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Josie's "Zander's Hoodie" - Earlier this summer I was able to test a pattern for my good friend Kymy over at EYMM. I've had this super cute sweatshirt fleece in my stash for a while ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Pretty Pillows
I'm thinking about doing opposite colors for the backs of the pillows. What do you think? Also I'm looking at the leftover fabric from making the quilt and believe it or not I bought the same yardage of fabric for all 4 colors. Somehow they are now all different sizes. It's just funny how projects work out that way; especially looking at the leftover orange fabric. It's just long enough to make the back to the pillow. Apparently I have an unconscious affinity for the color orange. :) But I'm sure that doesn't come as much of surprise to anyone. LOL!!!!
Monday, October 27, 2008
See, I am an Addict :)
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Blogaholics Anonymous
I have recently discovered that I, Morgan T. Gardner, am a Blogaholic.
Since I'm not working right now and don't have a car during the day and have few things that take me out of the house, I find myself at the computer multiple times during the day. I check my email and check my blog, not to see if anyone has commented but to see who else has recently updated their blog. I really love the Blog List. I told Andrew today that I don't watch soap operas, I read blogs. I'm constantly checking to see if any of my friend's blogs have added people to their lists of people that I know and don't already have in my list. Sometimes I check my blog and forget that I checked it just a couple of hours ago and that most people don't even post everyday to their blog. I get a little sad if nobody's updated recently then I remember that I just checked not too long ago. I do do other things like sewing and cleaning and such and there is a free online game, Puzzle Pirates, that I like to play, but reading blogs is my favorite thing to do.
This is just a random realization that I came to; this is not an effort to make everyone blog more so I have more to read. :) But if it works out that way I'm okay with it, either way.
Since I'm not working right now and don't have a car during the day and have few things that take me out of the house, I find myself at the computer multiple times during the day. I check my email and check my blog, not to see if anyone has commented but to see who else has recently updated their blog. I really love the Blog List. I told Andrew today that I don't watch soap operas, I read blogs. I'm constantly checking to see if any of my friend's blogs have added people to their lists of people that I know and don't already have in my list. Sometimes I check my blog and forget that I checked it just a couple of hours ago and that most people don't even post everyday to their blog. I get a little sad if nobody's updated recently then I remember that I just checked not too long ago. I do do other things like sewing and cleaning and such and there is a free online game, Puzzle Pirates, that I like to play, but reading blogs is my favorite thing to do.
This is just a random realization that I came to; this is not an effort to make everyone blog more so I have more to read. :) But if it works out that way I'm okay with it, either way.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Baby Quilt -- Another Opinon?
I was thinking about backing the quilt with orange fleece but Andrew thinks that the orange will overwhelm the blanket. He thinks that green would be a better color, but I don't have any green fleece. I took a picture of the quilt on top of the orange; what do you think? I was also thinking that if the front is flannel and the back is fleece that I don't necessarily need batting in the middle.
Ronald Reagan Quotes
* Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
* Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
* I know in my heart that man is good.
That what is right will always eventually triumph.
And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
* If you're afraid of the future, then get out of the way, stand aside. The people of this country are ready to move again.
* The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
* My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
* Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
* Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
* Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
* Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
* Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
* Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
* Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
* How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
* I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
* Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
* All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
* All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
* Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
* Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
* Don't be afraid to see what you see.
* It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
* Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
* Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
* No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
* One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
* Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
* Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
* One legislator accused me of having a nineteenth-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an eighteenth-century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law-abiding citizens should be one of the government's primary concerns.
* With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there's one individual who's not being considered at all. That's the one who is being aborted. And I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
* Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
* The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
* The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
* The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
* The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
* There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
* There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
* Trust, but verify.
* We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
* We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
* We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
* We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
* We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
* We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
* Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
* When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
* While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
* Within the covers of the Bible are all the answers for all the problems men face.
* Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
* Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
* I am an environmentalist. ... I am for clean air. ... I know Teddy Kennedy had fun at the Democratic convention when he said that I said that trees and vegetation caused 80 percent of the air pollution in this country. Well, now he was a little wrong about what I said. I didn’t say 80 percent. I said 92 percent — 93 percent, pardon me. And I didn’t say air pollution, I said oxides of nitrogen. Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen.
* The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. We maintain our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression — to preserve freedom and peace.
* Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.
* We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life — the unborn — without diminishing the value of all human life.
* If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn.
* The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother's body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being.
* We must all educate ourselves to the reality of the horrors taking place. Doctors today know that unborn children can feel a touch within the womb and that they respond to pain.
* Late-term abortions, especially when the baby survives, but is then killed by starvation, neglect, or suffocation, show once again the link between abortion and infanticide. The time to stop both is now.
* We cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide. My Administration is dedicated to the preservation of America as a free land, and there is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning.
* Blood that has soaked into the sands of a beach is all of one color. America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way.
* "We the people" tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. "We the people" are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which "We the people" tell the government what it is allowed to do. "We the people" are free.
* Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now and then when I was in government, I would remind my associates that "When we start thinking of government as 'us' instead of 'them,' we've been here too long." By that I mean that elected officeholders need to retain a certain skepticism about the perfectibility of government.
* If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think what's at stake. We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the stars. There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States. Those who ask us to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state are architects of a policy of accommodation.
* It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work -- work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. This Administration's objective will be a healthy, vigorous, growing economy.
* We don't have an option of living with inflation and its attendant tragedy.…We have an alternative, and that is the program for economic recovery. True, it'll take time for the favorable effects of our program to be felt. So, we must begin now. The people are watching and waiting. They don't demand miracles. They do expect us to act. Let us act together.
* I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America.
* Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions.
* Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
* I know in my heart that man is good.
That what is right will always eventually triumph.
And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
* If you're afraid of the future, then get out of the way, stand aside. The people of this country are ready to move again.
* The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
* My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
* Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
* Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
* Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
* Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
* Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
* Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
* Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
* How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
* I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
* Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
* All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
* All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
* Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
* Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
* Don't be afraid to see what you see.
* It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
* Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
* Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
* No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
* One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
* Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
* Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
* One legislator accused me of having a nineteenth-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an eighteenth-century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law-abiding citizens should be one of the government's primary concerns.
* With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there's one individual who's not being considered at all. That's the one who is being aborted. And I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
* Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
* The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
* The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
* The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
* The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
* There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
* There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
* Trust, but verify.
* We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
* We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
* We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
* We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
* We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
* We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
* Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
* When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
* While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
* Within the covers of the Bible are all the answers for all the problems men face.
* Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
* Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
* I am an environmentalist. ... I am for clean air. ... I know Teddy Kennedy had fun at the Democratic convention when he said that I said that trees and vegetation caused 80 percent of the air pollution in this country. Well, now he was a little wrong about what I said. I didn’t say 80 percent. I said 92 percent — 93 percent, pardon me. And I didn’t say air pollution, I said oxides of nitrogen. Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen.
* The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. We maintain our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression — to preserve freedom and peace.
* Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.
* We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life — the unborn — without diminishing the value of all human life.
* If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn.
* The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother's body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being.
* We must all educate ourselves to the reality of the horrors taking place. Doctors today know that unborn children can feel a touch within the womb and that they respond to pain.
* Late-term abortions, especially when the baby survives, but is then killed by starvation, neglect, or suffocation, show once again the link between abortion and infanticide. The time to stop both is now.
* We cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide. My Administration is dedicated to the preservation of America as a free land, and there is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning.
* Blood that has soaked into the sands of a beach is all of one color. America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way.
* "We the people" tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. "We the people" are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which "We the people" tell the government what it is allowed to do. "We the people" are free.
* Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now and then when I was in government, I would remind my associates that "When we start thinking of government as 'us' instead of 'them,' we've been here too long." By that I mean that elected officeholders need to retain a certain skepticism about the perfectibility of government.
