Help! What do I do??

While at my mothers something tragic happened! To begin, my Sister who lives with my Mom got a new dog recently, but since her child had such bad allergies they had to get rid of it. But while she was there (the new dog) she chewed on blankets, so my Mom's dog, Bubba now chews on blankets.....can you see where I am going with this?

One afternoon Brandon's unattended blanket became victim to Bubba's new bad habit. Brandon is upset about it and I want to do something. It is a rag top quilt with raw edges, so I think if I did some sort of scraps or patches to cover it, it will work.

For the batting I used an old fleece blanket of mine, and it a very heavy and think quilt (I love it! You should try using fleece sometime). So since it is so heavy I can't use it as a middle for another quilt.

As you can see the edges were affected as well.

What would you do? Should I try to repair this first quilt I made for Brandon or should I send it to quilt heaven? Any suggestions on how to fix it? Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 

Finished Pinwheel Sampler Quilt

I have had my pinwheel quilt done for a while now but this is the first time that I had a chance to get it out and take pictures of it. 

I quilted it on my long arm and I barely had enough room. And of course for my first large quilt I had to do tiny stitches!! I have always wanted to try this quilting design and thought since I have the long arm this is perfect.

For the back I got a king size sheet from Walmart. I tried to find something colorful enough and found some pretty strips.

I now have matching sheets and pillow cases to go with it!

Dance Festival

The last week of school I think is the busiest time. Why do we plan so many activities all in that week? Maybe it felt so busy because I was trying to pack for Colorado and finish my Moda quilt. But Brandon had a dance festival where the whole school did some dancing. The theme was dancing through the ages. Brandon's class had the 70's. They danced to the song, "Lean on Me". If you ask Brandon to do the dance he will say no, but he was very pleased with himself.

This first picture I blew up the picture and pointed Brandon out, so that hopefully you can pick him out on the video! If you end up losing Brandon, just look for the kid in red and Brandon is on his left.

Weight Watchers 5k Challenge

10 weeks I started Weight Watchers. So far I have lost 13.2lbs! So a little over a pound a week. It's a slow progress but weight loss is weight lost. This summer they had a 5k challenge. So today for our area we had our 5k at a river trail. It was hot, but the trail was next to a river and there were a lot of shady spots, but we still got a good sweat in.

The boys were so excited for the walk and they did WONDERFUL! We got them their own little fans for the walk and I think that helped them a bunch.

Travis was such a good sport! He has always supported me with anything that I wanted to do, with Weight Watchers and my quilting fetish. When I told him that there was a 5k and that we were going to do it as a family, he didn't complain one bit even though he knew it could be hard with the boys and it would be hot! I love you honey!

We would have a chase game with Brandon and Kimball. Nathan was tired so he stayed in the stroller. But Kimball thought it was so fun to chase me. So we got a little jogging in too!

As we passed the river Travis saw fish! At first we thought it was trout but later we found out that they sucker fish. There were so many and they were huge!

Here is my certificate of achievement. I will also get a little charm. This is my second 5k race that I finished. The first one I did do it with my family and we were DEAD LAST! This time we were not last! We did have a lot of stop and goes because of the boys and we did start out as the last people because right before they started Brandon decided that it was time to go potty. We finished the race in 1 hour. Very good for a family of 5! 

Gardening

A few weeks ago we finally got our garden planted. We had the plot ready for some time but was waiting for the weather to warm up enough to get some plants done. So we ended up spending over $80 on plants! Then that weekend what did it do??? SNOW!! But it's okay all of our plants survived! 

Nathan was VERY excited!

We are planting out corn right here

Then since I took away Kimball's dirt area we got him his own sandbox to play in.

Now hopefully we will start getting some crop out of it. It always happens that midway through the summer we just end up giving up because we have become too lazy in caring for it. So hopefully this year we can stay dedicated to our garden.