A quick little update

Another package from my SS! Thank you so much! I thought I would find out who my SS is, but the not doesn't say. I can't wait to find out she has been very, very good to me.

Look what my Mom stitched and framed for me!!! I just love it!

I did manage to get another baby blanket done for another baby shower coming up soon.
Blueberry Streusel Cobbler
This is a good one, even if you mess up the recipe like I did. LOL!

Blueberry Streusel Cobbler

1 pint fresh or frozen blueberries, 1 (14 oz) can Sweetened Condensed Milk, 3/4 cup & 2 TBS cold butter, 2 C biscuit baking mix, divided, 1/2 cup brown sugar. Vanilla Ice Cream.

Preheat oven 325.

In bowl, combine blueberries and condensed milk.

In large bowl, cut 3/4 C butter into 1 1/2 C biscuit mix until crumbly; add blueberry mixture. Spread in greased 9 inch square baking pan.

In small bowl, combine remaining 1/2 C biscuit mix and sugar; cut in remaining 2 TBS butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over cobbler.

Bake 1 hour and 10 minutes or until golden. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream and blueberry sauce. Refrigerate leftovers.

Blueberry Sauce: In saucepan, combine 1/2 C sugar, 1 TBS cornstarch, 1/2 tsp cinnamon and 1/4 tsp nutmeg. Gradually add 1/2 C water. Cook and stir until thickened. Stir in 1 pint blueberries; cook and stir until hot.

Other things going on in my life. Had another funeral to attend. It was Bob's childhood friend's Dad. They had a nice service, I didn't even know the man, but I cried through the whole thing.

Kayden-when he laughs sometimes he will push out his belly, it is so cute. And when you ask him where something is and he doesn't know, he will put his hands up and move them around. Gracie has been working out good for watching Kayden, but he still cries when I leave the house, it just breaks my heart. I was hoping having someone come in to the house to watch him, it would be easier on him, but when I am home he is (most of the time) right by me, if I move he will chase me down.

Work is going great. We are leaving the house around 7 am and returning around 7 pm. Busy, busy, busy! And working all weekend. I did get last Tuesday off, but no stitching, did a little cooking, made the baby blanket, cleaned house and ordered things for the ILCS retreat. No pictures of the retaining wall yet, the home owners are on a two week vacation and didn't want any work done while they were gone. Until next time, which I don't know when I will have time to blog again.

Spring!

Progress on Earthdancer.

I finished the corner, put the feather she is holding - I have to rip out. I guess I don't know how to count. LOL!

Peanut Butter Cookies

Peanut Butter Cookies-1/2 C butter, soften & 1/2 C peanut butter. Cream together. 1/2 C sugar, 1/2 C brown sugar. Add sugars and 1 egg well beaten. 1 1/4 C flour, 1/2 tsp baking powder, 3/4 tsp soda, 1/4 tsp salt. Mix well. Form balls, place on cookie sheet. Mash balls with fork that has flour on it. Bake at 375 for about 8 mins.

Glazed Fruit Bowl

This is recipe is great for church, family, pot luck gatherings. Or sometimes I freeze small portions in the freezer and refrigerate what I think will last a few days.

Glazed Fruit Bowl

2 cans (20 oz) unsweetened pineapple chucks

2 pkg (3 oz) cook & serve vanilla pudding mix

2 1/2 C orange juice

1 small cantaloupe, cubed

1 Honeydew, cubed

2 C fresh strawberries, halved

2 C fresh blueberries

2 C seedless grapes

2 med. bananas, sliced

Drain pineapple, reserving 1 C juice; set aside.

In saucepan, combine pudding mix, pineapple juice & orange juice.

Cook & stir over med heat, until mixture boils & thickens.

Remove from heat; cool.

In very large bowl, combine pineapple, melons, berries, grapes & bananas.

Drizzle with pudding mixture.

Refrigerate until serving.

It doesn't have honeydew in it, because the honeydew they had at the store, wasn't ripe. I had to make two trips to get a good cantaloupe. Bob bought the first one, when he brought it home I asked him if he knew how to pick out a ripe cantaloupe. He said nope. So, I went and bought a ripe one and had him smell it. LOL!

My Mom brought over some material, a few weeks ago and asked me to make her some pillow shames.

Dara and I have two baby showers to go to today, so we are splitting up she will be attending one and I will go to the other. I made the baby blankets for the showers and one for an on-line friend.

Bubbles (Dylan's cat) had to give his seal of approval.

Kayden is 10 months old today!

Any time I sing "Lean on me" the song that is playing. Kayden will sing (noise) with me. It is too cute. There are a lot of other songs I sing to him, but this is the only song he sings with me.

