I’ve been feeling like starting another quilt and Bea has been asking for one ever since I made Claire’s. So I bought lots of prints in Bea’s favorite color (blue) and I finally started the piecing today. I always find it funny that we buy yards of fabric, cut it into pieces and then sew…

Here are some photos from Bea’s Birthday party. We just sent the kids down to the basement and let them jump around and act silly with a ton of balloons. Such a sweet bunch of girls that Bea invited. Those big balloons were a hit. Brian blew them up with his healthy lungs. Here’s the…

The important thing about these pancakes is that Grandpa and Grandma C. picked those blueberries last summer.

Bea turned seven today. She had a really good day at school and was all smiles when she got home. Her classmates made a book – each of them writing and making a drawing of what they would like to give her for her birthday. 99% of the pages were filled with pictures of penguins.…

The girls and I spent a long weekend in Michigan. We went to the zoo and rode the carousel and Bea got to do quite a bit of skiing with Grandpa. Lots of smiles.

Claire and I take an art class on Wednesdays. We really enjoy it – the focused together time is great and I love the projects we’ve done. Today the kids made self portraits. Below is the snowman that we created over a couple classes. She has ballet class right after so she is always in…