* If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think what's at stake. We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the stars. There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States. Those who ask us to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state are architects of a policy of accommodation.
* It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work -- work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. This Administration's objective will be a healthy, vigorous, growing economy.
* We don't have an option of living with inflation and its attendant tragedy.…We have an alternative, and that is the program for economic recovery. True, it'll take time for the favorable effects of our program to be felt. So, we must begin now. The people are watching and waiting. They don't demand miracles. They do expect us to act. Let us act together.
* I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America.
* Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions.
Cute Pillows Too
I think I'm going to do fun pillows to match as well. Obviously the pillows and quilt aren't going to be in the crib while baby is there. I already had the squares cut out and I don't know what I'll do with them in the future so I figure while I'm in this sewing high I will do as much as I can until it wears off.
What About This Design?
I took out most of the blue and rearranged the colors. What do you think about this one?
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Baby Quilt -- Your Opinon Please?
I had some extra fabric after cutting out the pieces for the crib ruffle and I decided I would make a baby quilt to go along with the rest of the bedding. I cut the squares for it and now I'm piecing it together and I would like your input on the design. I like it but I'm not sure if I really, really like it. Take a look and tell me what you think.
Hurray for Walking Groups!!!
Every Thursday morning a group of ladies from my church meet at the park near my house and go walking. They have been doing this for longer than I have lived here. Today I finally motivated myself to get up and go walking with them; they meet at 8am and I currently have the privilege to sleep in later than that if I want to (I usually do). Anyway, I walked to the park and saw a gang of ladies with strollers, everyone was pushing a stroller but me. :) They have an established route that takes them in a nice loop; it's about 3 miles long. I had a really good time I started out walking with the ladies in front and slowed down and walked with the ladies in the middle and by the end I was walking with the ladies in back. While we were walking I was feeling fine just maintaining my slow pregnant pace and talking with the ladies. When we got back to the park I felt the need to sit down, so I did (the kids got out of their strollers and played on the playground after we were done walking). I sat and talked with the "newborn" moms, one has a 3 month old and the other has an almost 1 month old. It was a really great way to get to know women in similar situations to me. When it was time to walk home I stood up and felt like my pelvis was going to fall apart. Holy Cow! I've had a some pain there before but not as bad as today. All day since the walk I felt like I'm going to die! Well, not really but it's not a pleasant feeling. I'm really glad I went and I'm planning on going next week; I just hope that the more I walk the less pain I will have. This has really motivated me to do the exercises that my birth class recommends. I even blew up my exercise ball. Everyone needs to do their Kegels!!!! :)
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Another Crazy Pregnancy Dream
I dream about places that are real but in my dreams they aren't really how they are in real life. So I had this dream the other day that Andrew and I needed to go to Babies R Us just to get 2 things. I'm telling Andrew this as we're walking around and a guy who was also at Babies R Us does the snort laugh and says, "That's what they all say." Then somehow Babies R Us turns into Ikea. While we're in Ikea we run into my friend Lance, who's going to school to be a dentist and he tells me that we're having a girl. We're kind of like yeah okay whatever and then we're in the food court in Ikea and I jump into the pool and start swimming (didn't you know Ikea has a water park?) and they bring me my food in the pool. Then suddenly I'm not swimming anymore and I'm somewhere else talking to this guy and I'm telling him my story how I ran into a friend who said that I'm having a girl. He asks who told me that and when I tell him it was my friend Lance he says, "Then you're having a girl. Because Lance has an unusual ability to be right about theses things." And then I wake up and that's the end. I told you it was crazy.
Only 65 Days Left Until...
