To Do List

At the risk of embarrassing Kendall, I had to post this list. Her new thing is to make to do lists. I love her last two items on her list. Monday night Matt was busy writing a brief for a huge case he has going on and did not get home until 10 p.m. He left notes for the kids letting them know he missed seeing them and on Kendall's he mentioned with word and picture what games they could play when he got home. Apparently, she is going to hold him to this every night now, but I know he will be glad to oblige. The best one of all is "cuddle with Daddy". 2 cute!!

My Inner Seamstress

So our ward progressive dinner was this weekend and we were hosting part of the group. Matt reminded me that the first couches we ever bought, which have seen better days, are the ones we keep in our living room. Well - we had to have seating, but it was time to take off the beat up, ripped throw pillow covers and make some new ones. Of course, I didn't consider this until the day before, so I had to do something quick. Luckily Joann was having a sale on home decor fabric. I covered the big pillows with some cute floral fabric and then had a great find at a Target clearance end-cap - these cute cream colored pillows with embroidered leaves. Believe it or not, they give the old beat up couch a brand new look!
Oh - I also found this quilt pattern on line and wanted to try it (not for the progressive dinner). It was fun because I had a lot of scraps I could use for it. It is machine quilted which I thought would take less time, but I was wrong. BTW - the pillows were done over the weekend, but the quilt was made over several weeks - definitely not a weekend project!

Open House

Open House was this week. Kendall could hardly wait to show us everything in her class, which is funny because I have already seen most, if not hung it up myself. She told me about her animal book that she wanted me to see and I didn't have the heart to tell her I glued everyone's pictures in their books!! This is a picture of her awesome teacher, Ms. McKnight. She is the kind of teacher who teaches because she enjoys the children which is very apparent whenever I am there. Last week when I was picking up Kendall, she ran out to my car to tell me that she had a secret for me. I wasn't supposed to know yet, but Kendall passed the GATE test. I loved that she was so excited for her accomplishment. Kendall is having a great year and seems to come out of her shell a little more every year.