Friday

So today we spent the afternoon on the bike went to Hurricane to Peach days but got there to early while setting up so decided to go up to Parawan to the Iron Co fair. Had some food and checked on some of my entries and I'll let you know my results on Mon. We got home and got things ready for our trip we are going to Bryce Canyon for our little get away.

32 years of blessings

So this picture was taken when we first came out to Utah about 6 years ago at Zion park
These are our four blessings Nicole ,Jennifer ,Crystal and Patrick.
This is when we were a bit older and had 3 additional family members back row Francine and Nicole 2nd row Ginger, Ron, Patrick and Chris holding Helaman, front row Jenni and Crystal This was our family picture taken on our 30th anniversary with more additions Back row Dallas, Francine, Pat, Chris 2nd row Ethan Jennifer, Aroura, Ron Victoria Nicole and Christianna, and in front Tom, Alex and Crystal. The families are together.

And this says it all :starting at top is Victoria, Christianna, Alex, next is Ethan , Rory and little Emma. We can add our angle baby to our grand children Aiden Was delivered premature in April and he has a special place in our hearts even though we have to wait till the next life to gt to know him.

So for our anniversary we spent a quiet evening at home and enjoyed a wonderful dinner of Shrimp, NY Steak corn on the cob and baked potatoes. turned out good

32 Fabulous years together

So maybe not all those years were fabulous some were, amazing , terrific , challenging adventures, or even mildly amusing. But I wouldn't change anything because they are how we got to were we are today. So check this out 32 years ago wow! We've changed a bit , I gained several pounds. O.K lots of pounds, and Ron has gotten taller and grown out of some of his hair.But we've also grown much wiser and hopefully matured a bit. We were so young and thought we knew so much. Actually we were clueless. But weren't we a cute couple, at 18 and 20. our story started in 1971 about half way thru my 8th grade year. Yes I was young, but my friend liked him so I said hi each time we were together and saw him ,(in my highly young mind I thought he a sophomore would say who is that little girl saying hi to me and fall in love with my friend) So I was not thinking and actually he noticed me, go figure. At the end of that year on my way to music class he asked me to go with him. This of coarse meant he would walk me to my classes and carry my books as I wasn't allowed to actually go on dates till I was 16. My mother raised six girls alone for part of her life and was a bit of the idea that before 16 you could get into a situation that you couldn't handle. Any way we were high School sweethearts broke up a couple times but pretty much were together all the time. Before Ron had a Car he would ride his bicycle over to see me on Sunday afternoons. That was a 10 mile ride so that was pretty cool.
Any way he graduated in 1974 and on my eighteenth birthday moved to Pa to take a job building towers. I was naturally very cool with that, well not exactly but I got his car in my senior year and he'd come back each weekend to see me. Then in June of 1976 I graduated and my family took a three week camping vacation out west. I was sewing sequence on my wedding dress because when we got back On August 28, 1976 at 11am we were married, At St. Hedwigs' Catholic Church in Houseville, New York. It actually rained in the first part of the ceremony but as we read our vows to each other the sun came out. Pretty cool huh.
Well here are some pics of us along our journey of those years of wedded bliss.

We are so stiling on our way to one of our nephews weddings. I think it was David and Stephanie.
This was at Mom and Roscoe's anniversary party, up in Philadelphia , New York.
This was at our home in Pa. back when we were celebrating maybe a tenth or fifteenth anniversary And this was even farther back when we were just out celebrating.

Cooking up date

I'm on the run today I get my nails done at 9am and then have a young women pres meeting. That will be tough we are meeting at pizza factory for lunch. Just wanted to say we took in a zucchini, egg noodles, can of chicken, shredded cheese, butter and spices. These girls took the ingredients and within a half hour the first group was done. both groups did great and the food was delicious. We were very pleased. And the girls well they loved it want to do it again. The bishopric were our taste testers and loved it their only comment was why we served the girls so much sugar before the activity. we assured them this was not the case this is just the natural nature of Beehives, HIGH ENERGY LEVEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On to my next event

Well I took 17 entries to the Iron county fair today,. Yes I know I may have over achieved a bit But on a positive note that was a lot of projects I actually finished. 12 were Quilted items, Wall hangings a tote , lap and full size quilts. I also entered a Brazilian embroidery piece that I've been working on for several years. And several items i have sewn. I purse, a set of aprons made for me and granddaughters to match, a set of pillow cases, and of course one of the 9 dresses along with a picture of the little girls and the bride. I'll get pics when I go and see what ribbons if any I receive. Then I have young women's tonight. We are taking the beehives 12 n 13 year old's several ingredients and they get to come up with a finished project. Should be fun.
And so I move on to the next event. I have a Quilt retreat meeting on Thurs. and so I will spend the next two days trying to get the registration forms typed up what can for the programs to be approved finished copied and mailed out in September.

Iron County Fair entries

Yes, once again it's time for the Iron County Fair and so I am getting my entries together. I decided to make a baby quilt so monday I started this rag quilt which i washed and dryed on Tues. This was a class I took last month so just had to put abatt and back on it and quilt it Which I did on Wendsday. The pattern is Contra dance.
This is my entry for hand quilting its the double wedding ring pattern. Last year I did one ring for each of my diningroom chairs (6 of them ) and covered them in a thin vynal for protection. I made a table runner and this wall hanging to match. It looks pretty nice I think .
This pic is a bit blurry but the wall hanging is called Santa in the pines. I took this class in 2005 and finally finished this and one with blue santa's last year.
This Christmas wreath was a class I took last november and I actually finished it in time for Christmas. So these are the entries so far. Thurs I had a class on Dying so took the day off from fair prep but the class was really fun and very informative. Oh, are you confused? The class was on Dye , coloring fabrics. It was from 10 am until 4:30 pm so long. But I have a couple yards of various colored fabrics and gained much knowledge.

Happy Birthday

Today is Crystal's 26th birthday! Our #3 daughter. I thought about calling to wish her a happy birthday before Ron left for work. Ron said it was to early but I figured it would be appropriate as she was born at 5 am eastern standard time. Any way a bit about Crystal. She was always the peacemaker. Each family has one. Doesn't like conflict always wants everyone to be happy and getting along. Don't get me wrong she can be stubborn too, but she is usually a happy person and sees life from the bright side. I have many wonderful memories of Crystal the one that sticks out most is when she was three, She had done something wrong and was in trouble, I was trying to explain the error of her ways, o.k. I was yelling at her. Anyway she looked up at me batted her eyelashes and said "but mommy I'm cute and funny!" Of course I totally lost it... I tried to be firm but had to laugh and give her a big hug. She's still cute and funny and we love her very much. Happy Birthday Crystal.
Today is also Tom's 24th birthday, Crystal's hubby. So the party will be at their house in Texas. Tom was friends with Pat in high school and Pat likes to remind us he was friends with him first. Anyway Tom has a special place in our hearts he is a wonderful husband to our Crystal and a great dad to Alex. And a good guy we are proud to call him son. We love you Tom Happy Birthday!! We'll talk with you tonight Your card is in the mail, really I mailed them Yesterday. Luv you guys. If I had pics I would post them but you don't send me ones of you guys.