Christmas!!! I bet you all thought that I was going to say until the baby comes, nope that's 70 days, only 2.5 months. It really is crazy how time flies. I'm feeling kind of like Costco right now. They have Halloween and Thanksgiving decorations out for sale right now but they're really gearing up for Christmas. :) I'm also feeling like a little kid again: counting down the days, wondering what I'm going to get, feeling like it's never going to come, wanting to make Christmas sugar cookies or at least get the premade dough and eat it (not that I was allowed, but I like cookie dough). :)
Andrew told me that some of his family are planning to go to Afton Wyoming for Christmas to visit his Dad's parents and that sounds like a lot of fun. But I'm not going anywhere anytime near Christmas, well except for the hospital that is. :) It's actually kind of weird not going to either of our parent's houses for Christmas, or Thanksgiving for that matter. I guess we were really spoiled living so close to both of our parents and extended family. Andrew says Christmas with just the two of us will be fun, I think it will be too. I'm just glad that we've already got our Christmas tree, with lights on it and everything. :)
Andrew told me that some of his family are planning to go to Afton Wyoming for Christmas to visit his Dad's parents and that sounds like a lot of fun. But I'm not going anywhere anytime near Christmas, well except for the hospital that is. :) It's actually kind of weird not going to either of our parent's houses for Christmas, or Thanksgiving for that matter. I guess we were really spoiled living so close to both of our parents and extended family. Andrew says Christmas with just the two of us will be fun, I think it will be too. I'm just glad that we've already got our Christmas tree, with lights on it and everything. :)
Monday, October 20, 2008
Online Baby Shower Clarification
It seems there is some confusion about the online baby shower. It is not a one day thing but an ongoing blogging event, with polls about who the baby will look like, whether or not you think it will be a boy or a girl, etc., until the in person baby shower on November 1st. So if you haven't looked at it recently there may be something you haven't seen yet. Only 2 people have voted on who they think the baby will look like; so far I'm winning. :)
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Watch Andrew's Trees Grow
Andrew is monitoring the growth of his trees based on these pictures. The interesting thing is all of the trees are expected to grow to about 15-16 feet tall.
Lemon Tree
Red Grapefruit Tree
White Peach Tree
Asian Pear Tree
Tangelo Tree
Lemon Tree
Red Grapefruit Tree
White Peach Tree
Asian Pear Tree
Proposition 102: One Man, One Woman, That's Marriage
Today I decided that I would put up signs in our front window advertising "Yes to Marriage". So I did and when I went outside to take pictures of our window I'm pretty sure that I heard a Spanish commercial for Proposition 102 while I was out there. :) I thought it was pretty appropriate timing considering why I went outside.
I don't know if anyone will actually be able to read them from the street since I printed them out from my printer. I also requested a proper yard sign to put up, we'll have to wait and see when that gets here.
I really like how simple the amendment is just 20 words: “Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state.” There is nothing extra thrown in and no long winded technical double speak to make you question what am I really voting on here?
I don't know if anyone will actually be able to read them from the street since I printed them out from my printer. I also requested a proper yard sign to put up, we'll have to wait and see when that gets here.
I really like how simple the amendment is just 20 words: “Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state.” There is nothing extra thrown in and no long winded technical double speak to make you question what am I really voting on here?
So I've got 2 Spanish signs and 4 English signs.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Look at the Cute Clothes I Used to Wear!
Andrew and I got home last night from our birth class and this blue rubbermaid tote was on our front porch from my mom. I had no idea what was in it so I opened it up and in it there were a bunch of baby clothes and blankets in it.
Look what was in the box! All my cute clothes I used to wear.
So I decided that it would be fun to show you the dress now and a picture of me wearing it when I was a baby.
This is the dress that my sister and I were blessed in and this is me wearing it, though I don't look too happy about it. :)
Look what was in the box! All my cute clothes I used to wear.
So I decided that it would be fun to show you the dress now and a picture of me wearing it when I was a baby.
This is my "birth"day shirt and me wearing it.
This is the dress that my sister and I were blessed in and this is me wearing it, though I don't look too happy about it. :)
This dress I'm not sure what's special about it other than the fact that it's cute and I'm wearing it.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Look What Happened in Massachusetts!!!!
