I made my goal for the month again!
9/29: 15 minutes walking
9/30: 140 minutes hiking (about half of that with Ellie in the Ergo)
1525/1500 

First things first, David took the most beautiful picture of Ellie the other day:

Well, aside from working on my quilt this weekend, and working my butt off trying to get all my exercise minutes in, I’ve also had an afternoon off and I got to go get my hair done. Other than the stylist [...]

I finished Killy’s quilt! Here was the process…
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At the end of Day 1, the fabric was cut and I had most of the patchwork all together (about 4 hours of work).

At the end of Day 2, I had finished putting the patchwork together and added the first border (about 2 hours of [...]

I don’t know why I’m so grumpy all of a sudden. Oh, wait! Could it be the two screaming toddlers, the messy house, and the fact that David hasn’t actually listened when I talk in about two years?!
In order to cheer myself up, I’ll talk about the good stuff so far today:
-I had [...]

My very first attempt at quilting by hand:

I’m about to fall into bed – I’m exhausted!
We took Carina back to the airport today… Its always sad to see her go.  In order to distract myself from the let-down of her being gone tonight, I made a quilted Halloween wreath to hang on my door.  Its about 12×12 inches, and I did the [...]

It was beautiful!  We had a lovely time (other my typical worries that the kid’s crazy behavior annoys other people), and everything seemed to go perfectly!  Here’s a selection of pictures…
This is my absolute favorite picture.  Carina and Killy both look so happy and its maybe the best picture I’ve ever gotten of the two [...]