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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Birthdays

You know, surprise parties can be sort of mundane. You get to having too many, and people almost get to expecting one instead of being surprised by one. Christine came up with a funny plan: let Maria think she's planning a party for Audrey and let Audrey think she's planning one for Maria.

Talk about confusing! Maria would pull me (mom) aside and make a suggestion about something we could do for Audrey's birthday and later Audrey would quietly confide something about Maria. It left me with a very strange feeling. I was losing track of who knew what about whom! Paul thought the whole thing was just pretty funny.

Since Maria and Audrey have a similar list of friends, it was pretty easy to have Maria go pick up a couple of them. We even called her to pick up a few things for the party on her way home. Both Audrey and Maria got to the party and wondered about the ones sitting there who they knew hadn't been on their list.....ha!

You will see in the pictures below Maria holding a beautiful Friendship quilt, fashioned by Christine and Audrey. They had a bunch of her friends embroider blocks for it. They sewed it together and had a couple quiltings while Maria was in Nebraska those weeks this spring. Maria had no idea about this quilt!

Everyone made sheets to put into a scrapbook for Audrey.

~Colleen


Christine is here giving directions for the scavenger hunt she came up with. The end prize was the Friendship quilt for Maria.


Audrey and Christine sure kept the girls on the run searching for clues hither and yon.

Racing off to find another clue.



Christine must've used a whole skein of yarn and wrapped it around the entire basement. It kept them all busy winding it up to find the end.

Ahhh, what is this???

"It's B~e~a~u~t~i~f~u~l!! When did you guys get this done????" Someone suggested she remember that she did spend a considerable chunk of time in Nebraska some months ago.....

Something to cherish for years to come

Admiring the quilt. Gramma enjoyed sneaking time to go to Christine's to help quilt.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Family Farm Field Day...

Saturday some of us went to a farm field day.

Listening to stories...

fire safety

Trent won a bike!!!! It's much too big for him, though. :)
Some friends took us home from the field day.

Maria was helping out at the bulk food store down the road from us for the day, so we decided to stop in and see her.


Then we came home and played volley ball.

Friday, July 16, 2010

Trevor and Clark

Dad helping Trent fix his bike.

Clark learning to play dulcimer :)



Blake having fun on the four wheeler

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Matching...

Maria, Sharla, Shannah, Brenda, Audrey and Krista



Sharla, Samantha and Audrey

4 little boys!!!

They are growing right up!!!

They don't always get along the best though... :)

Sunday, July 04, 2010

Trevor

Sorry if you get tired of seeing pictures of this little guy. :)




Mowing the front yard!!!

Before:

It's so nice to have a real lawn to mow again!!!!
Brady
Miles doing an excellent job sweeping the sidewalk :)
Sorry, we don't have an 'after' picture yet.