Birthday FQs!

And lots of {extras}!  

The FQs are from the fabulous ladies in my yahoo group, Quilt N' Friends.  Last December I signed up to be in a birthday swap.  Those who signed up listed what their favorite fabric styles were and we were supposed to accommodate as closely as possible.  Well, since that was a year ago I had forgotten that this great surprise was coming my way!


Some quilters included personal birthday cards, there's also a butterfly appliqué, Halloween charms, a storage pouch and two ladies gave 1/2 yards instead of FQs. Virgina who was the birthday hostess included a vintage cook book and a pin cushion.  Nice, nice ladies!


{tHanK yOu} all soooo much!

Makes me {hApPY}

I just gotta share this picture with you.  Urban is into Michael Jackson lately.  The songs, the videos the style!


We listen to the Thriller album at least 3 times a day and watch music videos too.  Urban {always} brings creative energy (and mess) to our home!


The poor kid is just like me.  He'll be in bed for a couple of hours at night then I hear a noise in the front room.  He "had to get up to make a project I just thought of".  


Our minds don't shut off!!  

{FUN} Mail

I am so {pleased} at all the wonderful signature blocks I received today!

And take a look at the sweet strawberry pin Melissa included!  

I'd say this swap was a definite success! {thanks} Melissa!!

Do you have lots of odds and ends stamps?  I did and it was driving me nuts!  So I put them all on my return envelope!  None of them even got cancelled - I guess it annoyed the postmen too!

Update on Lissa

Lissa is still on life support in the ICU. She has been able to make some good steps forward, and things are looking more promising. 

Hopefully she will be able to be removed from the ventilator in the next week. 

She is not out of the woods yet but she is definitely headed in the right direction. 

We know that all of the prayers on her behalf have helped tremendously.

They have stopped the antibiotics now and feel her pneumonia is pretty much gone. YEA!!

What am I talking about?

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Urban and I returned (flew) to Denver on Sunday.  We are thankful Lissa is making progress even if it is slow.  

As far as Christmas is concerned, we are totally unprepared.  I'm just exhausted with the stress of Lissa and the back and forth traveling we've been doing.  

Urban is such a good kid and is a trooper through it all.  We may push our Christmas back a month, we'll see.

Thinking of all of you and hope you are enjoying the holidays!

Lissa's Hanging in There!

Lissa had a good day in that she didn't have any incedents or fever for the last 24 hours +.  She's responsive (nodding/opened her eyes) if we wake her up and talk to her.