My idea of a fun time

After the parade we headed up the canyon, We stopped by the "C" We had a lovely ride ...

Only go t sprinkled on a bit,

If you have really good eyes you could probably find the house

Then we went up t Bryce Canyon...

This is so you can see that we were both there

It is pretty but always on the chilly side.

We road around and down thru Brainhead and Parawan,

Ron even stopped by Sew Crazy as she is closing up her shop

on Tues only going to do long arm quilting from her home.

Next we went to lunch at the Parawan dinner and headed home.

Was a nice ride but looked like rain so we watched a movie and

and relaxed the rest of the day.

Pioneer Day

So what is Pioneer day with out a parade. which includes sitting in the sunshine and watching the firetrucks scirens blaring go by. then some old cars... Drill teams...

Thought Chris would like this one...

The Hamilton Fort ward... We spriced up our float a bit this year...

Thought tis was a clever float>>>>

This float had a bunch of kids following it dressed up as jello boxes

So that was a fun beginning to the day.

Almost back to normal

The beds are empty and its time to get busy, I haven't done much cleaning the past couple weeks. Was gonna just vacuum thru as tonight is the beehive sleepover here but... the closet is not clean...

Nor is most of the basement where we'll be most of the night, soo

I started cleaning when Ron left for work, in between catching up on my blog I have

part of the upstairs done and all but the bathroom done in the basement. It took me 2

hours to pick up toys and put away in play room. Promting a new rule at grandmas

house picking up toys each night before dessert and before leaving I'm getting too old

for this stuff. I need to go for groceries Thrn I'll finish cleaning before 7p.m. When the

girls arrive.

and then I'll come home and tackle to basement.

Victoria has cought the quilt bug

Victoria had loved tying the quilts so asked to make her first quilt..Music to my ears. /so Sat while grandpa was doing temple confirmations with Young women and us girls were having craft time we got started. I did the cutting but she did the rest with a bit of guidance. First we cut 12 51/2 " blocks of 9 different fabrics. Then she sewed them together into 9 patches. she sewed on my featherweight...

once we got all the nine patches done we cut them in half twice each

Then sewed them back together after a turn or two.

Next it was time to line them up in the order she wanted.

We wrote out her tag and she sewed it onto the back...

Sewed the blocks into rows, and then all the rows together

Ta... da... the top is done...Did you notice she was sewing in her pj's

she'd get up and had to do some before breakfast.

Next we made the sandwich of top batt and back.

Sewed around the sand. in an envelop. I let her do

the trimming of the edges, and flip it right side out.

She picked a decorative stitch she liked and Went around the outside again.

So by Tuesday morning before they left for home Victoria had done her first quilt at age 9. She did an awesome job and all she has to do is add a few ties to keep all layers in place. It was truly a joy to see her so excited to get it done and she was so proud of her accomplishment. As was I.

Once she gets it tied it will be ready to enter into the fair.

Crafts and fun

So Saturday Grandpa went with the young women to the temple. The girls and I did crafts.
we cut little strips of fabric and decorated flip flops way fun.

Friday night we went to the Green Show.

there was dancing

Singing

fun for all

More fun and frolic

Friday after catching up on the weeding and such we were off to the Freedmont Indian St. Park.

we took a couple hikes this was at the Sheep cave
The girls with grandma, yes I went along.

The girls checking out a pit shelter

more petroglyphs

In the museum there was a discovery area for children the girls

spent most of time here playing and checking out things like this

mood rock. Totally cool!!

Christianna offering us some delicious blackberries.

Victoria totally got into the native atmosphere with the hide dress

to play.

She didn't like the fox skin fur, kept saying poor fox.

Grampa's stying in his skunk fur though, don't ya think?

Is it really time to leave??? O.K.

In the museum the girls ground corn just like the Indians did.

So we came home and made our own Petroglyphs. this is mine the

Interlocking circles are actually my favorite quilt block, with Ron

and I in the center, each adjacent circle is each of the kids. There is a

peace sign in each of the three girls squares as each of our son-in

laws have or do keep peace. In the ovals that are in the intersections

are the grandchildren with a small star for Aiden, and yes I added

Olivia she's almost here. I also have trees, water and mountains to

represent life and nature, which we love.

This is Christianna's she did a moon with stars and while carving

it out she added bullet holes like we'd seen some that had been vandalized.

This is Victoria's sun/moon combo. They did a great job.

Thursday we stopped by the guild briefly to get patterns and a

couple errands and it was time for the park with water

The girls totally enjoyed playing in the water

Then it was home for supper and some people who came from Vegas to check out Pat's motorcycle.They were older and they loved it Tracy who was a widow for 14 years had decided she wanted to have a motorcycle she was thrilled with the bike and they even wrote us a letter after they got it home to thank us for being so nice and honest with them she is gonna love it. Victoria was a little sad as it was the first motorcycle she's ever ridden but Tracy assured her it was her first motorclyle and that she would take really good care of it.