Oh! What fun!

A 10K obstacle course in mud!

One should seriously consider finding joy in this kind of workout! Such a blast and good, clean (oh, I mean dirty) F-U-N!!!

Before

Sassy M -- Before

M & M After

Sassy M -- After

Official Photo

So I decorated my porch for the Harvest Holidays...

I usually grow cucumbers in my garden for pickling, but I always want to just do a whole batch all at once and since cucs grow a few at a time, my plan is always foiled!

So I went to the store and bought a few pounds of cucumbers instead of waiting for them to grow--I know, cheater.




And I put up some homemade pickles--delicious!!

If you live in Utah, you are well aware of the hype about the Solar Eclipse that happened in May.  I think it's pretty amazing that astronomers can pin point the best location and time that these cool events will occur!

Brian really wanted to view an actual Solar Eclipse so after church on Sunday, May 5th, we jumped in the car and drove to a tiny town called Marysville, Utah!  That little town finally got its debut!

There were all sorts of things for sale at the edge of town in a huge, empty field.  I really wanted a t-shirt that said "I got mooned in Marysville", but since it was the sabbath day we refrained from making any purchases.

There were folks all lined up on the edge of the highway going into town and on the way out of town--hilarious!!  We spotted the place where the true scientists were staked out with their ginormous telescopes.

waiting at the Marysville park

my sis, justin and avery joined us

the moon beginning to cover the sun

the moon almost covering the sun

I am beginning a temporary post theme for my blog--it is titled "Earlier This Year".

This is an attempt for me to catch up on a few fun things or new things I have done or been involved in this past year (after St. Patrick's Day since that was pretty much my last post--this will be tricky since my calendar is white board style and so I erase it every month)!

Earlier This Year--Part 1

Sometime in the Spring, our Stake Relief Society was involved in a secret project. The Stake R.S. Presidency were in cahoots about piecing a quilt for our wonderful Stake President, Pres. Willardson.

They asked for any and all to make a 9 1/2 inch quilt block with the theme of land and sky and using only blue and white fabrics.

I thought, how wonderful!  I want to do this!  The only problem is that I really don't know much about quilting--and my mother-in-law, who is an avid quilter, was away serving a mission in Nauvoo, IL.  So, my mentor (if I ever wanted to be a quilter) was across the country. But, I knew if I wanted to begin a quilt block that mom's was a great place to find some fabric--which is half the battle.


I searched the internet for a sailboat quilt block to copy-cat and found one right quick...

Sample to Copy Cat

I raided mom's fabric stash and found some fabrics that would be perfect for my little project. I spent about two hours cutting and appliqueing and sewing on the border--phew!  I am so proud of my first completed quilt block! It is now on a full size quilt that was presented to President Willardson!

My Quilt Block

SCHOOL ended, SUMMER came and went, SCHOOL started--what an exciting life I live!! Actually, life is so exciting that I don't even have a minute to talk about it.  Perhaps someday when I have more time, ay?