Lots of things going on..........

The last couple of days have been busy ones

filled with family and friends and QUILTING!

This past week I finished up a couple of quilts.

This one belongs to Liz............

This is a close-up of a corner of Liz's quilt.

She chose a bear from Anne Bright's quilting patterns.

And a moose for another corner.

This next quilt belongs to Deb.

Close-up of one of the side setting triangles.

The inspiration this design came from

Kim Stotsenburg's "Just Leaf it" quilt design book.

The January meeting of the Friday Night Quilters

was held at my house last night and it was a fun-filled evening

starting with making pizza.

Here are Kathy and Katrina getting started.

We had some beautiful show and tell last night.

This quilt, made with Kaffe Fasset fabrics, belongs

to Katrina. It was a real beauty!

Cheryl is displaying a quilt made by Dolly's

11 year old daughter Kelly. Kelly designed, pieced,

and quilted this little quilt to donate to Ami Simm's

Alzhimers Art Quilt Initiative. This little ladybug quilt raised

$100 for this cause. The person who bought the quilt

requested that it be sent back to the maker since it was

her very first quilt. What a sweet story!

After Show and tell we all went downstairs to

make a little project.

So that was Friday night...........Saturday morning

Mike and I went on a little 4 mile hike in preparation

for the 15 mile hike he has signed us up for in 2 weeks.

Yikes! I'm a little worried about doing this!

After the hike we pushed back most of the furniture

in the living room and moved a bunch of it out to the

back porch for a little Family Jazzercise!

My daughter-in-law Jen is working really hard to become an

instructor and needed some students to practice on.

WELL! She got some pretty challenging students and

she did really awesome. I think she'll make a great instructor!

Our neighbors Bert and Gail started a holiday

tradition several years ago. We call it

"Bert bombs the Neighborhood"

He makes us a B52 Bomber.

They are pretty yummy!

Bert.....the Master Mixologist!

See the 3 layers?

Bert and Gail........cheers!

Happy New Year from Mike, Brian, Rafael & Tammy!