Playing catch up with the blog...

I am so excited to go to the Houston Quilt show this year, I had to create a shirt to wear!!

 I also made a new shirt for my Dad, who had another one just like it but wore it so much that it had holes.  Dan (my brother) also mentioned he would like one too.  I hardly ever get to see Dan, but he was such a big help with our reunion this summer and I was very happy to make something for him as a thank you.

 My friend, Elayne who is serving a mission here with her husband, loves Halloween.  I got this great embroidery pattern for a haunted house and created a little something for her.  She can use it for a fall/thanksgiving centerpiece after Halloween is over because the backing fabric is fall pumpkins!

I had fun making some more snowflake ornaments and soon will try some other colors, just for fun!

Elayne and Jay came for a visit to the Bishop's storehouse where we are serving once again and what a surprise, it turns out they went to school with LaRee (her and her husband are the managers) in Utah and are old friends! Small world!

While Elayne and Jay are serving here, they wanted to see the Texas beach, so we went for three days to Corpus Christi.  We had a wonderful time collecting shells, eating good food and giving them the tour of the area.

 Foxy came too, but was not a fan of the wig!!!  She loved running on the beach! It was her favorite!

We also took a quick trip to Arkansas to take some furniture to Becky and Cameron.  While it was a long drive, we loved spending time with them and the grand children!!

 Becky has a studio now!
 It is so nice for her to be able to paint whenever the kids are in school or Moms day out..  She hopes to be able to set up a place to have live models for her paintings.

Of course we had fun shopping for the little princess who was destined to be a Rat for Halloween.
We loved buying her a cute little costume and were excited to see her in it.

 Mom and Dad love putting the boys Legos together too!!

 The boys were so proud of finishing them.

There is a funny story about Noelle and her spider.  She is fascinated by spider pictures, so we bought one home from our shopping trip.
Cameron immediately set up a way that the spider would drop on Becky's head when she came home.
It worked!!  She screamed and he was so pleased with his own accomplishment :-)

He did it to the kids, but they were not surprised by it and knew it was just one of Dad's tricks :-)