Road Trip

We are leaving today to go and have Thanksgiving with my parents. I am so excited to go since it has been 3 years since we have been able to go and stay with my parents. It will be a big change for us since it is snowing in Utah where my parents live ( and just for the record since once I say that everyone always thinks that I am from Utah but no I have lived in California my whole life. My parents decided after living in the same house in Orange County, California for over 30 years to sell it and retire to Utah and I have never forgiven them. :) I miss that house that we lived in. It was the best house. Anywho....) it might be really interesting for us to be in the cold and to have the girls in the snow.

My poor Dad will be subject to more of Dr. Gwenie. He is such a great sport.



My Mom and I will, hopefully, have some time to sew.



The view from my parents back porch will look a little different then this.



I will expect more photos like this one. This was back in 2007.



Looks like I am going to be MIA until next week so I apologize in advance. Unless I have time to blog while I am there. You never know. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you have a great day.

Mornings Between Friends

Have any of you heard of the 2 friends that decided to take a picture every morning, for a year, and then blog about it???? Well....Here is the blog that they set up to show eachother their pictures, A Year of Mornings, so that they could be in each others lives even though they live far apart.

Well.....why I am telling you this you ask??? Erin contacted me almost 2 years ago to see if I would be interested in trying it out for a week. I thought it would be a great idea for us to be even more connected! Not like all the phone calls, emails, texts, google chats, etc. isn't enough. Rules: We both take a picture, edit it, then post it within an hour of waking up. We both decided that we can't cheat and be lazy and take pictures with our iPhone cameras, it has to be our actual nice cameras!

Since we started in March of 2009 we have now done 2 weeks of A Week of Mornings, A Month of Mornings and then occasionally we have done A Day of Mornings. We have posted them to Flickr and have a group, Mornings Between Friends, set up for this purpose.

I thought I would finally show all of you our collection since it is fun and shows you a different aspect of my life. Here is a look at some of Erin and my pictures we have done over these 1.5 years.



Today's A Day of Mornings is brought to you by: Feet & Hands. (I couldn't decide between the 2 pictures today so you get 2 pictures not one.)

Feet peeking out of bed. So hard to resist.



Hands of all different sizes.

A quilt for me.

Now that I am almost finished with my daughter's quilt ( I won't be finished really until Thanksgiving, as I need to take it to my mom to teach me a really cool trick on the closer/binding of the quilt) it is time to start another one.

This is the perfect time to make a quilt becasue it is getting to be winter around here. I don't know why it has taken so long to get cold here in CA, but I am ready for it. Now I am somewhat nervous as I just went and bought the material and it is going to be a bigger quilt then I have done before, but hey everyone needs a challenge right??? I am going to make this one with large rectangle squares.



I will put up a tutorial of it once I get started on it.