Growing to fast

Just have to say... He is growing to fast.

6 months old

A Note About the Quilt

I finished the quilt and Leslie picked it up on Friday.  She was so excited to get it to the hospital to show her dad.  On Saturday evening Leslie's dad, Steve, passed away.  I am so glad that I got the quilt done before he went to meet the Lord.  Thank you Steve for letting me be a glimpse of your life.

St Patty's Day Celebration

     For St Patty's Day I decided to make a "traditional Irish dinner" and invite some friends over. 

    I have always wanted to entertain like my parents did.  Mom sure could cook. 

     I bought green plates and made napkins from some scraps to decorate the table.  I got out my grandmother Shiff's salad bowls.

    Then I looked though Pinterest and found some recipes "Irished" enchiladas and chocolate chip cookie cake. I also served a green salad and Toni brought Waldorf salad.  The enchilada recipe I modified to be more like Pam Worley's recipe.  I added cream to the recipe.  Then I got the spinach shells and cut them like a three leaf clover.  The cake was amazing.

I invited two couples over for the dinner Liz & Michael and Toni & Dean.  We sat at the table and laughed and talked for hours and had a bunch of fun.  We need to do that again.

The Quilt Project

 I saw one day in late December on facebook that Leslie was looking for someone to fix a quilt of her dads. I posted that I would fix it for her. A few weeks later she brought the quilt in. It was in bad shape. I thought to myself this is beyond repair. After thinking about it for several days I decided to applique stars over the worst ones. I have had the quilt since January. Today I finished it!




Cutting the strips



the stars sewn togehter




applying the stars





applying more stars



almost done



Finished



5 Generations

Top: Marvin Twamley Middle: Darrin Dahlenburg, Joshua Barrett Leskowsky, Fred Dahlenburg  Bottom: David Sargent

Sunday we had everybody here from Nashville.  Darrin's Grandpa and Grandma Twamley from Montaina, Darrin's parents Fred and Camille Dahlenburg from Nashville, David and Bobby Sue and David brought his son JBear.  That made 5 generations of men.