Twin Blanket

Like I said I'm on a quilting spree. Here is a twin blanket I made. I paid someone to quilt this one and it turned out so cute, but it was very expensive, hence I'm learning to machine quilt on my own sewing machine.

Baby Blanket

I've been a quiltin' fool lately. This is one of my many projects. I want to learn to machine quilt and this baby blanket is my first attempt.

Facebook

Ok, I have a confession to make. I haven't been putting all my time to “good use", like I claimed in my last post. I actually have been wasting a lot of time on Facebook too. I just can't help myself. I mean it has been so cool reconnecting with old high school, college, mission friends, etc... I even found an old pen pal from England that I used to write to and even visited one summer when I was in middle school. So if you don’t already have enough things draining all your time, you should join facebook. And don’t forget to invite me to be your friend. :-)

Quilt

I’ve been MIA from blogger lately, but no worries, I’ve been putting my time to good use. My sister, Mariah, and I have been busy making quilts. We decided to do a calendar quilt (one quilt block for each month) and if I do say myself, they have turned out really cute. I have also really enjoyed making it. I got all my blocks sewn together except for March (St. Patrick’s Day) and I thought I would have to wait until the beginning of the new year to buy St. Patrick’s Day fabric, but it seems like the retail gods want us to celebrate all the holidays months in advance before they really happen, so we were able to get the fabric the last week of November. I’m not done with the quilt yet, I still need to put a backing on it and quilt it, but I thought it was cute and wanted to show it off. :-) I’m working on another quilt, so if anyone wants to come over and sew with me, I’ve got extra room at my table.

Free Chicken is totally worth it!

So if any of you were outside last night, hopefully you were at home snug in a toasty bed, but if you weren't, you know how cold it was, a freezing 28 degrees. Well me and a group of dedicated chicken lovers braved the weather and slept out in the West Jordan Chick Fil A parking lot so that we could each get ourselves 52 free combo meals. Some of you may be saying to yourself didn't she already do this once, and the answer is "yes" at the South Jordan grand opening of Chick Fil A, so for a similar account of our experience last night, you can read about it here, just remember it was about 30 degrees colder. However there were a few difference between last time and this time and here they are.
This time I was joined by the regulars, my brother and sister-in-law, Brian and Pam Slade, but some newbies joined us too, my husband, Mike (so together we got 104 coupons, a value of over $500), my sister, Mariah, her husband, Nick and my older brother, William. A lot more people must have been aware of this Grand Opening because the line reached 100 people by 6:30pm and at the South Jordan grand opening the 100th person didn't check in until around 10:00pm. Because of the unexpected crowds we were on the phone telling everyone to rush over or they weren't going to get a spot, luckily everyone made it and the last one in our group to check in was #97.
The night and sleeping were the same, except for a lot, lot colder. I have to give a special shout out to Brian and Pam for keeping us from freezing. They let us sleep in their tent, use all the propane in their heaters and use their toe warmers. I would have frozen if it weren't for all that. Brian and Pam set up two tents, one had a couple of propane space heaters in it that kept it really warm, so we sat in there and talked and played card games until it was time for bed. In the other tent were our beds. We all snuggled up in our sleeping bags with blankets piled on top of us with our hats, scarves and gloves still on and tried to get some sleep.
In the morning we got in line and ran through the store cheering that it was finally open and glad to get our coupons. I had some cash on me and they asked who wanted to be the first customer, so I went up to the counter and ordered the first thing ever in the West Jordan Chick Fil A. They asked me to sign the dollar, so maybe they will hang it on and wall and I will be famous.
Anyway, hopefully these coupons will last longer than my other ones. I only have 4 coupons left from the South Jordan grand opening and it was less than 6 months ago.


Heidi, Brian and I trying to stay warm in the tent.


Willy is ready for Chick Fil A to be open!

Happy Halloween

We enjoyed celebrating Halloween throughout the month of October. We went to a super fun Halloween party where we dressed up as a corpse bride and a mortician.

(People were asking me if this was my wedding dress, it wasn't. I hope I didn't look that frumpy on my wedding day.)


We played Guitar Hero and a fun new game called Werewolves of Miller Hollow. It's a really fun game for a big group of people.







We also invited Nick and Mariah over one night to carve pumpkins.

How do you get rid of hiccups?

For the past two nights I've gotten hiccups right before I've gone to bed. Weird huh? Whenever I get the hiccups I always remember hearing a story about a person who got the hiccups one day and then couldn't get rid of them. I wouldn't want that to happen to me, that would be really annoying to go around hiccuping all the time. Anyway they've gone away for the night, hope they don't come back again tomorrow.