lost the month of may...

this month has seriously come and gone... all of a sudden its time to change my calender to june and i have no idea what happened to may... the first week of may i got really sick with tonsillitis. my throat was so swollen i could hardly swallow and it got gross and infected.  i spent that whole week asleep on the couch eating popsicles... i never got a fever but man i was wiped out!

right after i got better i started in on my huge project for the month... making a new quilt for our bed... the one we had was just too hot and with summer creeping up on us i just couldn't get my house cold enough to make up for the hot blanket... so i decided to sew one myself... huge project.  i picked a really difficult piece quilt that required 21 pieces per 9x9 square... i was really excited and picked some crazy material... but i'm really happy with the way it turned out.  the pillows i just made with whatever was left over... i don't love the brown ones with stripes... i may change them.... the bed is busy already and they make it worse... so i may figure something else out for those... but overall i LOVE the way it turned out...

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we decided to make it a king size quilt, even though our bed is a queen because in a year we are getting a king... so i didn't want to waste all this time for just a year... i spent about 3 weeks sewing everyday and night just trying to get it done... it was definitely a beast but totally worth it!

we also celebrated amanda's 6th birthday... she asked grandma to make her a Tangled cake.. so my mom created a tower with a little Tangled set sitting inside it... hahaha... when amanda first saw it she was like... "what is that??" until my mom opened it and she saw what was inside... then she was excited.  then she opened presents... my mom gave her the Tangled barbie doll... she was very excited... and she got a very cute little ice cream cone necklace from aunt meesha which was super cute!  and i made her a little quilt with left over material for the one i made for cadence earlier this year... she had seen it and asked me to make her one too.  it is the softest quilt! she was very excited :)  it was a fun birthday.

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this month i have also had fun trying new recipes... not all of them are the greatest... or turn out to be things neither of us really like... but i was really proud of one... it was bbq'd pork chops with sliced cinnamon apples and rhodes rolls... it was delicious!!! i had to take a picture and show how good it was... sadly the pictures dont look that appetizing, but chris' face says it all!!! hahaha

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we have also been really busy working with the youth from church... chris' plays basketball on tuesday nights with the boys and wednesday nights we both have activities with the girls and boys... this week we had a pool party to honor all our graduating seniors... there was swimming and lots of food and tons of talking :)  they also had this game (which i am really trying to convince chris we need to buy) called just dance... here is a sample of the fun and hilariousness!! here is chris and our friend brad hafen dancing... haha (he will be mad at me for posting this as he doesn't even know i was videoing... hehe but it was too funny to not post)

we have also spent our nights watching LOST with our netflix subscription... it is the most confusing show ever!!! nothing is ever explained and we are forever confused with characters coming and going like crazy and un explained story lines all over the place... but we still watch it and have to know what happens... so we will keep watching and spend all our free time till we finish... and then find a new show to become addicted to :)