Zach's Story

We went to bed at around 0300. After dreams of Voldemort, pickles, flying guitars that could talk, and cupcakes we woke up at 0600. I lay in bed thinking "God please make it 0300 again. I got out of bed around 0620, made some oatmeal, and our day started. Poor Amber. I waited until Amber and her mom left to go to the doctor to shower, then stepped out to head to school. I had my bag, lunch, and even my work clothes... But the keys were still on the recently added hook near the door.

Thankfully our bikes were not locked up so I hopped on mine and rode for the rental office. Halfway there I realize that I forgot to air up the tires for the last... 2 months. After a long, quad-killing, ride I arrived out of breath. Thinking the door was locked I stood on the office porch for 5 minutes. Turns out it was not locked. I got the spare key, rode home, unlocked the house and almost locked the spare in the house, sans-keys. I managed to sacrifice a hand to prevent overwhelming stupidity.

I only arrived 35 minutes late for my first class. The teacher was cool about it. Turns out most of the homework group I was in did not show up... For one of them it was very understandable: If you have kids in public school in this area they are sick, or will be soon. School went well.

Work was another matter entirely. The guy who was to help me called off. Again. Again... He calls off 3-4 times a week. "It's medical, they can't fire me." Yeah, but they can stop scheduling you so that you can no longer come in and work on Sunday for that $1 premium. Seriously! Only day he works is the one on which he gets paid more. Way to forget that those other 4 days would have made you more money than that one!

People are idiots.

But it was all worth it when I learned Amber's surgery went well. She will be on her road to recovery for a while, but when it arrives life will go on. Heck... It's going on right now.

dress, hat, and matching bunny

My first little dress I crotched. I didn't use a pattern, so I have a feeling it might not fit a real baby. Maybe a baby doll?
This is the finished product. I added some ruffles to the arms to make them a bit longer and added the weird hat.
I had some yarn left so I decided to make my first little stuffed animal. The head is a bit crooked and the ears won't stay straight, but otherwise I consider it a success. Zach wants to name it, but we don't know a good name.

FINALLY!

So when Zach and I got married one of the many things I was thinking about was having children, so in preparation of having said child eventually I picked out fabrics for the baby quilt (sounded fun and could be an heirloom thing, maybe?). Literally 5 and change years later I put the quilt together and this is what it looks like :)

This is cool! You hang it by the flowery things on the crib and you can put stuff you might need in it. I was ridiculously excited when I finished it.

This is inspiration for my next project. I have no clue what it may be, but hopefully it won't take more than a few months :p

Zach's blanket

Zach picked the above color because it was the softest one, other than the monkey print which only had a yard left. I picked the below color because our couch is brown.

Zach started out cutting but quickly realized that cutting was irritating so I took over and he tied. I didn't mind cutting at all. Goes to show that we are a good match :)
He couldn't resist.

Baby Quilt

Start!

Done!

Pups at play.

Even though it was 78 degrees on a mostly black dog, she insisted on sitting on my lap....and drooling on me :/
lol such a big tongue.

Rocky

We have a new squirrel friend. He likes to get into my bird feeder and eat all the seeds so we gave up and just started buying super cheap bird food. He will get on my little hook and beg for food while we refill the feeder. We named him rocky because when he saw Zoey, he FLEW. lol

This is a puzzle Zach and I put together. We're kinda excited because it's the first puzzle we put together that wasn't missing pieces. YAY!

:)

Jericho,

What you are attempting is a fools errand. You are too much of one thing to remain, too little of the other to survive where you must go. If you attempt to stay the Hunters will seek you out and see you dead. If you go willingly it is with acceptance of your fate; When your father left his world for ours. his "people" felt dishonored, disgraced... betrayed. And they are not wrong. God speed.

Ashon