My mom sent me the link to this video. Don't let what happened in Massachusetts happen in your state! Vote to keep marriage between 1 man and 1 woman.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1352578267/bctid1784521903
Arizona Proposition 102: Marriage between one man and one woman
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1352578267/bctid1784521903
Arizona Proposition 102: Marriage between one man and one woman
Monday, October 13, 2008
Baby Bedding So Far
The 2 fitted sheets and the bumper are done. Hurray!!! It was a bit of a pain to cut the pieces out because in the move I lost my clear quilting ruler, which makes using the rotary cutter and mat more difficult especially with larger pieces.
This is the underside of the completed fitted sheet.
The sheet on the mattress.
The sheet on the mattress in the crib.
The bumpers and the sheet on the mattress in the crib.
The inside of the crib with all the bedding on. It kind of looks like a pond.
Now all I have to do is make the ruffle. It will be easier to cut the pieces for this since I got a new quilting ruler and a larger (24" x 36") cutting mat; I love JoAnn's coupons.
This is my great idea to cope without the clear ruler. I used Andrew's laser level instead; it worked pretty well if I pulled the fabric up so I could see the line.
This is the underside of the completed fitted sheet.
The sheet on the mattress.
The sheet on the mattress in the crib.
The bumpers and the sheet on the mattress in the crib.
The inside of the crib with all the bedding on. It kind of looks like a pond.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Pot Rack and Trees
Two of Andrew's brothers and their families came down to our house and hung out with us on Saturday. Us girls spent our time talking and playing with the kids and the boys found some "handy" things to do around the house. :) They helped Andrew hang our pot rack and plant the last two trees and install the drip hoses for watering the trees.
Jared helping Andrew measure.
The pot rack with our pot & pans on it.
All 5 trees in the ground.
Andrew finding the studs in ceiling.
Jared helping Andrew measure.
The pot rack with our pot & pans on it.
All 5 trees in the ground.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Yummy Recipes!!
We went to a party tonight at one of Andrew's co-workers' house and it was fun and there were lots of really yummy hors d'oeuvres but one that I kept coming back to was some yummy goo on an english muffin. They were so good that I asked the hostess for the recipe and she wrote it down for me and I think it was good enough to share with everyone. :)
Ingredients:
~1 jar old english cheddar cheese
~1 stick butter
~garlic (as much as you like)
~1 can crab meat
Directions:
Mix all the ingredients together. Spread 1½ tablespoons on each half of an english muffin. Freeze topped english muffins overnight (you can put on aluminum foil and move straight from the freezer to the oven). Broil for 8-10 minutes or until brown. Quarter to serve as an hors d'oeuvre.
**I forgot to ask how many english muffins the spread can cover.
The other recipe is for crock pot lasagna which I made today for a church activity. It is also really yummy! :)
Ingredients:
~2 26½-oz. cans spaghetti sauce (I like Hunts)
~1 pound of hot italian sausage, browned (if you don't want spicy lasagna use ground beef instead)
~1½ cups cottage cheese
~16 ounces shredded mozzarella cheese
~½ cup parmesan cheese
~1 box uncooked lasagna noodles
Directions:
Spray the crock-pot with cooking spray.
Mix the spaghetti sauce with the cooked italian sausage in a bowl.
Mix the 3 cheeses in another bowl.
Spread the meat sauce mixture in the bottom of the crock-pot. Put the raw lasagna noodles on top of the sauce to cover, you may have to break some noodles depending on the shape of your crock pot. Next spread a layer of the cheese mixture to cover the noodles. Put the lasagna noodles on top of the cheese. Continue to alternate meat sauce, noodles, cheese mixture, noodles, meat sauce, etc. until you reach the top of your crock pot. The last layer to go on will be the remainder of the cheese mixture and the remainder of the meat sauce to cover the noodles.
Cover and cook on low for 3-4 hours.
