Rocks

I love rocks! Just ask anyone who knows me! When I spent the morning/day with Lizzie a few months back, she bought some fabric to make me an apron:



Isn't it wonderful? Also, while we were shopping, I bought some fabric to work on a geology quilt:



And then one of the gals in the Twilight Quilter's Coven sent me a yard of really pretty fabric that had all the above colors blended in it! I had sent her some crystalline fabric. As I've been cutting out blocks (6" finished) I figured that this quilt will be at least as big as the last one I did. I guess I'm into the big quilts! LOL

Nothing beats a...

So yesturday was exciting, well not really. But a lot did happen.

I was heading to work and got rear-ended. I'm ok, just sore. And the Kia... It doesn't look like anything happened. It was stop and go traffic, so we weren't going all that fast. But still, got checked out by a doc, just in case.

Then I got TWO books in the mail. ARCs! Adversary- Thanks Kate! and Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters. When I'm done with them, both will be posted on my book blog.

Also, grams and gramps sent me the "mommy" bathing suit I bought when I went down to visit them. Never went swiming, so I'm taking it back to wally world and getting my money back.

Then Steve and I went to the fair! We got $2 bills back as change. Which we're not spending! And then had corndogs, elephant ears and cookies. The cookies were really good.

Teach a man to fish

Well, I may or may not have a permanate job... We'll see by tomorrow! Oh, but it won't be teaching men! LOL little men I guess, it'd be the preschoolers! ;)

Steve and I had a talk in church yesturday, I think it went well! Except for the fact that I talked longer than Steve. And he was all worried about me taking enough time, espically since I talk so fast.

You ever do the word count in Word? I did, I had over 2000 words for my talk! Ohh, let's do some math:

2147 words, total time of 15 mins... so...

2147 words/15 mins=x words/1 min
143 words per min!! LOL guess that's pretty fast.... Oh well, it's done for now. Hopefully for a while.

The week before was my first time teaching Relief Society (the 3rd hour of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints sunday meetings, for all the women 18 and older). It was a little itimdating, but they all participated!

I've been working on a quilt right now, though I'm not sure how it's going to look done.... I was thinking of doing it in a wall hanging, but I'm not even halfway done with the BOM (block of the month) for it. I've just added/done many blocks in different colors. Yes, it's a Twilight quilt. I showed Steve some of the blocks I've done so far and he realized I was doing a Twilight themed quilt. Oh well, it keeps me busy!

Versatile Blogger Award

Lizzie over at Such a Sew and Sew presented me with this award. It's a huge honor! Thanks Lizzie!

So there are rules for this award:

1. Thank and link back to the person who gave you the award.

See above.

2. Share 7 things about yourself.

- I love to read books
- I sleep with a stuffed animal when Steve is away for business.
- I'm the oldest of 4 girls, yes my poor mother had to deal with 4 teenage girls!! LOL
- I own a classic car (well by marriage!)
- I love rocks, seriously ask anyone who knows me
- I will try new foods when I eat out
- I want to have a garden someday

3. Pass the award to 15 blogs you enjoy and let them know they've been given the award.

This one is a bit harder, as I don't visit that many blogs! LOL so here are the ones that I'm giving it to:

Cindy at Books Complete Me
Pixie and Stacy at Page Turners
Kate at Disgruntled Bear
YA Book Queen
Ashely at Books Obsession
Emily at EA Yonker

Can ya tell I love reading? LOL

She's at it again!

Lizzie, my fave craftly lady, has been a busy bee! She's made now 100 aprons. and is giving away number 100!!! Check out the aprons!!

Meridian Magazine - The Non-fiction Nook: Food, Glorious Food!

Meridian Magazine - The Non-fiction Nook: Food, Glorious Food!

My best friend's sister's book reviews!

Post Falls, Idaho!

This last weekend, Steve and I went up to Spokane, WA and Post Falls, ID. We were following the Rocky Mountain Challenge Series. It was three days of great racing! Though we did get some site seeing in:

Downtown Spokane- Riverfront Park

You see those boxes near the water? We were in those! The pictures from above were taking from inside them!!! :)




And pictures from solid ground:



Then we drove around Coeur d'Alene, well actually we only drove for 3 or 4 hours and sort of around the lake there.... I'm not sure if we had more time if I would have wanted to drive all the way around the lake!



You see that ridge? That was part of a road we drove on, well I drove! It was scary!!
A view from another high up road we drove on. That's the lake up in Coeur d'Alene.

And then a pretty bird we saw on our way back to the race track: