Grandma Net's birthday...

 Grandma Net had a birthday last Friday!  Since she loves ice cream, we had a family birthday party for her at Dewar's.  Grandma has instilled a very deep love for Dewar's ice cream in each of her children and grandchildren, so it was fun to celebrate her like this :)  We all had a great time, although I think Denise was completely worn out afterwards since she spent the whole time chasing Levi around the shop!  Happy Birthday Grandma!

Tuesday dinner...

Every Tuesday night my immediate family gets together for dinner ("Tuesday dinner" is what we call it...we're clever like that ;)  This past Tuesday night we did a little swimming and made some kabobs so that I could cross another item off of our Summer Activity List.  We missed Denise, Andrew, and Levi, of course, but we are looking forward to spending some good time with them at the beach in a few weeks.  All in all, a picture perfect summer evening, I'd say...

Henry is learning that he can swim across the spa without any help.  Once he becomes more confident in himself he will be unstoppable!...

The boys love to play with our old Fisher Price toys that my mom saved...

Since I had my camera I made sure to take some pictures of the boys with Grandma Net.  It had been awhile since I'd taken any...

4 generations...

I love this one!  We are all lucky to have Grandma Net in our lives.  She is such a treasure!...

And now, our Summer Activity List looks like this...

• Take a hike
• Visit a splash park
• Visalia Rawhide game (6/1)
• Backyard campout
• Fix our bikes & ride them!
• Lori Brock Museum (7/5)
• Chaffee Zoo (6/27)
• Build PVC Pipe sprinkler (5/29)
• Visit the Shafter Museum (5/26)
• Make kabobs (7/10)
• Go on a picnic (6/1)
• Try one "new to us" restaurant
• Attend our town's outdoor community concert (6/24)
• Make homemade ice cream (6/11)
• Pismo Beach
• Carpinteria
• Santa Barbara Zoo

It's finished!

...I can hardly believe it. I'm a little sad it's done. It was fun working on this with my grandma. We made a good team I think. I made the mistakes, she ripped them out, I got stuck, she got me unstuck, you know, typical give & take teamwork kind of stuff ;) I guess I'll just have to start another quilt soon so I can work with her again. Hopefully next time there will be less mistakes on my part, but one can never be so sure about those kinds of things.

Somehow we were seriously short on the fabric for the binding, so we intermixed the gray dot fabric with the blue flower fabric and are pretty happy with our results.

I will put on my quilt label tomorrow.

Binding...

I worked on binding my quilt last night. It was actually one of the most enjoyable parts of the entire quilting process for me. I think I enjoy sewing by hand, very relaxing. John took lots of pictures of this process, so I included a few for evidence of my work...

I like this one...my hand being blurry makes it look like I am a quilt binding machine.

Watching some HGTV on Hulu while I work.

Pure concentration.