our pal graelyn is turning three soon. to celebrate, a set of her grandparents came to town and they all went to tweetsie for the day on saturday. oh. and we also got invited. it worked out nicely because derek has to work so much, and it gave him some time to work, without feeling […]
whatever.
some pictures. and stories. from our lives. lately. birthday party for shira. we got two new-to-us older barred rock hens to replace the two that lucy slaughtered a few weeks back. (plus one more that derek got just for fun, i guess). unfortunately, within a couple of days, they both died. still not 100% sure […]
a festival of apples.
on saturday, i dragged the kids to an apple fest in bethabara (a historic-ish place in winston-salem). i had a few other mom friends, who were without husbands for the weekend, so we met up to celebrate apples together. lincoln was a super wagon puller. we found the beekeeper exhibit, first thing. love watching bees […]
one fish two fish.
came out of my cake hiatus to make some seussian cupcakes and a cake for a baby shower that my college roommate was throwing for one of her friends. i am pretty happy with how these all turned out. i cut each one out of fondant with an exacto knife and then used an edible […]
buzzer beater (quilt)
i have been participating in a little bloggy contest called 12 quilts in ’12. (here and here, too). the goal (obvioiusly) is to make a quilt each month for 2012. i have been on track so far. i even won a little scrap bag of fabric and a ruler in january. anyone who enters all […]
a feeble attempt to cover the last few weeks.
when i went to post the back to school post, i realized it’s been quite a long time since my last post. then, i started a miscellaneous post and realized that i hadn’t posted pics of the coop or discussed the tragic details of the lucy-chicken incident. so, those events aside, i am now posting […]
another poultry post.
the coop has been done for awhile and the chickens moved in permanently earlier this month. lucy terrorizes them in their coop/run, chasing them from one side to the other. anna enjoys playing in the coop. so does ike. and anna likes having them contained so she can catch them easily. we let them out […]
public school. day one.
well. even though it’s still 900 degrees, i guess summer is over and it’s time for school. isaac, at a whopping “five and a half” (don’t dare leave off the half), had his very first day of kindergarten today. he was pretty excited. and picked out this shirt himself. and has decided that i’ll wash […]
a dress for the annababy.
after finishing up the granny square quilt, i was looking for a smaller, less time consuming sewing project. so, i pinned about a thousand little girl’s dresses and then picked out one that seemed kind of easy. first, i made one with some fabric that i wasn’t super crazy about. it was a little big […]
playing with food. angry birds style.
oh, pinterest. i found this idea on pinterest from the site, little hands, big work. and, then i was on a quest for angry birds fruit snacks. finally, on a trip to joann’s to load up on thread, i happened upon these in the checkout line: i rustled up some building type food, cut up […]