Hello Summer

 

We are three days into summer vacation and I feel like I'm going to have a nervous break down.  We've had a half week of summer camps, dentist appointments for every member of the family,  eye doctor appointments, regular doctor appointments, fencing, physical therapy and I don't even remember what else.  Plus my computer was being repaired this week (now its back and all fixed) so I didn't have that to help me keep things straight.  My mac had a known keyboard problem that apple would fix for free and I finally took it in to be repaired.  Several of the common use keys (R,T,A,O and U were the worst offenders) would double or triple type when I pressed them and it was suuuuper annoying.  Glad it's fixed.

So summer is here...this is a picture of the kids on the last day of school - only a few days ago.  Matthew graduated from middle school.  I guess they never have a graduation so nothing was missed this year.  He is excited to head to high school but Anna is sorry to have him headed to a different school than her.

John walking home from the bus on the last day of school.

Last day Emma!

Emma graduated from kindergarten.  Woohoo!!

A last week of school camping picture she made - with lots of teacher help

Grant got the "mathematician" award in his class.  He loves math and was proud of his award.

We got to get together with Scott's side of the family a few times this past week.  Here are all the grandkids with Ma2 and Pa2.

Cousin buddies!  I liked that they were all wearing white.

Celebrating Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day Scott!

And let the summer crafting begin!

Anna made this pillow case - she has a thing for bees these days

She's pretty good at using the machine

Emma told me a few weeks ago that she wants to learn to sew "like Anna."  So we got a few projects to work on.  She was eager to use the sewing machine but she didn't like pressing the pedal with her foot, so she would use one of her hands instead.  Here she is working on a quilt.

Her completed quilt top.  We got this precut unicorn fabric at Michael's and just made a basic square quilt.  Emma did lots of the sewing (with supervision and help from mom).  She needs help getting started but liked guiding the pieces through and pressing the pedal.  More sewing to come.

John likes to do what Emma does, so also wanted to sew a quilt.   He picked some jungle fabric.  Here we are thinking about how the squares should be arranged.

I think we ended up with this.  Again, we are going real simple with this to start.

Emma made a pom pom owl, with Anna's help.  This was from a kit.

And since we are in a quilting mood here, I got around to finishing the top of a quilt for Emma. I have a few things to trim here and then we will sandwich it.  The girls have many crafting ambitions - honestly their ambitions are stressing me out and go far beyond my abilities, but I think we will have lots to keep us busy.  More summer adventures to come...