Little of This....Little of That

(yes, this is our tree)

It is sure nice to have the trees come back to life. Our forests of gray & brown are now being replaced with multiple colors of green and lots and lots of beautiful blossoms everywhere. For our family it is a little bitter-sweet. We all, except for Josie & Justin, look and feel like crap. With all the new beauty comes full blown allergies. We'll be okay in about four weeks.

Thankfully most all of our problems deals with tree pollen and we are good till fall when the weeds that bug us get yucky. Todd has a couple more funny things that he's allergic to though. Like pig dander and cockroaches. I've never seen any cockroaches so he's good there, but he does share a room with Mitch so there isn't too much we can do about his allergies with pigs.

On another, much sweeter, subject....here is Josie's first quilt she's ever made all by herself.

She made it to take to girls camp. I showed her the concept of the 'strip method' and left her with a box of scrap fat quarters (small pieces of fabric for any non-quilter types). I think she did an awesome job. She thought it would be fun to be able to have her friends from camp be able to sign the back of it, kind of like the kids do with t-shirts. Good job, Josie!