Trunk-or-treat.
Happy Halloween everyone! A lot has been going on lately and I have failed to blog all about it. We're having baby next March and we are soo excited about it. I think I'm past the worst of the morning sickness and I'm finally feeling like a human again. I can't seem to get blogger to re-arrange my pictures so here they are out of order. Hopefully I'll get some cuter ones at the trunk or treat tonight. The first picture of us singing "Happy You" to the "punkey" before we blow the candle out. Somehow Macey associates blowing out candles with singing the Happy Birthday song. I guess that would make sense since most of the candle blowing out happens at a birthday party. 
This picture I had to put in because it shows just how stinkin' stubborn she is lately. I don't have hardly any good pictures of her the last three months because she puts her hands on her face and runs away. I thought if I sat with her she would have anywhere to go to, but she fought it.
Her witch costume really is super cute. However, she won't keep her hat or her orange tulle skirt on. At least she keeps her "spidey" cape on.
Carving "punkeys" at Grammys house for FHE. Justin did all the carving because Macey and I don't like to get our hands gooey. We just supervised.
Just us witches. Don't mind my crazy eyes. I have a hard time not blinking when the flash goes off so I try to hold them as open as I can.
(Notice the blankey behind her, she folded that over the bench all by herself, I guess it needed some cushioning)
"It wasn't really soo . . . ."
Here it is full size. After getting everything quilted together I realized all I had left was one 2.5 inch strip. I was cutting it close! The backside is selveges of the other quilt. Good thing it's all polka dot so it's not super obvious that it's actually 16 pieces of fabric sewn together. Usually a backing is has 1 seam down the back and that's it. But who cares? It's expensive fabric and I wasn't going to let it sit in my material box. I quilted it myself with my mom's sewing machine. It has a handy dandy walking foot attachment (she acutally bought the attachment for me so I could quilt with it, she's soo nice :-). But the thing that made it quilt so nice was the fabric adhesive I sprayed inbetween the layers. Macey wanted to "help" me of course and got covered in a mist of the adhesive and then played with the scraps of batting. I wish I would've got a picture of her, it was soo dang funny. She looked like a little dog with fur. 
For Pioneer Day my parents invited us to go 4-wheeling with them up Beaver mountain. The weather was soo nice and once we got up really high it even got a little chilly. Macey loved riding the 4-wheelers.
So much so that she fell asleep! Good thing Grandma was there to hold her head. 
Here's Kirby and Josh at the top of one of the trails. I just realized I don't have a picture of Dad and Taylor on the other 4-wheeler. Whups! 
Here's Justin on his motorcycle.
These mountain biking pictures are from June when Justin went biking at the Grand Canyon with a group of his friends. 
And here's a picture of the group that he went with.
And this is from the fourth of July. We hiked up Angels Landing in the morning. We always stop at Scout Outlook. I don't dare go any farther than that or my knees starting shaking and I get really nauseaus. One day I'll conquer my fear of heights. But not today. After that we hiked down to the trooper and had lunch, went home, took a nap and then went swimming and watched fireworks. I'd say it was one of our best fourth of July's yet. 
Here's the back of the quilt with a strip of leftovers on the lower third.
My favorite part of the quilt. I asked the quilter to stich Maceys name on a block and she embellished it with cute little flowers. Love it!
Anyways, that's all for now. I'll have to download pictures off the other camera of the 4th - later.
Macey and I made his favorite dessert - cake pops. Although we altered the recipe a bit so it's more like mini cupcakes. And yes, they are as good, maybe even better than they look.
The raggedy quilt is finally finished! I love how it puckered up and got all raggedy after being washed. I just had to show it off one last time. I've got two more quilts in the works. One I've just got to put the binding on and then I'll post pictures. The other one is a nine-patch made out of scraps from another quilt. 
I was just informed this morning that there are only 65 days until BYU's first football game. Oh boy!
Part of being an old man means kidney stones. This one is a whole millimeter larger than his last one. That's huge in kidney stone size!
Also I've found a solution to my picture problem. The problem was that I've got thousands and thousands of adorable pictures saved on the computer. And even though they are back up on a external hard drive and then saved onto CD's, it still made me nervouse that something could happen and I would lose everything. I've given up on trying to scrapbook every picture. I hate sitting at the computer more than I have to to do digital pages, and I'm just not a paper scrapper. The solution to my anxiety? I would take a month and in that month print out 15-20 of the best pictures. Then I got these pages dividers at Roberts. There are 3 slots for 4x6 photos. So you can put 6 pictures per page. You can get a box of 50 for $13. And then to send pictures to Costco only costs 12 cents per picture. Not bad at all for some peace of mind! So here's a picture of how it's organized. There is a one inch slot on the right side, I printed out a little label of the month and year and slid that in. So every thing is in order by month. Anyways, I thought I would post about that because I get lots of helpfull ideas off other peoples blogs so maybe this will help someone else out.
My favorite part of the quilt (beside the ragged edges the will fluff up all cute when it gets washed) is the back. I got this idea of crazymomquilts.blogspot. She always puts something on the backside so it's kinda like a two sided quilt.
I just bought this material yesterday at Scrap Apple! I looooove it! It's the bubble gum line from Moda. I love that the colors are so bright and summery! I should probably finish my other project before I start this one, but I'm making it to enter into a contest with a deadline in four weeks, so I better get crackin'!
Here's the "during" picture. She was actually pretty good. I was really suprised because she usually freaks out whenever someone she doesn't know gets close to her.
And here's the after. We tried to do her two-year-old pictures ourselves and after about 300+ pictures only ended up with about 2 or 3 that are OK.
Anyways, that's all for now!
