Life in January

So here it is February 1. Bowies face in the picture below accurately shows what I thought when I realized it's already February!! Which means we are one month closer to warmer weather!!

Being cute. Wanting attention.

January flew by. Earlier in the month, my family was in town for more than a week for a hospital stay. While I hated the reason they were in town, I loved that I got to someone every day and spend some one on one time with Papaw while every day on my way home from work. Or during lunch. Or both.  Everyone is home now, which is great!

My niece Emery's class did the Flat Stanley project and she sent him to visit the great state of Ohio. Molly and I took him around to a few different place in Columbus, our hometowns, and NYC (Molly went there on a trip). It was a lot of fun putting together the little scrapbook to send to her and her class telling them about Ohio and Columbus.

He visited my dad's Fire Department!

During Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend, it was Molly's birthday. On Friday night we went out to eat with friends Caitlyn and Summer. The next day we did a little antiquing and that night went to dinner for Alicia's 30th birthday, followed by a little bachelor party crashing/pizza with the guys for Molly's birthday. Sunday we went back home to have dinner at Mam and Papaws, along with cake and ice cream.

Monday, on Molly's actual birthday, we got up and went skiing at Mad River Mountain. She and I did this last year on MLK Day/her birthday, so I hope it becomes an annual tradition. It was so cold that day. Probably the coldest day of the year so far. We bundled up though. It wasn't nearly as crowded as it was last year on this same Monday holiday and there were no little kid ski classes, but we still had a good time. We skied for probably about 3.5 hours, taking two inside breaks. Since the lodge burnt down earlier this fall, they have a temporary structure that just didn't fit all the people it needed to fit! After her birthday, we went to Joe's Crabshack for dinner and then dropped my sewing machine off to be fixed at JoAnn Fabrics. We finished up the weekend/birthday celebrations by watching The Bachelor before bed.

Cold, but skiing anyway!! :)

Last weekend, Scott's antique market was in town, so we went to that after spending the day in Mt. Vernon with the Caughlan ladies. There weren't a lot of great finds at this market, mostly because it was supposed to be bad weather that weekend (and it was everywhere south of Columbus), so it was kind of empty. There were some cute things, but not things I needed to buy. Molly got an ice cream poster to hang in the kitchen and I got floss and needles to get my quilt on (another post on that coming soon.)

Kind of the opposite of the cookbook for ladies!

Like I mentioned earlier, I have been quilting a lot lately. I finally got Layton's quilt done and will deliver that baby quilt to the 3 year old child this weekend! Coopers quilt is almost done with the exception of quilting on the four corners and then adding the binding. And his name! I have two more quilts to get done this spring, so I'm making myself finish one before starting another. I have so many quilt tops pieced together but not actually quilted. It's ridiculous.

Also ridiculous, my cat is obsessed with sewing. If I'm on the machine, she's on the other side of the machine watching. If I'm hand stitching she is. right. there. too. I have to constantly push her off of the hoop. And as soon as I sit it down for any reason, there she is to climb back on. Oh cat.

Thanks for quilting a great place for me to sit Mom.

This past weekend I went to a Farm Bureau conference for young ag professionals. It was ok. So many of the topics of the workshops didn't pertain to me because I'm not directly in production agriculture. But it was fun seeing people that I hadn't seen in a while and so forth.

That night was a winter social for students at work, so I went to that. It was at the ice skating rink so the last half hour I nabbed the skates of someone who was turning them in (we had met our limit of rentals) and I skated a few laps, pretended to be Nancy Kerrigan, but really probably looked like these kids.

Some of my FH boys.

And I returned home on Saturday night to quilt until 1am, because that's what you do at 30 years old! ha. See below, a nosey cat wanting to help me.

Also, Sunday at church, the nicest couple introduced themselves to me and invited me to come to their small group that is going to be doing a six week study starting in a few weeks. And she's a quilter! She has a whole quilt room!!!