'm getting more excited and nervous. For the first time I was a little frustrated that I don't know the gender of the baby, and that's because we've been talking about baby names. I have a bunch of girl names I like but no boy names, which makes me want a girl.

Belly Shots:

I've been using my new sewing machine like mad lately. I'm trying to finish up some projects that I started but never finished. Here is an oven mit that I made. Very cute but kind of odd shaped. The thumb hole isn't as deep as I would want it, but I followed the pattern. It also has a little hanging tab but I sewed it wrong and its on the inside of the mit...I"m too lazy to fix it. Who really hangs up their oven mit anyways.

Hiking, Running, More Sewing Projects

We went hiking with the Maughans last weekend to a waterfall on Mt Nebo. It was a lot of fun and the kids did really well. We need to do stuff like this more often. My mom and I use to hike all the time. When I was in the 6th grade she would pick me up from school and we'd change clothes in the car and go hike the Y. Jude has hiked the Y over 500 times and I think I ended up hiking it about 200. I know this because everytime we hike the Y we take a little rock from the mountain and put it in a jar. She and I have hiked to the top of Timp about 14 times, spent 10 days hiking on the Appalachian Trail in Georgia (Joey came with us! It was one of my favorite trips ever), Hiked all over Utah and some in Nevada. Here are some pictures from this last weekend:

Last night I ran the Moonlight Half Marathon with Larry. My friend Bekah Platt ran it too, and we ran by each other for some of the race. The first person to cross the finish line at or after midnight wins the race. So you start at whatever time you need to finish at midnight, but you can't have a watch or timing devise. We were going to start at 10:00pm but we got impatient at the start and just decided to go at 9:33pm. We ran it in 2:02:00, I thought we were going to finish about 10 minutes faster but oh well. I was tired and ready for bed before we even started running. The furthest I've run lately is 8 miles, so my legs were cramping and I was feeling my lack of training. We ran the whole time though and had a lots of fun. Rick Bluth puts on a great race and party afterwards.

Lastly, I love to sew and cross-stitch. Cross stitching is so old fashion but I LOVE it. It's really relaxing for me. I make all of my neices and nephews a cross-stich of their name. I finished James and Emmett and finally got them framed. I want all the kids to have something special from me. Two more to go, then I'm caught up until more babies come. I'm working on Halle and Max right now.