This picture was taken earlier this week. The little rocker he is standing behind is mine. My Dad brought it home when I was close to Kayden's age.

Kayden & Cooper playing the sock game.

Other things going on last week...

Spring is here and we have had a few good days of really nice weather. I raked the whole yard! We even cooked out on the grill last night.

Trying to find a babysitter for Kayden. We have found a young college girl that use to nanny in Michigan, until she moved here. She has come over three times so far. I haven't left her alone with Kayden yet. Kayden is use to having me or Dara around him all the time, (mostly me). So, I want Kayden and Gracie to get to know each other before I leave them alone. So, far they are getting along really good. Except for when he gets tired, then he just wants me. But he does that when Dara and Brandon are around too.

Cooper barfed on the love set that is in the video, as you can see it wasn't in good shape to start with, but I tried cleaning it 3 times and the smell wouldn't come out. So it is waiting to be picked up by the waste department.

I got my 4 workouts in last week and I have a lot more energy this week, could be alot to do with the weather.

Kids are on spring break this week and the work schedule is starting to take shape. Here is a video tour of the town I live in.

If anyone has any good salad recipes, please send them to me.

Learning the word "No"

No stitching this week. I have a baby shower to go to today so I needed to make a quilt for the new baby.

So, while I was making the baby quilt I decided to make a couple of Christmas quilts.

This week I made doughnuts, the kids loved them. Some had powder sugar on them others I glazed with vanilla and chocolate. I think the chocolate glaze should have been a little thicker.
Quick Doughnuts

5 C flour

3 TBS baking powder

2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1 C sugar

1 TBS Crisco

2 TBS butter

3 eggs

1 C milk

Sift dry ingredients. Beat eggs until thick, add to dry ingredients. Add Crisco & butter then milk.

Roll out on flour surface and cut doughnuts. Fry 350 Makes 4 dozen doughnuts 3" across.

Glaze-1 TBS milk, 1 C powder sugar and 1/2 tsp vanilla. Add cocoa for the chocolate. Mix-add more powder sugar to thicken if needed.

Brandon and Kayden

Kayden is learning the word "No"!

Kayden is really getting around walking and sometimes he tries to run. It is too funny, because he can't run yet. He just gets excited and tries to move his little legs a little faster, usually he falls down.

Tuesday he was a hand full! He got into the dog food and was eating a piece when I got to him, then he opened up the turtle food and when I was trying to get it picked up he put a piece in his mouth. Then there was the dog bone he kept trying to chew on. I have had to close the door to the downstairs bathroom and keep the basement door shut.

Kayden, beading & blankets

Well, it has been about two weeks from my last post.

Been busy with Kayden, beading and baby blankets.

Had a nasty cold, but feeling much better today.

Joined facebook and found a lot of friends from school.

That has been a lot of fun.

Dara & Kayden paint Kayden's first pumpkin. More pictures and a video.

Kayden is 5 months old now and you can see his hair in the picture. LOL!

Picture above (with 4 ornaments) and below (with 4 ornaments) are ornaments I made for my sisters.

A few more ornaments.

I like beading the smaller ornaments better then the larger ones.

I have two baby showers to go to this weekend. I made each new mom a blanket and bought a gift to go with it.

Baby blanket for Niki's baby.

Baby blanket for Anna's baby.

Quilts and Kayden

There was an urgent plea from Heminger House in my Freecycle group. I replied to the lady that posted the message and asked if the House could use the halloween baby blankets. She said yes, I asked how many babies were there because I wanted to have enough for each baby. She said 12. I just need 3 more blankets to make 12. Finished them off yesterday and took them to the house. When I got there the lady that answered the door won't take the bag and told me to drop them off across the street at the car wash, that is where they were storing things. I asked if the car wash was open, because it looked empty. She said it was. I went to all 3 door at the car wash and they were all locked.

Needless to say I was a little upset with the way things went. I brought the blankets back home and emailed the lady I had spoke to before. Her reply was they don't store the items and she would find out what was going on.

Videos of Kayden he is getting so big! Almost 5 months old.

Tins and quilts

For Jen's baby.

For J. P.

My tins are done for the on-line class at ILCS group!!!

Quilts & X's

Over the weekend I finished two quilts.

On 8-17-08 I picked up teamwork and this is what it looked like on the left. I just finished all the X's, 1/4 and 3/4 stitches in it this morning. Picture on the right.

Now on with the backstitching!!!

My week

I finished the quilts for my sisters (I have 4 sisters). The quilts are all the same, so they don't fight over them. LOL!

I finished my quilt and I think it is so cute!!! :)

I received this from Mare for the SFE (Small Finished Exchange). It is just too cute. Thanks so much Mare!