Redoing the Bedroom

Bruce has slowly been remodeling the house. He is working on the bedroom. He & Duncan removed the popcorn ceiling & the thin paneling covering the walls. Of course we found 1 x 12's. Bruce is putting up sheet rock & insulating the outside wall.

I love the circle swirls on the ceiling.

Contra Dancing

I love to dance! We went to the old library last night to learn how to contra dance. It is fun!

There were about 12 of us there. There were 3 couples and we traded partners all night as we needed to learn how to dance.

Here is their web site:http://www.neofs.us

We did:

do si do

crossovers

al la mand left

swing your partner

figure 8's

forward and back

It was a lot like square dancing. We danced with people that knew how to dance and so sometimes our corner partner was with each other.

I was sweating by the end of the night and next time we will take a water bottle.

They meet every Tuesday. It was $2 a person to help pay for electricity and renting the building.

Some of the ladies had black dancing shoes that they brought with them.

Uncle Chris was there taking photos so we might end up in the paper... I 'll post those if that happens or maybe Chris will email us a copy. We did invite him to dance, twice and he said it wasn't in his contract to dance with us.

Heart Garland

I found this heart garland on line and loved the happy colors.

You could make it in rainbow colors

or YW colors - white, blue, red, green, orange, yellow, purple, gold

or all pastels

or red, black 7 creams

or muted rainbow colors

Have fun! I did!

Vintage Valentine's Decorating

After I changed the kitchen shelves I asked Bruce if he liked it. He said he was sorry but he didn't even notice a change.

I like the red, it cheers the place after all that blue from last month.

The wedding pics are from Crys wedding & they look better on the wall than in a box. I put our children's wedding photos on the roll top desk. They look good.

I made a wreath using a grape vine wreath, a red velvet Christmas bow, (1/2 off) & some small rosebud roses from the dollar store with a gold heart pin on the bow.

I will make a felt heart garland and that will conclude the decorating for this year.

Book of Mormon Quilt

The first block is Lehi's Dream. It puckered when I added the iron rod so I will have to change that. I wanted the colors to portray a dream like quality.

The second block is the Liahona. Yes, it does look like a Christmas ornament. sigh. I wanted to use the Aztec fabric to look South American. I will write or embroider I will since that was the 'attention getter' for the lesson. I use them in my Gospel Doctrine class. I think it will make a nice wall hanging when I am finished with the class. Or maybe I will enter it in the Church's international Art competition.

Anniversary

We had our 34th anniversary.

We went to see the movie "We bought a Zoo!" a very fun love story.

We ate dinner at 10 Depot. We had the special; prime rib gravy over noodles and a green salad. We each had dessert; I had blueberry cheesecake and Bruce had a chocolate, raspberry tart.

Grandchildren Visiting

Thea, 3 years young, is singing "Do you see what I see?"

Her favorite color is "boo".

She was playing with the magnets, building something & I asked this sweet, pretty little girl what she was making. She said 'a gun'. Ben says 'she is pretty but deadly.'

I asked Wyatt if he wanted a tuna fish, peanut butter or egg salad sandwich. He replied, " cheese".

The boys all made paper targets to shoot Uncle Luke's pellet gun. Thea made a sweet little, rabbit, Wyatt made random circles, Matt made a target with descending circles and Luke made the rear end of a cow with a tail and Wyatt insisted it was the cow's pee pee. sigh

So what did you do today?