Easter morning at Moonlight. I ran from our house to meet Tony and Brayden. We even attended church this morning. I forgot a local church had an Easter service on the beach. It actually was a really nice service. I felt a little under dressed strolling up to the service in my sweaty running clothes but we stayed anyway.

An egg hunt at a friends on Friday morning. This was as close as a group shot as we could get with this wiggly bunch.

He has got the egg hunt down pat.
Last year he only had one or two eggs and got mowed down by some bigger 2 year old and the pushy parents. This year he held his own.

Score!!!

The highlight of the Encinitas egg hunt-- wandering around inside the ambulance. I think he forgot the hunt was over at this point. I found a couple of tongue depressors in his basket.

Hooray candy for breakfast....The sun was not even out yet this morning when we all got up to follow the trail of eggs to his basket. Good thing the Easter bunny comes early to Carlsbad.

....Note to self. Do not make a Easter back pack with a 30 year old zipper. Even if the zipper was in the original package this does not mean it is in new condition.

Happy Easter everyone!

once bitten...

We have a little injured solider. Brayden played a little too rough with one of my parents cats and he decided to retaliate by biting him on the leg yesterday. My mom took him to our doctor ( you know if my mom took him to a doctor and not wait it out with Neosporin, it was a bad bite) and left with a prescription for antibiotics. He has been in pain all last night and the all day today and he has a lot of pain climbing up anything or being carried. We have been having to lift him up and down from things and once he stands up he gets around ok but has a little limp. We are watching lots of gabba gabba and drinking lots of chocolate milk until the swelling goes down and the pain subsides.

Making Easter cupcakes before the Easter sprinkles forever disappear. He has a tendency to hide any sprinkles he can find in his back pack or in his room. His dentist probably would frown on this activity since he is due to have three fillings in his top teeth in the beginning of April. I have stalled as long as possible but he is starting to complain about his top teeth. Anesthesia is required and I am pretty freaked out by the whole upcoming process but that is another blog post all together. Fortunately, we decided to add him to our dental insurance this year.
Did I mention we became Legoland members? That is where we have been hanging out a lot lately.

I have learned to make this water pad the last stop of the day.

Yep...we are those people who burn through all of the diapers and back up outfits and leave legoland in our underwear.

A daylight savings bike ride to the Carlsbad campgrounds to visit friends for breakfast.

2010's Easter backpack. It really is egg- shaped but when filled with hot wheels and crumpled up monopoly money it quickly loses shape.

Taking money out of my wallet to put into his backpack for the bike ride. I guess monopoly money is not enough anymore.

Score! I think I like this machine more than my new Pfaff. I found it yesterday at a garage sale. She said it worked fine but why would you part with a Viking machine for $25.00 if it worked. I thought my mom may like to upgrade to a machine from the twentieth century. She has had and exclusively uses her Singer treadle machine ( you know the human powered kind). I played around with this machine and I LOVE IT. Everything works and all of the attachments were included. It even does the alphabet. I do not need three machines. I am not that in love with sewing. The Huskeylock I had to have sits nicely it's bag in the garage begging to be used ( honestly, threading the thing is quite a challenge) . My mom came over to take a look did not seem to interested in upgrading to an electric powered machine. Maybe I should start a sewing circle.

Spring crafting

Wandering around the garden at Quail gardens.
Playing with friends from Petaluma at Cottonwood Creek park

Easter crafts have officially started here. I picked up this bolt of corduroy at a garage sale last Saturday. I am thinking of using some of it for a Easter back pack for Brayden instead of a basket this year. His current back pack is getting pretty tattered on the bottom from all of the heavy traveling it has been doing for the past few months. We really don't leave home without it. I should post a photo of the contents of the back pack. It is pretty funny.

Here is a start of a lap quilt with some of the Batik I wanted to use. I am not crazy about the green but I wanted to use whatever I had in my stash. Since I have not been sewing lately, I wanted a smaller project to quilt before I try and make a big giant queen size quilt. 3 blocks down 15 to go.

Our new addition to our cozy dining room. We have vacated Leaping Lotus and this was one of our leftover pieces. I am not ready to part with it yet ( I have visions of it turning into a cute craft cabinet). Space is a big issue in our house but Tony was nice enough to do some major rearranging of our furniture and made it work. Brayden is having a blast hiding out in the cabinet and stuffing his little treasures in the drawers. Our dining table is now pushed back to the pony wall that adjoins our living room. I like the change but getting out to our back yard is tricky.

It is probably apparent that I am in serious need of a diversion from the mortgage chaos with all of my time consuming craft projects I have started at the same time...I have had a couple of deals go so wrong that should have been easy that it really did a number on me. I have been doing this nine years and thought I had seen it all. They are now funded and in their homes but the road to get there was nothing short a over documentation nightmare.
Enough about that....Enjoy your week.

x's and o's

Making Valentines and a big mess.

Reading a Valentine card from Nana Wendy

Heart shaped pizza. Yum.
Happy early Valentines.

Crazy idea #1-3

Crazy idea 1: Started April 9Th 2009 & finished February 1st 2010. This was a serious undertaking for a beginner. Most people would start off with an actual pattern and start off with something tiny like a 5x7 sized project. I jumped off a cliff with this one. The finished size for this embroidery is 14x19. As the months passed on my enthusiasm for completing the project completely faded. I would work on it a little every night while watching a little TV. Then the next week toss it in my ever growing "half done project" basket by the side of my bed and pick it up weeks later. Now that it is finished, I want to start another. What is with that anyway? Embroidery post-partum? Tony started sketching me another scene to start soon. This time I will use 3 strands of floss instead of 6. This hopefully will make the stitches look much tighter and cleaner. I wanted this to hang in Brayden's room to match the quilt I made him. I have not decided on a final hangling place yet. Tony is making me a lovely frame out of Koa that is gluing up( along with belated Christmas projects to his parents). I might need to hang it in a grown up space for a little while first.

Crazy idea 2: A few weeks ago I picked up several yards of fabric at a yard sale that someone was selling at a yard sale. I have been wanting a new quilt for our room for years. I refuse to put back on the pottery barn luau quilt on our bed for another spring and summer. Tony hated the quilt from day 1. So, I ordered this pattern last week and hope to incorporate some of this fun fabric into some of the circles within the pattern. I like the fabric but a little of this color palette and style goes a long way for me. Looking forward to brushing up on my roto cutting skills on this one.




I am off to run to my parents house ( 3.7 miles door to door) to meet up with Tony and Brayden. Hopefully the run will help off-set the upcoming super bowl mega calorie food fest. Plus I seriously need to begin training at some point for the rock n roll 1/2 in June....crazy idea #3.......