Ingredients:
~1 jar old english cheddar cheese
~1 stick butter
~garlic (as much as you like)
~1 can crab meat
Directions:
Mix all the ingredients together. Spread 1½ tablespoons on each half of an english muffin. Freeze topped english muffins overnight (you can put on aluminum foil and move straight from the freezer to the oven). Broil for 8-10 minutes or until brown. Quarter to serve as an hors d'oeuvre.
**I forgot to ask how many english muffins the spread can cover.
The other recipe is for crock pot lasagna which I made today for a church activity. It is also really yummy! :)
Ingredients:
~2 26½-oz. cans spaghetti sauce (I like Hunts)
~1 pound of hot italian sausage, browned (if you don't want spicy lasagna use ground beef instead)
~1½ cups cottage cheese
~16 ounces shredded mozzarella cheese
~½ cup parmesan cheese
~1 box uncooked lasagna noodles
Directions:
Spray the crock-pot with cooking spray.
Mix the spaghetti sauce with the cooked italian sausage in a bowl.
Mix the 3 cheeses in another bowl.
Spread the meat sauce mixture in the bottom of the crock-pot. Put the raw lasagna noodles on top of the sauce to cover, you may have to break some noodles depending on the shape of your crock pot. Next spread a layer of the cheese mixture to cover the noodles. Put the lasagna noodles on top of the cheese. Continue to alternate meat sauce, noodles, cheese mixture, noodles, meat sauce, etc. until you reach the top of your crock pot. The last layer to go on will be the remainder of the cheese mixture and the remainder of the meat sauce to cover the noodles.
Cover and cook on low for 3-4 hours.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Andrew's Fruit Trees
Ever since we knew we were moving to Arizona we knew that we wanted fruit trees in our yard. Andrew has been particularly excited about it and he's been doing a lot of research about fruit trees in Arizona, etc. On Saturday we went to the Nursery to pick out some fruit trees for our backyard. We asked all our questions and walked around and thought about it for a while and decided to pick out the trees we wanted. We ended up picking out: Lemon, Tangelo, Red Grapefruit, White Peach and Asian Pear trees. The trees are all dwarf except the Asian Pear tree; we chose to do this because we didn't want to have to climb really high to get our fruit. They are also all self pollinating which is nice because we didn't have to buy two of the same kind of tree to get fruit. In fact the Lemon tree and the Grapefruit tree already have fruit on them, they're not ripe but should be in 4 months or so as long as the trees don't drop the fruit. Citrus trees will do that but other fruit trees won't.
The trees were delivered yesterday (a down fall of not having a pickup truck) and Andrew came home and went out in his work clothes and started digging a hole. We needed to go grocery shopping and I knew that if we didn't go right away he would get too into digging the holes and planting the trees that we would never make it to the store. I forget how early it gets dark since it's fall and we don't do day light savings time down here (personally I think we should spring forward and then stop changing the time). Anyway it was dusk when we got home but Andrew was determined to plant at least one tree last night and he did. One thing you need to know about digging in Arizona is it's very difficult because the ground is very hard. Our backyard has about 6 inches of "digable" dirt until we get down to the hard pack, which Andrew discovered. Someone commented to us that if you want to dig a hole in Arizona you do it during the monsoon season other wise you're not really digging you're chipping and hacking. To cure the digging issue Andrew soaked the ground and then planted the Tangelo tree. The hole for the Lemon tree was a little different he started digging that hole when he was done planting the Tangelo tree and soaked it in water and then he had me fill the hole with water before he got home today so it would be easier to dig.
He will probably get the Grapefruit tree into the ground tomorrow and the peach and pear trees on Saturday.
