Boy or Girl?

We are expecting a new addition to our family in April! We had our last doctor's appointment on Wednesday and were able to hear the heartbeat a second time. It's amazing how fast it beats! Glad to know it's still doing well. At our next appointment we'll get to find out the sex of the baby! I thought it would be fun to put a poll up to see what everyone's guesses are. You have until November 17th at 11:59PM. Have fun!

More Summer

In the last post, I briefly mentioned that we spent a week with the Olenslager side of the family. Andrea sent me some fun pictures from our week at the lake and I thought they'd be fun to share!


The Olenslager clan
(Left to right: Damien, Me, Dane, Jarrin, Landon, Andrea, Sofia, Randy, Tyla, & Jon.)



Dane decided to throw me into the lake because I hadn't gotten in the first few days we were there. He was kind enough to put a life jacket on me first!



Landon tried to help Dane get his sunglasses off me before they threw me in.



It didn't work though!







Damien was there too. He loves being in the water!



One of the days we were there, the boys decided to make HUGE water balloons to throw off the top deck at the lake cabin.


Damien getting ready to drop it.



Then Damien and Dane thought it would be so fun to drop it on Dane's head. It's amazing what older brothers can convince younger brothers to do.



Here are the results! I think it hurt a bit, but they did fill it with warm water to help "ease the pain."

We had a great time! Can't wait to see what will happen next time we all get together!

Summer 2011

We were gone on and off for about a month in July and August but it was fun to get to see most of our families. Here's what we did:

• Tyla's (Damien's sister) wedding in Utah
  
• Panama City Beach in Florida with Rita, Tricia, John, and Debbie (It rained almost the whole time we were there! We still had fun though.)

• I visited my family for a week in Washington and "ran" an 8k with my parents
  

• Damien joined me for a week with the Olenslagers for his grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary/Olenslager family reunion at Hayden Lake, Idaho

We really enjoyed our time off from responsibility and spending time with our lovely families but it's always nice to be back home. It took us a few days to get used to the Eastern time zone again. Those three hours make a huge difference.

Projects

I love to sew and I've usually got a project or two in the works! I'll share a few pieces I've made in the last 6 months.

These are some of the samples I've made for the quilt shop I work at.




This is a baby quilt I made for a friend here in Atlanta.


I was asked to test a quilt pattern for a cloth manufacturer. The quilt is hanging up in the quilt shop for the next few months!


My grandmother gave Damien and I this old wicker chair that she had gotten from my great grandma. A bit of the paint is chipping off and the seat cushion has been on there since my great grandma had it. I wanted to update it a bit so I started with recovering the seat cushion! I still need to touch up the paint and make some throw pillows for it, but that's in the works.

Before

After

Close-up of the fabric and piping.

Happy 4th of July

This morning we celebrated by renting road bikes and taking a 16.5 mile ride on the Silver Comet Trail. This was the first time I'd been on a road bike and boy was it fun! We were flying down the trail. It was tiring but we had such a great time.

I even got to ride a bike made by my people. (For those who don't know, my maiden name is Bianco. Pretty close to Bianchi. Same country.)