April in all its Beauty

 I am off this next week, so I thought blogging would be a good start to my vacation. Its been some wild few weeks. We will be off to Arizona in the coming days, for the visit with our newest grand baby. No, I don't know what it will be, its going to be a surprise. At this count though, We have seven boys and seven girls. This next one will be a tie breaker. Really, I didn't know that until I wrote all the names out on a post it. I am a happy grandma.

Our son got married in March. This is him and lovely Amanda. I am so blessed to have another awesome daughter in love. Weddings are just so much work. I think she must have spent days and days getting all of the details figured out. 

 

This is our family that live here. We have a pretty large family. Now that they are all married.

I wanted a picture with Ron and I. We just celebrated our 45th anniversary yesterday. I look way different in the picture from 45 years ago.

See the thing behind us? Amanda's Dad built it. I just thought it was so cool. When I saw it all put together, I wanted our picture in front of it.

I really hope to finish this rug, so I can get it bound and put our while its still April. I love these rugs by Whimsy rugs. I enjoy doing each little picture. So that is on the list of things I hope to get done and finished this week.

 Last weekend it was different for me to do. I have this rug I want to do so bad. I had decided just to see if I could just buy a projector and draw it out that way. Ron, most talented person I know, said, " Why don't you see if I can just draw it out on a grid". Since I am so fancy, we got butcher paper and taped it together and he drew a pattern with a grid on it for me. Just by luck, I had enough red dot tracer and backing to draw it out. He helped me with both, because its the biggest rug I have ever done before. That will be my new project. This week I am going to dye my wool for it. I am so excited and it was fun because he got to see how the whole thing goes together. He never knew how much work there is to getting a rug drawn out. Plus it was fun working with him. He thinks of easier ways to do things that never entered my mind. 

The rug? Its going to be a secret for awhile. I am still in the midst of rug planning. I will show you at some point in the future. 

So that's it for today. I hope its a lovely day for you all.

~Kim~

“The sun was warm but the wind was chill / You know how it is with an April day / When the sun is out and the wind is still / You’re one month on in the middle of May.” – Robert Frost