Andrew Digging in His Work Clothes
Andrew Watering the Tangelo Tree
The Tangelo Tree in the Ground
Andrew Starting to Dig the Hole for the Lemon Tree with a Flashlight in his Mouth
Funny story; Andrew came home from work today and asked if I had blogged about the fruit trees yet. I said no, why don't you do it? His response? You do it so much better, and if you do it, it will actually get done. I think it's funny, and so here is Andrew's exciting news as told by me. :)
The trees were delivered yesterday (a down fall of not having a pickup truck) and Andrew came home and went out in his work clothes and started digging a hole. We needed to go grocery shopping and I knew that if we didn't go right away he would get too into digging the holes and planting the trees that we would never make it to the store. I forget how early it gets dark since it's fall and we don't do day light savings time down here (personally I think we should spring forward and then stop changing the time). Anyway it was dusk when we got home but Andrew was determined to plant at least one tree last night and he did. One thing you need to know about digging in Arizona is it's very difficult because the ground is very hard. Our backyard has about 6 inches of "digable" dirt until we get down to the hard pack, which Andrew discovered. Someone commented to us that if you want to dig a hole in Arizona you do it during the monsoon season other wise you're not really digging you're chipping and hacking. To cure the digging issue Andrew soaked the ground and then planted the Tangelo tree. The hole for the Lemon tree was a little different he started digging that hole when he was done planting the Tangelo tree and soaked it in water and then he had me fill the hole with water before he got home today so it would be easier to dig.
He will probably get the Grapefruit tree into the ground tomorrow and the peach and pear trees on Saturday.
All Our Fruit Trees & Fertilizer
Andrew Digging in His Work Clothes
Andrew Watering the Tangelo Tree
The Tangelo Tree in the Ground
Andrew Starting to Dig the Hole for the Lemon Tree with a Flashlight in his Mouth
The Lemon Tree in the Ground
Funny story; Andrew came home from work today and asked if I had blogged about the fruit trees yet. I said no, why don't you do it? His response? You do it so much better, and if you do it, it will actually get done. I think it's funny, and so here is Andrew's exciting news as told by me. :)
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
The Blog List
I don't normally promote random things like this but, I really like the Blog List gadget that's available on Blogger. It's really quite cool, you can create a list of all the blogs that you are following and then import them into the Blog List where you then see all of the blogs in the order that they were last update. You can choose to show just the title of the last blog or include a snippet as well. It's really convenient while working on your own blog to look at your list and see whose recently posted so you can take a look at what's new. Private blogs will show up in the list with only the blog name and no additional information, but either way it's nice to have all the blogs I'm interested in easily in the same place.
28 Weeks + 1 Day Pregnant
Andrew was being funny so when I asked him to take a picture of my pregnant belly this is what we got:
This is obviously the real pregnant picture. :)
Check Out Our Awesome Online Baby Shower!!!
My sister-in-law Megan is awesome!!! :) She did an online baby shower for her sister last year and it turned out really great and I thought I would be a copy cat (the truest form of flattery), because I really wanted an online baby shower too. It is especially nice to do it this way since we moved far far away not too long after I got pregnant. So here's the link: http://andrewmorganbabyshower.blogspot.com/. Feel free to look around and enjoy!!! I'm super excited. :)
Friday, October 3, 2008
It's a Crib!!!
We went to the Mesa Temple today (we got our reccomends renewed this week) and afterwards we went to Ikea since it is realatively close to the Temple.
We were primarily looking for cheap fabric to make slip covers for our 2 couches (they are cat damaged). We found some fabric that we liked but it wasn't cheap enough for us (to make it worth it for me make them instead of buy them), so we'll keep looking. We were also semi-looking for a dresser for me and a crib for baby. We didn't find a dresser but we did find a crib. Hurray!!! The crib matches the dresser/changing table we got previously at Ikea. And in true Andrew fashion we put it together soon after we got home. :) I really like it and now that we have that and the mattress I can start making the fitted sheet and the bumpers with the cute fabric I have. I'm really excited!!! :)
We were primarily looking for cheap fabric to make slip covers for our 2 couches (they are cat damaged). We found some fabric that we liked but it wasn't cheap enough for us (to make it worth it for me make them instead of buy them), so we'll keep looking. We were also semi-looking for a dresser for me and a crib for baby. We didn't find a dresser but we did find a crib. Hurray!!! The crib matches the dresser/changing table we got previously at Ikea. And in true Andrew fashion we put it together soon after we got home. :) I really like it and now that we have that and the mattress I can start making the fitted sheet and the bumpers with the cute fabric I have. I'm really excited!!! :)
I think I'm going to leave the room like this; the futon is underneath the window and the closet is behind me and the door is to the left. What do you think?
