Other summer fun!

This is going to be the post that talks about everything else I have pictures of from the summer.

I planted strawberries, and trees, 21 trees to be exact and they all DIED! This summer was just way to hot for stuff to survive out here, we got no rain at all :-(.

 Aleric and his Grandpa (my dad) built a pirate ship!

 We went to the Colorado State Fair Parade! And the State fair but I have no pictures of that.

 Chris and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary! Chris is the most amazing husband and father I could ever ask for. He gives me everything I want and supports me in everything I do. I am so very lucky to have him. His parents and Grandmother bought us our first grown up grill :-) up until now we have been using a $30 one from Walmart, this grill is awesome, it has both gas and charcoal. 

 Cooking wings and hamburgers:

 And Chris and I also canned 20 pints of organic peaches :-)

I also got rid of some birds, well we put the 2 roosters and 3 drake ducks in the freezer and I gave away the 2 female ducks. We did go to Breckenridge again this year to watch the Warrior Dash, I was not able to run it, but we already had paid for our hotel room so we went and spent the night up there and took a little 1 night vacation. I really do hope to run it again next year though! I have been doing some other crafting, some is for Christmas gifts though so I cant show pictures of it. I still feel like I have lots to do, and not enough time to do it all in. But that's life. I have also learned to make my own coffee creamer so I can once again enjoy my coffee nice and chemical free :-)! I might do a post on that in the near future now that I am back up to date on here I will try to post more regularly. 

Some Crafting

Over the spring I did get a few things sewn up. I made a little dress for my friends daughter for her 1st birthday.

 I made an apron for my MIL, apparently didge the cat approved of it. Chris picked out the fabric for it. It came out beautiful! I wish I had a picture of her wearing it. 

And for John for his Birthday I made him some John Deer pillowcases. I wish I would have more time to sew this year but its just not happening right now.

Chocolate Baby Boy Quilt

Here is another quilt I completed recently, Its Chocolate, Tan and Blue, the Blue fabric has little airplanes on it, SO CUTE!! This quilt already has a new home also.

Front

Back

Close-up of front

Mail Pouches!

I got some sewing done this weekend, even sewed my own finger - but we will get to that soon..

First is the Mail Bags, we keep losing the checkbook and bills and by we I mean I keep losing them, so I decided to sew up 2 little pouches, one for outgoing mail and one for incoming mail and the checkbook / stamps. This is a very easy project, and would have been done in a day if I had a maid to do my cooking and cleaning for me, so it took about 3 days to complete. Pictures:So while I was finishing up my mail bags my friend Tiffany came over and sat with me, she tells me that she is scared to sew because she is scared of sewing her finger. I told her you had to practically be a fucking retard to sew your own finger. So the next day I decided to make Tiffany a mug rug, she picked a fish shape, I cut it out, started sewing it, got about halfway done and I sewed my fucking finger. Now in my defense I know why it happened (the needle was in sewing position of all the way left - I usually sew with the needle in the middle position), and really it could have been much worse, I caught my middle finger right on the edge of the nail, not through it, I was using a small needle and luckily I have Chris to fix my mishaps. So we disconnected my finger from the machine, the needle had jammed itself into the foot on the machine so we had to take lightly pry the foot away from the needle, and then had to pull the needle from my hand. It really wasn't that bad, it stung, it was tingly for a few hours, but overall its fine and even kinda funny in hindsight. I mean it was ME who said you had to be a retard to do something like that. Right before we pulled it out I thought we should take a picture :)
And this is just a must see picture of Cocoa Bird!