New Toys!

I finally got my new toy!  I'm so excited!  My hubby has been playing with his new bar-b-que's for the last few weeks I was starting to feel left out!  My new toy is finally here!  I love to sew, sewing is my stress outlet.  The more I sew the more it relieves!  Anyways my new toy is an embroidery machine!  Fabulous!  I love it!  The kids love to watch it!

This is the first try at it. Oops.  The green is supposed to be the stem & leaves.  And so I tried again after talking to my older sister who has an embroidery machine for many years!

Ta-da!!! It worked!  Sorry it's sideways!  And here's some more!

Now the machine is working on a pink sea horse!  Here it is finished!

And now a teal one.  I love this color!!

And here is the teal sea horse being worked on.

Here's a dolphin!  I flipped it too!

 

This is a fun new mommy toy!  Gives me something else to do while my buddy is at morning Kindergarten.  The sea life blocks are going to be turned into a quilt.  I'll share the final project once I get enough blocks and get it sewn up!

I hope all you readers are adjusting to kids being back in school and that life is good!

Back To School, Quilt & TGIF!

I've been so exhausted from the start of school and not sure what to do with myself I took a nap this morning.  I just couldn't stay away so I closed the computer and slept hard on the couch for two hours.  I looked at the clock and said 20 more minutes, the next thing I knew it was about half hour till the bus for my kindergartener comes.  I don't think I've had a nap that long without interruptions like MOMMYYY can I have something to eat, Mommy so and so hit me!  You get the idea!

Here's the quilt I finally finished!

It's not quite long enough for a twin XL but it would be perfect for the shorter twin.  She loves it!  I love it and how it washed up!

I love the bright colors!  Totally a girl quilt, but my older boys were fighting over it and giving me crap that it's not for them!  They have quilts that I made them when they were way younger and one for me too, but they don't fit their beds anymore!

I hope you like it!  The pattern comes from a book I bought at JoAnn Fabric & Crafts a few years ago.  Have an awesome weekend!

Getting Ready!

We've been really busy here the last few weeks! There's been doctor appointments to update the kindergartener's immunizations, buying backpacks, school supplies and birthday presents.  My oldest's birthday is today!  He's definitely not a baby anymore, but he was my cutest one when born!

My husband also took time off work for a "staycation"!  It was nice to have him around!  He bought a few new toys, a Traeger and a gas grill.  Let me tell you about the gas grill.  We were at Costco shopping this Saturday.  We had a cart full of stuff going on.  Okay it wasn't full yet, but there was stuff for food storage and school lunches.  He got eggs and milk.  We were almost ready to leave and he ran into this grill. The markdown price got him thinking.  I want this (repeat a gazillion times in his head)!!  We put the eggs and milk back and he grabbed the corn on the cob, ditched the cart and headed to the shortest line possible at the front of the store!  He bought the corn and asked how to buy the barbeque too!  They called over someone to help so we didn't hold up the line.  The new guy said he thinks there's a few in boxes in the back & the hubby mentioned he still wants it if he can have the display! Yup, the display is the last one.  The two shorty's and I drove home to switch cars and brought back the gas guzzler and the oldest.  With the help of the employee the three got it in the car, just barely and we drove off!  The hubby kept looking behind him.  I asked what he was looking at and he said he wanted to make sure they didn't realize what a deal he got and thought maybe they were second thinking it!  Half price!  We felt like we robbed them!  I love a great deal!

This Sunday evening I finished my daughter's quilt.  The one I was going to finish in January, but never got around to it!  I'm impressed with how the finished look turned out!  Today the goal is to get backpacks ready for meet the teacher night for two kids and then I will pull out the camera to get pictures and will post them this week!  Tomorrow is the first day of school for all my kids!  Two in high school and the other two at elementary!  Just thinking about my baby makes me teary eyed!  How am I going to get him on the bus with no tears! He is so excited!  I am excited for him, but sad he is leaving me too all at the same time!  He is the only one I have been at home since day one (no work). I'm going to miss him!

Birthday Card

I joined a card swap this past week.  A bunch of us gals are going to get together to swap cards we make.  Every month we are going to get together to swap. This month's theme is Birthday.  This is what I made this last weekend.

It's just a plain white card, purple cardstock cut a little smaller than the card to show a white border, layered with a smaller striped paper.  Two different purple cardstock using the Cricut cut out the stars and birthday blessing saying.  Layered together to make this lovely card!  I need to make a few extra too, birthday season in our family is coming up!  I can't wait to make more!

