Christopher Robbin

Annie and the kids invited me out to Stansbury for my birthday to go see the movie, Christopher Robbin.  It was such a funny, cute and great story about Christopher Robbin all grown up.  Diet coke, popcorn and a good movie with the grandchildren.  Can't get much better than that.

Here are a couple quotes from the movie that are ones that make you think:

"When yesterday was tomorrow, it was too much day for me."
"I get to where I'm going by walking away from where I've been."

Thanks Gertsons!!  Loved spending the day and the movie with all of you.

My new china

Neal and I are working on getting a 24 place setting of our new china.  We found someone who was selling her whole set with all the accessories like salt and pepper shakers, gravy boat, tea pot - yes a tea pot or coffee pot - and butter dish, etc.  Who ever packed it did a terrible job and when we opened it, there were many pieces broken.  I was grateful that most of the pieces that didn't make it were the tea cups and saucers.  There were some little fruit bowls that I loved and most of them didn't make it so I will have to get on ebay and amazon and see if I can find some to buy.

 The little stems that go on top of the serving bowls.

 So excited for my new china to have a place in the china hutch.  Neal did the arranging, of course.  We also are now using the Americana dishes for our every day dishes and have them housed in the kitchen cupboards.  The old dishes are stored carefully away.

We don't have all the pieces yet but hopefully we will eventually be able to buy all the missing pieces.

Tuacahn

Every year Neal and I get season tickets to Tuacahn with Ron and Judy.  This year our shows were Cinderella, Prince of Egypt and Matilda.  All three productions were amazing.  I have to say that my favorite was Cinderella.  The instant costume changes right on stage were almost magic, they happened so fast.  The weather was hot as the Dickens but we so enjoyed the plays in spite of the heat.  We did play golf early one morning and Judy and I did the usual shopping trip and actually had Ron and Neal go back to Dillards with us to look at some shorts.  Neal ended up getting about 10 pair!

We also went for walks along the golf course and saw this beautiful cactus in bloom.

On our way home we saw this little house on the freeway and I just had to take a picture of it.  Just looks like a doll house being towed down the road.

It was a wonderful trip with fun and laughs and delicious food.

Scofield Weekend

Ron and Judy invited Neal and I to the cabin this past weekend to celebrate my birthday.  We had a grand time.  Left on Friday morning and golf on the way.  We did nine holes and then on to the cabin for good food, relaxing, carving, bridge and church.  We came home late Sunday evening.  It was a great birthday celebration with good friends.

Stitching

Haven't accomplished too much on the stitching.  I've been doing quilting instead, but this is how far I am at this point.  This photo was taken August 2nd.  Just finally got around to posting it.

Neal's Tree finally gets trimmed!

Cutting the limbs off this tree in the front room is the hardest thing that Neal has to do every year.  He can hardly stand to cut the limbs, but, again, it was taking over the front room.  I promise, it will grow back and we will be going through this process yet again.  I remember the first time he cut the limbs, Tucker was here.  Too bad you weren't here for the ceremony.

 The final product.  So much nicer and so much easier to manage and it isn't taking over the front room and people don't have to dodge the tree!

After the trimming!

More birthday presents

Lynda Ann, Abby and Andrew came by the office on their way to Lagoon - well it certainly wasn't on their way, it was way out of the way - and brought me a beautiful bouquet of flowers.  Abby gave me my favorite cookies and a darling set of salt and pepper shakers.

I loved the PS at the end of my card.  Annie is an awesome mom!

Today I got a package in the mail and it was from Tucker and Jamie and the girls.  It was one of those fun boxes from Amazon full of all of the stuff that I love.  It's like Christmas when I get one of those fun boxes.  It's like the gift that keeps on giving.  I just keep pulling things out of the box.  So much fun!

Thanks for remembering and making my birthday awesome!

My birthday gift from me to me :)

I was at a friends home and she served us dinner on some china that I absolutely fell in love with.  I've never picked out my own china.  When I got home I did some research and found out the china was made in the 1990's and was no longer available.  So I went to some websites and low and behold I found just what I wanted.  I guess it is true you can find just about anything on the internet if you do some searching.  My china is Mikasa Spring Legacy.  I ordered a 24 place setting.  Neal likes it as well as I do and he has also been doing some searching.  These are the first pieces that have come.

Can't wait to display them in the china cabinet.  Will have to wait until they all get here.  I think Abby is the grandchild that is going to love this china.  She loves Annette's china and so I'm thinking she will like the colors and pattern on this china as well.  It will be interesting to see what she says.  

Christmas Quilts

I know it is August and I'm thinking about Christmas.  But, I knew that this project would take me a lot of hours to pull off.  With Annie's help, she put a name on each quilt.  Then it became my project to tie all of them.  I have to say that my middle finger and my thumb are pretty much numb and very tender from tying 17 quilts!!  I just took the last one off the frames tonight and put the quilting frames away and got my basement back in order.  Here are a picture of the pajama quilts.  Oh, I need to explain that I took all the scraps from all the pajama material that I've made the grandchildren over the years and made quilt squares out of them.  I put them all together and now I have 'pajama' quilts - well that is what I like to call them.  I'm hoping that the grandchildren will appreciate them now and in years to come they may look at them and remember the pajamas that I made them.

Now comes the process of binding all of them.  That will be a long and involved project but my goal is to have them all done by the end of August.  We will see how I do.  I hope this gift is something that the grandchildren will love as much as I've loved making them.