Talbie's Quilt

Talbie started working on a quilt 4 years ago. 

Starting in the 7th grade, she was learning how to do embroidery and started

making squares of her favorite Broadway plays.

Through the years she has gotten really good and finally she had 35 squares, enough

to make a pretty good size quilt.  I taught her how to sew borders around the squares

and she did all the sewing 100% by herself (with occasional help from me

when the sewing machine would need to be threaded.)

We borrowed aunt Lynnie's quilt frames on Friday night and got it all ready to tie.

 She then got a call and was asked out on a date :)

Dave and I decided to surprise her and tie and and finish it off.

What I absolutely love about this quilt is the 4 years it took her to make it.

Some of the first squares aren't sewn as well and are misspelled :)

(Like Fiddaler on the Roof)

Then I can see some of her more intricate squares that were completed just this year.

Way to go Talbie!!

Sadies 2012 (Real Pictures!)

Talbie got the awesome pictures back that her friend's mom

took at Sadie's.  I love how they turned out!

Sadie's

Tonight is the Sadie Hawkins dance at OHS

Talbie has such a great group of friends.  I love everyone of them!

It's such a huge group of friends that they had to divide themselves into

2 big groups for this dance.

I met them at the location they were getting pictures taken so

I could get some good shots - and of course I left my nice camera home!

I drive myself crazy sometimes!!

Anyway, I did get some pictures but just with my phone :(

Talbie with her date, Michael (Bubba) Lunt

 The whole group.

 Talbie at Brittany's before she left :)

Talbie is a Great Mom!

Last week, Talbie brought home a "robot baby" for her

Child Development class.  She had the baby from Friday night to Monday morning.

It's one of those babies that is programmed to cry at certain times of the day and you

have to try and feed it, change it, rock it, or burp it, to see what it needs.

One night it woke me up in the middle of the night as I could hear it crying downstairs

in Talbie's room.  I went down to see if I could help.  Talbie was very attentive :)

This wasn't the first time Talbie has taken a class like this and had to take care

of a "baby."  

She took a class like this in 8th grade and had to take care of an "egg baby" and then a 

"flour sack baby."

Bronson's Ordination

Sunday, October 14th, 2012 - Bronson was ordained to be a Teacher.

It was such a good Sunday because at the same time, they set Talbie apart as the

new Laurel President.  I'm just so proud of my good kids :)

 Bronson and his sisters

 Me and my dad :)

 Bronson with Grandma and Grandpa Christensen

 This is us waiting outside the Bishop's office.  You can see Dave off in the

distance, hobbling his way down the hall :)

Emmie's Fall/Spring 2012 Soccer Team

I wanted to document Emmie's cute soccer picture this year :)

School Pictures 2012

Here are the kid's school pictures for 2012...

Talbie is her usual, cheerful, photogenic-self

 Bronson looks very pained!

 And Emmie has her "too cool to smile" look on.

Happy Birthday Bronson (14!)

Today my baby boy is 14!

I really can't believe it...

Happy Birthday Bronson!!

Dave's Foot Surgery

It has been a long couple of weeks for Dave.

Just about 2 weeks ago he fell off a ladder, pinching his foot in the ladder

and then landing on the ladder when he hit the ground.  

He broke his foot in 2 places and he had major surgery last Friday

to repair the damage.  When they got in do the surgery, the could see how badly it was

broken.  The surgeon said that some of the bone was nothing but dust when he go in there so they

had to take a bone graft from his heel to repair the break and help it heal.

He is in a hard cast for 2 weeks and is confined to bed or a couch for the first week

to keep it elevated.  In 2 weeks they will take that pin out that is hanging outside his foot

and put on a "boot" but he can't put any weight on the foot for 6 weeks!

 

The kids are having fun defacing his cast!

Asking to Sadie's

Now that Homecoming is over, it's time for a girl's choice dance.

Sadie's is in a few weeks and Talbie and her friends have been busy asking dates

and planning the day!

    Talbie asked her date with a plunger and Almond Joy's saying:

"I would OVERFLOW with JOY if you went to Sadie's with me."

 Then, we couldn't resist this bag of "body parts" at Target and wrote:

"It would tear me apart if you said no."

 Talbie got her answer tonight with dreaded goldfish!

There were a couple of dead ones by the time it was delivered :)

She was excited to be answered!  We rescued the goldfish by taking them down by the office where I work and we let them go in the stream :)