Do you like to make cards?

Old TV & Teenagers!

It's Wednesday!  Happy hump day!  We're halfway thru the week!  Yay!  It's also scout night for us.  Today is kind of humid along with the hot heat, mid 80's, maybe hotter.  I have almost no energy.  I'm feeling blah.  Lot's has been happening.  I've been running around the last few days looking for chest high waders in a shoe size 13 that doesn't exist on store shelves.  Walmart stocks up to size 12, but not bigger.  Wish I found this out a few stores ago!  The hubby told the teenagers if they fixed the BIG TV that has been in a box since December last year they could have it as theirs.  The same time it got boxed up I went online to Google the symptoms and found one of two diagnoses that could be wrong with it.  A TV place in town said it could be a dust problem or a panel.  They claimed the panel could cost about 600 bucks and said just to replace it.  I found one for 89 plus shipping.  Anyways my hubby just wanted to get rid of it.  He didn't want me touching it and trying to dust it out, especially the fan.  For some reason he decided to let the kids.  They dusted it, wiped it down and guess what??!!!  It works again!!!  Perfect picture!  Definitely wasn't a panel problem, but a dust problem!  I'm kind of mad he wouldn't let me open it up and dust it out myself last year.  Oh well.  It's now the kids' TV for their game room!  Last night we bought a new entertainment center for it.  My oldest has spent all day putting it together.  I'll post pictures of it soon as the room gets cleaned up.  We took the old boxy TV that quit working and the old entertainment center to the thrift store. (Yes if they can't get the TV working they will take it to the recycling center at the dump for it and they get recycling credit!)

Today after he finished building it I applied for school.  I hope this application goes thru.  I'm excited and nervous all at the same time.  I'll keep you posted!

I guess what I am trying to say is don't forget to dust!  If you dust your TV's will last longer!

What's your least favorite chore to do at home?

Friday Funny!

My daughter told me this last week that I have spider webs up my nose holes (aka nostrils). I was kind of surprised so I asked her back if she could see any spiders in there too.  She said no but I had boogies!

My youngest knew he was in big trouble.  He told me when I get mad at him I just need to love him instead of being mad.  He was giving me hugs all day telling me he was sorry!

My two older boys went off to scout camp this last week.  One went to Mount Hood in Oregon and the other went somewhere in the Cascade Mountain range in Washington.  I can't wait to share pictures they took!  Hopefully they come out!

Have an awesome weekend!  I know some are going back to school soon, East Coast and others like us on the West Coast still have another 34 days till school starts!  My youngest woke me up this morning asking if it's September yet, hence the start of the countdown to the end of summer!

Pink Salmon

We cooked the Pink Salmon the other day!  I finally have pictures to share with you!

This is going to be dinner!  My daughter kept asking 'Do I like Pink Salmon'? We kept telling her what's not to like about her favorite color!

Recipe for the marinade as follows:

3 cups of Teriyaki Soy Sauce
1 can of pineapple
1 small to medium Walla Walla Onion
1 cup of Dark Brown Sugar

I mixed all of this in our Ninja Blender except about half of the pineapple.  Drain the juice in the blender and dump in about half the pineapple.  Pulse the blender until marinade is not as chunky but let there be some chunks in it.  I guess what I am trying to say is don't pulse it till it liquefies!  I let the fish marinade for about 2 hours in a glass dish with tin foil over the top in the fridge.  When you preheat the oven to 425 degrees take the fish out and put on your tin foil ready pan.  Soak up any extra juice.  This will prevent the house from smoking up!  Add the rest of the pineapple to the top of your salmon.  Cook for about 20 minutes (every oven varies).  Change the oven to broil and cook for 3-5 minutes.  This is what it should look like!!

Perfect, moist, flaky fish! White rice and green beans went perfect with this!  My daughter couldn't decide what she liked better the rice or salmon!  (She's a rice lover!)  She would take a big forkful of one and then switch to the other!  It was funny to watch her eat!  Last time we had salmon she wouldn't touch it for the life of her!

We still have this to cook up too!  This is the King Salmon; this ended up being the biggest fish caught Sunday the 28th on the trip!  Go hunny buns!  He's already talking about his next trip with just a few buddies from work.


How do you like to cook your salmon?