2011 Relay for Life

This year the Relay for Life was held in Midland. My dad's team from Milesville participated, so Mikaela and I joined him. The opening ceremonies were awesome. It was a beautiful day with 92 degree heat, but it cooled in the evening.


The Milesville Mardi Gras team was selling pies and ice cream, and lap beads.

I made these Luminaries for my mom.

I covered them in lots of pictures.

Others made them for her too.



I made this one for my grandpa Jim.



Mikaela was a trooper. We went to church and she flirted with the little 3 year old in front of us. She walked 4 miles with me after church and finally conked out for the ride home at 11:30!

They had this big lit sign which was neat.

We lit these big paper lanterns and let them go into the night sky.


Mikaela and I walked 4 miles and had a great evening with my dad remembering and celebrating mom's life. Our team raised over $3,000 and all the teams raised over $26,000, which for a small rural area is amazing!

Mikaela is 33 Weeks Old!

Mikaela turned 33 weeks old on  September 7th. We spent the weekend at Deerfield Lake fishing. Mikaela and I played and took pictures while Daddy fished.








I love this pictures even with the sun spot. It just captures her whole persona.

She's not so sure about the glasses, but doesn't pretty good leaving her hat on.

She loves to stand up, by pulling herself up. She'll use anything to get herself up.

She loved riding horsey on daddy's neck. She did so good at staying straight up.

She even spent some time with Grandma Leslie checking out the different weeds. She's a little nature girl and loves to be outside.

Central States Fair Exhibits

The Central States Fair is held the 3rd week of August in Rapid City every year. It's kind of like our county fair, even though we live in a different county. This year i decided to exhibit a few of my quilts and clothing items. I took home 8 1st place ribbons, 6 2nd place, and 3 3rd place ribbons.  A few pictures of my quilts follow with their ribbons.
My newest quilt though not shown well here, is the Square pants block wall hanging that got a 2nd.
 
 The Koi fish quilt for my MIL got a 1st.

 

The sewing quilt got a 2nd and the OBW got a 3rd. 



The 5 & Dime got a 2nd.
 
 My jacket got a 1st, it's next to the winner of the class.
 
 The Schlep Bag I entered in the sewing competition got a 1st. I'll be teaching this one again soon as it's a fun class.

The Bib/Apron I made for Mikaela got a 1st.

The pants I made for Paul got a 1st in the serged category.

The Brown and Teal quilt got a 2nd.
 
 My English Paper Pieced, hand appliqued tablerunner won 1st and Best of class in the Original Design category. I was so excited to win as I had put in a lot of hours on this tablerunner in the past year.

Here's an up close of the ribbon. I've put it in my office with the tablerunner. I'm still so in shock! I won a $20 GC to a local craft store. It will be so much fun to go shopping for something new there.

Mikaela's cowgirls baby quilt won 2nd.

It was an exciting year at the fair and I so enjoyed entering. It would have been better had the lady who was entering my items not questioned if I'd really made all these or if someone else quilted them for me. I know she didn't know me, but it still felt downgrading that I shouldn't be able to make these items just because I'm young.

Mikaela is 32 Weeks Old!

Mikaela turned 32 weeks old the week we went to MN. She changed so much that weekend that it's kind of hard to believe!

She started crawling! She'd been scooting around backwards, but she's actually really crawling forward now.

She still loves this teething ring. She was all full of smiles while we were at Sue & Al's.

She loved the new puppy we got her at IKEA. We had a fun trip there, since neither of us had ever been there.

She was roaring! She conquered crawling and was so proud of herself!

She even learned to stand up by pulling herself up on their coffee table. Sue thought she could have her walking if she tried.


She enjoyed her first Twins game! We had 4th row seats from the field on left base line. Awesome seats! She was actually really good the entire game.

She loved to people watch, even if we were all watching the batting, she was looking the other way.

August Quilting Accomplishments

August was a fairly productive month, considering I was gone quite a bit.
I made the changing pad cover to go with the Diaper Clutch.

I made the bapron- baby apron.

I finished my first goal of making 2 wine bottle holders.

I finished my 7th goal of making a wonder wallet and runaround bag for Nichole for our Quilts and Vines weekend.



I made two Maxine Notebook covers. One for myself and one for Jen.



I made this ribbon blanket for Mikaela.

I completed my 5th goal of a Dilly Dally baby quilt for Pat's new granddaughter.

I finished my 8th goal of making a wall hanging out of my pink/brown buggy barn fabrics.

I also made a block for another wall hanging, but realized I didn't have enough brown and now need to take it apart and use a different brown.

I made a Diaper Clutch and changing pad for Nichole and Jon.

I quilted Aunt Mae's queen size quilt.

I also entered a bunch of quilts/sewing projects in the fair and got 8 1st's, 6 2nd's, and 3 3rd's. In addition I won Best of Class for my hand pieced hearts and diamonds table runner. I attended the Quilts & Vines quilt show with my friend Nichole and Mikaela.