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Humpty Dumpty Is Back Together Again!!!
It only took 3 weeks and 1 day to finally get the house looking like it's ours. Hurray!!! I am just like my mom in the fact that I don't like living out of boxes. Here are the pictures promised of our new home all "put together". The one thing that still needs to be done is figure out where the smaller pictures are going to go. We've already hung the large mirror (which I can't see myself in because it's too high) and the painting Andrew got from a model home when he was moving houses. There's also one more fan that needs to be hung in the craft room. So stick a fork in it, it's done!!!
Our Living Room
You can see the stack of pictures, that need to be hung, to the right of the entertainment center.
You can see the stack of pictures, that need to be hung, to the right of the entertainment center.
Our Kitchen & Dining Room
Andrew hung our lid racks from Ikea next to the kitchen window and we're waiting for the hanging pot rack to arrive. Then all the plastic ware in the box between the counter and the shelves can finally be put away.
Our Dining Room
I love my homemade spice rack and shelves. We're using the small round table in here because it's round and I wanted the rectangle table in the craft room.
The Nook Above our Hallway
I'm glad I had something to put up there, though I'm thinking about switching the yellow vase on the end with the orange vase on the other end.
Our Bedroom
The walls are really boring but I'm sure some of the pictures will be hung in here.
The Other Half of Our Bedroom
I found the vanity at an Ebay store for really cheap and free shipping! It was brand new in the original box.
Our Bathroom
The one issue that I have with this bathroom is the counters are "executive" height and I'm not.
Our Shower
Part of Our Closet
Since my dresser was always meant to be the baby's dresser I am now using plastic drawers for those items that don't hang up well.
Another Part of Our Closet
Andrew gets the top bar & shelf and I get the bottom for obvious reasons. :)
Our Hall/Coat Closet
All of our coats are in this closet and we haven't had a need for one yet. I've got a lovely wool coat that I'm not sure the next time I'll get to wear it, it doesn't get that cold in Arizona.
The Baby's Room
There's not much going on here and it isn't arranged the way it will be when it's a nursery. Everything is just hanging out until we start buying baby stuff.
All The Baby Stuff We Have
It's really kind of sad; we've been focusing our attention on getting all our stuff out of boxes that we haven't really bought anything for baby. Except the box of baby wipes, there was a coupon at Costco for them.
The Laundry Room
I originally wanted to put a freezer on the left but there isn't an outlet to plug one in. :(
I originally wanted to put a freezer on the left but there isn't an outlet to plug one in. :(
The Garage
This is our collection of boxes on top of Tim & Megan's china hutch and dining room table and chairs. This is also a teaser shot of Jared's ATV. :)
The Garage (continued)
We're collecting boxes to recycle and those wood frames are what the large breakable items came in. This is the beginning of Andrew's wood collection (again).
The Guest Bathroom
It's decorated in all the stuff from our previous bathrooms since they no longer work with the master bathroom.
The Linen Closet
If you ever come and stay at our house you do not need to bring a blanket or a towel. Some how this has become quite a collection.
The Craft Room
This was the last room to be put together and I'm really happy with the way it turned out.
The Craft Room (continued)
I was preparing to do my first sewing project (a basket liner) because I had already cut the pieces out ages ago, but I couldn't make sense of the pieces so the project was postponed. :)
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