Spring Stopped By For A Visit!

With my husband away snowmobiling, Amelia and I spent the weekend home by ourselves. And guess who stopped by? SPRING! We had some wonderfully warm weather Saturday and today. However with the warm weather came melting snow and mushy lawns. But we had a fun time enjoying the change. Too bad rain, sleet and some snow is back in the forecast for tomorrow. Sigh. Why can't it just stick around?!

We spent a lot of time outside. I took Punkie to her favorite park Saturday morning after running our errands. She had a great time running around with the other kids and playing. Of course, I brought my camera but left it in the car. After her nap on Saturday afternoon, we went outside to blow some bubbles.

And this is Amelia's way of telling me she's tired of the camera:

She can be a stinker!

This morning it was nice and sunny so we ventured out again. I spent time vacuuming out my car and getting rid of the 6 months worth of Cheerios in my backseat and 10 pounds of sand on the floor. Punkie had fun digging in her sandbox. Here is she "washing" her ride-on excavator with "compost" (sand) - new word learned in school.

She brought her camera outside so that she could take pictures of "wildlife" - her words, not mine.Before we had lunch this afternoon, we did arts and crafts and made a crown. Here's is the Pink Princess of Hearts.

The Princess is sad because the Queen (that's me) made her clean up all her crafty stuff before having lunch.

One more... I received items from the Fat Quarter Swap I joined. AWESOME. 3 half yards of hydrangea fabric and some sequins ribbon. I love the fabric! I think I'm going to make a tote bag out of it. For ME! I hope I have enough for the pattern I want to follow. If not, I'll mix it up with some purple polka dots or something. Thank you Diane!

Thank you to everyone who posted for my 100 post giveaway! There's still time! I will be chosing a name/number sometime tomorrow morning.

Enjoy your night!

Jen

What's Going On Over Here?

Can you tell?


We're getting our sugar maples tapped for our very own maple syrup. My husband and father in law has been talking about getting it done for a few years now and I came home yesterday to buckets attached to our trees.

Apparently, the parents of 2 of Punkie's preschool classmates make pure maple syrup and they came and tapped our trees. There are about 25 trees tapped. Now, I want to know how this conversation came about because I had NO CLUE these people did this as a hobby.

Here's how I think the conversation happened:

- Waiting for preschool to let out -

Person 1 (my Mother In Law) - Sigh.
Person 2 (Erica - mom of classmates) - Carol? What's wrong?
Person 1 - I have a real craving for some maple syrup; that's all.
Person 2 - Really?
Person 1 - Yes. There are some sugar maple trees on my son's property but I have NO IDEA how to get the sap out and make syrup!
Person 2 - Well Carol. Today is your lucky day! My husband and I tap trees and make syrup as our hobby! We would be more than happy to come out and tap your trees and see what happens.
Person 1 - Really?! Oh that would be wonderful!...

LOL. I kid but seriously! How does she find out these things?! Leave it to my MIL to find someone to do the job. So, they are going to come out every few days, take the sap and when there is enough, they will evaporate it and make us some syrup. Pretty cool, huh? I will say this, I don't like "pure" maple syrup. I find it too sweet. I'm more of a "Log Cabin" type girl. You know, the artifical stuff. Shhhh! Don't tell! LOL.

On the quilting front, not much. Here are the two fat quarters that I'm sending off for the FQ swap I joined. They are going in the mail tomorrow. Pretty and springy. That was the criteria for the swap. I was going to add some extra stuff but I just didn't have the chance to shop for anything. So my swap partner is just going to get the FQs. I feel bad but work has been crazy.

I have started these very cute letter pillows for my cousin. I hope to have them done this weekend so that I can show them all at once. So cute! I'm going to do some for Amelia too.

Enjoy your day! Oh. Four more posts and it will be giveaway time! I'm so excited to have my very first giveaway!

Jen

Fat Quarter Swap

Darci is hosting a FQ swap. Just need to swap two fat quarters. Go on, check it out and sign up. Should be fun and painless. LOL.