I found this great tutorial for a Drunkard's Path block over at The Sometimes Crafter. (Natalie, is this the quilt you were talking about?!?!) I'm in love. There are so many ways you can lay out your blocks but I'm a big fan of the circle. So awesome!

When it's nice outside the tots and I usually eat lunch on the back porch. Since today is one of the few this week that we're not supposed to have rain, that's our plan. Here are a few random pics...
Gideon loves his shovel and "pucket." He sits at this little mud patch below our porch where grass just won't grow and digs and digs. Hours of entertainment, let me tell you what... I love this boy!!!

I can't get over this girl. She is so dang happy and so easy to please. Just now she came crawling up to me, reached up to me and did the hand clasping baby wave. So I pick her up and she nuzzles right into my shoulder. After a few minutes of good snuggling I laid her in her crib where she drifted into her nap without a peep. How'd I get so lucky!?

Jake took this lovely picture of me the other day and I just had to share it.
Disgusting, I know.

*thanks Megan for that gigantic slab of meat. Seriously, it was ridiculous.

I almost forgot to thank the awesome Rebecca from over at Girls Gone Child! (You have to go look at her adorable kids!) I won her giveaway last week of Christine Coppa's book Rattled. Thanks a bunch!

Jake has about 12 million things going on with Lemon Fresh right now. (For those of you who don't know... my hubby designs t-shirts in his spare time...which he has none of) He's completely revamping the website, setting it up for online orders (FINALLY!) and designing a new line of Ts.... which means EXCITEMENT!

He asked me to start a new blog for them that will feed into the new site once it's all ready to roll.

If you want a little peak... go here. But be nice, it's just a baby.

I hate swimsuits. But more specifically I hate swimsuit shopping. I figure if I buy one online it will cut back on the depression until I have to try it on at home...


I'm really liking both of these. Found them here. Which one do you like best?

Hey all! It's Earth Day! In honor of that I talked about a few easy ways to "GO GREEN" over at the Missouri Star Blog. Check it out here!

What do you do to get your green on!?

Since quilting (or obsessing over/buying/blogging about fabric) has recently become a fairly large part of my everyday I read about 12 million quilting blogs... but somehow I didn't read this one! Another Amy over at Diary of a Quilter is doing a giveaway in honor of her 96th post. (b/c everyone celebrates their 100th she says.) She's giving away this....

Good news folks. Amanda over @ Imperfectly Beautiful is doing an awesome giveaway in honor of her new etsy shop! Cruise over to her blog to play along to win a $25 gift certificate to use at her etsy store. She makes everything you see in the picture! SO CUTE!

Hey baby girl,
Can you believe it!? Another month gone! That means only two more until you're a year. It doesn't even seem possible to me.

The past month has been an eventful one. You've now got 6 teeth. (Two are only partway in... but they're there.) You can stand up all by yourself without holding on to anything. You really like to do that at the top of the stairs to give Mom a heart attack. Which makes you laugh and laugh. You clap at everything. When you stand up, you clap. When you get a snack, you clap. When you see Mommy in the morning, you clap... and hug me tight!

You have a fascination with the toilet, so bathroom doors have to stay closed around here. You love to splash in the bath and when the tub is filling up, you're the crazy one who enjoys sticking her head under the faucet in attempts to "eat the water." It's a good thing I've got a hold on you!

I'm sure you'll be walking soon and I can't wait! Love you!

Mom

We had a fabulous Easter weekend! I hope everyone else had a good one too!

Saturday, we spent at my parent's and I just had to snag some of the pictures my Mom & Dad took of the tots!

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

How do you stack up? Play along if you want!

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Y
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien- Y
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte- Y
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - Y
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee- Y
6 The Bible - Y(although not cover to cover)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte- N
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell- Y
9 His Dark Materials - N
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens-N
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott- Y
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy- N
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - Y
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare- Y
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier- N
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien- Y
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk- N
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger-N
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger-N
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot- N
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell- N
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald- N
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens- N
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy- N
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - N
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh- N
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky- N
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck- Y
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll- N
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame- N
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy- N (I never finished it...)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens- N
33 Chronicles of Narnia Series - CS Lewis- Y
34 Emma - Jane Austen- Y
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen- Y
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis- Y
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini- N
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Mais- N
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden- Y
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne- N
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell- Y
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown- Y
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez- N
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving- N
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins- N
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery- Y
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy- N
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood- N
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding- Y
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan- N
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel- N
52 Dune - Frank Herbert- N
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons- N
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen- Y
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth- N
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon- N
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens- Y
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley- N
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time- N
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez- N
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck- Y
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov- N
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt- N
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold- N
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas- Y
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac- N
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy- N
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding- Y
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie- N
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville- N
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens- N
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker- N
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett- Y
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson- N
75 Ulysses - James Joyce- Y
76 The Inferno - Dante- N
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome- N
78 Germinal - Emile Zola- N
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray- N
80 Possession - AS Byatt- N
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens- Y
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell- N
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker- N
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro- N
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert- N
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry- N
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White- Y
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom- N
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- N
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton- N
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad- N
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery- Y
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks- N
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams- N
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole- N
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute- N
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas- N
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare- Y
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl- Y
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo- Y

I've read (if I counted right) 32 of these listed... a lot better than 6!

Am I the only one who is convinced Fruit Snacks are a 2 yr. old's version of crack?

You know how we all have talents? Well shopping is probably my biggest one.

I just applied for a job as a secret shopper. I'll let you know if anything comes of it.
(Or maybe I won't. hahaha)

This morning Ashelyn was looking darling in a dress and leggings. She and Gid were playing with toys on the floor as I sat here browsing through my Google Reader. She crawled over and pulled herself up on the arm of the computer chair and started in with "maaa ma maaaa ma ma ma" so I reach down to pick her up for a good squeeze and my hand is unpleasantly met with the poop that exploded out the back of her diaper. How did I not smell that?!

So, upon arriving home from Utah, whilst separating the ridiculous amounts of mail, I came across a Target mailer... (TARGET!! My brain squeals.) So I open it up only to become slightly disappointed that it's coupons for groceries. Groceries, says I, I never buy groceries at Target. Too expensive, why not diapers like usual? But I faithfully put my coupons in my purse just in case I found some GREAT deal knowing I'll be at Target AT LEAST 3 times this week. (I'm just sayin....) So yesterday, I made trip #1 of who knows how many and came away a VERY satisfied shopper.

Let me give you a run down of what I got:

-1 lb. Fresh Asparagus (Usually 2.99/lb) I paid $0.52.
-1 dz. Large Eggs (Usually $1.19) I paid $0.49.
-2 lb. Fresh Strawberries. (Usually $6.89) I paid $3.89
-2 cans Del Monte Green Beans (Usually $0.97 each) I paid $0.57 for BOTH.
-3 lbs. 85/15 Ground Beef (Usually $3.59/lb.) I paid $4.50 for 3 LBS!!
-1 Fresh Pineapple (Usually $3.99) I paid $0.99!
-1 box Betty Crocker Potatoes (Usually $1.67) I paid $0.75
-1 pk. Ore Ida hash browns (Usually $2.79) I paid $1.49
-1 Tropicana Pure OJ (Usually $2.75) I paid $1.75.
-1 tube Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls (Usually $2.09) I paid $1.34


This was in part because virtually everything that they mailed coupons for was ALSO on sale. Let's just say I won't be counting Target out on the grocery deals any more!

Gid-Man rockin' his bowling shoes. I about died. SO CUTE!!!