Richins

Janene invited Joel and Lesley over to Sunday dinner two weeks ago. It was lots of fun. We need to do it again because a bunch of our crew was missing. Glen had to stay home to write a paper for school and Janae wasn't feeling well so her and her family didn't come.  It was great to visit and get to know Joel and Lesley better. I include Joel because I feel like he is a whole different person than the one I met when I married Glen.  Joel and Lesley drove their BMW Roadster and Lesley took Janene for a ride in it. They offered for her to drive it but she decilined.  Then Janene took Joel and Lesley for a ride in chitty chitty bang bang. They loved it!   Daryl and Ruth decided they could handle a roadster and made themselves at home.  She is ready to drive it away!  Lesley was so great with Ruth. She automatically started calling her, ' Little Red.' She wanted to be friends with her so bad, but Ruth had had a bad night the night before and wasn't being h...

Last Tuesday I got to play all day.  For several years my mom has gone to "quilt day" every month for the Holiday Quilt show and auction. All of the quilts done by this group are at least hand quilted if not hand pieced. This Tuesday it was bring your daughter and/or granddaughter to quilt day. My wonderful mother-in-law consented to watch my kids and Evelyn and Roberta let me play hooky from work so I got to go! It was fun. I like quilting and sewing though I don't seem to make time for it too much. I only did a little sewing but I helped get a time consuming part of a project done. Now there is just a lot of applique sewing that needs to be done. Above is the basket I appliquéd and below is the stuff we got. The pincushion and book were from me coming on mother daughter day and then they have drawings and my mom won the bread. After quilt day we went to Alpine as a family to visit with Aunt Patty, Uncle Fred, M'Li, Joel and Lesley, Kirsta and her kids and the...