Guess Who Came to Dinner?

First off, let me apologize for these bad pictures. Yesterday was Cold, Dark and Rainy. Which was how I was feeling since Cade had to start back to school:( It is just a matter of days before Kelsey heads back to college:(

In other news..."Boyfriend" came over to hang out and to eat supper!! We had fun with him and Kelsey! He paid attention to Cade, which was nice since our Joey never pays Cade any attention anymore (but thats another post) Cade spent his time acting like a pesky little brother---spying on them and shooting them with nerf guns! They even took Cade to Karate! Andy did find a reason to get a gun out though:( Some of you know that we live back in the woods, not many other house on the road. Last night around 9 pm, Kelsey walked by the front door and said " Someone just pulled in the driveway" Andy got up and looked and noticed that the light she was seeing was Andy's inside truck light on. Like someone had opened the door. Andy had to get his gun and go out and investigate!! Never found anybody and we have no idea why his light came on! I'm sure "Boyfriend" was either impressed or freaked out!


I also finished putting the borders on my yellow quilt! I need to get it quilted fast..remember I still need to finish up my Halloween quilt too!

I guess I should get busy! Next week, I start back in the library. Sherry plans on coming back in late January! WOO HOO!

A Few Thanksgiving Pics

I thought that I would share a few of our Thanksgiving pictures. Be thankful that there arent more!

Here is Cade helping me make cupcakes.
At my Mother-in-law's house, everyone wanted to hold the new baby! Here is my Kelsey with baby Sydney.

Cade got a turn. We are big time baby hogs, so you would only get a few minutes with her.

Last, here is my elusive Joey. The one with the black hoody and jeans to hide his tattoo's:(
That is my niece Tiffany and her boyfriend Kale, who is my Joey's best friend. Joey and Kale have matching tattoo's. We are hoping that Tiffany does not!!

We had a very nice day! The weather was warm so the kids had fun playing football, basketball and stick ball. The grownup's had fun passing the baby and gossiping!!

Hope you all had a wonderful day!

Day Trippers

This week, Andy, Kelsey, Cade and I all took a day trip to the North Georgia Mountains. It is about a 2 hour drive so it's not a bad drive from here. The scenery is beautiful and the 2 kids take their ipods so it is a nice relaxing drive for us! I do have another son that is 18 years old. He went on this trip once, a couple of years ago and said that he would never go back!! He drove us crazy that trip so much that we still point out places like "Oh remember that store? That is the place that Joey got kicked out of" He decided to stay home and hang out with friends. I guess her prefers to get kicked out of places in his own hometown!!

We went to Ellijay, Blue Ridge and Dillard, Georgia. These towns are beautiful but they are really something in the fall when the leaves change! They have apple and pumpkin festivals and hayrides. We love going in the Fall but also like to visit during the summer. This is where Andy and I honeymooned and spent a second honeymoon!! We were married in December, we stayed in a cabin and got snowed in!! It is also where we "made" Kelsey, we told her this, she was disgusted at the thought, and probably won't go back with us!!!

Here are some of the pictures that I took. (they are out of order) We stopped at lots of antique shops, general stores, a quilt shop and a few holes in the wall places! We had supper at The Dillard House. A popular family style restaurant in Dillard Ga. It has a little resort, stables and a petting zoo. Lots of porches, rocking chairs and walking paths. Our last name is Dillard and my husband's family is a very very distant relation.

Here is Kelsey at one of the hole in the wall places at Tallulah Gorge. My husband remembers when these places would be so packed with visitors that you couldnt get a parking place. Sadly, the state cut a new super highway that bypassed some of these little places. Most of them have been shut down.

We thought this was pretty funny. Andy had to hold Cade up. There was a cage of bunny rabbits beside them. The owner of one of the shops looked like what my Grandma would call a "Wooly-Booger" Me and the kids stayed outside, we tried to get back in the truck but Andy had locked it. When Andy came out, Cade said "We were scared of that man" Andy said "you should have seen the one inside"

Dillard City Hall. Cade was so happy to be out in the sun!

Horses at the Dillard House.



Beautiful view!!!

