Finished Quilts

With Nathan and Adrienne's baby here now and the quilt finished and sent their way, I can now post pictures!! 

By the way, I'm making my blog no longer private for the time being... if weirdos try to start posting comments, then I'll change it back, but for now, anyone's welcome to take a gander. :)

I finished these quilts a while ago, but since I suck at blogging, you are just now getting the pictures.  Go ahead, marvel at my talents.  I'd love to hear that you think they're awesome. 

This first one is my "Cupcake Quilt" for our (hopefully) future lil cupcake!  As it was my first quilt I ever made, I'm pretty dang proud of it, even with all it's flaws!

This 2nd quilt is the Chevron Quilt I made for lil baby Audrey, Nathan and Adrienne's new bundle of joy out in Chicago.  It was a LOT more work than my cupcake quilt with all the little triangles, but I thought it turned out so cute! I fell in love with it!  And I basically came up with the pattern by myself (with the help of my friend Brittany) so I'm pretty dang proud of myself for that. Let me know if you'd like the dimensions and such for the pattern!

This last picture is the package I put together to send to the Chicago Jacks... a little something for everyone.  Something for mommy now that she can reach her toes; something for daddy to play with big brother to keep the manly feeling with another girl in the house; something for big brother to keep him warm when the new baby gets all the snuggles; and somethings of course for new baby including the quilt, hair bows, and a Tillamook Baby Loaf onesie (gotta represent Oregon).

Congrats Nathan and Adrienne and wahoo to me for finishing two quilts now!  Now I gotta get started on another project....

Epic Girls Day

Our friend Brittany moved to Portland and into our ward the end of January this year.  And she HATED Portland.  Her job was a 6 month minimum gig and she decided from the get-go that she would not be staying here past that.... though I tried to convince her many many times that she should stay.

Before she left, we put together an EPIC girls day filled with tons of fun things to do in Portland!
To save on time, I've decided to blog this day in captioned pictures only.  Enjoy!

The Waffle Window deliciousness.

Yolanda, Vicky, and Brittany enjoying their waffles.

Portland Saturday Market. I loved everything with Portlandia references, specifically the "Put a bird on it!"

So I had to buy a baby onsie with a bird on it... and Oregon.  I bought a blue one instead of this adorable pink since blue is more gender neutral.  This pink one was the most adorable one though!

Saturday Market Old Town. Brittany, me, and Yolanda

Brittany's haul from Powell's City of Books

I know this is a horrible picture of me, but we stopped at a 7-11 for  drinks and found this GIANT Rice Kripie treat! How crazy is that?!

Brittany and Yoland on the OHSU tram

Japanese Gardens

Yolanda and Vicky at the gardens

Practicing my geisha skillz.

Brittany and me... cuz I'm weird like that.

When in a Japanese Garden, make peace signs as Japanese tourists...

Portland Rose Garden.  All the roses were in full bloom and it was beautiful!

One of my favorites- a pink and yellow mix rose.

Me and Vicky striking a pose.

Finished off the epic day with BJ's Pizza and Pizookies!

We miss you Brittany and are so glad we got to hang out with you while you were here!!