Family Mow Day

So, I serged the edges of a bunch of baby gauze for little Dylan last week, it was fast and easy! The one piece of gauze was from our road trip to Hayden's football game side trip to Nauvoo Il. Then the whole herd came over and mowed the lawn for me.

Hayden and Hailey took turns mowing the back yard and the front yard. They get better every time they mow! 

Meanwhile Dylan and his Mommy chilled in the house.....

and ate red licorice. 

Drew likes red licorice too!

Such a good day, it might be the last mow of the year! That would be good!
 

Cars and Football

So, young Hayden is playing football this year, 7th grade, for the first time ever. This was the 1st game played in Washington, Iowa (home turf). 

And Darling Daughter has her car in the shop for some repair work. SO that makes me the taxi! And so away we go to the 2nd game in West Burlington, Iowa. I made a small detour to a couple of quilt shops in the All Illinois Shop Hop, one in Nauvoo and one in Stronghurst. Then on to the game!

 And they won! 24-12!

This little guy and the bigger kids all have something going on! 

There was the well baby check up appointment, then there was the Mom check up appointment the next day, then drive the kids to school in Washington, Iowa. So you can imagine, I am a little anxious to get DD's car back from the repair shop. Unfortunately, there is very little work happening and there seems to be a couple of expensive items to repair.

Soooo, I suck it up and head to the dealer with Dylan and DD. 

And we made a pretty good deal on this new 2024 Hyundai Palisade. It has 3rd row seating so all 4 kids can fit comfortably with 2 adults too. 

DD is really liking it so far. Who wouldn't? And I can stop running the Taxi service in my new Tucson.

Happy family with a safe car.

Drew loves helping with his little brother!

Dylan is not as excited about it....

Yeah, me too little guy, me too!

 

Well, It's November....

 So, I better finish up with October stuff! Here's Darling Daughter with Drew & Hayden. Missing Hailey, but we'll get her another time I hope!

I went up to Mom's and delivered her walker bag and I also had a Maid Rite.....SO GOOD!

ANd I don't think I showed this pretty fall looking tree in the back yard.

I got these beautiful flowers for my birthday!

The weather was gorgeous, so I went out and spray basted my Social Sharks Quilt.

I think this came out so cute. I was determined to not buy fabric for it, so I used what I had in my stash.

I wasn't sure about the background fabric, but it actually looks good!

This pattern , Social Sharks, was supposed to have 12 sharks. 

I was tired of making sharks after 2, so I quit after 8. 

I think it's still a pretty great quilt, finished at about 60" X 66" , instead of the 76x76 12 sharks would have made. 

And here it is all quilted and bound.

I just did wavy lines across the whole quilt to make it look like underwater.....well at least it looks wavy.

Funny thing, Hubs was watching Jaws last night .....hahahaha

I used the rest of a navy blue batik I had and some night stars for the back. I have a bit of an over stock on fabric, so I was glad to use these pieces up!

I also went to an estate sale and picked up a new metal picnic basket. I love these things! This one doesn't have a label or anything, but has great looking wooden handles. I got it for less than $5 along with a scrabble game and a card game. Always good to have games when kids appear.

That Fall looking trees leaves are gone-Finn  noticed right away. I bought candy bars for tick or treaters, thinking the girls from next door might stop by, nope-they weren't even home it didn't look like! Oh well, I think I'll have a Snickers in my lunch box!