Dillard House. Andy and I ate here on our honeymoon. I had just become a Dillard!

Thanks for "hearing" about our trip. I will have to take a picture of what I bought and show it later.

Have a great Day!!

Libby

Checking In!

I can't believe that I havent posted in so long!! I am back to normal after my surgery! Thank you so much for all the well wishes and prayers! I am so glad that is over with! I had a few days of what I thought was gas pains and went I went to bed Monday night they started up again. I was up all night long in terrible pain! I just knew it was gas and that it would go away. It didnt! It jsut got worse...not unlike contractions!! Finally, when it got morning and I could barely breathe or walk, I thought it might be a good idea to wake my husband....THE PARAMEDIC!!! Hello!! What was I thinking??? After the surgery, I had a terrible reaction to all the pain meds that I was given in the ER. I had to stay an extra day in the hospital because of that!

Before I got sick, I put this quilt together. It is so pretty (i think) I was planning on hand basting it the day I went to the ER...still havent got that done..maybe this week! I am also back at the library.

I was able to go to Easter services at church. I didnt teach my Sunday School class though. After church, we went to my MIL's for lunch and an egg hunt. It was nice to be around everyone! Here is my sweet girl (in the middle) and my two of my sweet nieces. They are both very tall! and Kelsey is very short!

Cade had Spring Break last week. Andy took him and a friend to the Atlanta Zoo. We had beautiful weather all week but our Georgia pollen is out of control!!

I have been going for some walks, enjoying this little break and visiting with my sister! Her and the girls came up from Alabama for a few days! It was great to see them!

Thanks again for reading my blog and I will post again very soon!

Have a great day!

Libby

Late Monday

We had a 2 hour delay for school today beacuse our little snow stuff finally started to melt but quickly froze back up. Cade had to be at school at 10 am and when I took him the roads were so bad. I didnt want him to know that I was scared but he kept saying "Do you think you should just turn around?" His school os way back in the country and the little road goes through some beautiful farm land, lots of trees that shaded the road. This afternoon wasnt so bad because they put a bunch of sand on it. Our temps. are going to warm up later this week so I hope to get back to my walking, I have missed it.

I finished up sewing this baby quilt up on Friday. I got the pattern from Moda Bake Shop. I had everything for it in my stash. I went ahead and made it larger than the pattern because I had a bunch of charm squares so now I have to go buy some fabric for the back. I think that I will get some soft bleached muslin. It always looks so pretty after it's quilted. I won't be doing any fancy quilting on it because I am in a hurry to get in done! I am doing the Friday Night Sew In so I may work on it then. I am very excitied that I have planned a night to do nothing but sew! Andy will be at the Fire Dept. so I am getting the boys fast food and then I'm going to sew as long as I can! No doing laundry or dishes! We will see if I can do it!

My sweet Kelsey left Sunday to go back to college! I miss her like crazy! I am very proud of her and how well that she is doing. It just makes me sad to see her growing up and now when she comes home she's not a kid anymore! It is great to see her becoming a women but it just happened way too fast!

Here is Cade posing for a picture before he played in the snow. He stayed out for hours.

Have a great day and thanks so much for reading!

Libby

Monday-Blah!

Wow! that weekend flew by! I sure didnt get much sewing done! We made homemade pizza fri.night and watched GI Joe. UGH! My 9 yo son, Cade picked! Saturday, Andy went to the fire dept. so I got to work on laundry and cleaning my sewing room! My SIL called at around 9am and invitied my boys to the UGA Bulldogs game! So I had to get them up and ready and to their Aunts. They had a blast!! Bless her heart, she took my 2 boys (9 and 17 yo) and her son (6 yo) to the game by herself!! By the time I got home I was a little to nervous to do much sewing! I did work on my 9 patch blocks, from the quilt along that AmandaJean did. I did a block a day when I started but put them aside to do 2 graduation quilts, so now I'm back at them! I think I need to do about 10 more blocks, I'm only using scraps or my stash, trying not to buy any materials for this quilt!

Today I'm cleaning up around here and running some errands. Cade has karate at 530. Not much sewing going on here today! I have a picture of Ruby sitting on my sewing machine, another reason why I don't get much done!